# 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-text-to-video
- Run it: https://artifio.ai/create/bytedance-v1-lite-text-to-video
- Modality: prompt 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: ~90s (catalogue estimate)
- Full pricing table: https://artifio.ai/pricing/models

## About Seedance V1 Lite

Seedance V1 Lite is the smaller, lower-cost tier of Seedance 1.0, the video generation model ByteDance's Seed team released in June 2025. The 1.0 family was trained jointly on text-to-video and image-to-video tasks, and its technical report emphasizes prompt adherence, motion realism, and native multi-shot storytelling. The Lite tier keeps those family traits while cutting size and cost per clip, and ByteDance aims it at social creators who iterate in volume rather than at film-grade production.

This is the text-to-video edition: a written scene description goes in, a short silent clip comes out, with no reference image required. On Artifio it runs in the same workspace as 100+ other models, paid per generation from a single wallet.

## Features

- Turns plain text prompts into short video clips with no input image needed.
- Outputs up to 1080p at 24 fps; ByteDance's product overview lists 5-second and 10-second clip lengths for the tier.
- Native multi-shot generation, a Seedance 1.0 family trait, keeps the main subject, visual style, and atmosphere consistent across cuts inside one clip.
- Joint training with the image-to-video task, which the technical report links to stronger semantic understanding across the family.
- A multi-stage distillation pipeline gives the Seedance 1.0 family roughly a 10x inference speedup, the basis for Lite's quick turnaround.

## What people use it for

- Short vertical clips for social feeds, where output volume matters more than maximum polish.
- Cheap prompt iteration: finding the right shot before re-running it on Seedance V1 Pro.
- Storyboard and previsualization drafts for longer edits.
- Simple e-commerce teasers and animated backgrounds that do not need fine detail.

## Reported strengths

- Costs a fraction of Seedance 1.0 Pro per clip on ByteDance's own pricing, so batch generation is realistic.
- Inherits the family's training recipe; the full-size Seedance 1.0 ranked first on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video arena when the technical report was published in June 2025.
- Multi-shot narrative support is rare at the budget tier.
- Camera and motion instructions in the prompt are followed well for a small model, a family strength ByteDance documents.

## Reported limitations

- No audio. Seedance 1.0 generates silent video, so music, voiceover, and effects have to be added in editing.
- ByteDance places Lite below Pro on visual fidelity and detail; it is the iteration tier, and cinematic work is pointed at Seedance V1 Pro instead.
- ByteDance's own overview notes the family can struggle with intricate, coordinated actions involving multiple 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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