# Seedance 2.5 US R2V

api.venice.ai deprecated the model Seedance 2.5 US R2V without giving a shutdown date yet.

The model Seedance 2.5 US R2V has been deprecated without an announced shutdown date. Requests targeting model Seedance 2.5 US R2V will fail once retirement takes effect. Check your implementations to confirm whether this retirement impacts your workload.

## What to use instead

Use MiniMax H3 Max R2V instead.

- API: api.venice.ai (api.venice.ai)
- Model: Seedance 2.5 US R2V
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: no date given yet
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model Seedance 2.5 US R2V`
- Source: [Changelog](https://venice.ai/changelog)
- Verified: November 2, 2026, against api.venice.ai's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/api-venice-ai/seedance-2.5-us-r2v/

## api.venice.ai's words

> Seedance 2.5 US R2V→replaced by [MiniMax H3 Max R2V](https://basehub.venice.ai/models/minimax-h3-max)

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent