Seedance

Seedance is ByteDance's video model family. It is quick, handles multi-shot sequences, and its Lite tiers are some of the cheapest usable video generation around. Good for iterating on ideas before spending credits on a premium model.

Between 19 and 154 credits per 5 second clip depending on the variant. You buy credits once and spend them on any model, no subscription needed.

The Seedance family on BasedLabs covers text to video and image to video across 8 variants. Pick a variant below and it opens in the generator with that model preselected.

Text to video builds the whole scene from your prompt, so it is best when you do not have a starting visual. Image to video animates a picture you already have, which gives you much more control over composition and characters. If you care about how the first frame looks, generate an image first and animate it.

You need a free BasedLabs account, which comes with starter credits. After that you only pay for what you generate.