Sora 2 vs Veo 3.1 vs Kling 3.0 vs Seedance (2026)

The four big AI video generation APIs compared on access, price per second and developer experience.

Bottom line: Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 lead on raw quality but gate API access behind subscriptions or enterprise programs and charge top dollar. Kling 3.0 is solid mid-market. ByteDance's Seedance line is the developer-friendly outlier: clean API, per-second billing starting around $0.13/second, and native audio on the 2.5 generation.

Access & pricing at a glance

ModelAPI accessIndicative priceAudioDev notes
Sora 2 (OpenAI)Tiered — consumer app + limited APISubscription-led ($20+/mo tiers) + per-second APIYesCapacity-constrained; strong physics
Veo 3.1 (Google)Vertex AI / Gemini APIPremium per-secondYesBest prompt adherence in class
Kling 3.0Kuaishou API + aggregators~$0.45–0.70 per clip (public reports)PartialStrong motion, China-based console
Seedance 2.0 / 2.5 (ByteDance)Open API + NovAI gatewayfrom $0.131/s (720p fast)Yes (2.5)Per-second billing, fast turnaround

Sora/Veo/Kling numbers change frequently — check each vendor's pricing page. Seedance numbers below are our live billing rates.

Seedance price sheet (NovAI, verified)

Model480p /s720p /s1080p /s4K /s
doubao-seedance-2.0-fast$0.054$0.131$0.264$0.802
doubao-seedance-2.0$0.067$0.163$0.329$1.00
doubao-seedance-2.5$0.14$0.32

A 5-second 720p clip on Seedance 2.0-fast costs about $0.65 — typically 3–10x cheaper than equivalent Sora/Veo/Kling renders, which is why volume producers are consolidating on it.

Calling Seedance from one key

curl https://aiapi-pro.com/v1/video/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_NOVAI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"doubao-seedance-2.0-fast",
       "prompt":"Aerial drone shot of a coastal city at sunset",
       "resolution":"720p","duration":5}'

Same key works for LLMs and image models — no extra vendor account, payable by card / PayPal / USDT.

Which one should you integrate?

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