Seedance 2.0, OpenAI Sora, and Runway Gen-4 represent the first generation of production-ready AI video APIs. Seedance offers the fastest generation times (30-90s for 1080p/5s) and lowest costs ($0.30-0.50 per 10s clip), with OpenAI-compatible architecture. Sora provides the best character/face quality and enterprise governance
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