Introducing ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Mini on WaveSpeedAI

Try it now: Seedance 2.0 Mini API — the faster, lower-cost tier at 50% of standard pricing. New to the family? Seedance 2.0 API.

Seedance 2.0 Mini: Lower Cost, Higher Quality Videos

Not every shot needs the full Standard-tier budget. Most of video production is iteration — testing prompts, blocking out scenes, generating social cuts, and producing high volumes of short clips where per-creation cost matters more than the last few percent of quality.

Seedance 2.0 Mini by ByteDance is built for exactly that. It’s the faster, lower-cost tier of Seedance 2.0 — the same unified multimodal architecture, the same cinematic storytelling, now priced at 50% of standard Seedance 2.0 and tuned for reduced generation time. It’s available today on WaveSpeedAI with fast inference and no cold starts.

What You Get

Seedance 2.0 Mini keeps the capabilities that make Seedance 2.0 stand out:

Cinematic multi-shot generation — structured sequences with narrative flow, not isolated clips.
AI camera control — zooms, pans, tracking shots, and dynamic framing driven by your prompt.
Consistent character generation — the same character identity held across multiple scenes.
Multimodal references — guide a generation with up to 9 images, 9 videos, and 3 audio tracks.
Native audio — synchronized audio generated in the same pass, no separate model or sync step.

Specs

Property	Support
Resolution	720p – 1080p
Duration	5 – 12 seconds
Aspect ratios	16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16
References	up to 9 images, 9 videos, 3 audio
Price	50% of standard Seedance 2.0

A Full Variant Surface

Mini ships the same variant lineup as Standard, all at the Mini price point:

Text-to-Video — cinematic clips from a prompt.
Image-to-Video — animate a reference still while preserving subject and composition.
Video-Edit — restyle lighting, weather, and atmosphere of existing footage.
Video-Extend — continue a clip from its last frame for longer sequences.
Spicy and Turbo variants — an uncensored prompt-optimization pass, and faster high-res output.

When to Choose Mini vs Standard

Reach for Mini when you’re iterating on prompts, producing social content at volume (TikTok, Reels, Shorts), drafting ad and brand concepts, or generating e-commerce product video where cost-per-clip is the constraint. Move up to Standard for final delivery where you want the last increment of motion stability and detail.

Because Mini mirrors the Standard API surface one-to-one, you can prototype on Mini and switch the model ID to Standard for the hero render — no other code changes.

Get Started

Pick a variant and run it from the Seedance 2.0 Mini landing page, or try the full family in the video generator. Everything runs on WaveSpeedAI’s production inference with no cold starts.