Seedance Lite
Budget ByteDance video, fast and cheap
Seedance Lite is video generation AI model from ByteDance, priced at €0.000 per 1M input tokens with a unknown context window.
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Abstract
"Colorful liquid flowing in slow motion"
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API Integration
Use our OpenAI-compatible API to integrate Seedance Lite into your application.
npm install railwailimport railwail from "railwail";
const rw = railwail("YOUR_API_KEY");
// Simple — just pass a string
const reply = await rw.run("seedance-lite", "Hello! What can you do?");
console.log(reply);
// With message history
const reply2 = await rw.run("seedance-lite", [
{ role: "system", content: "You are a helpful assistant." },
{ role: "user", content: "Explain quantum computing simply." },
]);
console.log(reply2);
// Full response with usage info
const res = await rw.chat("seedance-lite", [
{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" },
], { temperature: 0.7, max_tokens: 500 });
console.log(res.choices[0].message.content);
console.log(res.usage);Deep dive — ByteDance Seed's Seedance Lite
ByteDance Seed is the foundation-model research arm of ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, Douyin and CapCut. Formed in 2023 (initially called 'Doubao Foundation Model' / 'Skylark', renamed Seed in 2024), the team is led by Wu Yonghui and ships the Doubao consumer assistant, the Skylark / Doubao LLM family, and the Seedance and Seedream video and image models. Seedance launched in early 2025 with two tiers: Seedance Pro for high-fidelity creative work and Seedance Lite for fast, high-volume generation. The lite tier targets short-form social workflows on TikTok-adjacent surfaces and CapCut integrations, where latency and cost are paramount.
Visit ByteDance Seed →Seedance Lite is the speed-tier variant of ByteDance's Seedance text-to-video and image-to-video model. It is a closed Diffusion Transformer operating on a 3D spatio-temporal latent, distilled from Seedance Pro via consistency-style training and quantization to compress the diffusion sampler into far fewer denoising steps. Conditioning uses a bilingual Chinese/English text encoder (based on ByteDance's Doubao / Skylark LLM family) and image embeddings for first-frame conditioning. Output is 5-second clips at 720p / 24 fps. The lite tier is designed to be deployed at very high volume across ByteDance's consumer surfaces (Doubao app, CapCut, TikTok creator tools in China) where per-clip cost matters more than maximum fidelity. The base Seedance corpus is closed but ByteDance hold privileged access to large-scale TikTok / Douyin video data which is presumed to inform training.
- Parameters
- Undisclosed
- Context
- unknown
- Speed-tier distilled video model for high-volume use
- Text-to-video and image-to-video
- 5-second clips at 720p / 24 fps
- Bilingual Chinese/English prompts
- Low per-clip cost and latency
- Tight integration with CapCut and Doubao consumer surfaces
- Director-style camera control vocabulary (limited)
- Available via Doubao API and CapCut creator tools
- Best for: high-volume social-media production, rapid iteration.
Closed corpus including licensed video, web video and platform data (TikTok / Douyin, under ByteDance terms); bilingual dense captions; exact size undisclosed.
License: Proprietary commercial licence via Doubao / ByteDance Seed terms.
Known limitations
- 5-second clip limit
- Quality below Seedance Pro at higher resolutions
- No native audio
- Heavy political and public-figure moderation in China
- Closed model with limited public documentation
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