Wan 3.0 vs Seedance 2.5

Both Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 are available on Scenes AI, and neither has a published quality score — so this page will not tell you which looks better. It compares the 3 specifications they actually differ on, starting with price and 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.

Wan 3.0
Up to 30s in one generation · 1080p with native audio · 10 reference images
Seedance 2.5
Longest single shot — up to 30s unbroken · 30 reference images · 1080p
  • Wan 3.0 starts at $0.052 per second against $0.18 for Seedance 2.5 — 3.52x the rate for the same second of finished video.
  • Seedance 2.5 accepts 30 reference images per scene against 10 on Wan 3.0 — that is how many characters and locations you can pin at once.
  • Seedance 2.5 offers 7 aspect ratios against 6 on Wan 3.0 (adaptive, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16).

Side by side

Specifications and rates, straight from the live catalogue.

Wan 3.0 compared with Seedance 2.5
SpecWan 3.0Seedance 2.5
Made byAlibabaByteDance
Quality score
BillingPer second of outputPer second of output
From (per second)$0.052$0.18
Longest scene30s30s
Aspect ratios6 (adaptive, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16)7 (1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16, 21:9, adaptive)
Resolutions480p, 720p, 1080p480p, 720p, 1080p
Reference images1030
Scene-to-scene morphYesYes
In-video audioOptionalOptional

Which should you pick?

Wan 3.0 is the cheaper of the two at 3.52x 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 either engine. 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 Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5.

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Neither has a published quality score, so this page will not name a winner — a score we have not measured is not one we will invent. What we can compare is specifications, and these two differ on 3 of them; the largest are set out above.