Seedance 2.0

• 🏢 ByteDance's flagship Seedance video family, image-to-video variant
• 🆕 Released March 2026, the first entry in the 2.0 generation
• 🎯 Takes a starting image plus a text prompt describing motion
• 📚 Catalog description cites realistic motion, scene consistency, cinematic quality
• 🔧 Sibling endpoints cover text-to-video and reference-to-video inputs
• ⚡ Fast and Mini tiers exist for quicker, lighter generation
• 🌐 Superseded within the family by Seedance 2.5 image-to-video
• 🧠 No public parameter count, license, or technical report in this catalog

ByteDance

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Seedance 2.0 is the image-to-video entry point of ByteDance's flagship Seedance video family, dated March 2026 in this catalog. Rather than generating from text alone, it starts from a still image you supply and a prompt that describes how the scene should move, making it the natural choice when you already have a fixed frame, character or composition you want to keep. The catalog description for the family highlights realistic motion, scene consistency and cinematic quality.

The 2.0 release arrived as a set of matched endpoints. Seedance 2.0 handles prompt-only generation, while Seedance 2.0 R2V works from reference material. Lighter tiers followed shortly after: Seedance 2.0 Fast in April 2026 and Seedance 2.0 Mini in June 2026, both offered for the same input modes.

Its immediate same-family predecessor is Seedance 1.5 Pro, released only days earlier in March 2026; ByteDance has since shipped a newer generation, Seedance 2.5, in August 2026, so 2.0 now sits as the older stable option in the line. No parameter count, license or official technical documentation is recorded for this checkpoint here, so capability comparisons between the generations are best made by testing them side by side.

Creators who need a source frame first can generate one with an image model such as Seedream V5 Pro or Seedream V5 Lite, then animate it here.