# Seedance V1 Lite

> Seedance V1 Lite is available on Artifio.ai — a unified AI workspace with a single pay-as-you-go wallet.

- Canonical page: https://artifio.ai/models/bytedance-v1-lite-image-to-video
- Run it: https://artifio.ai/create/bytedance-v1-lite-image-to-video
- Modality: image to video
- Model brand: bytedance
- Pricing: from about $0.010 per second (exact cost shown in the workspace before you confirm; varies with selected options)
- Typical generation time: ~300s (catalogue estimate)
- Full pricing table: https://artifio.ai/pricing/models

## About Seedance V1 Lite

Seedance V1 Lite is the budget tier of Seedance 1.0, the video generation model ByteDance's Seed team released in June 2025. The family was trained on text-to-video and image-to-video as a joint task, and ByteDance markets the Lite tier to creators who need many clips quickly rather than film-grade output.

This edition is the image-to-video mode: you supply a still image, optionally with a text prompt, and the model animates it into a short clip while staying consistent with the source picture. Artifio runs it alongside 100+ other models in one workspace, paid per generation from a single wallet.

## Features

- Animates a supplied still image into a short video clip, with an optional text prompt steering the motion.
- Outputs up to 1080p at 24 fps; ByteDance's product overview lists 5-second and 10-second clip lengths for the tier.
- ByteDance documents that the family's image-to-video mode maintains consistency with the source image while adding motion.
- Multi-shot generation, a Seedance 1.0 family trait, keeps subject and style coherent across cuts inside one clip.
- Built on the same distilled inference pipeline as the rest of the family, to which the technical report attributes roughly a 10x speedup.

## What people use it for

- Bringing product photos to life for e-commerce listings and ads.
- Animating illustrations, concept art, or AI-generated stills into short motion pieces.
- Turning storyboard frames into moving previsualization drafts.
- High-volume social content where each source image needs a quick motion pass.

## Reported strengths

- A fraction of Seedance 1.0 Pro's per-clip cost on ByteDance's own pricing, which suits batch animation jobs.
- Source-image fidelity is a documented family strength: the animation preserves the look of the input picture.
- The full-size Seedance 1.0 ranked first on the Artificial Analysis image-to-video arena when the technical report was published in June 2025, and Lite shares its training recipe.
- Fast turnaround relative to quality-focused tiers, by design.

## Reported limitations

- Silent output. The Seedance 1.0 generation has no audio track, so sound is a post-production step.
- Visual fidelity sits below Seedance V1 Pro by ByteDance's own positioning; fine textures and detail are the tradeoff for the lower cost.
- ByteDance's overview notes occasional trouble with intricate, coordinated motion involving several subjects.

## Sources

1. Seedance 1.0: Exploring the Boundaries of Video Generation Models (arXiv): https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09113
2. Seedance 1.0 (ByteDance Seed): https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance
3. What is Seedance 1.0? Complete product overview & capabilities (BytePlus (ByteDance)): https://www.byteplus.com/en/topic/577572?title=what-is-seedance-1-0-complete-product-overview-capabilities

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