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Grok Imagine Video vs Bytedance Seedance 2.0 (Text To Video)

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Grok Imagine Video
xai/grok-imagine-video
Bytedance Seedance 2.0 (Text To Video)
bytedance/seedance-2.0
ProviderxAIByteDance
Family
Modalityvideovideo
Context window
Max output
Released2026-05-222026-05-22
Input price$0.050 /sec$0.014 /sec
Output price
Cache read
Tools
Streaming
Vision
JSON mode
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Grok Imagine Video
xai/grok-imagine-video
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xAI's video generation model. Generates, edits, and extends videos from text and image inputs with native synchronized audio including dialogue, sound effects, and music. Supports multiple creative modes (normal, fun, custom).

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
Bytedance Seedance 2.0 (Text To Video)
bytedance/seedance-2.0
Full spec →

ByteDance's next-generation video model with a unified multimodal architecture. Generates high-quality video with synchronized audio from text, images, video clips, and audio inputs. Supports multimodal references (up to 9 images, 3 videos, 3 audio files), native audio generation, video editing, video extension, intelligent duration, and adaptive aspect ratio.

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
  • Cinematic motion
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Grok Imagine Video
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-imagine-video",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Bytedance Seedance 2.0 (Text To Video) — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance/seedance-2.0",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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