Seaweed.video, also referred to as “Seed Video” by ByteDance, is a napkin sketch to cinematic quality AI video maker. It takes your text, pictures or sometimes even videos, or audio of some source and generates polished, shareable video clips without requiring you to edit.
Think, 720p quality, fast-motion b roll clips, lens moves, captions style, and smooth transitions, without requiring me to edit a single video clip.
What It Does?
You type in your idea or you drop a picture in. Seaweed takes care of the rest, including picking the visuals, transitions, and sound, and if there is any audio, lip synching.
You end up with multi shot video clips that feel dynamic and polished. They are cute social reels, short promos, or creative ideas.
How It Works, Simply
What makes Seaweed so sophisticated is a diffusion-transformer AI with around 7 billion parameters.
It was trained on thousands of hours of GPUs (probably paid for by ByteDance) and learned how to take its training data and prompts to synthesize short cinematic clips that contain controlled camera moves and realistic objects or scenes.
It can take text to video, image to video, and even some guided audio into video.
Why It Feels Coherent?
Everything felt consistent even when the camera angle or entire scenes change during the video.
While producing the videos, Seaweed nailed the human expressions and overall motions, and transitions between cohesive scenes (ex: start to finish story telling).
Pricing Chat
Using Seaweed.video is not expensive. Typically, there is a free tier that you can use for a trial of the service, but then the price and plans are very reasonable.
Some people say it comes to about $0.002 per token in paid plans, so it does not take much to be valuable for anyone working on a creative project.
Pros and Cons, Real Talk
It has good pros and cons. The pros are fast rendering time, good visuals, multi aspect ratio (9:16, 1:1, 16:9), easy for new creators to pick up, and affordable.
The cons are the output quality might be limited to 720p or 1080p resolution, and the normally limited export options that come with the free version of the tool.
Pricing Compared in Paragraph
So, if you use the pro option, your price goes up. But it should still be much lower than anything professional. The free version will help you get your feet wet.
The paid plans will allow you to be cheap notationally like a few cents for each creation if you can think in tokens. The price structure for the service keeps it accessible for individual creators and small teams.
Traffic and Reach Snapshot
It appears that Seaweed.video is a niche service but should be growing.
My best guess would be a ballpark of 100,000 monthly visitors might include those curious creators and professionals.
Social Media Presence
Its socials are not huge but added up across X, LinkedIn, threads, etc, let’s say about 50,000 followers in total. Just a cool community following the growth of an AI tool.
Overall Feel
Seaweed.video is your AI tool for video. No bologna video editing, no learning curve. You get crafty, make ideas into videos, and have fun doing it. It’s simple, stylish, and weirdly addictive once you see how it works.
