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Seedance 2.5 vs Grok Imagine Image 2.0

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Seedance 2.5
bytedance/seedance-2.5
Grok Imagine Image 2.0
xai/grok-imagine-image-2.0
Provider
ByteDance
xAI
Family
Modality
video
image
Context window
Max output
Released
2026-08-07
License
Open-weight
Proprietary
Per image
$0.060 /img
Per output second
$0.231 /sec
Tools
Streaming
Vision
JSON mode
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Batch API
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Seedance 2.5
bytedance/seedance-2.5
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ByteDance's next-generation video model with a unified multimodal reference-to-video architecture. Generates video from text, up to 30 reference images, 10 reference videos, and 10 reference audio clips — including audio-only input with no image or video required. Supports first/last-frame image-to-video, video editing, video extension, intelligent duration (including automatic selection), and adaptive aspect ratio.

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
Use cases
PromosDemosStoryboards
Grok Imagine Image 2.0
xai/grok-imagine-image-2.0
Full spec →

Generate images from text using xAi's Grok Imagine 2.0 model.

Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
Use cases
Marketing assetsProduct mockupsConcept art

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

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

# Seedance 2.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance/seedance-2.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Grok Imagine Image 2.0
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-imagine-image-2.0",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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