WaveSpeed AI — Model API, or Finished Video?
WaveSpeedAI is infrastructure: a thousand-plus hosted models behind one API key, billed per generation. If what you need is a finished clip rather than an endpoint, the same class of engines runs here in the browser — free to try, no watermark.
WaveSpeedAI is an independent company. SeedDance is not affiliated with WaveSpeedAI, is not a reseller of its API, and does not run on its infrastructure — this page explains what the platform is and offers finished generation directly.
Finished clips, no API key
The same class of engines you'd reach through an inference API, run as a normal workflow — click any card to view the prompt.
Where a creator workflow beats an endpoint
No integration before the first frame
No API key, no balance to top up, no request schema to read. Open the page, describe the shot, generate — the setup cost of an inference platform is real even when the per-call price is low.
Frontier engines, already chosen
A catalogue of a thousand models is a research project. Here the shortlist is made: Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0 and Veo 3.1 class engines for video, with Wan and the other open-weight families covered where they genuinely win.
Predictable, not metered
First generations are free and you are not watching a balance drain per call. For exploratory work — trying eight versions of a shot before one lands — that changes how freely you experiment.
Clean files with rights attached
MP4 downloads with no watermark and full commercial rights, free tier included. An inference platform hands you a URL and leaves licensing between you and the model owner.
Get a clip without writing code
Pick the engine
Seedance 2.0 for physical realism and camera work, Kling 3.0 for motion and action, Veo 3.1 when you want native audio. No model IDs to look up.
Write the shot, not the config
Subject, action, camera, light: "a surfer paddles out through backlit morning swell, slow tracking shot from the water". Aspect and duration are two dropdowns.
Generate and download
Clean MP4, no watermark, full commercial rights. Iterate on the prompt rather than on the request body.
What is WaveSpeed AI?
WaveSpeedAI (wavespeed.ai) is an AI inference platform, not a video app. It hosts other people's models — the site advertises over a thousand of them across image, video, audio, 3D and text — and serves them through a single API key, with a web playground, a desktop app and a CLI alongside it. The company was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in Singapore. Its pitch is engineering, not creative: sub-second inference latency, no cold starts, and a claim of roughly a million users. Billing is pay-per-use with no subscription — you top up a balance and each generation draws from it, and new accounts get a small amount of free credit to test with.
That makes it a genuinely good product for a specific person: a developer wiring generation into their own app, an agency running batches, anyone who needs Seedance, Kling, Sora, Wan or Seedream reachable from code without signing a contract with each model owner separately. It is the wrong shape for someone who just wants a video. There is no project, no prompt history worth speaking of, no finishing tools, and you are choosing model variants and reading a schema before you get a single frame back.
SeedDance sits at the other end of that trade. Same class of frontier engines — Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1 — but as a finished workflow: pick an engine, write the prompt, get an MP4. First generations are free, downloads carry no watermark, and commercial rights come with them. If you are building a product, use an inference platform; if you are making a video this afternoon, you don't need one.
| Type | AI inference platform · model hosting API |
|---|---|
| Known for | 1,000+ hosted models, sub-second latency |
| Official site | wavespeed.ai |
| Founded | 2025, Singapore |
| Billing | Pay-per-use top-up, no subscription; small free starting credit |
| Here instead | Finished video in the browser, free to try, no watermark |
WaveSpeedAI at a glance
| Version | Released | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| Company founded | 2025 | Inference engine for image and video generation, Singapore |
| Platform expansion | 2025–2026 | 1,000+ hosted models across image, video, audio, 3D and LLM; API, web generator, desktop app and CLI |
WaveSpeedAI competes on latency, breadth of catalogue and price per call; SeedDance competes on being a finished workflow for people who aren't going to write an integration.
WaveSpeed AI vs SeedDance
| WaveSpeedAI | SeedDance | |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | WaveSpeedAI | Independent |
| Strength | 1,000+ hosted models, one API key, sub-second latency, pay-per-use | Frontier engines in a browser workflow, free first generations |
| Open-source | ❌ | ❌ |
| Best for | Developers and teams calling models from their own product | Getting a finished, unwatermarked clip without integration work |
These are not substitutes. WaveSpeedAI is infrastructure you build on; SeedDance is a tool you make videos with. If you're shipping a feature, an inference API is the right answer — and we'd say so.
WaveSpeed AI, answered
Is WaveSpeed AI free?
Not really — it is pay-per-use with no subscription, and new accounts get a small amount of free credit to test with before topping up a balance. Each generation is billed per call at the model's own rate. On SeedDance your first generations are free with no card required.
What is WaveSpeed AI?
WaveSpeedAI is an AI inference platform founded in 2025 and based in Singapore. It hosts over a thousand third-party models across image, video, audio, 3D and text, and serves them through one API key, with a web playground, desktop app and CLI. It is infrastructure rather than a consumer video app.
Is this the official WaveSpeed site?
No — the official site is wavespeed.ai. SeedDance is an independent platform, not a reseller of WaveSpeedAI's API and not running on its infrastructure.
Is SeedDance an inference API too?
No. There is no public API here — SeedDance is a browser workflow that produces finished video. If you need programmatic access, an inference platform like WaveSpeedAI is the correct tool and we'd point you there.
Which one is faster?
For a single API call, a latency-optimised inference platform is hard to beat, and WaveSpeedAI's whole pitch is that number. For getting an actual finished clip, the honest measure includes account setup, model selection and integration — which is where a ready-made workflow wins.
Do downloads have a watermark?
No — videos generated on SeedDance download clean, free or paid.
Can I use the videos commercially?
Yes — full commercial rights to what you generate here. On an inference platform, licensing is generally a matter between you and each individual model's owner, so it's worth reading the terms of whichever model you call.
Does WaveSpeed host Seedance and Kling?
Its model catalogue includes Seedance, Kling, Sora, Wan and Seedream families among others — that breadth is the point of the platform. Note the name overlap is coincidental: Seedance is ByteDance's video model, SeedDance is this independent site.