Provider · official · 3 prices · 2 verifiedhigh trust

BytePlus (official) — AI Video API Pricing

Official first-party API carrying 2 tracked video models, from $0.10/second — every scheme normalized to cost per second of output.

Trust tier · official
high

ByteDance's own first-party platform for Seedance; token-formula billing makes rates harder to read than resellers', but it is the source of truth.

3 prices tracked2 verifiedchecked Aug 1, 2026unpaid outbound links
Models carried
2 tracked video models: Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5.
Billing scheme
per-second, per-token — normalized to USD per second of output video on every row below. Token-based billing using formula (height * width * duration * 24) / 1024 tokens; per-1k-token rate varies by resolution tier
Cheapest verified rate here
$0.10/second on Seedance 2.5 (standard, 480p) — checked Aug 1, 2026.
Class-leading
Cheapest tracked provider for 1 of the 2 models it carries, in the comparable ~720p class.
Referral status
We hold no referral link for BytePlus (official) — every outbound link on this page is unpaid. Ranking is by verified price only.
Sourcing
Token formula cited from multiple secondary sources (reapi.ai, fal.ai model page); BytePlus ModelArk page confirmed but exact per-token video rates not directly readable; moderate confidence

All counts and rates in this panel are computed from the 3 prices tracked on this page.

Coverage · 2 models · 1 class-leading

Models on BytePlus (official)

Cheapest tracked rate per model on this provider. A lime cheapest tracked chip means no other provider we track beats it in the comparable ~720p class.

Price table · 3 points · 2 verified

Every BytePlus (official) price we track

Sorted by normalized $/second across every model BytePlus (official) carries. Each row links to the published source we checked and shows how the raw price was converted.

3 tracked prices — show / hide
ModelModeTierResAudio$ / second5s clipVerifiedSource
Seedance 2.5Text → Videostandard480p$0.10$0.52 VERIFIED 44d agosource ↗
Seedance 2.0Text → Videostandard720p$0.15$0.76 REPORTED 46d agosource ↗
Seedance 2.5Text → Videostandard720p$0.23$1.16 VERIFIED 44d agosource ↗
How each price was normalized (derivations & sources)
  • BytePlus (official) · standard · 480p: Stated directly on the ModelArk pricing page ('0.103 per second'); cross-checked: $0.514/video ÷ 5s = $0.1028. source ↗
  • BytePlus (official) · standard · 720p: Official BytePlus token-billing; at 720p (1280x720), 1s = (1280*720*1*24)/1024 = 21600 tokens; 21600/1000 * $0.014 = $0.3024 — but reapi.ai verified BytePlus at $0.1512/s at 720p (likely different token rate or formula); using verified $0.1512/s source ↗
  • BytePlus (official) · standard · 720p: Stated directly on the ModelArk pricing page ('0.231 per second'); cross-checked: $1.156/video ÷ 5s = $0.2312. i2v (input-with-video) is priced as a range keyed to input length — $1.244 to $4.838 per 5s video at 720p (2-30s input) — and is not normalizable to $/s; excluded from rate rankings per methodology. source ↗

Bottom line · computed from 3 tracked prices

Should you use BytePlus (official)?

Computed from the live dataset — no editorial thumb on the scale, and outbound links never change the ordering.

Verdict · last verified Aug 1, 2026
BytePlus (official) is the cheapest tracked option for 1 of the 2 models it carries. Floor here: $0.10/second on Seedance 2.5 (standard, 480p) — verified Aug 1, 2026. Trust tier: high.