Seedance 2.0 Credits Per Video:
The Real Cost of Each Clip

Seedance 2.0 credits per video depend on three things: the variant (standard, Fast or Mini), the resolution and the clip length. On Pixara, the standard Seedance 2.0 model costs 180 credits a second at 720p, so a 5 second clip is 900 credits, or about $0.72 on a yearly Hobby plan. This guide is for creators, marketers and small teams who want to know what each Seedance 2.0 clip really costs before they spend a month's allowance finding out.

Updated 11 November 2026. Every number here was checked on that date against Pixara's live credit rules and pricing page, Dreamina's official Seedance 2.0 pricing page and the fal.ai model pages for the developer API. Credit rates change when model providers change theirs, so treat this as a dated snapshot and check the estimated cost in the generator before a big batch.

If you want the plan-level view first, start with our Seedance 2.0 pricing guide. If your question is whether you can avoid paying at all, read Is Seedance 2.0 free?. This post is about the per-clip math.

How many credits does a Seedance 2.0 video use?

A Seedance 2.0 video on Pixara uses 84 credits a second at 480p, 180 at 720p, 444 at 1080p and 894 at 4K when you generate from text or images. So a 5 second clip costs 420, 900, 2,220 or 4,470 credits depending on resolution. Seedance 2.0 Fast and Seedance 2.0 Mini are cheaper, which we cover below.

Credits per second for every Seedance variant on Pixara, as published in the platform's credit rules on 11 November 2026.

Those are the rates Pixara publishes in its credit rules, and they are the same for every plan. The plan only changes what a credit is worth in dollars, which is the next section. Here is the full list for the standard Seedance 2.0 model with no video input:

• 480p: 84 credits a second (420 credits for 5 seconds).
• 720p: 180 credits a second (900 credits for 5 seconds).
• 1080p: 444 credits a second (2,220 credits for 5 seconds).
• 4K: 894 credits a second (4,470 credits for 5 seconds).

Two things stand out. The first is how steep the resolution ladder is: 1080p costs about 5.3 times as much as 480p, and 4K costs about 10.6 times as much. The second is that the clip length multiplies everything. Seedance 2.0 generates 4 to 15 seconds per clip, or an automatic length chosen from your prompt, so a 15 second 1080p clip is 6,660 credits before a single retry.

Seedance 2.0 itself is a multimodal audio and video model from ByteDance's Seed team. It takes text, images, audio and video as inputs, generates picture and sound together, and on Pixara accepts up to twelve reference assets in one project. If you are new to it, our guide on what Seedance 2.0 is and the beginner walkthrough on how to use Seedance 2.0 cover the controls. This post only covers what those controls cost.

What does one Seedance 2.0 clip cost in dollars?

One 5 second Seedance 2.0 clip at 720p costs about $0.72 on Pixara's yearly Hobby plan, $0.50 on yearly Pro, $1.50 on any monthly plan and $2.25 on Starter. At 1080p the same clip costs $1.78, $1.23, $3.70 and $5.55. The credit count is fixed; the plan sets the price of a credit.

What a 5 second Seedance 2.0 clip costs in dollars on each Pixara plan, at 720p and 1080p, using the plan prices live on 11 November 2026.

What a Pixara credit is worth

Pixara's pricing page on 11 November 2026 lists four plans, each with a monthly credit allowance that does not roll over:

• Starter: $10 a month, 4,000 credits. That is $0.0025 per credit, monthly or yearly.
• Hobby: $25 monthly or $12 a month billed yearly ($144), 15,000 credits. $0.00167 per credit monthly, $0.0008 yearly.
• Pro: $60 monthly or $20 a month billed yearly ($240), 36,000 credits. $0.00167 monthly, $0.00056 yearly.
• Ultimate: $250 monthly or $75 a month billed yearly ($900), 150,000 credits. $0.00167 monthly, $0.0005 yearly.

The yearly prices are the current Black Friday promotion, labeled on the pricing page as up to 70% off, so they may not last. Notice that every monthly plan above Starter values a credit at the same $0.00167. Monthly, you are paying for volume and features, not a cheaper credit. The yearly plans are where the credit price actually falls.

Worked examples

Take a 5 second 720p clip at 900 credits. Multiply by the credit value and you get $2.25 on Starter, $1.50 on monthly Hobby, Pro or Ultimate, $0.72 on yearly Hobby, $0.50 on yearly Pro and $0.45 on yearly Ultimate.

Now take the same clip at 1080p, 2,220 credits. Starter $5.55, any monthly plan $3.70, yearly Hobby $1.78, yearly Pro $1.23, yearly Ultimate $1.11.

And a 10 second 1080p hero shot, 4,440 credits: $11.10 on Starter, $7.40 monthly, $3.55 on yearly Hobby, $2.47 on yearly Pro. A single clip like that is more than a whole Starter month, which is why Starter is the wrong plan for Seedance 2.0 at high resolution.

For context, the same math on Kling is in our Kling AI credits per model breakdown, and our cheapest AI video generator roundup ranks tools by cost per clip.

How do resolution and length change the credit cost?

Resolution sets the rate and length multiplies it. Moving from 480p to 720p a little more than doubles the credits, 720p to 1080p multiplies them by about 2.5, and 1080p to 4K doubles them again. Each extra second adds one more unit of the rate, so a 10 second clip costs exactly twice a 5 second clip.

The practical rule is to pick the resolution for where the clip will be seen, not for how good it could look. A 9:16 clip for TikTok or Reels is compressed by the platform anyway, and 720p is usually indistinguishable on a phone. A 16:9 clip for a YouTube intro or a website hero deserves 1080p. 4K is for cinema screens, large displays and footage you will crop into.

Length deserves the same discipline. Seedance 2.0's automatic duration lets the model choose between 4 and 15 seconds from the prompt, which is convenient but unpredictable for budgeting. If you know the cut needs 5 seconds, set 5 seconds. A clip that runs 12 seconds because the model felt like it costs 2.4 times what you planned.

Do Seedance 2.0 Fast and Mini use fewer credits?

Yes. On Pixara, Seedance 2.0 Fast costs 68 credits a second at 480p and 146 at 720p, against 84 and 180 for the standard model. Seedance 2.0 Mini is far cheaper at 35 credits a second at 480p and 75 at 720p. Neither Fast nor Mini offers 1080p or 4K.

Credits for a 5 second clip across Seedance 2.0 Mini, Fast and standard, plus Seedance 2.5 for comparison, on Pixara on 11 November 2026.

Here is what a 5 second clip costs in credits on each variant:

• Seedance 2.0 Mini, 480p: 175 credits (about $0.14 on yearly Hobby).
• Seedance 2.0 Mini, 720p: 375 credits (about $0.30).
• Seedance 2.0 Fast, 480p: 340 credits (about $0.27).
• Seedance 2.0 Fast, 720p: 730 credits (about $0.58).
• Seedance 2.0 standard, 720p: 900 credits (about $0.72).
• Seedance 2.0 standard, 1080p: 2,220 credits (about $1.78).
• Seedance 2.5, 720p: 1,330 credits (about $1.06). Seedance 2.5 costs 266 credits a second at 720p and 654 at 1080p.

Fast is only about 19% cheaper than the standard model at 720p, so it is a speed choice more than a savings choice. Mini is the real saver: a Mini 480p clip costs less than a tenth of a standard 1080p clip. Use Mini to explore prompts, camera moves and reference combinations, then re-run the winner on the standard model. The two generations together still cost less than two attempts at 1080p.

If you are weighing the newer model, our Seedance 2.5 vs Seedance 2.0 comparison covers what the extra credits buy, and the Seedance 2.5 guide explains its 30 second generation and 50 reference limit.

How are video-input and reference clips billed?

With a video input, Pixara bills both the input and the output seconds at a lower rate: 48 credits a second at 480p, 107 at 720p and 263 at 1080p for the standard model. A 5 second edit of a 5 second source at 720p is 10 billed seconds, or 1,070 credits.

Seedance 2.0 Fast follows the same pattern at 36 credits a second at 480p and 82 at 720p with a video input. That is the detail most people miss. Pixara's credit rules say that with video references "both the input and output seconds are billed at a discounted rate." The discount is real, about 40% off the per-second price, but because the input seconds count too, a video-to-video job usually costs more than a text-to-video job of the same length. Using the 720p example, the edit costs 1,070 credits against 900 for a fresh generation.

The lesson for editors is to trim the source first. Feed Seedance 2.0 the 3 seconds you actually want restyled, not the 12 second raw clip, and the billed seconds fall with it. Image references are different: on Pixara they do not add seconds to the bill, so an image-to-video job costs the same as text-to-video at the same settings.

How many Seedance 2.0 videos do you get per Pixara plan?

At 5 seconds and 720p, Starter's 4,000 credits buy 4 Seedance 2.0 clips a month, Hobby's 15,000 buy 16, Pro's 36,000 buy 40 and Ultimate's 150,000 buy 166. At 1080p that drops to 1, 6, 16 and 67. On Seedance 2.0 Mini at 480p it rises to 22, 85, 205 and 857.

How many 5 second Seedance 2.0 clips each Pixara plan buys at 480p Mini, 720p and 1080p, assuming every credit goes to video.

Those figures assume you spend the whole allowance on Seedance 2.0 and never retry, which nobody does. A realistic plan is to halve them: half the credits go to drafts, references and the two or three takes it takes to land a shot.

One useful finding from the pricing page itself: the "videos" counts Pixara prints next to each plan (28 Seedance Mini videos and 8 Seedance 2.5 videos on Starter, for example) work out to 4 second clips at 480p. Divide 4,000 credits by 140 (35 credits a second times 4 seconds) and you get 28. Divide by 476 (119 credits a second for Seedance 2.5 at 480p times 4) and you get 8. So the headline counts are the cheapest possible clip, not a typical one. Budget from the per-second rates in this post instead.

Plan fit in one line each:

• Starter ($10): fine for Mini drafts and the odd 720p clip. Not for 1080p work.
• Hobby ($12 yearly, $25 monthly): the sweet spot for creators posting a few Seedance clips a week at 720p.
• Pro ($20 yearly, $60 monthly): for daily posting or client work with retries budgeted in.
• Ultimate ($75 yearly, $250 monthly): for teams rendering 1080p or 4K at volume, with 16 concurrent generations.

How do Seedance 2.0 credits compare with Dreamina and the API?

Dreamina, ByteDance's own app, lists 17 credits a second for Seedance 2.0 Pro at 720p, 8 for Fast and 5 for Mini, on a Basic plan of 1,575 credits that renews at $15 a month. That makes a 5 second 720p Pro clip about $0.81. The fal.ai API charges $0.3034 a second at 720p, about $1.52 per clip.

Dollar cost of a 5 second Seedance 2.0 clip at 720p across Dreamina Basic, Pixara plans and the fal.ai API, from each provider's published rates on 11 November 2026.

Credits are not a shared currency, so the only honest comparison is dollars per clip at the same settings. Using each provider's published rates on 11 November 2026, a 5 second Seedance 2.0 clip at 720p costs:

• Dreamina Basic ($15 for 1,575 credits): 85 credits, about $0.81. Fast is 40 credits (about $0.38) and Mini is 25 credits (about $0.24). Dreamina also runs a promotional $0.29 first month for eligible US users, which makes the first month's clips almost free, but the renewal is $15.
• Pixara yearly Hobby ($12 for 15,000 credits): 900 credits, about $0.72. Yearly Pro brings it to $0.50.
• Pixara monthly plans ($0.00167 a credit): about $1.50.
• fal.ai API: $0.3034 a second, so $1.52 per clip, or $1.21 on Seedance 2.0 Fast. At 1080p fal charges $0.682 a second, $3.41 per clip, with audio included at no extra cost. Our Kling AI API pricing guide shows the same per-second math for Kling.

Dreamina publishes only 720p rates, so there is no like-for-like 1080p or 4K comparison on the consumer side. On Pixara, a 1080p clip is $1.78 on yearly Hobby; on fal it is $3.41. Dreamina's page also notes that Seedance 2.0 has 4K output options that depend on the live product and plan.

The honest summary: Dreamina is cheapest for Seedance 2.0 alone at 720p on a monthly plan, Pixara's yearly plans are cheaper per clip and also cover Kling, Veo, Nano Banana and the rest of the catalog, and the API is the most expensive per clip but the only option if you are building Seedance into your own product. Our roundup of the best multi-model AI video platforms compares the all-in-one route in more depth.

Who should skip Seedance 2.0, and who should pick it?

Skip Seedance 2.0 if you need 1080p or 4K every day on a $10 budget, only want one or two clips a year, or need an API with no per-second metering. Pick it if you post short 9:16 or 16:9 clips weekly, want native audio and multi-reference control, and can draft cheaply before rendering.

Not the right fit

• Starter plan users who want 1080p. One 5 second 1080p clip uses more than half of Starter's 4,000 credits. Move to Hobby, or use Mini and Fast on Starter.
• Occasional users. If you make a clip or two a quarter, Dreamina's free daily credits are enough. Our post on whether Seedance 2.0 is free covers the limits.
• Developers. Credits in a creator app are not an API. If you need Seedance in your own pipeline, you will pay fal.ai or ByteDance's BytePlus per second or per token, and you will build the queueing and storage yourself.
• 4K-first studios on a budget. At 894 credits a second, 4K Seedance 2.0 burns a Hobby month in about 17 seconds of footage. Render 4K only for the final cut.

A good fit

• Short-form creators. 720p Mini or standard clips at 175 to 900 credits each fit comfortably inside Hobby or Pro.
• Marketers who iterate. Seedance 2.0's reference inputs (images, video and audio) make product and brand consistency easier, and the Mini-first workflow below keeps iteration cheap.
• Teams comparing models. Because Pixara's credits also pay for Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1 and Seedance 2.5, you can run the same prompt across models and keep whichever wins. Our Seedance 2.0 vs Veo 3.1 vs Kling 3.0 test is a starting point.

How can you spend fewer credits per usable Seedance 2.0 video?

Draft at 480p on Seedance 2.0 Mini, lock the prompt and references, then render once on the standard model at the final resolution. That workflow typically produces a usable 720p or 1080p clip for 1,500 to 3,000 credits including retries, instead of the 6,000 or more that three blind 1080p attempts cost.

1. Write the prompt for the shot, not the mood. Seedance responds well to concrete camera, subject and motion instructions. Our collection of 70 Seedance 2.0 prompts shows the pattern.
2. Draft on Mini at 480p. Three drafts cost 525 credits in total. Use them to test framing, motion and reference weighting.
3. Set the duration yourself. Automatic length is fine for exploring, but set an exact 4 to 15 seconds for the final render so the bill matches the edit.
4. Trim video references before upload. Input seconds are billed on video-to-video jobs, so a 3 second source costs a third of a 9 second one.
5. Render the final once at the delivery resolution. 720p for vertical social, 1080p for landscape web and YouTube, 4K only when you will crop or project it.
6. Check the cost before you click generate. Pixara shows the credit cost of a generation before you run it, and its founder Shahzeb Khalid puts it plainly in the company's own guidance: "Beginners should check the generation settings and estimated cost before running multiple generations."
7. Use the yearly plan if you post weekly. The yearly Hobby and Pro rates cut the price of a credit by more than half against monthly billing, which is the single biggest lever on cost per clip.

How we checked these numbers

We read the credit rules Pixara publishes for its video models and its pricing page on 11 November 2026, and multiplied the published per-second rates by clip length and by each plan's price per credit. Dreamina figures come from its Seedance 2.0 pricing page the same day, and API prices from fal.ai's Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Fast pages.

Nothing in this post is estimated from screenshots or forum posts. Where a provider does not publish a number, for example Dreamina's 1080p rate or a free credit total, we say so rather than guess. If you see a different rate inside the app, the app is right and this page is out of date; tell us and we will update it.

Seedance 2.0 credits reward people who plan their renders and punish people who brute-force them. Know the per-second rate, draft cheap, render once, and the real cost of each clip stays under a dollar even at 1080p on a yearly plan. Try the Mini-first workflow with a starting balance on Pixara and see how far your Seedance 2.0 credits go.