# Wan 3.0 vs Seedance 2.5: how do they compare?

**Short answer:** On price they are far apart: on 2026-10-17 Wan 3.0 listed at $0.100/s at 720p and Seedance 2.5 at $0.377/s, 3.8 times as much, and both include audio at no extra cost. We have not produced on either, so treat any quality ranking you read with care and test your own shots.

URL: https://arc.katechon.technology/answers/wan-3-0-vs-seedance-2-5
Updated: 2026-10-18

## Price side by side

List prices quoted 2026-10-17:

| Model | 720p USD/s | 1080p USD/s | Audio | 30-episode drama at 720p |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wan 3.0 | $0.100 | $0.200 | Included at no extra cost | $248 |
| Wan 3.0 Prime | $0.140 | $0.280 | Included at no extra cost | $348 |
| Seedance 2.5 | $0.377 | $0.742 | Included at no extra cost | $937 |

Model prices on this page are Atlas Cloud list prices quoted 2026-10-17 with its free /calculate endpoint, as published in our [AI video price index](https://arc.katechon.technology/ai-video-price-index). For reference, MiniMax H3 listed at $0.080/s at 768p and Veo 3.1 at $0.400/s with audio. (Source: Atlas Cloud model catalog and /calculate list prices, https://www.atlascloud.ai/models, checked 2026-10-17)

## What else separates them

ByteDance Seed lists Seedance 2.5 as released July 31, 2026, introduced as "One-take Creation, Flexible Referencing". (Source: ByteDance Seed, home page, https://seed.bytedance.com/en/, checked 2026-10-18)

Alibaba's Wan2.2 models are published with open weights under the Apache-2.0 license; we could not confirm open weights for Wan 3.0. (Source: Wan-Video/Wan2.2 on GitHub, https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2, checked 2026-10-18)

- **Ecosystem.** The Wan family has open-weight earlier versions you can run yourself; Seedance is offered as a hosted model.
- **Resolution step.** Wan 3.0 doubles from $0.100/s to $0.200/s at 1080p; Seedance 2.5 roughly doubles too, to $0.742/s.
- **Tiers.** Wan 3.0 Prime is the premium Wan tier, still well under Seedance 2.5's price.

## What to pick when

- **High volume on a budget:** Wan 3.0 at 720p, or Seedance 2.0 Mini, which rendered most of our series.
- **A few premium shots:** test Seedance 2.5 against Wan 3.0 Prime on the shots you care about; the price gap is large enough that 2.5 must clearly save retakes to pay off.
- **You need to self-host:** the open-weight Wan 2.2 models are the only option of these.

Our first-hand production experience is with Seedance 2.0, Fast and Mini only. We have rendered no project on Wan 3.0 or Seedance 2.5, so this page compares price, licensing and what the publishers state, not output quality.

## Where Katechon Arc fits

Arc's Seedance 2.0 Mini, at 9.4 credits per second at 720p, competes with Wan 3.0 on price for a long series, with references and storyboards handled in the same project.

Arc offers neither Wan 3.0 nor Seedance 2.5, and cannot run self-hosted open-weight models.

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## Sources

- Atlas Cloud model catalog and /calculate list prices: [www.atlascloud.ai/models](https://www.atlascloud.ai/models), checked 2026-10-17
- ByteDance Seed, home page: [seed.bytedance.com/en/](https://seed.bytedance.com/en/), checked 2026-10-18
- Wan-Video/Wan2.2 on GitHub: [github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2](https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2), checked 2026-10-18