Kling is Dead: ByteDance Seedance 1.0 Redefines Video Generation

Tue Jun 17 2025

We are excited to introduce ByteDance Seedance 1.0, developed by the ByteDance Seed team, now live on WaveSpeedAI! ByteDance Seedance 1.0 supports both text-to-video and image-to-video generation, with native multi-shot storytelling capabilities. It delivers breakthroughs in semantic understanding and instruction following, enabling the creation of high-definition videos with cinematic quality, smooth motion, and rich details.

About Seedance 1.0

Seedance 1.0 by ByteDance sets a new benchmark in video generation, outperforming Kling in both fidelity and flexibility. Achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) results across multiple benchmarks, it has earned top scores on platforms like ArtificialAnalysis. With fine-grained motion control, longer coherent sequences, and more realistic human rendering, ByteDance Seedance 1.0 isn’t just an upgrade — it’s a paradigm shift.

Key Features

Smooth & Stable Motion: Seedance 1.0 has a wide dynamic range, generating fluid, large-scale movements. From subtle expressions to active scenes, it maintains a high level of stability and physical realism.

Native Multi-Shot Storytelling: Natively supports the generation of narrative videos with multiple cohesive shots. It maintains consistency in the main subject, visual style, and atmosphere across shot transitions and spatio-temporal shifts.

Diverse Stylistic Expression: From photorealism and cyberpunk to traditional Chinese animation and claymation, Seedance 1.0 can accurately interpret diverse stylistic prompts to support a wide range of creative needs.

Precise Semantic & Prompt Following: Accurately parses natural language prompts, enabling stable control over multi-agent interactions, complex action sequences, and a rich variety of camera movements to precisely translate your textual concepts into videos.

Model Performance

Artificial Analysis

On the third-party evaluation leaderboard Artificial Analysis, Seedance 1.0 ranks first in both text-to-video and image-to-video tasks.

Artificial Analysis Video Arena Leaderboard

Source: Artificial Analysis official website. As of 2025-06-09 11:00 (GMT+8).

SeedVideoBench-1.0: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation

In comparison with other industry models, Seedance 1.0 performed well across core dimensions including prompt adherence, motion quality, and aesthetics.

T2V雷达图 T2V Radar Chart

Achieved high scores in T2V tasks for prompt adherence, motion quality, and aesthetics. Due to unavailable public data, the Elo score for Kling 2.1 is taken from Kling 2.0.

I2V雷达图 I2V Radar Chart

Also achieved high scores in I2V tasks, while effectively maintaining consistency with the source image. Due to unavailable public data, the Elo score for Kling 2.1 is taken from Kling 2.0.

Use Cases

Cinematic Video Generation: Supports both text-to-video and image-to-video, natively handling multi-shot storytelling with cinematic aesthetics.
Complex Action & Motion Capture: Ideal for dynamic content with smooth, stable motion—whether subtleties like facial expressions or large, fast-moving scenes—maintains high physical realism.
Marketing & Social Media Content: Enables rapid creation of promo videos, engaging reels, or animated ads using either images or text prompts. Aimed at marketers and creators looking for fast, stylized video production.
Film & Creative Storyboarding: Enables filmmakers and storytellers to visualize scenes and pacing before production—thanks to native storytelling shots and consistent multi-scene generation.

Try ByteDance Seedance 1.0 Now on WaveSpeedAI

From surreal fantasy and richly detailed realism to professional-grade commercial shorts, Seedance is empowering creators and developers around the world with cutting-edge technology.

WaveSpeedAI has launched 12 ByteDance Seedance 1.0 models — including everything from Lite to Pro, covering both Image-to-Video (i2v) and Text-to-Video (t2v) generation. Whether you need fast previews or cinematic-quality output, Seedance on WaveSpeedAI delivers. Supported resolutions include 480p, 720p, and 1080p, with video durations starting from 5 seconds and beyond.

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