Seedance 2.5, 2.0, Fast and Mini: price of a 15-second 720p clip

Sume bills the Seedance family by tokens: frame width x height x seconds x 24 frames per second, divided by 1,024, then charged per 1,000 tokens at the model's rate. A 15-second 720p vertical clip (720 x 1280) is 324,000 tokens on every model in the family, so the price gap between them is only the rate.

Rates are Sume billed rates read on 2026-10-03, provider list times 1.25.

What does the same clip cost across the family?

The table shows one clip. Seedance 2.5 costs about three times Mini for the same token count.

How should a team split test and final?

A natural split is to run options on a cheaper family member and the keepers on 2.5, but the models are not interchangeable and a prompt that works on one may need rewording on another. What the arithmetic supports is the budget: ten test clips on Mini cost $28.35, which is about three 2.5 clips at $8.667. Whether three 2.5 clips tell you more than ten Mini clips depends on your prompts, so check on a small sample before standardizing.

Resolution moves the price on every model. At 1080p, Seedance 2.5 bills a higher token rate ($0.02925 per 1,000 against $0.02675 at 480p and 720p), so a 15-second 9:16 clip is $21.3233.

What about queue time and failures?

Price per clip is the main number but not the only one. Every Seedance job reserves its price on submit, captures it on success and refunds it on failure, so a retried failure does not double charge. Budget for retries only on clips you reject, not on jobs that error out.