Seedance 2.0 Mini
Seedance 2.0 Mini Image To Video is available in the Business API catalog.
bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video
Capabilities
Best for
- •Cinematic text-to-video shots
- •Short social and ad clips
- •Consistent multi-shot sequences
- •Look-dev and style exploration
Not for
- •Frame-exact rotoscoping
- •Feature-length renders
- •Pixel-perfect compositing
- •Precise on-screen text
Authentication
api key header
The Pika API uses API keys to authenticate requests. Send your key in the X-API-Key header. Your API key is a secret. Don't expose it in browsers or other client-side code. Instead, call the API from your server. The signed-in playground uses a portal session and never sends your API key.
header
X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY
Endpoint
asynchronous · poll for the result
POSThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-videogenerate endpoint
GEThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}poll until completed
GEThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/contentthe output URL, for clients that only kept the id
DELETEhttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}erase the stored media and prompt
Reference Uploads
media inputs
Media inputs accept any public URL. To use a local file, POST its content_type and size_bytes to /v1/media/uploads, PUT the file to the returned upload_url, then pass the url.
upload
# 1. Request a presigned upload URL. Send the file's content# type and its exact size in bytes.curl -X POST https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/uploads \-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \-H "Content-Type: application/json" \-d '{"content_type": "image/png", "size_bytes": 12345}'# The response returns two URLs:# upload_url: a temporary URL to upload the file to. Expires in 5 minutes.# url: the permanent Pika URL. Pass it to the model as the input.# {# "upload_url": "https://upload.r2.pika.art/...?X-Amz-Signature=...",# "url": "https://cdn.pika.art/v2/media/uploads/org_abc/9f8e7d.png"# }# 2. Upload the file to upload_url, then pass url to the model.curl -X PUT "<upload_url>" \-H "Content-Type: image/png" \--data-binary @input.png
Generate
POST /v1/media/bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video
Request
curl -X POST https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video \-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \-H "Content-Type: application/json" \-d '{"prompt": "Static high-angle camera looking straight down on the dark green basketball court. The lone East Asian player stands in frame, steadily dribbling the disco ball basketball in place with a consistent, rhythmic bounce — no walking, no shooting, no approaching the hoop, just a repeating dribble cycle. The disco ball is a mirrored sphere covered in small square mirror facets. While the ball is in the air between bounces, it looks like a plain mirrored disco ball with soft ambient reflections only — no bright flashes, no light bursts. Every single time the ball strikes the court surface, at that exact moment of impact, a bright burst of small refracted light flecks and colorful sparkle spots flashes outward across the green court around the point of contact, then fades away completely within a split second as the ball bounces back up. This same light-burst-on-impact effect repeats identically and consistently on every single bounce, with no bursts occurring at any other time. Camera remains locked in the fixed overhead position throughout — no pans, no cuts, no zoom. Natural outdoor lighting, hard directional shadow beneath the player, realistic physics, ambient court sounds (rhythmic dribble bounce, faint sneaker shuffle).","duration": 8,"ratio": "4:3","generate_audio": true,"watermark": false,"image_url": "https://cdn.pika.art/v2/files/agent/34f0ba0a-deea-4629-b73c-10042bbf274f/3e7a8eb0c617a2f6bd09ae675cae934ee5555d2618af45f487d7f10ec7751bed","resolution": "720p"}'
Response
{"id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status": "queued"}
Request body
promptstringrequired
Text prompt describing the video to generate.durationenumrequired
Video length in seconds (4-15), or 'auto' to let the model choose.ratioenum
Output aspect ratio.generate_audiobooleandefault: true
Whether to generate audio for the video.watermarkbooleandefault: false
Whether to add a watermark to the output video.bitrate_modeenum
Output encode bitrate. 'high' produces a larger, higher-bitrate file; defaults to 'standard'.image_urlstringrequired
URL of the starting-frame image to animate.end_image_urlstring
Optional URL of the image to use as the last frame.resolutionenum
Output resolution (480p/720p for Mini).Accepted values
- ratio
- bitrate_mode
- resolution
Input modes
Image urlimage_url
Use a public URL directly, or POST { content_type, size_bytes } to /v1/media/uploads, PUT the image to the returned upload_url with the returned headers, then pass the url.
End image urlend_image_url
Use a public URL directly, or POST { content_type, size_bytes } to /v1/media/uploads, PUT the image to the returned upload_url with the returned headers, then pass the url.
Returns
Returns a job object with status , not the final output. Store the id from the response and poll the job until it completes.
Poll status
GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}
Request
curl https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id} \-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
Response
{"id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status": "running"}
Poll the job by id until it reaches a terminal state: completed or failed. A completed job carries its download URL in output, and GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content returns that same URL as { "url" } for clients that only kept the id.
DELETE /v1/media/jobs/{request_id} erases the stored media for a job, and the request captured at submit (the prompt and parameters). The job then reports deleted_at and no output, and the content endpoint answers 410.
The job object
idstring
Unique identifier for the job.statusenum
The status of the job.One of:object
The generation output. Present once the job completes.errorstring
If the job failed, the reason for the failure.deleted_atnumber
When you deleted the job's stored media, in epoch seconds. Null until then, and output is null once it is set.usageobject
Units the provider reported for the job, such as video_output_tokens or image_output_tokens. Present once the job is terminal, carries only the units the job reports, and is null when nothing was reported.object
What the job charged. Present once the job is terminal; null on the submit response and on webhooks.Errors
shared across calls
Errors use conventional HTTP status codes with a JSON body of the shape {"message": "..."}. Validation failures return 422 with a message naming the offending field. Submit rejections after the job row exists (balance, rate limit) return the failed job envelope — branch on error.code.
| Status | When | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 401 Unauthorized | The API key is missing or invalid. | {"message":"Invalid API key"} |
| 403 Forbidden | An inactive key is rejected with a {"message"} body. A submit that the org balance or postpaid cycle limit cannot cover is rejected after the job row exists and returns the failed job envelope. GET /billing/balance separates the two: a 200 means the key is active, so the rejection was the balance or the cycle limit. | {"id":"media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status":"failed","error":{"code":"insufficient_balance","message":"Insufficient org balance"}} |
| 404 Not Found | No job with that id exists in your org, or the media path names an unknown vendor/model/function. | {"message":"media job not found"} |
| 409 Conflict | The result was requested before the job completed, or an Idempotency-Key header was reused with a different body. | {"message":"media job is not ready"} |
| 422 Unprocessable Entity | The request body failed validation: an invalid enum value, a missing required field, a wrong type, or malformed JSON. The JSON message names the offending field. A schema-valid parameter combination that cannot be priced instead fails after job creation and returns the failed job envelope with error code invalid_input. | {"message":"duration: Input should be less than or equal to 15"} |
| 429 Too Many Requests | Org limit reached: requests per minute or day, or concurrent jobs. Returned as the failed job envelope; check the Retry-After header and retry with a fresh Idempotency-Key. | {"id":"media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status":"failed","error":{"code":"rate_limited","message":"rate limit exceeded: rpm"}} |
| 503 Service Unavailable | The model rail or a backend dependency is temporarily unavailable. Returned as the failed job envelope; retry with backoff and a fresh Idempotency-Key. | {"id":"media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0","status":"failed","error":{"code":"provider_unavailable","message":"media dispatch unavailable"}} |