A cheaper Replicate alternative for Seedance, Veo and Nano Banana

The short answer

• Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2: $0.04 and $0.03 an image at 2K on Revana, against Replicate's $0.15 and $0.101.
• Seedance 2.0 and 2.0 Mini: Revana is 17% below Replicate on Seedance 2.0 at 720p and 44% below it on Mini at 720p; level at Seedance 2.0 480p.
• Veo 3.1 Fast and Lite: lower or level at every setting, 27% below Replicate for Fast at 1080p with sound. Veo 3.1 itself costs the same on both.
• Seedance 2.0 Fast, Wan 2.6, Grok Imagine and Seedream 5.0 Pro: Revana is 27% below Replicate on Seedance 2.0 Fast at 720p, 27% below on Wan 2.6 at 1080p, 12% below on Grok Imagine Video 1.5 at 720p and 56% below on Seedream 5.0 Pro at 2K.
• Seedance 2.5: Replicate charges about ByteDance's own token price, $0.2312 a second at 720p against Revana's $0.25, so Replicate is lower at 480p and 720p. Replicate does not list 1080p; Revana does, at $0.55 a second.

Video models: Revana and Replicate per second

Prices per second of output, from each model's page on Replicate and Revana's pricing page, checked on 26 October 2026. Replicate's Seedance tiers with a video input bill differently and are left out.

Image models: Revana and Replicate per image

Per output image:

What a batch costs

The same batches priced on each:

When Replicate is still the better pick

Replicate hosts thousands of models, lets you push your own with Cog, and runs fine-tunes and open-weight models on its own GPUs, billed by the second of hardware time. If you need one of those, or Seedance 2.5 at 480p or 720p at ByteDance's exact token price, Replicate is a good fit. Revana covers the main closed video and image models (the model catalogue lists them) and is built to be the cheapest place to call them: each job goes to the lowest-cost route for that model and setting, moves to another route if that one fails, and is charged only when it succeeds.

For the same comparison against other sellers, see the fal.ai alternative post, the Seedance 2.0 price comparison and the cheapest AI video API roundup.

Switching from Replicate

Create a key on the sign-up page, add credit, and send the job to Revana instead: one JSON request with the model name and its input, then a job id to poll or a webhook. The docs list each model's fields. For Nano Banana Pro:

curl https://api.revana.si/v1/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REVANA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "nano-banana-pro",
    "input": {
      "prompt": "A product photo of a glass perfume bottle on wet black stone, soft rim light.",
      "resolution": "2K",
      "aspect_ratio": "1:1"
    },
    "max_cost_usd": 1
  }'

The finished job carries the image link and cost_usd, the exact amount charged.

How we compared

Replicate's figures are the prices shown on its model pages on 26 October 2026, for example Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana Pro and Veo 3.1 Fast. Card fees and volume discounts are left out on both sides. The raw numbers, each with the date it was checked, are in market-prices.json.