kinoAPI
A thought becomes a frame. A frame becomes a world.
Video, images and your infinite canvas — together.
Original worlds. Impossible moments. A few places your next idea could take you.
Explore all work ↗Images: original OpenAI-generated campaign artwork, not Seedance benchmarks. Seedance 2.5 films are in preparation. No customer content.
Put a thought beside an image. Connect it to a model. Build a scene, a sequence, a whole world — then pick up where you left off.
What if the ocean
could dream?
02 · Build the world
03 · Set it in motion
Original campaign image · OpenAILonger stories. More precise references. A new generation of video creation, connected to your own workflow.
KinoAPI exposes the parameters documented here. Provider capabilities may be broader. Availability depends on your key and the upstream service.
Meet the models ↗Create, poll, download. Plain HTTPS and JSON, with the same models and balance you use in the studio.
Seedance 2.5 · no video input
Actual token billing. Failed tasks refunded.
{
"model": "seedance-2.5",
"prompt": "An ocean dreaming in amber light",
"duration": 4,
"metadata": {
"resolution": "720p",
"ratio": "16:9"
}
}KinoAPI is an independent relay for video and image generation, with a private cloud canvas. Use Seedance through an asynchronous video API and Seedream through a synchronous image API, with one KinoAPI account and balance. It is not affiliated with ByteDance or Volcano Engine.
Seedance 2.5 is billed by actual reported tokens: $15.61875 per million tokens without video input, or $9.345 per million tokens with video input. Video-input usage can include the reference. These are not per-second prices. See the pricing page and your final task record.
Use seedance-2.5 for text or image input. Use seedance-2.5-video when metadata.content contains a video reference; this mode currently requires adaptive ratio and Auto duration (-1). Both route to Seedance 2.5. Check GET /v1/models for availability on your key.
Yes. Saved projects, prompts, connections, references and available generated copies belong to your account. The initial media allowance is 512 MB per account, with references limited to 30 MB. Keep important exports: project revisions are not an independent off-site backup.
Saved canvas edits remain in your account. A submitted video continues at the provider, but this initial release resumes status checks and result caching when the workspace is open or refreshed. Download important results before provider links expire.
When a generation is reported as failed by the upstream, the charge is automatically refunded. An unknown or still-running task is not yet a confirmed failure; check its status before submitting again. Balance does not expire.
EVERY WORLD STARTS WITH AN IDEA