Seedance 2.0 Mini API
ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Mini — the faster, lower-cost tier of Seedance 2.0. Same cinematic multi-shot storytelling, AI camera control, and character consistency with native audio, at 50% of the standard price.
Lower Cost, Higher Quality Videos. Text-to-video, image-to-video, video-edit, and video-extend (plus Spicy and Turbo variants), 480p–4k at 4–15s, with native audio and up to 9 image / 9 video / 3 audio references — priced at half of standard Seedance 2.0.
About the Seedance 2.0 Mini API
What Seedance 2.0 Mini does, how it fits in the ByteDance model lineup, and why teams reach for it.
Seedance 2.0 Mini is a video generation model from ByteDance, available through the WaveSpeedAI REST API. ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Mini — the faster, lower-cost tier of Seedance 2.0. Same cinematic multi-shot storytelling, AI camera control, and character consistency with native audio, at 50% of the standard price.
Lower Cost, Higher Quality Videos. Text-to-video, image-to-video, video-edit, and video-extend (plus Spicy and Turbo variants), 480p–4k at 4–15s, with native audio and up to 9 image / 9 video / 3 audio references — priced at half of standard Seedance 2.0.
The Seedance 2.0 Mini family on WaveSpeedAI ships 8 REST endpoints covering Text-To-Video, Image-To-Video, Video-Extend, Video-To-Video workflows. Each variant carries its own pricing, parameter knobs, and example outputs — pick the one that matches your input modality and production constraints, or call several from the same API key to compose multi-step pipelines.
Run Seedance 2.0 Mini through the same API key, billing account, and rate-limit envelope you use for the other 1,000+ AI models on WaveSpeedAI. No separate vendor setup, no per-provider SDKs, no per-vendor rate-limit envelopes — one integration covers everything from text-to-image and text-to-video through audio synthesis, 3D generation, upscaling, and editing.
All Seedance 2.0 Mini API endpoints
8 Seedance 2.0 Mini endpoints available now on WaveSpeedAI — pick the variant that matches your workflow.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Text To Video Turbo
Seedance 2.0 Mini Text to Video Turbo is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost text-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It generates narrative sequences from text prompts with AI camera control, consistent characters, 720P / 1080P output, 5-12s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Image To Video Spicy
Seedance 2.0 Mini Spicy Image to Video is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost image-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It turns reference images and optional text prompts into narrative sequences with AI camera control, consistent characters, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Video Extend
Seedance 2.0 Mini Video Extend is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost video extension model for cinematic multi-shot continuation. It extends existing videos into seamless narrative sequences with AI camera control, consistent characters, motion continuity, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Text To Video
Seedance 2.0 Mini Text to Video is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost text-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It generates narrative sequences from text prompts with AI camera control, consistent characters across scenes, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Video Edit Turbo
Seedance 2.0 Mini is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost video generation model for text to video and image to video. It creates cinematic multi-shot videos with AI camera control, consistent characters across scenes, 720P / 1080P output, 5-12s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Image To Video Turbo
Seedance 2.0 Mini Image to Video Turbo is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost image-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It turns reference images and optional text prompts into narrative sequences with AI camera control, consistent characters, 720P / 1080P output, 5-12s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Video Edit
Seedance 2.0 Mini Video Edit is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost video editing model for prompt-guided video modification. It edits existing videos with cinematic multi-shot quality, AI camera control, consistent characters, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Image To Video
Seedance 2.0 Mini Image to Video is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost image-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It turns reference images and optional text prompts into narrative sequences with AI camera control, consistent characters across scenes, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.
See Seedance 2.0 Mini in action
Real outputs generated by the Seedance 2.0 Mini API. Hover any video to preview, click to open the full-size viewer.
How to use the Seedance 2.0 Mini API
Four steps from signup to a finished generation. Full Python, Node.js, and cURL examples are in the API section below.
- 1
Get an API key
Sign up for a WaveSpeedAI account and copy your API key from the dashboard. New accounts come with free starter credits — enough to run the playground a few dozen times before billing kicks in.
- 2
Submit a prediction
POST your input as JSON to https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video. The endpoint returns a prediction id immediately — generations are async so you don't hold an open connection during inference.
- 3
Poll for completion
GET https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/{request_id}/result. Start around every 2 seconds, then increase toward 5-10 seconds for long-running tasks to reduce unnecessary requests. Stop on completed, failed, cancelled, or timeout.
- 4
Read the output URL
Once status is"completed", read the URL from data.outputs[0]. The URL points to your generated media on the WaveSpeedAI CDN — image, video, audio, or 3D file depending on the Seedance 2.0 Mini variant you called.
What you can build with Seedance 2.0 Mini
Common workflows developers and creators use the Seedance 2.0 Mini API for.
Low-cost text-to-video with native audio
bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video generates cinematic clips from text prompts with synchronized audio in a single pass, at half the cost of standard Seedance 2.0 — ideal for high-volume iteration and social content.
Image-to-video from a reference still
bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video animates a reference image with text guidance, preserving subject identity, composition, and first-frame detail while adding motion, camera moves, and synchronized audio.
Video-edit for targeted style changes
bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/video-edit rewrites lighting, style, weather, and atmosphere of an input video from a prompt while preserving subject identity, composition, and motion — a cheaper look-dev / style-transfer pass on existing footage.
Video-extend for longer sequences
bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/video-extend continues an input video from its last frame with a prompt-driven cinematic continuation — chain extends to build longer sequences at the Mini price point.
Spicy and Turbo variants
bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video-spicy adds an uncensored prompt-optimization pass, and the -turbo variants deliver high-res output faster — all at the Mini 50% price tier.
Tips for prompting Seedance 2.0 Mini
Practical advice for getting better outputs from Seedance 2.0 Mini — drawn from the patterns that work across video models in production pipelines.
Be specific about camera moves
Mention concrete cinematography vocabulary — orbit, dolly-in, push-in, pan-left, crane shot, handheld follow. Generic prompts produce static or arbitrary camera choices; named camera moves map directly to motion intent in the model's training data and dramatically improve shot quality.
Anchor character identity with reference images
If your prompt depends on a specific person, character, or product, upload a reference image alongside the prompt. Without a reference, identity drifts across frames and across shots — the same character ends up looking like a slightly different person each generation.
Describe lighting and time of day
Lighting cues like 'golden hour, soft warm directional light' or 'overcast diffused light, slate-grey sky' improve quality and consistency far more than vague quality modifiers. Lighting is one of the strongest priors the model conditions on.
Use negative prompts to suppress common failure modes
Useful negatives for video: 'frame flicker, motion blur, watermark, text artifacts, distorted hands, low resolution, jpeg compression'. Negative prompts cost nothing and noticeably reduce the rate of generations you'd otherwise re-roll.
Pick the shortest duration that captures your beat
Most prompts work best at 5-8 seconds. Longer clips amplify temporal inconsistencies (subject morphing, environment drift). If you need a 20-second sequence, generate three 6-8 second clips and edit them together — quality stays higher than one long generation.
Match aspect ratio to platform up front
9:16 for TikTok / Reels / Shorts, 16:9 for landscape feeds and YouTube, 1:1 for post grids. Models train slightly differently per aspect ratio — cropping a 16:9 to 9:16 after the fact loses both fidelity and the composition the model intended.
Seedance 2.0 Mini API pricing
Pricing is per-output. The final charge scales with the parameters you set in each variant's playground (resolution, duration, output count, references).
| Endpoint | Type | Starting price |
|---|---|---|
| bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video-turbo | text-to-video | $0.70 |
| bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video-spicy | image-to-video | $0.60 |
| bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/video-extend | video-extend | $0.60 |
| bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video | text-to-video | $0.60 |
| bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/video-edit-turbo | video-to-video | $0.95 |
| bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video-turbo | image-to-video | $0.70 |
| bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/video-edit | video-to-video | $0.75 |
| bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video | image-to-video | $0.60 |
Call the Seedance 2.0 Mini API
Sign up for an API key at wavespeed.ai/accesskey, then submit a prediction via REST. The playground generates ready-to-paste samples for any combination of inputs.
HTTP example
# 1. Submit the prediction.
SUBMIT_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
-X POST "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY" \
-d '{}')
TASK=$(printf '%s' "$SUBMIT_RESPONSE" | jq 'if has("data") then .data else . end')
PREDICTION_ID=$(printf '%s' "$TASK" | jq -r '.id')
if [ -z "$PREDICTION_ID" ] || [ "$PREDICTION_ID" = "null" ]; then
printf 'Submission response did not contain a prediction id
' >&2
exit 1
fi
RESULT_URL=$(printf '%s' "$TASK" | jq -r '.urls.get // empty')
if [ -z "$RESULT_URL" ]; then
RESULT_URL="https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/$PREDICTION_ID/result"
fi
# 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while true; do
RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body "$RESULT_URL" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY")
RESULT=$(printf '%s' "$RESPONSE" | jq 'if has("data") then .data else . end')
STATUS=$(printf '%s' "$RESULT" | jq -r '.status')
case "$STATUS" in
completed) printf '%s\n' "$RESULT" | jq '.outputs'; break ;;
failed|cancelled|timeout) printf '%s\n' "$RESULT" | jq . >&2; exit 1 ;;
created|processing) sleep 2 ;;
*) printf 'Unexpected status: %s
' "$STATUS" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
doneNode.js example
const submitUrl = "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video";
const apiKey = process.env.WAVESPEED_API_KEY;
if (!apiKey) throw new Error('Set WAVESPEED_API_KEY');
async function requestJson(url, options = {}) {
const response = await fetch(url, options);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(await response.text());
return response.json();
}
// 1. Submit the prediction.
const body = await requestJson(submitUrl, {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
const task = body.data ?? body;
const resultUrl = task.urls?.get ||
`https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/${task.id}/result`;
// 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while (true) {
const resultBody = await requestJson(resultUrl, {
headers: { "Authorization": `Bearer ${apiKey}` },
});
const result = resultBody.data ?? resultBody;
if (result.status === "completed") {
console.log(result.outputs);
break;
}
if (["failed", "cancelled", "timeout"].includes(result.status)) throw new Error(JSON.stringify(result));
if (!["created", "processing"].includes(result.status)) throw new Error("Unexpected status: " + result.status);
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 2000));
}Python example
import json
import os
import time
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
api_key = os.environ["WAVESPEED_API_KEY"]
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
payload = {}
def request_json(url, data=None):
request = Request(url, data=data, headers=headers, method="POST" if data else "GET")
with urlopen(request) as response:
return json.load(response)
# 1. Submit the prediction.
body = request_json("https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video", json.dumps(payload).encode())
task = body.get("data", body)
result_url = task.get("urls", {}).get("get") or f"https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/{task['id']}/result"
# 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while True:
result_body = request_json(result_url)
result = result_body.get("data", result_body)
status = result.get("status")
if status == "completed":
print(result.get("outputs", []))
break
if status in {"failed", "cancelled", "timeout"}:
raise RuntimeError(result)
if status not in {"created", "processing"}:
raise RuntimeError(f"Unexpected status: {status}")
time.sleep(2)Seedance 2.0 Mini vs alternatives
When to pick Seedance 2.0 Mini over similar models on WaveSpeedAI.
Seedance 2.0 Mini vs Seedance 2.0 (standard)
Standard Seedance 2.0 maximizes quality and motion stability. Seedance 2.0 Mini is the same architecture and variant surface (text-to-video, image-to-video, video-edit, video-extend, Spicy, Turbo) optimized for faster generation and 50% lower cost — choose Mini for iteration and volume, Standard for final delivery.
Seedance 2.0 Mini vs Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1 leads on photorealism and human faces. Seedance 2.0 Mini wins on cost and native audio across every variant, plus video-edit and video-extend in the same family — at a price point built for high-volume production.
Seedance 2.0 Mini vs Kling 3.0
Kling 3.0 offers a separate motion-control endpoint. Seedance 2.0 Mini ships native audio in the same generation, 4k output, video-edit, and video-extend, at half the standard Seedance 2.0 price for cost-sensitive workflows.
Seedance 2.0 Mini API — Frequently asked questions
Pricing, license, integration — common questions about running Seedance 2.0 Mini on WaveSpeedAI.
What is the Seedance 2.0 Mini API?
Seedance 2.0 Mini is a ByteDance video generation model exposed as a REST API on WaveSpeedAI. ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Mini — the faster, lower-cost tier of Seedance 2.0. Same cinematic multi-shot storytelling, AI camera control, and character consistency with native audio, at 50% of the standard price. You can call it programmatically or try it from the playground linked above.
How do I call the Seedance 2.0 Mini API?
Sign up for a WaveSpeedAI account, copy your API key from /accesskey, then POST to https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video with your input as JSON. The endpoint returns a prediction id. Poll the result endpoint starting around every 2 seconds, increase the interval for long-running tasks, and stop on any terminal status. Production-oriented Python / Node.js / cURL examples are above.
How much does the Seedance 2.0 Mini API cost?
Seedance 2.0 Mini starts at $0.60 per run. The exact cost scales with the parameters you set (resolution, duration, output count, references). The live cost preview next to the Generate button in the playground shows the exact price for your current input.
Which Seedance 2.0 Mini variants are available?
WaveSpeedAI hosts 8 live Seedance 2.0 Mini endpoints: bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video-turbo, bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video-spicy, bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/video-extend, bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video, bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/video-edit-turbo, bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video-turbo, bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/video-edit, bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video. Each variant has its own playground page and pricing.
Can I use Seedance 2.0 Mini outputs commercially?
Commercial usage rights follow the ByteDance model license. Most ByteDance models permit commercial output use; see each model's playground page for the specific license summary, and WaveSpeedAI's Terms of Service for platform-level conditions.
Why use Seedance 2.0 Mini on WaveSpeedAI instead of going direct?
One API key + one billing account across Seedance 2.0 Mini AND 1,000+ other AI models from other providers. No per-vendor SDK setup, no separate rate-limit envelopes, no rewrite-per-vendor integration code. Pricing is typically at parity with or below ByteDance's direct API.
About ByteDance
The team behind Seedance 2.0 Mini and the broader ByteDance model lineup on WaveSpeedAI.
ByteDance — the company behind TikTok, CapCut, and Doubao — runs one of the largest AI research operations in the world. Its Seed and Doubao teams ship state-of-the-art models for video generation (Seedance), image generation and editing (Seedream, Nano Banana), and avatar / lip-sync work. Models are trained on internal-scale data and shipped to production through ByteDance's consumer apps before being released as APIs.
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