Seedance 2.5 or Wan 3.0 for text-to-video: 13 Elo, 2.8x the price
Wan 3.0 beats Seedance 2.5 by 13 Elo on text-to-video and 36 on editing, at $12.00 against $34.12 a minute. Pick by length, price and inputs.
Wan 3.0 is ahead of Seedance 2.5 on Artificial Analysis's text-to-video board by 13 Elo points (1,156 against 1,143) and on its video-editing board by 36 points (1,187 against 1,151), and its listed price is $12.00 per minute against $34.12, which is 2.8 times less. Both ids exist on Sume with a 30 second maximum, so pick Wan 3.0 for price and Seedance 2.5 when its reference inputs are the point.
Side by side
All Elo figures and listed prices come from the Artificial Analysis boards read on 2026-10-08. The Sume columns come from Sume's video docs and price table.
| Item | Wan 3.0 | Seedance 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Text-to-video Elo (rank) | 1156 (1) | 1143 (3) |
| Video editing Elo (rank) | 1187 (1) | 1151 (2) |
| Image-to-video board | 1164 (7) | Not in the top 12 |
| Listed price per minute, text-to-video | $12.00 | $34.12 |
| Sume duration range | 2 to 30 s | 4 to 30 s |
| Sume resolutions | 480p, 720p, 1080p | 480p, 720p, 1080p |
| Sume per minute at 720p | $7.50 | $34.67 |
| Sume per minute at 1080p | $15.00 | $85.29 |
Why the Sume gap is wider than the board gap
On the board the ratio is 34.12 / 12.00 = 2.84. On Sume it is 34.67 / 7.50 = 4.6 at 720p and 85.29 / 15.00 = 5.7 at 1080p. Wan 3.0 is billed per second with a flat rate for each resolution. Seedance 2.5 is billed per video token, and a 1080p frame is 48,600 tokens per second against 21,600 at 720p.
A pick by job
Use the rule that fits your clip. If two rules fit, take the cheaper model first and spend the extra only after a draft shows what it cannot do.
- A 2 or 3 second clip: Wan 3.0. Seedance 2.5 starts at 4 seconds on Sume.
- A 30 second clip at a fixed budget: Wan 3.0 at 720p is $3.75, Seedance 2.5 at 720p is $17.33.
- Several reference images, clips and audio files in one request: try Seedance 2.5, and run Wan 3.0 as a price check. Both accept image, video and audio references.
- An edit of an existing clip: neither. Sume's edit mode (
video_url) is documented for Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 only.
Run the test
A 13 point gap is a small preference signal. Send the same prompt to both ids at 480p, where 5 seconds cost $0.3125 on Wan 3.0 and $1.3434 on Seedance 2.5, and judge the two clips yourself. The limits-first checklist and the Wan 3.0 price post have the rest.
What a batch costs on each
Take twenty 10 second clips at 720p. Wan 3.0 is 20 x 10 x $0.125 = $25.00. Seedance 2.5 is 20 x $5.778 = $115.56, so the gap is $90.56 for the batch. At 1080p the same batch is $50.00 on Wan 3.0 and $284.31 on Seedance 2.5.
The 13 point Elo gap favors Wan 3.0 and the price favors it too, so Seedance 2.5 has to earn its place on a feature or on a look you can see in your own test clips. If it does, spend it on the final cut only and draft on Wan 3.0 at 480p.
- Draft at 480p on Wan 3.0: $0.3125 for 5 seconds.
- Final at 720p on the winner: $0.625 on Wan 3.0 or $2.889 on Seedance 2.5.
- Three drafts and one Seedance final cost 3 x $0.3125 + $2.889 = $3.83.
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