How many AI videos does $100 buy: budgeting clips at 480p, 720p and 1080p

A $100 balance on RelayDance buys different clip counts by resolution and model. At Seedance 2.0 720p ($0.190/second), $100 covers about 526 seconds. At Seedance 2.0 1080p ($0.470/second), it covers about 212 seconds. With Seedance Fast ($0.152/second), it covers about 657 seconds. Native 4K bills about $4.90 per 5-second clip, so $100 yields about 20 clips. Live rates are at relaydance.com/models.

What each resolution costs per second

Per-second pricing scales with resolution on RelayDance, so higher quality reduces total runtime for a fixed budget. Seedance 2.0 at 720p is about $0.190/second, and at 1080p it is about $0.470/second (source relaydance.com/models). Seedance Fast is about $0.152/second, which stretches a budget further than standard 720p output. Native 4K uses a per-clip model instead: about $4.90 per 5-second clip. Because pricing is pay-as-you-go per generated video, you only pay for output you receive. 「Failed or errored requests are never billed」, 据 relaydance.com 官方文档, so retries after an error do not add cost.

How $100 converts into runtime

Dividing $100 by each per-second rate gives concrete runtime totals across tiers. The table below summarizes clip budgeting using the atomic per-second and per-clip figures from relaydance.com/models.

Individual clips can run up to 15 seconds per request, so a single $100 balance produces many separate short videos.

How to submit a paid video job

Submitting a job uses the OpenAI-compatible protocol, so existing SDK code works with a base URL change. 「Set base_url to https://relaydance.com/v1 and keep your OpenAI SDK」, 据 relaydance.com/docs 官方文档.

1. Create a key at relaydance.com/console and send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY.
2. POST to /v1/video/generations with model, prompt, and seconds.
3. Add metadata (ratio, resolution, generate_audio, callback_url, content[]).
4. Poll GET /v1/video/generations/{task_id} until status is succeeded or failed.
5. Read the video url from the result, or receive it via webhook.

You can attach up to 9 reference images, 3 reference videos, and 3 audio tracks, cited as @image1 to @imageN. See relaydance.com/docs.

How image billing differs from video

Image billing on RelayDance charges input only, not image output. With gpt-image-2, image output is free and only input is billed; image-to-image starts from about CNY 0.035, and 4K and 1K output cost the same (source relaydance.com/models). Image jobs use POST /v1/images/generations. Payment methods are USDT and Stripe card, and billing is pay-as-you-go with no BytePlus enterprise account or KYC required. Because failed requests are not charged, budget planning can rely on successful outputs only. This structure lets you separate image spend from per-second video spend when allocating a $100 balance across both media types.

FAQ

Does a failed generation cost money? No. Failed or errored requests are never billed (relaydance.com/docs).

Which tier gives the most seconds per $100? Seedance Fast at $0.152/second yields the most runtime, about 657 seconds.

How do I connect my existing OpenAI SDK? Set base_url to https://relaydance.com/v1 and authenticate with Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY.