Seedance 2.0 Fast

• 🎬 Image-to-video generation from a single still frame
• ⚡ Speed-optimized tier of the Seedance 2.0 family
• 🎯 Realistic motion with strong scene consistency
• 🏢 Built by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok
• 🎨 Cinematic look suited to rapid creative iteration

ByteDance

ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing's Haidian district, with an associated variable-interest entity incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Best known as a consumer internet operator at enormous scale, it has also become a…

Seedance 2.0 Fast is the latency-optimized branch of ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video generation family, tuned to turn a single input image into animated footage with realistic motion and coherent scenes. Arriving in April 2026, one day after the standard Seedance 2.0 release, it trades some of the full model's rendering headroom for markedly quicker turnaround on image-to-video jobs.

Within ByteDance's lineup, Seedance occupies the video tier while the Seedream models — including Seedream V5 Pro and Seedream V5 Lite — handle still image generation and editing. The 2.0 generation splits into three capability tiers: the standard model for maximum fidelity, Seedance 2.0 Mini as the lightweight option, and Fast as the middle ground favouring throughput. Each tier is offered in text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video variants, with the Fast text-to-video model covering prompt-only generation.

Best suited to workflows where you already have a keyframe or product shot and want it in motion quickly — storyboarding, social clips, ad variants, and batch iteration where waiting on a heavier renderer would slow the loop.