Hailuo AI vs Elyumfor Seedance 2.0
Hailuo AI runs Seedance 2.0 from a monthly credit pool with no published refund on a bad take; Elyum shows a free preview and bills only a keep.
Nine stills and three reference clips. Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's video model for grounded, camera-like motion, and on Elyum that stack is how you lock a face, a product, and a beat before you generate. Faces, products, and rooms hold together across the shot instead of sliding into stylized mush. It also edits clips (restyle, extend, rewrite the action) and renders native sound and dialogue in the same take. The Seedance 2.0 page lists text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video, and video editing. The weights are the same vendor model on both platforms. Price, limits, and bad-take policy are not.
Hailuo AI is MiniMax's consumer video and image app. Its own blog lists Seedance 2.0 in the creative workspace next to MiniMax H3 and Nano Banana 2. You buy a monthly credit pool (Standard is $9.99 for 1,000 credits). Credits reset and do not roll over, per third-party writeups. A Seedance 2.0 render on Elyum comes back as a free preview. Keep it and credits move. Kill it and the hold is refunded in full. Failed generations are never charged. Elyum pricing lists Free (up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them), no card), Plus $9/mo, Pro $29/mo, Ultra $69/mo. Hailuo AI does not publish a Seedance 2.0 per-take rate.
Treat Hailuo AI's listed Seedance 2.0 access as real enough to compare, and still incomplete. Research dated 2026-09-07 could not confirm which Hailuo AI plan unlocks it, what resolution or clip length Seedance 2.0 gets there, or a credit price. Official Hailuo AI pricing tables also failed to load in that pass, so dollar figures here are triangulated from third-party writeups and can drift. If you need first-party MiniMax H3 the moment it ships, Hailuo AI is the shorter path. If you need a posted keep price and a kill that refunds, use Elyum. The same model is also compared on Higgsfield vs Elyum and OpenArt vs Elyum.
Seedance 2.0 on Hailuo AI
Which Hailuo AI plan unlocks Seedance 2.0 is not published. The Hailuo AI consumer app lists it as a creative-workspace tool beside MiniMax H3 and Nano Banana 2. Hailuo AI also does not publish a Seedance 2.0 credit price. Credit pools, from third-party writeups that mostly agree, are Standard $9.99/mo (1,000 credits), Pro $34.99/mo (4,500), Master $79.99/mo (10,000), Ultra $124.99/mo (12,000), and Max $199.99/mo (20,000). A native Hailuo 6s 1080p clip is reported at 80 credits (about $0.80 on Standard). That figure is not a Seedance 2.0 price.
No official refund guarantee was found. Third-party reviews report that failed or moderation-rejected generations still consume credits. AI Video Bootcamp's 2026 Hailuo AI guide repeats that and flags aggressive moderation plus a roughly 3x jump in 1080p credit cost. Free-tier output is watermarked with no commercial rights; paid Standard and above remove the watermark and grant commercial use, per those writeups. Credits reset each month and do not roll over. A Cybernews review reports queues from under a minute to 15-30 minutes on the free tier at peak. See the Hailuo AI alternative.
Seedance 2.0 on Elyum
4 to 15 seconds, at 480p, 720p, or 1080p, with native audio. That is the Seedance 2.0 envelope on Elyum. Rates are 6 credits per second at 480p, 16 at 720p, and 24 at 1080p. A kept 5s take is 30 credits ($0.30), 80 credits ($0.80), or 120 credits ($1.20). A kept 15s take is 90 credits ($0.90), 240 credits ($2.40), or 360 credits ($3.60). Modes are text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video, and video editing.
Every render returns as a free preview. Credits charge only when you keep a take. Kill the rest and the hold is refunded in full. A failed generation is never charged. Free-plan kills are metered at one kill a month; Plus ($9/mo), Pro ($29/mo), and Ultra ($69/mo) kill freely. Kept files download without a watermark and include commercial use. Elyum has no timeline editor, no stock footage, and no mobile app. You can run the studio on the web, or from Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor through the MCP docs and the REST API docs.
What a Seedance 2.0 take costs
| Scenario | Hailuo AI | Elyum |
|---|---|---|
| One 5s take you keep | Not published for Seedance 2.0 | 30 credits ($0.30) at 480p; 80 credits ($0.80) at 720p |
| Ten takes, keep two | Not published; billed per generation, not per keep | 2 × 30 credits = 60 credits ($0.60) |
| A failed generation | Credits consumed, per third-party reviews; no official refund | Never charged |
| Monthly plan to access the model | Unlocking plan not published; Standard starts at $9.99/mo | Free plan, up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them), no card |
| Watermark on a paid-tier file | Removed on Standard and above, per third-party writeups | None on kept takes |
| Commercial rights on output | Free: no. Paid Standard+: yes, per third-party writeups | Included on kept takes |
Elyum: 1 credit = $0.01, charged only when you keep a take. Hailuo AI figures from its own pricing pages and independent reviews, verified 2026-09-07; sources at the end. Full rate card on the Seedance 2.0 page.
Where the two differ
Hailuo AI sells monthly credit pools that reset and do not roll over, per third-party writeups. 1,000 credits on Standard is $9.99. Elyum uses one credit balance (1 credit = $0.01) and charges Seedance 2.0 only when you keep a preview. Hailuo AI does not publish a Seedance 2.0 rate.
No official Hailuo AI refund guarantee was found. Reviews report failed and moderation-rejected jobs still consume credits. On Elyum, a failed Seedance 2.0 generation is never charged, and a kill refunds the hold in full (one free-plan kill per month; paid plans unlimited kills).
Elyum posts Seedance 2.0 at 480p, 720p, and 1080p for 4 to 15 seconds. Hailuo AI does not publish Seedance 2.0 resolution or duration. Do not assume Hailuo 2.3's 6s/1080p cap or MiniMax H3's 15s/2K apply to Seedance 2.0 there.
MiniMax sells a separate developer API on platform.minimax.io. Those tokens are not Hailuo AI consumer credits. Elyum Seedance 2.0 can be driven from the web studio or from Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via MCP and a REST API.
Hailuo AI is built around MiniMax's own Hailuo 2.3 and H3 line, with Seedance 2.0 listed alongside. Elyum is a multi-model studio (Seedance, Wan, Kling, Veo, and others) with no timeline editor, stock footage, avatars, team seats, or community feed.
Hailuo AI free output is watermarked and cannot be used commercially. Paid Standard and above remove the watermark and grant commercial rights, per third-party pricing pages. Elyum kept takes have no watermark and include commercial use on every plan.
Pick Hailuo AI when
- You want MiniMax H3 and Hailuo 2.3 first-party in the same consumer app, with Seedance 2.0 listed next to them.
- The free trial needs no payment method. Output is watermarked, with no commercial rights, and native Hailuo free-tier clips are capped at 768p and about 6s.
- You already buy Hailuo AI credits by the month and would rather not open a second studio for one ByteDance model.
- You are comfortable with credit-subscription billing and do not need a published Seedance 2.0 keep price or a kill refund.
Pick Elyum when
- Posted keep prices: a 5s 480p Seedance 2.0 take is 30 credits ($0.30). Hailuo AI does not publish that rate.
- Previews are free. You pay only on keep. A kill refunds in full. Failed generations are never charged.
- Clips run 4 to 15 seconds at 480p, 720p, or 1080p, with reference-to-video up to nine stills and three clips.
- One credit balance across 50+ models, and you can drive Seedance 2.0 from Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor.
Seedance 2.0 in three styles, rendered on Elyum
Getting the most out of Seedance 2.0
- Split camera and subject. Write the lens and move first (35mm, locked off, slow dolly in), then the action (she turns, steam rises). Seedance 2.0 holds lighting and rooms when those two streams do not fight.
- Give one primary action per short clip. A 5s take that asks for a walk, a sit, and a cutaway will smear. Save the second beat for a new take or a clip edit.
- For reference-to-video, lock identity with stills before you add motion clips. On Elyum you can send up to nine stills and three clips. Mismatched wardrobe or lighting across refs is a common cause of identity drift.
- Write spoken lines in quotation marks and name the room tone (HVAC, street wash, quiet interior). Seedance 2.0 renders sound with the picture. If you want silence, say silence.
- On image-to-video and clip edits, describe how existing pixels move. Do not invent props that are not in the frame. For edits, say restyle, extend, or rewrite the action in one clause.
- Avoid stacked style adjectives, on-screen text, and two camera directions in one sentence (handheld plus steadicam). Prefer 16:9 for rooms and products, 9:16 for a single face walking toward camera.
Frequently asked questions
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- Hailuo AI: Free vs Paid AI Video Generators (official blog) (accessed 2026-09-07)
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- MiniMax Hailuo 2.3: A New Level of Complex Video Performance - MiniMax News (accessed 2026-09-07)
- Hailuo AI: Pricing, Prompts and Honest Review (2026) - AI Video Bootcamp (accessed 2026-09-07)
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- Hailuo AI Video Review 2026: My Experience After Testing It - Cybernews (accessed 2026-09-07)
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Seedance 2.0 is a AI video generator you can preview free on Elyum. Keep the takes you love, kill the rest for a full refund.