Seedance 2.0 Mini API: Everything You Need to Know

Seedance 2.0 Mini is ByteDance's lightweight, cost-optimized tier within the Seedance 2.0 model family — designed for high-volume workflows where generation speed and cost-per-video matter more than maximum cinematic fidelity. It launched in June 2026 and is available via API through Atlas Cloud.

What Is Seedance 2.0 Mini?

The Seedance 2.0 family has three tiers:

Tier	Purpose	Speed
Seedance 2.0 Standard	Cinematic-grade output, full multimodal	Baseline
Seedance 2.0 Fast	Same quality as Standard, lower latency	~3× faster
Seedance 2.0 Mini	Maximum throughput, cost-optimized	~2× faster than Fast

Mini is the batch-processing tier. It trades some of the Standard's cinematic polish for dramatically faster generation and roughly half the cost. For use cases where you're generating dozens or hundreds of clips — e-commerce product videos, social content, rapid iteration — Mini is typically the right starting point.

Key Specs

• Resolution: 720p primary output
• Duration: 5–12 seconds per clip
• Aspect ratios: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4
• Input: Text-to-video, image-to-video
• Frame rate: 24 fps
• Generation speed: ~2× faster than Seedance 2.0 Fast
• Price: ~50% cheaper than Seedance 2.0 Standard

What Makes Mini Different from Standard

Speed: Mini generates video roughly 2× faster than Seedance 2.0 Fast. At high volumes, this difference compounds into significant time savings — a pipeline that previously took 4 hours can complete in under an hour.

Cost: Mini runs at approximately half the per-second cost of the Standard tier. For production pipelines generating hundreds of clips per day, this changes the unit economics of AI video generation.

Quality trade-off: Mini is optimized for throughput, not maximum cinematic quality. Fine details in complex scenes — intricate lighting, dense textures — may be less refined than Standard output. For final-delivery content, Standard or Fast is the right choice. For drafts, iterations, and volume production, Mini is efficient.

How to Access the API

Seedance 2.0 Mini is available via Atlas Cloud. New accounts receive free credits with no credit card required.

Step 1: Get your API key

Sign up at atlascloud.ai and copy your key from the dashboard.

Step 2: Make your first request

import requests
import time

headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_ATLASCLOUD_API_KEY"
}

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.atlascloud.ai/api/v1/model/generateVideo",
    headers=headers,
    json={
        "model": "bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video",
        "prompt": "A product unboxing shot — hands opening a sleek white box on a marble surface, soft studio lighting",
        "width": 1280,
        "height": 720,
        "duration": 5,
        "fps": 24,
    }
)

prediction_id = response.json()["data"]["id"]

while True:
    result = requests.get(
        f"https://api.atlascloud.ai/api/v1/model/prediction/{prediction_id}",
        headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_ATLASCLOUD_API_KEY"}
    ).json()

    status = result["data"]["status"]
    if status in ["completed", "succeeded"]:
        print("Video URL:", result["data"]["outputs"][0])
        break
    elif status == "failed":
        raise Exception(result["data"].get("error", "Generation failed"))
    time.sleep(2)

Note: Use "model": "bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video" when Seedance 2.0 Mini is generally available on the API. The endpoint, polling pattern, and response structure are identical.

Who Should Use Seedance 2.0 Mini?

E-commerce teams generating product videos at scale — Mini's speed and cost make it ideal for running hundreds of variant clips per day.

Social media creators who need rapid turnaround on short-form content for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

Developers prototyping video generation features — Mini lets you iterate quickly without running up large API bills during development.

Agencies running A/B testing on video creatives — generate 50 variants cheaply, then upscale the winners to Standard for final delivery.

Pricing

Mini is approximately 50% cheaper than Seedance 2.0 Standard. See the full pricing breakdown for current per-second rates across all Seedance 2.0 tiers.

Get started with free credits →