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Seedance 2.5 vs Grok Imagine Video 1.5

ByteDance against xAI. Prices, scores and speed below are live.

  • Grok Imagine Video 1.5 costs 22% less on price per second ($0.12 against $0.15 per second at the cheapest setting).
  • People prefer Grok Imagine Video 1.5 in blind votes on LMArena's text-to-video arena: rated 1,486 against 1,474 Elo, a gap within the arena's usual margin.
  • On the 2 benchmarks both have scores on, Seedance 2.5 leads on 1 and Grok Imagine Video 1.5 on 1.
  • Seedance 2.5 is newer: listed Aug 7, 2026, against Jul 20, 2026.
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Side by side

Seedance 2.5Grok Imagine Video 1.5
LabByteDancexAI
ListedAug 7, 2026Jul 20, 2026
Per second, cheapest setting$0.15$0.12
Per second, top setting$0.35$0.38
A typical clip$0.77$0.60
Resolutions480p, 720p480p, 720p, 1080p
Clip length4 to 30 s1 to 15 s
Opens on your imageYesYes
Follows reference imagesYesNo
Arena rating (LMArena)1,474 Elo1,486 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 2.5Grok Imagine Video 1.5
LMArena: Image to Video1477 EloLMArena1454 EloLMArena
LMArena: Text to Video1474 EloLMArena1486 EloLMArena

In our tests and guides

Where Seedance 2.5 or Grok Imagine Video 1.5 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, xAI models, every video model's price and our sources.