Seedance 2.0 Mini

• 🎬 Text-to-video generation from ByteDance's Seedance family
• 🎯 Lightweight tier of the Seedance 2.0 generation
• ⚡ Trimmed for faster, cheaper clip generation
• 🎨 Realistic motion with strong scene consistency
• 🏢 Built by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok
• 🌍 Part of a broad Seedance/Seedream media lineup

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 Mini is the compact text-to-video member of ByteDance's Seedance family, taking a text prompt and returning a short generated clip with the cinematic motion and scene consistency the family is known for. Arriving in June 2026, it sits alongside an image-to-video variant and Seedance 2.0 Mini R2V, which accepts reference imagery to guide character and style continuity.

Within the Seedance 2.0 generation, Mini occupies the lightweight tier: Seedance 2.0 is the full-weight configuration, Seedance 2.0 Fast optimises for throughput, and Seedance 2.5 represents a separate line of the family. ByteDance's wider generative media catalogue also includes the Seedream image models, such as Seedream V5 Pro, which pair naturally with Seedance for still-to-motion workflows.

Practically, Seedance 2.0 Mini is best suited to high-volume prompt exploration, storyboarding, social-format clips, and iterative creative work where quick turnaround and lower cost matter more than squeezing out maximum fidelity — with heavier Seedance tiers available once a shot is worth a final render.