Five gateways resell the same Seedance 2.0 weights from ByteDance. Same model, same output. A five-second 720p clip on the Mini tier costs 0.18 USD on the cheapest of them and 0.77 on the dearest, which is 4.3 times the price for a file you could not tell apart. That spread is not compute. Everyone is renting the same upstream capacity. It is markup, and it varies by tier in ways that are worth knowing before you wire one of them into a pipeline. What five seconds actually costs Matched te...