Seedance 1.5 Pro vs Seedance 2.0

ByteDance against ByteDance, the same lab's consecutive models. Prices, scores and speed below are live.

  • Seedance 1.5 Pro costs 66% less on price per second ($0.035 against $0.10 per second at the cheapest setting).
  • People prefer Seedance 2.0 in blind votes on LMArena's text-to-video arena: rated 1,479 against 1,256 Elo.
  • On the 2 benchmarks both have scores on, Seedance 1.5 Pro leads on 0 and Seedance 2.0 on 2.
  • Seedance 2.0 is newer: listed Apr 15, 2026, against Mar 23, 2026.

Side by side

Seedance 1.5 ProSeedance 2.0
LabByteDanceByteDance
ListedMar 23, 2026Apr 15, 2026
Per second, cheapest setting$0.035$0.10
Per second, top setting$0.17$1.17
A typical clip$0.17$0.50
Resolutions480p, 720p, 1080p480p, 720p, 1080p, 4K
Clip length4 to 12 s4 to 15 s
Opens on your imageYesYes
Follows reference imagesNoYes
Arena rating (LMArena)1,256 Elo1,479 Elo

Every benchmark both are scored on

Each model's best score per benchmark, with its source. Scores from different sources or settings are not always comparable; each links to where it was published.

BenchmarkSeedance 1.5 ProSeedance 2.0
LMArena: Image to Video1307 EloLMArena1475 EloLMArena
LMArena: Text to Video1256 EloLMArena1479 EloLMArena

In our tests and guides

Where Seedance 1.5 Pro or Seedance 2.0 ran on a real brief, or shows in a live table.

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Where these figures come from

Prices are GenMagic's own, what the studio and the API charge, recomputed from each provider's price list every few minutes. The ratings are LMArena's blind human votes, and every benchmark score links to its source, re-read daily. Measured speed is GenMagic's own generation records, in aggregate. See ByteDance models, ByteDance models, every video model's price and our sources.