How our pricesare computed
One price engine feeds every page, the studio and the API, so no two numbers can disagree. The creative and developer API price lists are kept apart; today they hold the same prices. Here is each step, with the real figures.
Firstcount the tokens
BytePlus bills Seedance 2.0 by tokens. The formula counts every second of video the model reads or writes.
tokens = (input video s + output s) × width × height × 24 ÷ 1024- Frame sizes (16:9; 9:16 swaps them; 1:1 renders 960×960 at 720p and 640×640 at 480p)
- 720p · 1280×720
480p · 864×496 (inferred from BytePlus examples)
Example: Seedance 2.0 Fast, 720p, 5 s → 5 × 1280 × 720 × 24 ÷ 1024 = 108,000 tokens.
Thenapply the list rate
BytePlus ModelArk pay-as-you-go list prices, in US dollars per million tokens. Jobs that read a video use a lower rate.
| Model | Without video input | With video input |
|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.0 Minidreamina-seedance-2-0-mini-260615 | $3.50 / 1M tokens | $2.10 / 1M tokens |
| Seedance 2.0 Fastdreamina-seedance-2-0-fast-260128 | $5.60 / 1M tokens | $3.30 / 1M tokens |
Example: 108,000 tokens × $5.60 ÷ 1,000,000 = $0.6048.
Our pricecomes from the list
Our price is the BytePlus list price × 0.55, rounded up to a whole credit. One credit is $0.01 at the standard top-up rate.
Example: $0.6048 × 0.55 = $0.33264 → 34 credits ($0.34).The API bills per second: the list price per second × 0.55, rounded up to $0.001. Seedance 2.0 Fast at 720p is $0.067/s.
Roundingrules
Prices round up to whole credits. Anything that describes what you get rounds down, so no figure overstates it.
- Credits per clip
- Rounded up to a whole credit, once per clip.
- API $/s
- Rounded up to $0.001.
- Budget counts
- Rounded down. They count renders you can run, not clips that are sure to be usable.
Every stepworked through
The reference specs, computed live by the engine.
| Spec | Tokens | BytePlus list | × 0.55 | Ours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.0 Mini480p · 5 s | 50,220 | $0.17577 | $0.09667 | 10 cr$0.10 |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini720p · 5 s | 108,000 | $0.378 | $0.2079 | 21 cr$0.21 |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast480p · 5 s | 50,220 | $0.28123 | $0.15468 | 16 cr$0.16 |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast720p · 5 s | 108,000 | $0.6048 | $0.33264 | 34 cr$0.34 |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast720p · 5 s + 3 s video in | 172,800 | $0.64152 | $0.35284 | 36 cr$0.36 |
The evidencebehind the numbers
- Checked
- 2026-10-12
- Model versions
- dreamina-seedance-2-0-fast-260128
dreamina-seedance-2-0-mini-260615 - Re-check
- Every 30 days, or the comparison with the official price hides
Good to knowabout the price
- Minimum charge
- BytePlus bills a job with video input at least a minimum number of tokens, set by the output length. Quotes and the calculator include it.
- Audio
- Native audio on or off is the same price.
- Failed or rejected
- The held credits are refunded and nothing is charged.
- Images
- Image Mini and Image Fast have their own per-image prices and no list-price comparison.