PAY AS YOU GO
Simple, per-second pricing.
Fund your wallet when you need it. No subscription, seat fee, or monthly commitment.
RESOLUTIONSTANDARD GENERATIONWITH SOURCE VIDEO*
480p$0.102 / sec$0.060 / sec
720p$0.228 / sec$0.138 / sec
1080p$0.600 / sec$0.324 / sec
* Source-video requests are billed on input plus output seconds. Source videos must be completed GenAPI outputs, which lets us meter duration exactly.
PROVIDER COMPARISON
Seedance 2.5 pricing, compared.
Public prices normalized to the same generation so each provider can be compared on equal terms.
720p8 seconds16:9Audio on
PROVIDER8-SEC COSTPRICE / SECACCESSVS GENAPI
GenAPIGenAPI CloudLOWEST$1.824
$0.228
Pay as you goNo subscription
1.00×the cost
fal.aiSeedance 2.5≈$3.784
≈$0.473
Pay as you goToken billed
2.07×the cost
HiggsfieldSeedance 2.5≈$2.550
≈$0.319
$49 / month1,000 credits
1.40×the cost
Approximate competitor list prices checked September 1, 2026. fal.ai uses video-token billing; Higgsfield's effective price uses 52 credits on its $49 / 1,000-credit plan. fal.ai pricing ↗ Higgsfield pricing ↗
EXAMPLEKnow the cost
Know the cost
before it runs.
An 8-second 720p text-to-video generation costs $1.824. We reserve that amount when the job is accepted and automatically return it if generation fails.
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