Seedance 2.0 Mini
Budget-friendly AI video drafts
Budget-friendly AI video drafts
Describe the scene, the character action, and the camera move. e.g. “slow dolly-in on a lone figure crossing a neon-lit street in the rain”.
Model
0/2000
Outputs
Audio
With audio
Synchronized sound, voice and music
Your generated video appears here. Describe a shot and hit Generate.
Seedance 2.0 Mini is a low-cost AI video generator built on the same multimodal architecture as the flagship Seedance 2.0 — same prompt behaviour, same reference inputs, capped at 720p and priced for high-volume iteration. It costs a fraction of a full-resolution generation, which means you can test twenty prompt ideas for the price of one 4K take.
Mini accepts every input the flagship does — text prompts, up to nine reference images, up to three reference videos, native synchronized audio, all seven aspect ratios, and 4-to-15-second clips. The only trade-off is the 720p resolution ceiling. The workflow this enables is the real value: draft twenty ideas on Mini, find the one that works, then re-run that exact prompt on Seedance 2.0 at up to 4K. Because both models share an architecture, the cheap draft is a genuine preview of the final output.
Seedance 2.0 Mini is not a limited demo — it is the complete model with a 720p resolution cap. You keep every multimodal input and native audio; you trade resolution for speed and low cost.
Credit cost scales with pixels and seconds, so a 480p Mini draft is dramatically cheaper than a 4K flagship take. Explore ten framings of the same idea for less than the price of committing to one of them.
Nine reference images, three reference videos, native audio generation and all seven aspect ratios. Testing whether a reference-driven idea holds together does not require the expensive model — only shipping it does.
Shared architecture means composition, motion and prompt interpretation carry over. When you promote a Mini draft to Seedance 2.0, you are buying resolution and fidelity — not rolling the dice on a different model’s taste.
The honest rule is: use Mini for everything up to the moment someone outside your team will watch it. Prompt discovery, framing tests, checking whether a reference image actually holds a character’s face, finding out how a camera move reads at five seconds versus twelve — none of that work benefits from 4K, and all of it benefits from being able to try again immediately. A 720p draft answers the only question that matters early on, which is whether the idea works at all.
Switch to Seedance 2.0 when the answer is yes and the clip is going somewhere real — a paid placement, a client review, a product page, anything that will be seen on a large screen or graded afterwards. The flagship’s advantage is not just pixel count: higher-resolution generation carries more fine detail in skin, fabric, text and reflections, which is precisely what falls apart when a 720p file is upscaled. Between the two sits Seedance 2.0 Fast, also 720p but tuned for turnaround when a draft is needed in a hurry.
Drafts, prompt exploration, internal review, storyboard-replacement work and high-volume A/B variants where the destination is a small feed player anyway.
Anything shipping: paid media, client delivery, hero video on a landing page, and any footage that will be colour-graded, cropped or projected.
Seedance 2.0 Fast sits between Mini and the flagship: same 720p ceiling as Mini, but optimised for faster turnaround when a draft is needed in a hurry. Choose Mini when you are iterating through many ideas and want the lowest cost per attempt; choose Fast when you already know what you want and need the result quickly; choose the flagship when the clip is going somewhere real and resolution matters.
Model specifications
Published limits, not marketing rounding. Every number below is enforced by the generator before your credits are reserved, so a job that would exceed a limit is rejected instead of failing halfway.
The model is ByteDance’s. What FrameAI adds is the part that decides whether it is usable at work: honest limits, honest billing, and output you are allowed to ship.
Text, up to nine reference images and up to three reference video clips are fused in one generation, not stitched afterwards. There is no separate text-to-video mode to switch into — you add whatever material you have and the model reconciles it.
Seedance 2.0 writes footsteps, room tone, impacts and score alongside the frames, locked to the action. Most models hand you a silent clip and leave the sound design to you; here the export is already finished.
One prompt covers a 9:16 vertical cut for Reels, a 16:9 master for YouTube and a 21:9 anamorphic frame for a title sequence. Resolution runs from 480p up to 4K, so the same take can serve a cinema-shaped frame or a phone.
The exact credit cost is calculated from your duration, resolution and ratio and shown before you press generate — never after. If a generation fails on the provider side, the reserved credits are returned automatically.
Seedance 2.0 Fast and Seedance 2.0 Mini exist for the twenty drafts nobody sees. Rough a shot at 480p for a fraction of the credits, then re-run the take that worked at full resolution on the flagship model.
Paid-plan output may be used commercially under the Terms of Service. Free-credit output is for evaluation only.
Spend a third of the credits and get the same finished clip. Draft on Mini, finalize on the flagship — no editing software needed.
Pick Seedance 2.0 Mini, set 480p and the shortest duration that shows the idea. Run your prompt three or four ways — change one variable at a time so you learn which word did the work.
Once a draft reads right, freeze the wording and the reference set. Attach the same images and clips you will use for the final; that is the part most likely to shift the result, so it should be settled before you spend.
Switch the model to Seedance 2.0, raise resolution to 1080p or 4K, set the real duration and generate once. You are paying flagship rates for one take instead of twenty.
Every use case below is a volume problem — and Seedance 2.0 Mini is priced to make volume affordable for creators, marketers, and studios.
Performance teams need twenty hooks, not one. Generating the whole batch on Mini and promoting only the winners to 4K turns a budget problem into a routine.
A moving 720p draft communicates a sequence far better than a still board, and costs little enough to regenerate live while a client is still talking.
Prompting well is a skill built on repetitions. Mini makes those repetitions cheap enough to actually do, which is the fastest route to consistently good flagship output.
Seedance 2.0 Mini is the lightweight version of ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 video model. It shares the flagship’s multimodal architecture and prompt behaviour but caps output at 720p, which makes it substantially cheaper per generation and well suited to drafting.
Resolution is the difference that matters: Mini tops out at 720p while the flagship reaches up to 4K. Everything else is shared — 4-to-15-second clips, up to nine reference images and three reference videos, native audio and all seven aspect ratios.
Yes, considerably. Credit cost is driven by output pixels and duration, so a 480p or 720p Mini generation costs a fraction of a 1080p or 4K flagship take. The generator shows the exact figure for your settings before you commit.
It does. Mini accepts up to nine reference images and three reference videos in a single request and generates synchronised audio just like the flagship. No multimodal capability is withheld from the smaller model.
Very close, but not frame-identical — generation is stochastic, so a re-run always varies somewhat. What does carry over reliably is interpretation: composition, motion, camera behaviour and how the model reads your references. That is what makes Mini a genuine preview rather than a guess.
Yes. If the video was generated while you had an active paid plan, you own it and may use it commercially under the Terms of Service. Output generated with free credits is for evaluation only.
Generation time depends on duration, resolution and current provider load, but Mini renders noticeably faster than the flagship because lower-resolution output requires less compute. A typical 5-second 480p draft finishes in under a minute. The job runs in the background, so you can queue another prompt or browse your creations while it processes.
Both cap at 720p, but they serve different moments. Mini is priced for volume — use it when you are exploring ten prompt variations and want the cheapest cost per attempt. Fast is tuned for turnaround — use it when the prompt is already locked and you need the draft quickly. If neither 720p tier is enough, switch to Seedance 2.0 for output up to 4K.
Each tool is the same Seedance 2.0 model pointed at a different job. Move between them freely — your credits, history and exports are shared.
Write one line, pick a ratio, press generate. No editing suite, no render farm, no post-production pass — a finished clip with sound, ready to download.
