Lumaai cuts Seedance video pricing up to 73% after a summer of nonstop repricing
By Rob Litterst, Co-founder, PricingSaaS
Published
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What changed
Per-second credit costs for the Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5, and Seedance 2.0 Mini video models dropped roughly 40-73% across the 480p/720p/1080p/4K resolution tiers on Luma's API/model cost table. No plan-level subscription price changed — this is a cut to Luma's per-model usage rates.
Why it matters
Falling per-second Seedance costs are a leading indicator on underlying AI video-generation compute costs, and worth tracking as a bellwether for whether other video-model resellers follow with cuts of their own. Watch whether Lumaai's next move, on its roughly 11-day cadence, extends the cut to the newer 4K/8K tiers or reverses course as usage climbs.
In context
Lumaai's pricing page has barely settled since Pulse Index started tracking it on Jul 20, 2026: six real changes in six events, roughly one every 11 days. Most of that churn has been additive rather than cost-cutting — unlocking 8K upscaling in SeedVR2 on Sep 5, swapping Nano Banana for Seedream 5.0 Pro and dropping Kling 2.6 on Sep 4, and adding the Seedance 2.5 model in August. This is the first outright price cut in that run, taking per-second Seedance rates down as much as 73%. It looks smaller against the broader index, where 606 changes across 336 companies — mostly non-video SaaS like HubSpot and Datadog — touched credit or usage-based billing in the last 180 days; Lumaai's distinguishing trait isn't the cut itself but the pace at which it keeps recalculating its model cost table.