# Seedance V1 Pro

> Seedance V1 Pro 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-pro-image-to-video
- Run it: https://artifio.ai/create/bytedance-v1-pro-image-to-video
- Modality: image to video
- Model brand: bytedance
- Pricing: from about $0.014 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 Pro

Seedance V1 Pro is the quality tier of Seedance 1.0, the video generation model ByteDance's Seed team released in June 2025. The technical report describes joint text-to-video and image-to-video training, video-specific RLHF, and a distillation pipeline for fast inference; at publication the model ranked first on both Artificial Analysis video arena leaderboards, beating Veo 3 in the image-to-video category.

This edition is the image-to-video mode. ByteDance's model documentation lists two variants of the task: animate a single first-frame image, or supply both a first and a last frame and let the model interpolate a coherent shot between them. Artifio offers it in the same workspace as 100+ other models, paid per generation from one wallet.

## Features

- Animates a first-frame image into video, with an optional text prompt steering motion and camera work.
- First-and-last-frame mode: give two keyframes and the model generates the transition while keeping the subject consistent.
- Outputs 480p, 720p, or 1080p at 24 fps, with clip lengths from 2 to 12 seconds.
- Maintains consistency with the source image, a family strength ByteDance documents for the image-to-video task.
- About 41.4 seconds to generate a 5-second 1080p clip on an NVIDIA L20, per the technical report.
- Supports multi-shot narrative continuation from the reference image.

## What people use it for

- Turning hero product shots or key art into premium motion assets.
- Keyframe-to-keyframe shots: defining exact start and end frames for a controlled camera or subject move.
- Animating film stills and concept frames for pitch reels and previsualization.
- Giving AI-generated or photographed portraits natural, subtle motion.

## Reported strengths

- Ranked first on the Artificial Analysis image-to-video arena at the June 2025 report, more than 100 Elo points ahead of the next models at the time.
- The first-and-last-frame mode gives unusually direct control over shot composition.
- Strong source fidelity: the output keeps the look of the input image rather than drifting off-style.
- Fast generation for a quality-tier model thanks to multi-stage distillation.

## Reported limitations

- Silent output. Seedance 1.0 has no audio generation; synchronized sound arrived only in ByteDance's later releases.
- Clip length caps at 12 seconds and the frame rate is fixed at 24 fps.
- ByteDance's overview notes the model can struggle with intricate, coordinated motion across several subjects at once.

## 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. seedance-1.0-pro model documentation (BytePlus (ByteDance)): https://docs.byteplus.com/en/docs/ModelArk/1587798
4. 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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