Seedance 2.5

• 🏢 ByteDance's flagship Seedance video family, here in image-to-video mode
• 👁️ Animate a still image with a prompt describing motion and camera
• 📏 Up to 30 seconds of video generated in a single pass²
• 💬 Joint audio-video generation: sound created together with the visuals²
• 🎯 Reference-driven control over subjects, scenes and continuity²
• 🔧 Generated clips can be extended for longer sequences²
• 🆕 Positioned by ByteDance as a next-generation Seedance release²
• 📚 Pairs naturally with the Seedream image models for frame prep

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 2.5 is the current flagship of ByteDance's Seedance video line, offered here in its image-to-video configuration: you supply a still image as the visual starting point, together with a text prompt describing action, motion and camera work. ByteDance describes Seedance 2.5 as a next-generation audio-video joint generation model built around 30-second storytelling, precise reference control and editing capabilities.²

The main generational shift ByteDance highlights is duration and coherence. Rather than producing only brief shots that must be chained together, Seedance 2.5 generates up to 30 seconds in a single pass and can extend a finished clip for longer sequences.² Because the whole span is produced at once, a character, product or setting is less likely to drift the way it can between separately generated and spliced segments. Audio is generated jointly with the picture rather than added as a separate step.²

Within ByteDance's wider Seed catalogue, Seedance handles video while the Seedream family covers stills: Seedream V5 Pro and the lighter Seedream V5 Lite for text-to-image, their editing counterparts Seedream V5 Pro and Seedream V5 Lite for inpainting, plus the earlier Seedream V4.5 and its edit variant Seedream V4.5. A common workflow is to compose or retouch a frame with Seedream, then animate that frame here.