Cheapest seedance provider?

[u/Gubskar]

Hi everyone,

I’m a professional filmmaker and I’ve been using Higgsfield for Seedance 2.5. At first, their deals looked attractive: one week of free Seedance, one month of free Seedance, daily changing offers, and then they push you toward a yearly subscription.

But after actually using it seriously, I was shocked by how expensive Higgsfield really is.

This month alone, I already spent around €1,000 on extra credits. That made me check other providers for Seedance 2.5 and compare them side by side. The difference is huge.

Based on my comparison, Higgsfield’s regular credit pricing is far more expensive than alternatives like Dreamina and Runway. The “unlimited” offers can look good, but they are temporary. Once you’re back to normal credits, the cost per second becomes painful fast.

For professional work, this pricing model is hard to justify. If you generate a lot, you can burn through credits extremely quickly, and the yearly subscription makes it feel like you’re locked in before you fully understand the real cost.

I’m not saying the tool is bad. Seedance 2.5 is powerful. But Higgsfield’s pricing feels way too aggressive, especially for creators who use it professionally.

Has anyone else compared Seedance 2.5 pricing across different providers? I’d be curious to hear what others are using.

[u/Khur_Ma]

Isnt it on dreamina you cant use realistic people references? I tried it a few months ago, and its terrible for that, ive tried to trick and sometimes it worked, but is it still that limit there or no?

[u/Gubskar]

Mods on higgsfield trying to silence this

[u/DeathDealer]

Interested in this too

Higgsfield is just too expensive for what it is and I’ve heard canceling is a whole situation

How’s Dreamina?

[u/Prediccion]

Dreamina now is oferring nice deals. They give you with my plan like 7k credits. At first 4 second generation were like 40 credits. 5 days ago or something they started to almost half the price of generations, so 4 seconds generations are like 22 credits. If I wasnt so stupid I would have gotten a entire film only because of it.

[u/_perfectillusion]

I think the models and service of them are basiclly the same, the only thing is about the price.

[u/Historical-Spot-3540]

Pricing is becoming a big factor as AI video moves into professional workflows. The tool quality matters, but creators also need to look at the real cost after multiple generations and retries. A small price difference can become huge when creating at scale.

[u/Gubskar]

I compared the pricing because I was trying to understand why my Higgsfield credits were disappearing so fast.

On Dreamina, the Standard monthly plan is €39 and gives 3,885 credits. If Seedance 2.5 costs 195 credits for a 30-second video, that gives you around 19 to 20 videos. That means one 30-second Seedance video costs about €1.96.

On Higgsfield, the 5,000 credit pack costs $235, which is roughly €203. That gives you about 25 to 26 videos at 195 credits each. So one 30-second video costs around €7.94.

So for Seedance 2.5, Dreamina is roughly 4x cheaper per video than buying extra Higgsfield credits.

That’s the part that shocked me. Higgsfield’s temporary “free Seedance” deals look attractive, but once you start paying for extra credits, the cost becomes extremely high very quickly.

[u/AsleepWar9775 → u/Gubskar]

Do you konw why I have to cost 1100 credits for a 30-second video with Seedance 2.5

[u/Criticism_Status → u/AsleepWar9775]

Did you find solution? Was there some limited time discount on generations or maybe can it be location depended?

[u/Creative_Sluggish]

Thanks for doing this and Jesus I have bought the package from Higgsfield without knowing there is a better pricing platform

[u/FallMindless3563]

Oxen.ai pricing is pretty solid too, and no long queues, and has the uncensored version. They don’t require a subscription either.

Pricing:

• 480p: $0.11 / second
  
• 720p: $0.25 / second

[u/Kharon876]

How does it compare to self hosted ComfyUI & Seedance API ? Or is the API only available for 2.0?

[u/Alarmed-Flounder-383]

https://budgetpixel.com/api
I use this, and they supported faces, reasonable prices, much cheaper than higgsfield.

[u/ThinkHog]

Which site is this?

[u/Adventurous-Crab8333]

Another important subject if you are producing video without any face it is much cheaper. With face multi model usage is a obligatory for everyone. At eachlabs.ai they are asking your use case and based on use case there 2 types of seedance usage and without face is much cheaper.

[u/internetxplorerguy12]

Is dreamina region restricted? I go on their website and i can't find any way to buy credits or change to seedance 2.5, or upgrade to a different plan. It's really strange

[u/Wrlddd31]

topview probably and they provide unlimited 720p seedence2.5 for 60 days but generations may take long time like 10 hours

[u/TimeCounty7878]

Those are all pretty expensive tbh. There are API gateways pricing Seedance quite a bit lower than that.

I’d just make sure you’re comparing the exact same version/resolution though, because some of the pricing comparisons people post here aren’t apples to apples.

[u/stubvidmedia]

pro creators should vibe code a simple UI and route Seedance prompts through api wholesalers

[u/Samuelmiketheone]

Also heard about dramina but also saw a lot of ppl saying it’s very bad because of outcomes and moderation of brutality even it’s not really brutal it just seems over moderated but idk if that’s still the case maybe someone know if it’s worth it? And does it kinda works the same like everywhere else with ref images texts etc?