AI Video Cost Calculator
Estimate what a month of AI video generation costs across Seedance and competing models, using published provider prices.
Estimates only. Provider prices are rounded, may vary by region, resolution, and billing tier, and change without notice. Always check the provider's pricing page before budgeting.
A planning calculator based on published price lists. This tool does not generate video and is not affiliated with any provider.
How this AI video generator cost calculator works
Most AI video providers bill by the second of output, by the video, or by “tokens” that scale with resolution and duration. That makes head-to-head comparison painful: a Seedance 2.5 clip is quoted per million tokens on BytePlus ModelArk, per second on fal and Replicate, and as a flat per-video figure on Together AI. This AI video generator cost calculator normalises every published price we could verify into a per-second rate for each resolution, then multiplies by your clip length, your monthly volume, and a regeneration multiplier.
Every price row carries the provider’s source URL and the date we retrieved it. When a provider publishes a per-video example instead of a per-second rate — BytePlus’s “5-second 16:9” examples, for instance — we divide by the example duration, and the table says so. Flat per-video prices that do not state a duration basis (Together AI’s catalog) are shown as fixed figures and flagged.
Why the regeneration multiplier defaults to ×3
Nobody ships the first generation. Motion goes wrong, the framing is off, a hand has six fingers, the dialogue lands on the wrong beat. ByteDance’s own Seedance 2.0 model card lists “minor deformation artifacts, motion plausibility in edge cases” and “lip-sync errors in multi-speaker scenes” as remaining weaknesses. A planning budget that assumes three attempts per finished clip is a realistic default for most commercial work; set the multiplier to ×1 to see raw list prices, or higher if your prompts are complex multi-shot sequences.
What the numbers do not include
- Video-input and editing modes. Seedance 2.x charges differently when you supply reference video (BytePlus bills input plus output duration, fal applies a 0.6× multiplier to the per-second rate, Replicate lists separate video-input tiers). The calculator models text- and image-to-video only.
- Promotions. BytePlus ran time-limited discounts in August–September 2026 on Seedance 2.5 1080p, 2.0 Fast and 2.0 Mini; list prices are shown, with the promotion noted where it applies.
- Minimum charges, taxes, and prepaid packs. Runway applies per-generation credit minimums; BytePlus sells resource packs at different effective rates; subscription apps like Dreamina use credits rather than dollars. Check the provider page before budgeting.
- Failed generations. Most providers do not bill failures, so the multiplier should reflect usable-but-rejected outputs, not errors.
Reading the comparison
For each model you tick, the table picks the cheapest provider that publishes a price at your chosen resolution (falling back to 720p or the nearest available tier) and shows the provider it used. Resolution availability differs by surface — fal exposes Seedance 2.5 at 480p and 720p only, while BytePlus adds 1080p — so a model may appear at a different resolution than the one you selected; the column tells you which. Clip length is capped at each model’s published maximum: 8 seconds for Veo 3.1, 15 for the Seedance 2.0 series and Kling 3.0, 30 for Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0.
For the full provider-by-provider picture, read our Seedance API pricing comparison and the Seedance API guide. If you are weighing models rather than providers, start with our AI video generator rankings or the Seedance vs Veo comparison. Free options are covered in How to Use Seedance for Free.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a Seedance 2.5 video cost?
On BytePlus ModelArk’s published examples, a 5-second 16:9 Seedance 2.5 clip lists at about $0.51 at 480p, $1.16 at 720p and $2.84 at 1080p before discounts. fal.ai quotes roughly $0.47 per second at 720p, and Replicate about $0.23 per second at 720p. Prices were retrieved on August 23, 2026 and change often.
Is Seedance cheaper than Google Veo?
It depends on the tier. Google lists Veo 3.1 at $0.40 per second at 720p and 1080p, and Veo 3.1 Fast at $0.10 to $0.12 per second. Seedance 2.0 on BytePlus works out to roughly $0.15 per second at 720p, and Seedance 2.0 Mini far less, while Seedance 2.5 at 1080p on BytePlus is about $0.57 per second at list price.
Where do the prices come from?
From provider pricing pages and API documentation we fetched ourselves: BytePlus ModelArk, fal.ai, Replicate, Runway, WaveSpeed, OpenRouter, Together AI, Google’s Gemini API, Kling’s developer platform, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and MiniMax. Each row in the results links to its source and shows the retrieval date.
Why does the calculator not show Jimeng or Dreamina prices?
Those apps sell subscriptions and credits rather than per-second dollar prices, and credit costs per generation are only shown inside the app. Dreamina’s own pages quote around $0.097 per second for Seedance 2.5 on an annual plan, but plan names, prices and credit rules vary by region, so we keep them out of the dollar comparison.
Sources: provider pricing pages listed in the results table (retrieved August 23, 2026). Seed Video is not affiliated with any provider; estimates are for planning only.