Seedance, developed by ByteDance and launched in 2025, is the underlying video-generation model powering AI features inside both Dreamina and CapCut, also covered in this directory, the same app-versus-model relationship as Google Flow and Veo elsewhere in this category: Seedance is the technology, Dreamina and CapCut are the consumer-facing apps built on top of it.
Its 2.0 release drew specific attention for supporting prompt, image, and reference-video-driven generation together with synchronized audio, rolling out in phases across several markets, though the global rollout was paused at points to address intellectual property concerns raised by Hollywood studios over potential copyright infringement in training data.
Seedance isn't sold as an independent standalone subscription; it's accessed through Dreamina or CapCut directly rather than its own separate pricing page. For someone already using Dreamina or CapCut who wants to understand the underlying model powering those apps' AI video features, Seedance's role as ByteDance's foundational video model addresses that directly, though it's not a separately purchasable product.
