Seedance 2.5 price per frame: about 2.4 cents at 720p on Sume

On Sume, one frame of Seedance 2.5 video costs about 1119.5 cents at 480p, 2407.5 cents at 720p and 5923.1 cents at 1080p (16:9, July-launch model, billed per video token). The number matters because buyers compare clips by the second, but the model is billed by tokens, and a frame is the unit that makes the token math easy to see.

Seedance 2.5 reportedly launched on July 31 with roughly 30-second native clips in one pass, as tracked by Magic Hour (secondary source, read 2026-10-07). Sume lists it as the seedance-2.5 id with 4 to 30 seconds at 480p, 720p and 1080p, per the Video Router docs (read 2026-10-07).

How a frame turns into dollars

Sume's estimator prices a clip as width x height x seconds x 24 / 1024 video tokens. The 24 is the estimator's frame-rate constant in @sume-com/provider-pricing; treat it as the billing assumption, not a promise about the frame rate of the file you download. The provider list rate is $0.0214 per 1,000 tokens (and $0.0234 at 1080p), and Sume bills list x 1.25.

Why frames help when you decide to retake

A whole clip rounds up to the cent after the margin, so 10 seconds at 720p is $5.78, not 240 frames x a rounded frame price. At the 4-second minimum (96 frames) the clip is $1.08 at 480p, $2.32 at 720p and $5.69 at 1080p.

The per-frame view is useful for one decision: whether to regenerate. A 30-second 720p clip is 720 frames and costs $17.34. If three seconds of it are wrong, you cannot pay for only those 72 frames. Seedance 2.5 on Sume has no seed and no partial regenerate, so a fix is a new job at the full length you choose, with a 4-second minimum. The cheaper repair is a separate 4-second job at $2.32 that you cut in on a timeline.

Check before you run a batch

Prices here are from the Sume repo on 2026-10-07 and follow GET /v1/videos/models, which returns pricing_skus per 1,000 video tokens for each id. Provider list prices can change; the catalog call is the source to trust before a bulk run. Audio does not add a line: Seedance 2.5 audio is optional and the estimate has no audio term.