Seedance 2.5 vs MiniMax H3: price, length and limits

What the two have in common

You write the same thing for both. The storyboard shots — marker and seconds, framing and camera, who is in the picture, one thing that happens, the line, the ambience — are the input, and dialogue and ambient sound come out with every render on both families. Nothing in a shot list has to be rewritten to move between them; the setting that decides is the tier button in the editor’s top bar, and it applies to what you render next. Segments already made keep their tier, and each version records it, so a project can use both without losing track.

Side by side

The numbers on the site today, from the same table the pricing page prints:

Read the table as limits, not as quality. The families draw the picture differently and the tier pages describe what each is for; what the table settles is how long a take can run, how many references a segment can carry, and what a second costs at the resolution you pick.

Where each one fits

The still above is from Rust City Knockout, an episode this site took from script to composite on Wan 3.0 · 720P. The same storyboard would render on either family here; what would change is the take length and the references available to each segment.

When the take decides. A beat that must run in one unbroken shot for longer than 15 seconds has only one home of the two: Seedance 2.5 Pro, Seedance 2.5 Lite and Seedance 2.5 · 480P go up to 30. A beat that fits comfortably inside 15 — an exchange and its reaction, a reveal — fits either, and MiniMax H3 is where the cuts inside a generation are the point.

When the cast decides. A segment with several speakers wants its voices attached, and the two families cap them differently: five clips on Seedance 2.5 Pro against three on MiniMax H3, with an image needed alongside on the latter. A scene with a crowd of named faces is easier to carry with the larger budget.

When the picture decides. MiniMax H3 renders at 2K and MiniMax H3 Fast at 768P; the Seedance 2.5 tiers render at 1080P, 720P and 480P. If the largest picture is what the finish needs, compare the price per second at the resolution you want in the table, not the names.

Drafting across the two

Nothing stops a project from drafting on one family and finishing on the other. Render the storyboard on the entry tier of either, read the pacing, then re-render only the keepers on the tier the viewers will see; both versions stay listed on the segment and the composite uses the active one. The only thing to check first is the cast: if a segment relies on more than three voices or more than nine images, it has to be trimmed before it moves to MiniMax H3. The draft-then-finish pattern works through the mechanics, and each family has its own page: Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3.

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Updated October 14, 2026