Seedance 2.0, 720p
63% cheaper per clip- KreatorFlow API
- $0.55per 5 s clip
- $0.110/s · 11 tokens
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fal.ai Seedance alternative
fal.ai Seedance alternative: the KreatorFlow API
fal.ai and KreatorFlow both sell ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 by the second of video. At Seedance 2.0 at 720p and 1080p, Seedance 2.0 Fast at 720p, and Seedance 2.5 at 720p and 1080p, the KreatorFlow API costs less than the price fal.ai prints on its model page: a 5-second Seedance 2.0 clip at 720p is $0.55 here and $1.52 on fal.ai. Below: the prices, how each side bills, and what changes in your request.
- REST /v1 endpoints
- 1 token = $0.05
- Signed webhooks
- Idempotency-Key
Seedance 2.0, 720p · $0.110/s · $0.55 per 5 s clip
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Where the KreatorFlow API costs less than fal.ai
Price per 5-second clip and per second of video, 16:9, no video input. KreatorFlow rounds each job to the next whole token, so the per-clip price is what you are charged. fal.ai is shown at the price on its own model page. Only settings where KreatorFlow costs less are listed: 5 here, between 55% and 64% less per clip.
Seedance 2.0, 1080p
64% cheaper per clip- KreatorFlow API
- $1.20per 5 s clip
- $0.240/s · 24 tokens
Seedance 2.0 Fast, 720p
62% cheaper per clip- KreatorFlow API
- $0.45per 5 s clip
- $0.084/s · 9 tokens
Seedance 2.5, 720p
55% cheaper per clip- KreatorFlow API
- $1.05per 5 s clip
- $0.207/s · 21 tokens
Seedance 2.5, 1080p
61% cheaper per clip- KreatorFlow API
- $2.25per 5 s clip
- $0.444/s · 45 tokens
- Same model, resolution and clip length on both sides, at fal.ai's published pay-as-you-go price before tax. Promotions are left out on both sides.
- Prices in US dollars. Settings where KreatorFlow does not cost less are not listed.
- fal.ai's prices are the ones it prints with audio. Its 480p and 4K Seedance 2.0 prices are given only as a token formula, so they are not compared.
Prices checked on 30 October 2026: fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video, fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedance-2.5/text-to-video. Prices change; check both sites on the day you decide.
Every provider's Seedance list price on one page: Seedance API Price Index.
Side by side
KreatorFlow
- How the price is setPer-second rate × clip length, rounded to the next whole token (1 token = $0.05), prepaid, no subscription
- Audiogenerate_audio is off unless you send true; the token price is the same either way
- Clip length4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15 seconds
- Getting the resultSigned webhooks (webhook_url) or poll GET /v1/jobs/{job_id}
- API keyAuthorization: Bearer $KREATORFLOW_API_KEY
- Seedance 2.0, 720p, per second$0.110
fal.ai API
- How the price is setA printed price per second for each listed setting, labelled "with audio". Its page says the charge follows video tokens: height × width × duration × 24 / 1024
- Audiogenerate_audio is on by default; its docs say the cost is the same whether audio is generated or not
- Clip length4 to 15 seconds, or auto (the default) to let the model decide
- Getting the resultA queue: fal.queue.status and fal.queue.result with the request_id, or a webhookUrl
- API keyFAL_KEY
- Seedance 2.0, 720p, per second$0.303
fal.ai API facts checked on 4 October 2026 on fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video, fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedance-2.5/text-to-video and fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video/api. Products change often, so check both sites on the day you decide.
Compare your own batch: the cost calculator prices any clip length and resolution on KreatorFlow and on the tools that publish a price.
Switching from fal.ai
What changes in a Seedance request when you move it from fal.ai to the KreatorFlow API. fal.ai's side is described as its own API docs show it, with the link below.
- Send the job to POST https://kreatorflow.ai/v1/videos instead of fal.queue.submit("bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video", { input }).
- Authenticate with Authorization: Bearer $KREATORFLOW_API_KEY, a key from the developer console, instead of FAL_KEY.
- Name the model in the body: "kreator-video-seedance-2" for Seedance 2.0, "kreator-video-seedance-2-fast" for Seedance 2.0 Fast, "kreator-video-seedance-2-5" for Seedance 2.5.
- Move the fields out of "input": prompt, resolution, duration, aspect_ratio and generate_audio go at the top level of the JSON body.
- Use a clip length of 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15 seconds; "auto" for an automatic length is not accepted.
- Send aspect_ratio "adaptive" where you sent "auto".
- Send generate_audio: true if you want audio: it is on by default there and off by default here.
- Replace fal.queue.status / fal.queue.result and webhookUrl with webhook_url (signed with X-KreatorFlow-Signature) or GET /v1/jobs/{job_id}, and add an Idempotency-Key header so a retried request returns the same job.
The same job on the KreatorFlow API
curl https://kreatorflow.ai/v1/videos \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KREATORFLOW_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Idempotency-Key: launch-teaser-001" \
-d '{
"model": "kreator-video-seedance-2",
"prompt": "slow dolly in on a glass perfume bottle, soft studio light",
"duration": 5,
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"resolution": "720p",
"generate_audio": true,
"webhook_url": "https://example.com/hooks/kreatorflow"
}'fal.ai's request format read on its API docs on 4 October 2026: fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video/api. Read the docs
Seedance API prices at volume
The prices above are our list prices. With $5,000 or more in paid top-ups over 30 days (Enterprise), Seedance video costs up to 10% less, applied automatically. Here is one clip at that price, next to the same rival price as above.
| Setting | KreatorFlow list | KreatorFlow at volume | Next-lowest listed API | At volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.0, 720p | $0.55 | $0.50 | fal.ai · $1.52 | 67% less |
| Seedance 2.0, 1080p | $1.20 | $1.10 | fal.ai · $3.41 | 67% less |
| Seedance 2.5, 720p | $1.05 | $0.95 | fal.ai · $2.37 | 59% less |
| Seedance 2.5, 1080p | $2.25 | $2.05 | fal.ai · $5.82 | 64% less |
Enterprise, $5,000+ top-ups in 30 days. Rival prices are each provider's published rate on the date shown; some offer their own volume or account deals. A setting is shown at volume only where the full tier discount applies.
Volume pricing for the Seedance API
The more you top up, the less Seedance video costs. Your tier comes from the token top-ups you paid for in the last 30 days. It lowers the per-second price of Seedance video and raises your video request limit, automatically, with no contract and no sales call. If your top-ups drop, the tier moves back down.
| Tier | Paid top-ups, last 30 days | Seedance video price | Video requests / minute | Reached in one top-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Any | List price | 20 | – |
| Scale | $1,000+ | up to 5% off | 60 | Volume pack ($1,250) |
| Growth | $2,500+ | up to 7.5% off | 120 | Volume+ pack ($2,500) |
| Enterprise | $5,000+ | up to 10% off | 300 | Enterprise pack ($5,000) |
Every job's quote shows your price before it runs; a few low-priced settings get a smaller discount. Smaller top-ups add up toward a tier too. Price comparisons on this site use list prices unless a price is marked as at volume. Need more volume? Custom pricing for committed monthly spend: email harry@kreatorflow.ai.
Effective Seedance price per second by tier
What one second of Seedance video costs on each tier, from the same rate card and tier rules the API bills with.
| Model, resolution | Standard (list) | Scale (5% off) | Growth (7.5% off) | Enterprise (10% off) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.5, 720p | $0.207/s | $0.1967/s | $0.1915/s | $0.1863/s |
| Seedance 2.5, 1080p | $0.444/s | $0.4218/s | $0.4107/s | $0.3996/s |
| Seedance 2.0, 720p | $0.110/s | $0.1045/s | $0.1018/s | $0.099/s |
| Seedance 2.0, 1080p | $0.240/s | $0.228/s | $0.222/s | $0.216/s |
| Seedance 2 Fast, 720p | $0.0844/s | $0.0802/s | $0.0781/s | $0.076/s |
| Seedance 2 Fast, 1080p | $0.183/s | $0.1739/s | $0.1693/s | $0.1647/s |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini, 720p | $0.0674/s | $0.0641/s | $0.0624/s | $0.0607/s |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini, 1080p | $0.135/s | $0.1283/s | $0.1249/s | $0.1215/s |
Billed per delivered second; each clip's total is rounded up to a whole token ($0.05). "see quote" means that setting gets a smaller discount on that tier, and the job's quote shows the exact price before it runs.
What the KreatorFlow API includes
- KreatorFlow is an official partner of BytePlus, a ByteDance company, and the API runs ByteDance's Seedance models through BytePlus.
- One API key for every model, with scoped permissions.
- Signed webhooks for job.completed, job.failed, job.canceled and job.blocked, or poll GET /v1/jobs/{job_id}.
- Prepaid tokens from a $20 top-up, no subscription. Tokens reserved for a job that fails are released back to your balance.
Seedance API price per second on KreatorFlow
Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 at 720p and above on the KreatorFlow API: price per second, tokens per 5-second clip, and clips per prepaid top-up.
| Model · resolution | Tokens | 5 s clip | List rate per second | $20 top-up · 400 tokens | $50 top-up · 1,000 tokens | $100 top-up · 2,000 tokens | $250 top-up · 5,000 tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.0 · 720p | 11/5s | $0.55 | $0.110/s | 36 | 90 | 181 | 454 |
| Seedance 2.0 · 1080p | 24/5s | $1.20 | $0.240/s | 16 | 41 | 83 | 208 |
| Seedance 2.0 · 4K | 58/5s | $2.90 | $0.580/s | 6 | 17 | 34 | 86 |
| Seedance 2.5 · 720p | 21/5s | $1.05 | $0.207/s | 19 | 47 | 95 | 238 |
| Seedance 2.5 · 1080p | 45/5s | $2.25 | $0.444/s | 8 | 22 | 44 | 111 |
| Seedance 2.5 · 4K | 100/5s | $5.00 | $0.999/s | 4 | 10 | 20 | 50 |
Seedance 2.0 and 2.5, 720p and above. List rate per second is the rate card price; a clip is billed at that rate and its total rounded up to whole tokens ($0.05), which is why a 5-second clip can cost a cent or two more than rate x 5. Top-up columns: 5-second clips each top-up covers, without a video input. A 10-second clip uses about twice the tokens.
FAQ
Is the KreatorFlow API cheaper than fal.ai for Seedance?
At every setting in the table, yes: Seedance 2.0 at 720p and 1080p, Seedance 2.0 Fast at 720p, and Seedance 2.5 at 720p and 1080p, between 55% and 64% less per clip. For example, Seedance 2.0 at 720p is $0.110 per second on KreatorFlow against $0.303 on fal.ai: $0.55 against $1.52 for a 5-second clip. Settings where fal.ai costs the same or less are not listed.
Is it the same Seedance model?
Both APIs sell ByteDance's Seedance under that name. KreatorFlow is an official partner of BytePlus, a ByteDance company.
How does KreatorFlow API billing work?
You buy prepaid tokens (1 token = $0.05, top-ups from $20). A video job costs its per-second rate times the clip length, rounded to the next whole token. Tokens reserved for a failed job are released.
Is KreatorFlow the cheapest Seedance API at 720p and 1080p?
Yes. KreatorFlow is the cheapest Seedance API at 720p and 1080p for Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Fast. At our list rate, a 5-second Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Fast video at 720p or 1080p costs less on the KreatorFlow API than the regular list price of any of the 12 other API providers we track (each provider's own page, checked 25 October 2026 to 2 November 2026). Seedance 2.0 Mini is not included: another provider lists it for the same or less at 720p.
Do fal.ai's Seedance prices include audio?
fal.ai labels its Seedance 2.0 prices "with audio", and its API docs say the cost is the same whether audio is generated or not. On the KreatorFlow API, generate_audio is off unless you send true, and the token price is the same either way.
Why are 480p and 4K not compared with fal.ai?
fal.ai prints a per-second Seedance 2.0 price for 720p and 1080p only. For 480p and 4K it gives the token formula (height × width × duration × 24 / 1024) without a printed price, so we leave them out rather than work a price out for it.
fal.ai accepts any clip length from 4 to 15 seconds. Does KreatorFlow?
The KreatorFlow API takes Seedance 2.0 clips of 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15 seconds and refuses other lengths, such as 7, 9, 11, 13 and 14 seconds, with duration_not_supported. fal.ai's "auto" length has no equivalent: pick a fixed length.
Is KreatorFlow part of fal.ai?
No. KreatorFlow is an independent company with no connection to fal.ai.
Is there volume pricing for the Seedance API?
Yes. Once your paid top-ups in the last 30 days reach $1,000, Seedance video costs up to 5% less per second, rising to up to 10% off at $5,000 (Enterprise), and your video request limit goes up with each tier. It applies automatically, with no contract, and each job's quote shows your price before it runs. For more volume than that, email harry@kreatorflow.ai.
Get a KreatorFlow API key
Create a key in the developer console, top up tokens and send your first Seedance job. The docs cover every endpoint.
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