Compare $ / Video, Text to Video, Image to Video, license, and release date. Search any video generation model with the pickers below.
Happy Horse 1.0
Alibaba
$0.42
Seedance 2.5
ByteDance
$0.51
Happy Horse 1.0 currently shows the lower $ / Video: $0.42 vs $0.51 for Seedance 2.5. That is the public Alibaba video API pricing versus ByteDance video API pricing. Duration, resolution, and voice settings can still flip the invoice.
Happy Horse 1.0 currently leads on Text to Video: 1.1K for Happy Horse 1.0 vs N/A for Seedance 2.5. Rank and price move independently, so the cheaper video generation model is not automatically the weaker one.
Yes. Happy Horse 1.0 scores 2.5K and Seedance 2.5 scores N/A on Image to Video. If one side is N/A, that mode is missing from the public feed, not priced at zero.
Happy Horse 1.0 is open source (Apache 2.0). Seedance 2.5 is proprietary (Proprietary). Open-weight models can be self-hosted; proprietary ones are billed only through the provider API on this page.
Use the model pickers at the top of this page. Search any video generation model in the index and the URL updates to a new comparison, the same way LLM comparison pages work. Open either model from the sidebar for the single-model $ / Video page.
This comparison uses public llm-stats and ZeroEval arena data for video generation models, then normalizes $ / Video, Text to Video, Image to Video, license, and release date inside AnotherWrapper. Treat the numbers as comparable public list rates, not a quote from either vendor.
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