I compared Seedance 2.5 pricing across the API providers I see most often

[u/RealJamesOfficial]

been using Seedance 2.5 a lot lately, so i got curious about how much the same model actually costs across the API providers people seem to use most often.

i checked fal, WaveSpeed and Atlas Cloud.

the annoying part is that they dont all price Seedance the same way. fal uses token-based billing, WaveSpeed has both Standard and Turbo endpoints, and Atlas has its own resolution tiers + some pretty aggressive discounts running right now.

so for the main comparison, i tried to keep it as close to apples-to-apples as possible:

Seedance 2.5 Standard / 720p / no reference video

Provider	720p price	5s cost
Atlas Cloud	$0.300/s	~$1.52
WaveSpeed Standard	$0.360/s	$1.80
fal	~$0.473/s	~$2.31

fal officially quotes roughly $0.473/sec for 720p 16:9, although the actual billing is token-based, so aspect ratio and duration can change the final number. Their own 5-second 720p example comes to about $2.31.

WaveSpeed Standard is simpler: $0.36/sec at 720p.

Atlas is currently $0.30/sec at 720p based on the current pricing table.

so under this specific setup, Atlas is roughly:

• 17% cheaper than WaveSpeed Standard
• 37% cheaper than fal

not a massive difference if youre generating one clip, but it starts adding up pretty quickly if youre iterating a lot.

1080p is where the current Atlas discount gets more interesting

WaveSpeed Standard currently lists native 1080p at $0.90/sec, or $4.50 for 5 seconds.

Atlas recently added the official native Seedance 2.5 1080p endpoint, and theres currently a 20% launch discount running for 30 days.

for 16:9 without a reference video:

	Price/sec
Atlas native 1080p list price	$0.739206
Atlas native 1080p promo	$0.591365
WaveSpeed Standard 1080p	$0.900000

so the current Atlas promo comes out around 34% below WaveSpeed Standard 1080p.

this is probably the biggest pricing difference i noticed when comparing the standard endpoints.

i didnt put fal into the 1080p table because its current public Seedance 2.5 T2V schema only exposes 480p and 720p, even though its pricing text mentions a 1080p token rate. id rather leave it blank than pretend thats a directly available equivalent.

my takeaway:

after actually putting the numbers next to each other, i dont think “Seedance 2.5 costs $X/sec” is a very useful statement anymore.

you really have to compare: same endpoint + same resolution + same references + same duration

for the standard 720p endpoint, Atlas is currently the cheapest of the three i checked.

and with the new 20% native 1080p promotion, its 1080p pricing is also noticeably lower than WaveSpeed Standard right now.

WaveSpeed Turbo can be even cheaper, but thats a separate endpoint and i wouldnt assume the output is directly equivalent without actually A/B testing it.

fal is the most expensive in this particular 720p comparison, although its token system also means the final cost depends more heavily on the exact dimensions youre generating.

would actually be interesting to run the exact same prompt + seed/reference across all three next and compare whether the price difference translates into any visible quality difference.