AI Models · ByteDance · Image to video
Create Seedance 2.0 image-to-video online.
Upload your image. Add a prompt. Generate with Seedance 2.0 — priced per second, with the exact credit cost shown before you press Generate. Seedance can cut inside the clip when your prompt describes the cuts — hand it one photograph and it can give you a wide, a medium and a close of the same moment.
How it works
Animating a photo with Seedance 2.0, in three steps.
A clip of 5s · 34.02 credits (~$13.61) is what the shortest Seedance 2.0 animation costs; everything below is read from the app's own model catalog, so it is the figure you will be charged.
Upload the photograph
Open the image-to-video studio with Seedance 2.0 already selected and add the file. Seedance will use your photograph as the first shot and then generate the others around it, so the picture you upload should be the angle you most want kept.
Name the shots you want
Write the shots you want, ‘wide, then a close-up on her hands’, and Seedance can cut between them. Describe the cut as well as the action, repeat the identifying details of the subject, and check them across the cut.
Draft on the fast tier, then generate
The fast tier stages the same cuts at 720p for a fraction of the flagship rate.
Specs
The Seedance 2.0 image-to-video tiers.
Every column comes from the catalog the app bills from — resolution, the clip lengths on offer, whether sound is generated with the picture, and the per-second rate.
| Mode | Engine | Max resolution | Clip length | Audio | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image to video | Seedance 2.0 | 1080p | 5s·10s·15s | Yes | 6.804 per second (~$2.72) |
| Image to video, fast | Seedance 2.0 Fast | 720p | 5s·10s·15s | Yes | 2.419 per second (~$0.97) |
| Image to video, 4K | Seedance 2.0 4K | 4K | 5s·10s·15s | Yes | 15.552 per second (~$6.22) |
Cost
What a Seedance 2.0 photo animation costs.
Seedance 2.0 bills per second, so the length is the price. The dollar figure is the most a generation can cost, at the 25-credit pack's rate. In most countries, your first video is on us: new verified accounts get one five-second video on our lowest-cost video model, once. A five-second Seedance 2.0 run costs more than the first video on us, so it needs credits from a plan or credit pack.
| Clip length | Credits | At the 25-credit pack rate |
|---|---|---|
| 5 seconds | 34.02 credits | ~$13.61 |
| 10 seconds | 68.04 credits | ~$27.22 |
| 15 seconds | 102.06 credits | ~$40.82 |
The photo
What to upload for Seedance 2.0.
Four things that change the result more than the prompt does.
Upload the establishing angle
Seedance builds outward from your still. A wide or medium shot gives it the room to cut in; a tight close-up gives it nowhere to cut to except back out, which it does less convincingly.
One clear subject, described in the prompt
Seedance follows what you specify across a cut. Name the hair, the jacket, the colour of the bag — the details you want to survive the edit — and check them in the result.
Resolution decides the tier, not the photo
The 720p, 1080p and 4K tiers all accept the same upload. What changes is the render, so block the sequence on the cheap tier and spend the 4K rate once.
Backgrounds get invented at the cut
When Seedance cuts to a new angle it is generating a part of the room your photograph never showed. A recognisable, simple setting survives that better than a cluttered one.
How it behaves
What Seedance 2.0 does with a still.
Seedance can answer a different question from ‘how does this photograph move?’: ‘what is the scene this photograph is one frame of?’ Asked for it, it can generate a wide, a medium and a close of the same moment inside a single clip, a small edit rather than a shot. Check the person across the cuts.
That makes it the wrong tool for a product turntable and the right one for a story beat. If the still is a courier at a door, a barista at a machine, a child at a window, Seedance can give you the coverage a human editor would have shot, inside one generation.
The price follows the ambition. Seedance is the dearest per second of the flagship set at 1080p, and its 4K tier costs more than twice that again. The fast tier exists precisely so the shot order can be found cheaply; get the cuts right at 720p, then pay for them once.
Alternatives
The five engines you would pick instead of Seedance 2.0.
The same photograph reaches all of them from the same studio and the same credit balance, so the choice is per shot, not per subscription.
| Model | Max resolution | Clip length | Audio | Credits per second | Shortest clip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veo 3.1 | 1080p | 4s·6s·8s | Yes | 4 (~$1.60) | 4s · 16 credits (~$6.40) |
| Kling V3 Pro | 1080p | 5s·10s·15s | Yes | 1.68 (~$0.67) | 5s · 8.4 credits (~$3.36) |
| MiniMax H3 | 768p | 5s·10s·15s | Yes | 0.6 (~$0.24) | 5s · 3 credits (~$1.20) |
| WAN 3.0 1080p | 1080p | 5s·10s·15s·20s·25s·30s | Yes | 2 (~$0.80) | 5s · 10 credits (~$4.00) |
Keep exploring
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FAQ
Seedance 2.0 image-to-video, answered.
Can Seedance 2.0 make a multi-shot video from one photo?
It can: describe the cuts in your prompt, and from a single uploaded still it can cut between camera angles inside one generation. Check the character across the cuts. In King AI the multi-shot switch itself is on Kling V3 and O3.
How do I animate a photo with Seedance 2.0?
Open the image-to-video studio in King AI with Seedance 2.0 selected, upload the photograph, describe both the action and the cuts you want, and choose 5, 10 or 15 seconds. The exact credit cost is shown before you generate.
Should I use the Seedance fast tier for photo animation?
For the first few passes, yes. Seedance 2.0 Fast takes the same still at 720p for a fraction of the flagship rate and stages the same cuts, so it is a cheaper way to find out whether the sequence works before paying for the 1080p or 4K render.
Does Seedance keep the person in my photo looking the same?
Not always, so check the person across each cut. It follows what you describe, so repeating the identifying details in the prompt is what helps hold the character together when the angle changes.
Get started
Animate a photo with Seedance 2.0.
Upload one photograph and ask for the coverage — wide, medium and close — then check the person in each.