Video API price comparison

Seedance 2.5 vs Wan 3.0.

At 720p, Seedance 2.5 costs from $0.216 per second with audio (302.AI) and Wan 3.0 from $0.05 with audio (Higgsfield), so Wan 3.0 is 77% cheaper: $0.50 against $2.16 for 10 seconds of video.

Price per second by resolution

Cheapest Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0 API price at each resolution, US dollars per second
ResolutionSeedance 2.5Wan 3.010 s of video
480p$0.0961302.AI, audio$0.025Higgsfield, audio$0.96 / $0.25
720p$0.216302.AI, audio$0.05Higgsfield, audio$2.16 / $0.50
1080p$0.559Volcengine, China account, audio$0.100Higgsfield, audio$5.59 / $1.00
4K$1.620WaveSpeed, audio—$16.20 / —

Cheapest live offer per resolution, with sound where the model makes it, in USD per second of output before tax. Every offer for each model is on its own page: Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0.

How they differ

Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 both make clips of up to 30 seconds with sound. Wan 3.0 is the cheap one at every resolution both are sold at, a fraction of the Seedance price even at 480p drafts. Seedance 2.5 takes more references per request and is the usual choice for character swap in an existing clip.

Seedance 2.5 is sold at 480p, 720p, 1080p and 4K, with or without sound; the official API is BytePlus. Wan 3.0 is sold at 480p, 720p and 1080p, with or without sound; the official API is Alibaba Cloud.

Pick Seedance 2.5 when

  • You swap a character in an existing clip, need up to 30 seconds in one take, or feed it many references.
  • You deliver at 4K: Wan 3.0 stops at 1080p.

Pick Wan 3.0 when

  • Price matters most at 480p, 720p and 1080p: it is the cheaper of the two there.

Using Higgsfield for these models? Do it from your Mac.

Jutsu Studio is a free, open-source Higgsfield desktop app for Mac: Seedance, Kling, Wan, Genjutsu and the rest of its models.

  • The price is on the button before a job runs
  • A queue, cheap drafts first and a daily spending cap
  • Every result kept in a local library
Download for MacFree · macOS 14+ · v0.2.6 · 25 MBNo Higgsfield account? Sign up

FAQ.

Is Seedance 2.5 cheaper than Wan 3.0?

At 720p, Seedance 2.5 costs from $0.216 per second with audio (302.AI) and Wan 3.0 from $0.05 with audio (Higgsfield), so Wan 3.0 is 77% cheaper: $0.50 against $2.16 for 10 seconds of video.

What is the difference between Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0?

Seedance 2.5 is sold at 480p, 720p, 1080p and 4K, with or without sound, and can edit an existing video. Wan 3.0 is sold at 480p, 720p and 1080p, with or without sound, and can edit an existing video. Seedance 2.5 goes up to 4K, against 1080p for Wan 3.0. Seedance 2.5 is sold by more API providers: 37 against 32.

How much does a minute of Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0 cost?

480p: Seedance 2.5 from $5.77, Wan 3.0 from $1.50; 720p: Seedance 2.5 from $12.96, Wan 3.0 from $3.00; 1080p: Seedance 2.5 from $33.56, Wan 3.0 from $6.00. A minute is several clips joined together.

Which providers sell both Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0?

26 providers sell both: APIYI, Atlas Cloud, Jui87, Higgsfield, Whale API, Yir, APIMart, Lconai, EvoLink, Makernice, kie.ai, Crazyrouter, WaveSpeed, EachLabs, OpenRouter, Runware, Segmind, Sume, fal, CometAPI, 302.AI, ModelsLab, Apilio, LaoZhang API, AI/ML API and Comfy. One API key then covers either model.