Billing tier
Special price
Official special-offer pricing; successful tasks only
Seedance 2.5 Special‑Price Model, Full‑Power Version, comes with a material library, no face distortion, 100% real‑person pass rate, long‑term stability.
Priced at roughly 60% of the official rate, supports 720P.
Seedance 2.5 Reference to Video Model, Full‑Power Version, comes with a material library, no facial distortion, 100% real‑human pass rate, long‑term stability. Priced at approximately 60% of the official rate. Material and Scene Limitations Text Prompts: Chinese text is recommended to be no more than 500 characters; English text is recommended to be no more than 1000 words. Image Input: Supports jpeg, png, webp, bmp, tiff, gif, heic, heif; single‑image size below 30 MB, aspect ratio (0.4, 2.5), width and height range (300px, 6000px). Image Count: No more than 30 images. Video Input: Single‑video duration [2, 30] s; up to 10 reference videos allowed; total duration of all videos shall not exceed 30 s. Audio Input: Single‑audio duration [2, 30] s; up to 10 reference audio clips allowed; total duration of all audio clips shall not exceed 30 s. Audio cannot be input independently; at least one reference image or video shall be provided simultaneously. 🔸Note🔸: Unit price for with‑video input is lower due to different calculation formulas: No video = Unit Price × Output Volume; With video = Unit Price × (Input Volume + Output Volume).
Seedance 2.5 Image to Video Special‑Offer model, approximately 40% off the official price, full‑powered, supports realistic human generation, and stable in performance.
Seedance 2.5 Text to Video Special‑Offer model, approximately 40% off the official price, full‑powered, supports realistic human generation, and stable in performance.
Special-offer full-capability · Seedance 2.5 Budget
The official special-offer route — 30-second audio-synced clips at 720P, with assets reviewed for assetId.
Budget shares the exact Seedance 2.5 contract with the discount routes: 4–30 seconds per clip, audio-video joint generation, and up to 30 images + 10 videos + 10 audios per request. The only differences are resolution and price — Budget outputs 720P at special-offer billing, while the discount tier outputs 480P/720P. Pick it when you want 30-second full-capability audio-video masters at a special price.
Billing tier
Special price
Official special-offer pricing; successful tasks only
Output resolution
720P
Locked to 720P; discount tier is 480P / 720P
Clip duration
4–30s
4s by default, up to 30s
Asset handling
Review to assetId
Public URLs reviewed automatically; zero face distortion
Same 2.5 contract: Budget locks in special-price 720P full-capability delivery, Discount offers 480P/720P draft tiers; 1080P and beyond belongs to 2.0.
Reference prices for a 5s 16:9 clip; token-based billing, successful tasks only. Always refer to live rates on Volcano Ark and the APIPod pricing page.
| Unit: USD per 1M tokens (no video reference input) | 5s 16:9 per-clip reference price |
|---|---|
| Budget · 720P | Special-offer billing — see the pricing page for live rates |
| Discount · 720P | $10.7 / 5s ≈ $0.231/s |
| Discount · 480P | $10.7 / 5s ≈ $0.103/s |
With video references, billing counts reference duration plus output duration as tokens at a lower unit price. Budget outputs 720P only and shares the same 2.5 reference and audio-video capability with Discount; refer to the pricing page for live special-offer rates.
Budget is not a cut-down tier — it is the special-price route to full-capability 30s delivery at 720P.
Public URLs are reviewed into assetId references before submission; real-person content passes 100% with no facial distortion — production-safe for commercial use.
Budget outputs 720P — enough for most feed, ad and short-drama delivery; switch to the Seedance 2.0 standard tier for 1080P and above.
Up to 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audios per request, with character, location, motion and voice each getting an explicit job.
Official special-offer pricing, charged on successful tasks only — bringing 30-second audio-video masters into a batch-production-friendly cost range.
Validate composition, timing and reference roles cheaply with the 2.5 discount tier at 480P.
Switch to seedance-2.5-lite-* and render the final cut at 720P with the same reference pack.
Fix a single failed beat by editing only that time range instead of regenerating the whole clip.
Discount, Budget and Standard differ by one model field — auth, billing and observability carry over.
Example request
Same API surface as the 2.5 discount routes — just set model to seedance-2.5-lite-t2v / i2v / r2v.
Parameters evolve with channel capability and model versions; always check the live model docs available to your account.
Open the API docscurl -X POST https://api.apipod.ai/v1/videos/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIPOD_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d {
"model": "seedance-2.5-lite-t2v",
"prompt": "A cinematic tracking shot through a rain-soaked neon street, realistic motion, synchronized ambient sound.",
"duration": 8,
"resolution": "720p",
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"generate_audio": true
}Both share the same 2.5 contract (4–30s, native audio, 30/10/10 reference budgets). Budget outputs 720P only at special-offer billing while Discount outputs 480P/720P; refer to the pricing page for live rates. Asset review and zero face distortion apply to both.
No. Seedance 2.5 Budget outputs 720P only and does not support 2K / 4K; for 1080P or higher resolutions, use the Seedance 2.0 standard tier (1080P today, 4K rolling out).
Budget runs on the full-capability pipeline: media URLs are reviewed into assetId references before the task is submitted, so real-person content passes 100% with no facial distortion. Plain public URLs just work — the pipeline handles the review for you.
When you need a 720P 30-second audio-synced master with real people on camera and a full reference pack: brand ads, short drama, vlogs and dialogue shots. Draft on the discount tier, deliver on Budget.
Integrate once on APIPod — switching between Discount, Budget and Standard is one model field: special price, full capability, 720P delivery.