CONTINUITY LOG · VERSION TRACKING

Every change to Seedance 2.5, on the record.

Feature rollouts, availability changes and pricing moves, logged as they happen. Sourced from official announcements and verified reporting. Last updated 2026-08-07.

2026-08-07 OFFICIAL API

Official Seedance 2.5 API and EvoLink integration go live

BytePlus and Volcengine ModelArk publish official developer access and pricing. EvoLink launches T2V, I2V, and R2V workflow IDs through its unified video API; users should check the current EvoLink console price before scaled production traffic.

2026-07-31 RELEASE

Seedance 2.5 is officially released

ByteDance announces Seedance 2.5 with multimodal referencing, continuous shots up to 30 seconds, and documented reference budgets of 30 images, 10 videos, and 10 audio files for the reference workflow.

2026 · EARLY BENCHMARK

Seedance 2.0 tops the Video Arena

Seedance 2.0 ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena for both text-to-video and image-to-video, setting the baseline expectations 2.5 now raises.

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