How Much Seedance 2.5 Do You Actually Get for Free
Short answer: there is no single "free tier." What exists is four separate allowances that stack — a daily credit grant of 60–100 credits, a daily generation cap of 5 per account, a one-off 20-credit sign-up bonus, and occasional promotions such as a 30-day membership giveaway. Each comes from a different channel, each has its own ceiling, and each was observed on a specific date.
Below is every figure, with the channel and the date it was seen.
The four allowances, side by side
| What you get | How much | Where it was seen | Date observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily free credits | 60–100 per day | Jimeng | early July 2026 |
| Daily free credits | 88 per day | Jimeng | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Daily generation cap | 5 per account per day | Doubao | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Sign-up bonus | 20 credits | Mina Labs | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Annual-plan bonus | up to 20 generations | Lovart | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Membership giveaway | 30 days Standard, list price ¥68 | Doubao Work, launch | 25 Aug 2026 |
The daily figure does not agree across dates — 60–100 in early July, 88 in August. Both rows are kept. Neither was averaged into a number nobody published.
Why the daily grant is not a balance
The daily credits are a refill, not a stockpile. What you do not spend is gone by tomorrow. This is the single most common misunderstanding, and it changes how you should plan work: you cannot save up three days of allowance for one large job.
Separately, the 5-per-account daily cap is a hard ceiling that is easy to hit before the credits run out. On the observed channel, the cap binds first.
How far the free allowance actually goes
A finished clip is rarely one attempt. If a generation does not come back usable, a re-roll costs a full second attempt — so the real cost of one finished clip is higher than one generation.
- Formula:
attempts = ceil(clips ÷ usable rate) - There is no price-per-generation figure here. Prices change, and the credit-to-generation conversion is not documented by any vendor.
What is deliberately not in this number
- No resolution guarantee. The vendor's own blog does not state a resolution at all. Hosts fill the gap with 1080p, and one host advertises up to 4K.
- No API assumption. The vendor blog says access is coming soon. A developer report says it opened earlier. Both are recorded; neither is presented as settled.
Source and limits
Every figure above comes from a dated observation with the channel it was seen on. Free-tier terms move without announcement — check the date before quoting any number as current.
The complete dataset is published as CSV, JSON and Markdown at [the data page](/data/).