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ByteDance · Video models

Seedance 2.5, and why it isn't in a coding tool

ByteDance's video model generates 30 seconds in a single pass at up to 4K, takes as many as 50 multimodal reference inputs, and can edit one region of a frame without regenerating the shot.

Not wired up

Nothing to sell you here. We do developer tooling; this is a video model and it doesn't connect to a coding agent in any useful way. The page exists because it shipped the same day as MiniMax H3 and people keep asking which one to use.

The numbers

Built by
ByteDance
Released
Jul 31, 2026
In HaryAI
Not wired up

What it takes to use it

It stays closed — no weights. Access is through ByteDance's own surfaces: Jimeng in China, Dreamina inside CapCut elsewhere. If you want it in a pipeline rather than a UI, that's the constraint to plan around — you're building on a hosted product, not a model you can run.

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Leave an email and we'll tell you if we wire it up. That's the whole message — there's no newsletter attached to it.

Figures checked 2026-08-06 against vendor pricing pages and launch coverage. Models re-price often — if something here is stale, tell us.

Seedance 2.5, and why it isn't in a coding tool · HaryAI