Seedance 2.0

• 🏢 ByteDance Seed's flagship video generation family, released March 2026.
• 🆕 Unified multimodal architecture accepting text, image, audio and video inputs.
• 💬 Native joint audio-video generation, so sound is produced with the picture.
• 🎯 Director-level control over performance, lighting, shadow and camera movement.
• 🔧 Emphasis on motion stability and scene consistency across a shot.
• ⚡ Family also includes Fast and Mini variants, plus image- and reference-conditioned endpoints.
• 🌐 This entry is the text-to-video endpoint of the 2.0 family.

ByteDance

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Seedance 2.0 is the text-to-video member of ByteDance Seed's flagship video family. According to Seed's own model page, it adopts a unified multimodal audio-video joint generation architecture that accepts text, image, audio and video inputs, and emphasizes motion stability plus creator control over performance, lighting, shadow and camera movement. In practice, a prompt can specify camera moves and staging, and the model generates video with synchronized audio rather than a silent clip.

Against its predecessor Seedance 1.5 Pro, the documented change is architectural rather than incremental: Seed positions 2.0 as a joint audio-video model with multimodal conditioning across text, image, audio and video, where earlier Seedance releases were framed as video generators driven by text or a starting image. Seed's stated priorities for this generation are motion stability and director-style control of performance and lighting.

The 2.0 release ships as a tier system in this catalog. Seedance 2.0 Fast and the later Seedance 2.0 Mini are smaller-tier variants, while Seedance 2.0 image-to-video and Seedance 2.0 R2V expose the same generation through image and multi-reference conditioning.

For newer work, Seedance 2.5 succeeds this checkpoint in the same family, alongside its Seedance 2.5 image-to-video counterpart. Seedream V5 Pro is the image model in the same provider family.