How many hook clips does $20 buy: Wan 3.0 vs Seedance 2.5

A hook test needs many short clips more than a few polished ones, so the number of clips a budget buys is the useful measure. Here is the count that $20 buys on Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 at the three common hook lengths, from Sume billed rates read on 2026-10-03.

Wan 3.0 bills per second by resolution, so its count is a division. Seedance 2.5 bills by tokens, so its count depends on frame size; the table uses 9:16.

How many clips fit in $20?

The figures are whole clips, rounded down, with no retakes.

How should you read the counts?

At five seconds, Wan 3.0 at 480p gives 64 clips for $20 ($0.3125 each). The same budget on Seedance 2.5 at 480p buys fewer because each 5-second clip is $1.3434. The gap grows with length because Seedance 2.5's price rises with token count while Wan's rises only with seconds.

Set aside part of the budget for retakes. If you expect to discard half your clips, halve every number in the table. A first test of 20 clips on Wan 480p costs $6.25 at five seconds, leaving most of the budget for the winners.

A hook that works at five seconds is worth re-rendering at its final length and resolution; do that for the winners only.

Does it matter which model for a hook test?

It matters for the look, which this post does not rank. It matters for the budget in one way: a hook test run on the cheaper model leaves money for a final on the more expensive one. If the final will be Seedance 2.5, one 720p 15-second clip is $8.667, and $20 covers two with $2.67 to spare. See the five-second price ranking for every model at that length.