Type the scene.
Seedance 2.0 Mini films it.
Seedance 2.0 Mini is the light, low-cost tier of the Seedance 2.0 family — text and images in, coherent cinematic clips out. Up to 1080p, at a fraction of Seedance 2.0 pricing.
- Text & image to video
- Up to 1080p
- Up to 15s clips
- 16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1 · 4:3
Shot entirely with Seedance 2.0 Mini
Every clip below came out of Seedance 2.0 Mini as a sentence or a single still. No timeline, no keyframes — just a prompt.
Time-Freeze: Sports Bar
Use @ Reference Image as the main character, keeping facial features and body proportions consistent throughout. She is a 30-year-old woman. Cinematic time-freeze short film, 15 seconds, ultra-realistic, shot on Arri Alexa Mini, 35mm lens, moody sports bar interior lighting with neon accents, volumetric haze, dynamic hard shadows, shallow depth of field. [0:00–0:03] A packed, dimly lit sports bar, time flowing normally. Steadicam frontal medium shot tracking her walking confidently through absolute chaos. On the blurred TVs in the background, the Yankees have just clinched the World Series. The crowd is erupting in pure euphoria. As she walks, she raises her right hand and snaps. [0:03–0:06] At the snap, a subtle spherical shockwave bursts from her fingertips with air distortion and light refraction, expanding outward. Everything freezes mid-explosion. Thick arcs of golden beer suspend in the air, with individual glistening droplets visible. Popcorn kernels float motionless. People are frozen mid-cheer and mid-air in leaping embraces. Volumetric neon light catches the suspended dust and liquid. Absolute silence. [0:06–0:09] Only she moves. Her footsteps echo slightly. The camera moves backward as she walks through the frozen celebration, observing calmly. She casually ducks under an arc of frozen, splashing beer. She notices a cluster of floating popcorn, reaches out, and plucks a single kernel from the air. [0:09–0:11] She stops in front of a frozen woman wearing a Yankees jersey, her face locked in an ecstatic, tearful scream, arms raised for a high-five. The main character tilts her head, gently adjusts the brim of the frozen woman’s Yankees cap, nods slightly, and softly says: “perfect.” [0:11–0:15] She turns, tosses the popcorn kernel into her mouth, and crunches it. She faces the camera, smirks, and snaps again. A stronger reverse shockwave restores motion. The beer completes its splash, the cheering roar instantly returns, and fans land their jumps. She walks away as the camera pushes through the wildly celebrating crowd. Fade to black. Sound: deafening bar roar/celebration → snap → deep shockwave/bass drop → absolute silence → footsteps → sharp popcorn crunch → “perfect” → snap → reverse shockwave → deafening celebration returns
First Contact, Best Friend
[CINEMATIC SETUP] Cute 2D cartoon animation, playful sci-fi comedy, soft dusk lighting. Purple-blue sky, orange horizon, cyan UFO glow, green park. Keep strict left-to-right continuity: the dog always runs from screen left toward screen right, directly at the alien. [CHARACTERS] Small grey alien, big black eyes, nervous, simple sci-fi suit, mini ray pistol. Small Staffordshire dog, compact, playful, affectionate, long tongue. [TIMELINE] 0–1.5s: [Wide / Static] UFO lands in a park at dusk. 1.5–3s: [Medium / Push-In] Alien exits cautiously holding a ray pistol. 3–4.5s: [MCU / Pan] Alien senses movement, turns nervous, raises pistol. 4.5–6s: [Wide / Tracking] Dog runs fast from screen left toward screen right, directly at alien. 6–7.5s: [Medium / Push-In] Alien panics and aims pistol directly at the incoming dog. 7.5–9s: [Close / Forward] Dog jumps happily onto alien. 9–11s: [Close / Tight] Dog licks alien’s face while alien reacts in surprise. 11–13s: [Medium / Static] Dog circles alien playfully, alien starts relaxing. 13–15s: [Wide / Final Hold] Alien lowers pistol, offers hand, dog gives paw. [STYLE & QUALITY] Clear readable action, expressive faces, smooth comedic timing, charming wholesome ending
Toy City Pursuit
Use the uploaded reference image as the exact facial identity reference and keep the subject fully intact - preserve her real face structure, hairstyle, skin tone, facial proportions, expression quality, and recognizable features consistently throughout the video. Do not stylize or replace the identity. Transform her into a tiny cinematic police commander standing on top of a fast-moving toy muscle car speeding through a miniature city highway. She wears a stylish futuristic police jacket with neon blue accents, holding a playful toy blaster while chasing tiny runaway toys and mini villains running across the road. Dynamic action scene with dramatic camera movement, front POV shots, side tracking shots, aerial drone views, and intense motion blur. The car drifts sharply through turns while she balances confidently on the roof, hair blowing in the wind, firing colorful cartoon laser shots. Tiny explosions, sparks, flying debris, toy helicopters, and flashing police lights create a chaotic action-comedy atmosphere. Ultra-realistic cinematic lighting, Pixar-inspired miniature world realism, high-detail textures, shallow depth of field, expressive emotions, fast-paced cinematic energy, Seedance 2.0 style, vertical 9:16, ultra detailed, smooth animation, movie-quality action.
The City Holds Its Breath
Cinematic ultra-realistic 15-second short film, western girl in a dark jacket walking through a busy city sidewalk, natural daylight, hard shadows, shallow depth of field, shot on Arri Alexa Mini, 50mm lens. She walks confidently through moving pedestrians, phones, conversations, and pigeons flying in a bright sky. She snaps her fingers — a white spherical shockwave expands outward, freezing everything instantly: people mid-step, dust and leaves suspended, pigeons frozen mid-flight. Silence. She calmly walks through the frozen world, observing everything, gently touching a suspended pigeon. She stops in front of a fully clothed woman in a flowing red dress frozen mid-motion, studies her with a calm expression. She then snaps again — a stronger reverse shockwave restores motion across the city. Pedestrians resume walking, pigeons scatter into flight, leaves fall naturally. She turns and walks away as the camera pulls back into a wide cinematic aerial shot. Fade out.
Crustacean over Venice
Create a hyper-realistic, cinematic video of a colossal, mountain-sized lobster emerging from the turquoise waters of Venice's Grand Canal. The lobster rises directly in front of the ornate Doge's Palace, its massive red and orange claws lifting toward a moody, overcast sky. Waves crash violently against the Gothic arches of the palace, sending white sea spray into the air. Show the lobster’s shell glistening with wet textures and detailed barnacle-like patterns. Include dynamic camera movement: start with a wide-angle establishing shot of the Grand Canal, then slowly zoom in on the lobster as it towers over the palace. Natural, diffused lighting with realistic reflections on the water and building. Epic scale, photorealistic, surrealism, dramatic, and suspenseful atmosphere.
Rainstorm Confession
【风格】国产热门短剧风（Mini-Drama Style），极致快剪节奏，高颜值滤镜，情绪爆发，雨夜唯美虐心。 【时长】15秒 【角色】深情霸总男主（黑风衣，湿发，眼眶通红）VS 倘强破碎感女主（白裙，满脸泪痕）。 [00:00-00:05] 镜头1：冲突快切组合（Rapid Cuts）。 暴雨街头。女主决绝转身要走（背影）。男主冲上来一把拉住她的手腕（特写）。女主猛然回头，眼神是爱恨交织的痛苦。 【对白口型指导】女主哭喊：“放手！我们结束了！” [00:05-00:10] 镜头2：真相爆发（Intense Close-ups）。 男主死不放手，雨水在两人脸上横流。男主急切地从怀里掳出一枚戒指（或一份报告），举到她眼前，手指颤抖。 【对白口型指导】男主嚎吼：“你看清楚！我从来没有骗过你！” [00:10-00:15] 镜头3：情感决堤（Climax）。 女主看清手中之物的瞬间，瞳孔地震（极近特写），捾住嘴巴，防线崩溃。下一秒，男主猛地将她拉入怀中死死抱住，仿佛要揉进骨子里。镜头快速旋转环绕拍摄相拥的两人。 【对白口型指导】女主埋头痛哭（无声/呜咽）。
Ready to create your own Seedance 2.0 Mini clip?
What Seedance 2.0 Mini does best
Short-form video from Seedance 2.0 Mini, rendered at the speed you iterate.
A sentence becomes a shot
Write a prompt, pick a format, and Seedance 2.0 Mini returns a finished clip — motion, camera and light already staged. Built for hooks, ads and social cuts you can iterate in minutes, not afternoons.
Start from a single still
Start from one still to lock your subject, framing or art direction before motion begins. Seedance 2.0 Mini animates the image into camera-true footage that keeps the source intact.
Light on price, not on quality
Seedance 2.0 Mini is the upcoming budget tier: reports place it below Seedance 2.0 Fast on price while beating Fast on quality. Until it ships, Fast is the budget pick here — and Mini goes live the day ByteDance releases it.
Limits you can see up front
Seedance 2.0 Mini outputs 480p, 720p and 1080p at up to fifteen seconds per clip. Those limits sit right inside the generator, so you can scope a prompt before spending credits.
What Seedance 2.0 Mini offers today
No hidden tiers, no asterisks — this is exactly what Seedance 2.0 Mini renders right now.
Text to video
Generate a short clip straight from a prompt with Seedance 2.0 Mini.
Image to video
Start from one reference image and let Seedance 2.0 Mini animate from there.
Three resolutions
Seedance 2.0 Mini renders at 480p for drafts, 720p and 1080p for finals.
Two clip lengths
Five, ten or fifteen seconds per generation — Seedance 2.0 Mini is built for short-form.
Four aspect ratios
Landscape 16:9, vertical 9:16, square 1:1 and classic 4:3.
MP4 export
Finished Seedance 2.0 Mini renders download as MP4, ready to post anywhere.
Made for the videos you actually ship
Launches, ads, explainers, promos — Seedance 2.0 Mini turns the brief into short-form video while the budget barely notices.
Launch teasers
Turn a feature into a short visual story. Seedance 2.0 Mini renders hero shots and launch clips that convert.
Ad hook testing
Generate multiple hooks fast with Seedance 2.0 Mini, then refine the winners. A/B test variations for the cost of a coffee.
Product walkthroughs
Show before-and-after workflows in multi-shot sequences viewers actually remember.
A consistent look
Keep look and framing consistent across posts with repeatable Seedance 2.0 Mini prompts and reference images.
Seasonal shop clips
Seasonal product clips without reshoots — swap the prompt, keep the style.
UGC-flavored stories
Quick narrative clips that feel human-led. Draft, iterate and publish at creator speed with Seedance 2.0 Mini.
Creators are switching to Mini
Join creators shipping short-form video faster with Seedance 2.0 Mini.
”We used to brief an agency for every product teaser and wait two weeks for a first cut. Now I write the shot list as prompts, run it through Seedance 2.0 Mini over coffee, and bring three options to the Monday meeting. Not every render is usable — maybe one in three needs a rerun — but the loop went from weeks to hours.”
”Seedance 2.0 Mini’s reference image mode is what sold me. I lock the first frame with a still from my own color grade, and the motion stays inside my look. I still would not use it for talking-head segments, but for B-roll and transitions it has fully replaced my stock subscriptions.”
”Our explainers needed B-roll we could never afford to shoot, and stock sites kept handing us generic footage that matched nothing. With Seedance 2.0 Mini we generate exactly the scene the script describes — same kitchen, same lighting, lesson after lesson. Students noticed the consistency before we ever mentioned it.”
”Five versions of a hook before lunch sounds like marketing copy until you actually do it. Last month we A/B tested fourteen openings for one campaign in Seedance 2.0 Mini, and the winner came from a prompt we almost did not bother running. Shooting that experiment would have cost more than the whole media budget.”
”Seasonal promos used to mean borrowing my brother’s camera and losing a Sunday. Now I upload one product photo, describe the scene, and Seedance 2.0 Mini hands back a clip I can post the same evening. My autumn collection video took twenty minutes, rerolls included.”
”I make lo-fi visualizers for my releases, and shot-to-shot consistency is the whole game. Older tools gave me beautiful frames that did not belong to the same world. With Seedance 2.0 Mini, a loop that used to take a week with an animator ships with the track on release day.”
Mini-sized prices, Seedance-grade output
Every plan maps to what Seedance 2.0 Mini renders — the same prompt language as Seedance 2.0, at a fraction of the price.
Basic
$24/mo
Billed yearly at $288
900 credits / month
≈45 Seedance 2.0 Mini clips (5s 480p) every month
Seedance 2.0 Mini access for solo creators
- 480p, 720p, and 1080p Seedance 2.0 Mini output
- Clips up to 15s per generation
- Credit-based rendering
- Priority processing
- MP4 download
- No watermark
Pro
$64/mo
Billed yearly at $768
2,800 credits / month
≈140 Seedance 2.0 Mini clips (5s 480p) every month
More credits for heavier Seedance 2.0 Mini iteration
- Everything in Basic
- Higher monthly credit pool
- Priority processing
- Batch-friendly volume
- API access
- Commercial use
Max
$160/mo
Billed yearly at $1,920
8,000 credits / month
≈400 Seedance 2.0 Mini clips (5s 480p) · $0.02 per credit
Run Seedance 2.0 Mini at team and production volume
- Everything in Pro
- Largest monthly credit pool
- Team-scale volume
- API access & support
- Priority support
Need just a few videos?
Buy Seedance 2.0 Mini credits for one-off runs without a subscription plan
160 Credits
About 8 five-second 480p clips
800 Credits
About 40 five-second 480p clips
1,800 Credits
About 90 five-second 480p clips
3,200 Credits
About 160 five-second 480p clips
How Seedance 2.0 Mini stacks up
Where the upcoming Seedance 2.0 Mini is reported to land, next to what runs here today and Google’s Gemini Omni — using only published information.
| Feature | Seedance 2.0 Mini (upcoming) | Seedance 2.0 (live here) | Gemini Omni |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text-to-video | Expected — same API surface | Available | Available |
| Image-to-video | Expected — same API surface | Available | Available |
| Max resolution | Not announced | Up to 1080p | Not published |
| Clip length | Not announced | 5–15s | Not published |
| Aspect ratios | Not announced | 16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1 · 4:3 | Not published |
| Watermark-free export | Not announced | Available | SynthID watermark embedded |
Frequently asked questions
Start creating with Seedance 2.0 Mini.
Type a scene, pick a frame, and watch Seedance 2.0 Mini return it as film — your first clips are minutes away.