Mini is the lean end.
Mini is built for the kind of video most people actually make — many takes, fast, cheap. Standard sits at the other end of the family, for cuts where every frame has to land.
Mini
- ›Up to 50% cheaper than standard
- ›~2× faster than Fast, quality held close
- ›Run many takes, keep the winner
Fast
- ›Speed over fidelity
- ›Older cheap-draft tier
- ›Mini beats it on motion + cost
Standard
- ›Highest fidelity, up to 2K
- ›Strongest multi-shot consistency
- ›Final cuts that must land
The full Seedance 2.0 toolkit, trimmed for throughput.
Quad-modal prompting
Drive a clip from text, an image, a reference video, or audio — the same prompt language as the rest of the family.
Smoother than Fast
Early results show better motion and facial consistency than Seedance 2.0 Fast — fewer retries, more usable takes.
~2× faster than Fast
Generations land before your train of thought leaves — built for tight iteration loops, not waiting.
Up to 50% cheaper
Around half the price of standard Seedance 2.0 — fire off variations without watching the credit meter.
Draft here, ship there
Lock the look in Mini, then promote the winning prompt to Standard for the hero render. Nothing wasted.
Where Mini fits.
| Standard | Fast | Mini | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Considered | Fast | Fastest of the three |
| Relative cost | Highest | Lower | Up to 50% cheaper |
| Motion quality | Highest | Good | Smoother than Fast |
| Best for | Final hero cuts | Rough drafts | High-volume iteration |
| Inputs | Text · image · video · audio | Text · image | Text · image · video · audio |
What you'll build with Mini.
TikTok · Reels · Shorts
Short product spots, fast enough to test a dozen ad concepts in an afternoon.
Destination promos
Cinematic, drone-style travel reels for tourism and creator marketing.
Trailer concepts
Visualize a story beat or trailer look before committing to full production.
Character storytelling
Consistent AI characters across scenes for short-form narrative and animation.
Frequently asked questions
Seedance 2.0 Mini is the leanest tier in ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video family. It keeps the family's quad-modal prompting but is tuned for throughput — up to 50% cheaper than standard Seedance 2.0 and roughly 2× faster than Seedance 2.0 Fast.
Standard is the hero-render tier with the highest fidelity and the strongest multi-shot consistency. Fast is the older quick-draft tier. Mini is the new volume default — faster and cheaper than Fast, with smoother motion — so you run many takes and keep the winner.
Up to 50% cheaper than standard Seedance 2.0, which means you can generate roughly twice as many takes for the same credits while you iterate on a look.
The same quad-modal prompting as the rest of the family: text, a reference image, a reference video, or audio. You can move a prompt between Mini and Standard without rewriting it.
Mini is live. Pick it in the Popcraft video model picker alongside standard Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Fast. Pro and Max plans also include a daily allowance of free Mini generations — 8 a day on Pro monthly, up to 20 a day on Max annual.
Draft in Mini and ship in Standard. Use Mini for high-volume iteration — ad variations, trailer concepts, quick social spots — then promote the prompt that works to standard Seedance 2.0 for the final, highest-fidelity render.
Keep exploring
Related models
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Generate 2 to 30-second AI videos in one pass with Wan 3.0, Alibaba's video model: 1080p at 30 fps, dialogue and music included, up to 4 images, 5 clips and 5 voices as references. From 11 credits a second on Popcraft.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is Google's video model that creates and edits video from any input. Up to 40 seconds by scene extension, 1080p and 4K output, first-and-last-frame interpolation, up to 10 reference images, and speech, music and sound effects generated with the picture. Live on Popcraft.
MiniMax H3 generates 2K video at 24fps with a synchronised stereo soundtrack — effects, ambience and dialogue in one job. Multi-shot from a single prompt, 5 to 15 seconds, first and last frame control. Live on Popcraft.