Do Seedance 2.5 Free Credits Expire?
Yes — but not on a timer. Daily free credits are a refill, not a balance. On the observed channel, credits arrive as a batch once a day and what you do not spend is gone by tomorrow. There is no carrying over, and no saving up three days of allowance for one large job.
What the observation actually says
| Behaviour | Detail | Channel / date |
|---|---|---|
| Grant pattern | A batch of credits once a day | Jimeng |
| Expiry | Unused credits do not carry over | Jimeng, 11 Aug 2026 |
| Separate ceiling | 5 generations per account per day | Doubao, 11 Aug 2026 |
The cap usually binds before the credits do
This is the part that surprises people. On the observed channel the daily credit grant was 60–100 credits, but the generation cap was 5 per account per day. In practice the cap runs out first — so most people never reach the point where unused credits are the thing that expires.
If you are planning work, plan against the cap, not the credit number.
What this means for how you work
- Do treat each day as a fixed allowance of attempts. Batch your retries into the same day only if the cap allows it.
- Do not assume you can bank credits for a bigger job later.
- Do not treat the credit figure as the binding limit — on the observed channels it was not.
Limits of this answer
These figures are point-in-time observations with the date they were seen, not vendor guarantees. Free-tier terms move without announcement. Where two observations disagree, both are published rather than averaged into a number nobody stated.
The full dated dataset is published as CSV, JSON and Markdown at [the data page](/data/).