Seedance 2.0 vs Kling 3.0

Both Seedance 2.0 and Kling 3.0 are available on Scenes AI. Only Seedance 2.0 has a measured quality score, so this page does not rank them on picture quality — comparing a real number against an unmeasured one would be inventing a result. It compares what is measured instead: price, the reference budget. Every figure below comes from the same catalogue that bills your account.

What actually differs

These two match on most of the 10 specifications below; they differ on 3.

Seedance 2.0
Best visual quality · multi-shot scenes up to 15s · 9 reference images
Kling 3.0
Native multi-shot (up to 5 shots) · character binding with voice · up to 15s
  • Kling 3.0 starts at $0.091 per second against $0.12 for Seedance 2.0 — 1.36x the rate for the same second of finished video.
  • Kling 3.0 accepts 12 reference images per scene against 9 on Seedance 2.0 — that is how many characters and locations you can pin at once.
  • Seedance 2.0 offers 7 aspect ratios against 3 on Kling 3.0 (16:9, 9:16, 1:1).

Side by side

Specifications and rates, straight from the live catalogue.

Seedance 2.0 compared with Kling 3.0
SpecSeedance 2.0Kling 3.0
Made byByteDanceKuaishou
Quality score100/100—
BillingPer second of outputPer second of output
From (per second)$0.12$0.091
Longest scene15s15s
Aspect ratios7 (1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16, 21:9, adaptive)3 (16:9, 9:16, 1:1)
Resolutions480p, 720p, 1080p, 4k720p, 1080p, 4k
Reference images912
Scene-to-scene morphYesYes
In-video audioOptionalOptional

Which should you pick?

Kling 3.0 is the cheaper of the two at 1.36x less per second, which makes it the one to draft on whichever you eventually publish with. Beyond rate, pick on the differences above rather than on a quality ranking we have not measured for Kling 3.0. Because Scenes AI shows a scrubbable preview before any clips are bought, you can settle the structure cheaply and commit once.

Price your own video with either engine on the pricing page, or read the full specs for Seedance 2.0 and Kling 3.0.

FAQ

Common questions

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We cannot say. Seedance 2.0 has a measured quality score (100 out of 100); Kling 3.0 has not been through the same image-to-video preference testing, so the table shows a dash rather than a guess. Comparing a real number against an absent one would be inventing a result, so pick on the differences that are measured instead.