Seedance 2.0 vs DeepSeek V3.2: Benchmarks, Pricing & Capabilities Compared
TL;DR — Seedance 2.0 wins for general use · DeepSeek V3.2 wins for general use.
Seedance 2.0 ByteDance
- Released
- 2026-02-10
Key features
- Synchronized audio + video generation in one pass
- Lip-sync in 8+ languages
- 10-30x cheaper than Sora 2
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek
- Released
- 2026-02-12
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Input price
- $0.27 / Mtok
- Output price
- $1.10 / Mtok
Key features
- 1M+ token context window (10x expansion)
- Improved reasoning capabilities
- Open source release
Benchmark comparison
No benchmarks reported on both models.
Pricing comparison
| Metric | Seedance 2.0 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Input ($/Mtok) | — | $0.27 |
| Output ($/Mtok) | — | $1.10 |
| Cached input ($/Mtok) | — | $0.07 |
| Cost per 1M-token roundtrip (1M in + 1M out) | — | $1.37 |
Context window & modalities
| Attribute | Seedance 2.0 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | — | 1M tokens |
| Input modalities | text, image | text |
| Output modalities | video | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-12 | 2025-09 |
Verdict by use case
Coding
Insufficient data
Basis: SWE-bench
No shared coding benchmark.
Reasoning
Insufficient data
Basis: GPQA / MMLU
No shared reasoning benchmark.
Math
Insufficient data
Basis: MATH / AIME
No shared math benchmark.
Long context
Insufficient data
Basis: Context window
Context window not reported.
Cost
Insufficient data
Basis: Input $/Mtok
Input pricing not reported on both.
Changelog & releases
Seedance 2.0
Released 2026-02-10
DeepSeek V3.2
Released 2026-02-12
Predecessor: deepseek-deepseek-v3
- 10x context window expansion (128K → 1M+ tokens)
- Sliding-window attention for long-context throughput
- Improved chain-of-thought reasoning
- Native FP8 inference support