Seedance 2.0 Mini

• 🏢 ByteDance Seed's Seedance 2.0 video family, Mini tier, image-to-video.
• 👁️ Takes a starting image plus a text prompt describing motion.
• 📏 ByteDance reports multi-shot clips up to 15 seconds for Seedance 2.0.
• 💬 Generation-level synchronized dual-channel audio, per ByteDance's launch post.
• 🔧 Generation adds controllable video extension and editing, per ByteDance.
• 🎯 ByteDance cites improved instruction following and subject consistency versus earlier Seedance.
• 🆕 Newer generation available in the catalog as Seedance 2.5.
• 📚 ByteDance notes remaining limits in text rendering and complex edits.

ByteDance

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Seedance 2.0 Mini is the image-to-video entry point of the Mini tier in ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video family. You supply a starting image together with a text prompt describing the intended motion, camera work and scene, and the model animates that frame into a video clip. In this catalog it sits alongside the full-quality Seedance 2.0 image-to-video model and Seedance 2.0 Fast, all part of the same 2.0 generation.

For the generational picture, ByteDance's official Seedance 2.0 launch post describes the release as a broad upgrade over its earlier Seedance models — including Seedance 1.5 Pro — in instruction following and consistency, with more stable subject appearance across complex multi-character scenes, controllable video extension and editing, and multi-shot audio-video output of up to 15 seconds carrying dual-channel audio. The same post is candid about remaining weaknesses, naming multi-subject consistency, text rendering and complex editing effects as areas that still fall short.

Other Mini entry points cover different input modes: Seedance 2.0 Mini for text-only prompts and Seedance 2.0 Mini R2V for reference-guided generation. If you want the newest generation of the family instead, the catalog also lists Seedance 2.5 for image-to-video and Seedance 2.5 for text-to-video. For still images rather than motion, ByteDance's Seedream V5 Pro is the companion image model.