ByteDance: Seedance 2
Seedance 2 is a video generation model from ByteDance released on Apr 1, 2026. It reads text and images and writes video, with a 4K token context window.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- n/a
- Context
- 4K
- Max output
- n/a
- Released
- Apr 1, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
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Seedance 2 questions
What is the context window of Seedance 2?
4,096 tokens of input. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Is Seedance 2 open source?
No. ByteDance serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Seedance 2 released?
Apr 1, 2026.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.