Seedance 1.0
ByteDance's multi-shot video model — #1 on the Artificial Analysis video arena at launch.
About
Seedance 1.0 is ByteDance Seed's video generation model, unveiled in June 2025. It handles text-to-video and image-to-video with 1080p output at 24fps, 5- or 10-second clips, and a signature native multi-camera capability — 2–3 shot changes per clip with far/mid/close framing, following explicit camera instructions. ByteDance reports five seconds of Full HD in about 41 seconds, far faster than comparable models.
Independently, Artificial Analysis ranked Seedance 1.0 Pro first worldwide on both its text-to-video and image-to-video leaderboards in June 2025, ahead of Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora. Notable limitation: 1.0 generates no audio — Veo 3's auto-synced dialogue remains the differentiator for sound-on workflows. API access runs through Volcano Engine (model id Doubao-Seedance-1.0-pro), and it is exposed in the Vercel AI SDK's ByteDance provider (e.g. byteDance.video('seedance-1-0-pro-250528')). Later versions (1.5 Pro, 2.x) added native audio and longer clips.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Independent (Artificial Analysis, Jun 2025): #1 on both text-to-video and image-to-video leaderboards.
Provider-reported: 5s of 1080p video in ~41s.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Launch confirmed by ByteDance's Seed team and the arXiv technical report, with an independent #1 arena ranking corroborating the quality claims. Docked for: (1) proprietary, API-only; (2) generation-speed figures are provider-reported; (3) no native audio in 1.0, which limits it against Veo 3 for sound-on work.