Leiphone Tests Seedance 2.5 and Kling VIDEO 3.0 as Short-Video Directors

Chinese outlet Leiphone ran a side-by-side test of ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and Kuaishou's Kling VIDEO 3.0 on two 15-second directing tasks. It concluded the gap is now about workflow rather than image quality, with Kling better for quick drafts and Seedance for polished brand films with safer guardrails.

• Seedance 2.5 supports up to 30-second generation, 30 reference images and timestamp-level editing
• Kling VIDEO 3.0 targets 3-15 second clips with native audio and multi-character dialogue
• Seedance refused a reference image over possible resemblance to a public figure
• Kling followed the storyboard more closely but produced garbled on-screen text