Seedream 5.0 Lite
- In Input modalities: TextImage Out Output modalities: Image
- Editing
- Tool use
Prices
4 offerings · prices as listedseedream-5-0-lite-260128| Conditions/ image | Image | Image · Input |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.035 | Free |
Prices from Pricing--ModelArk-Byteplus (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)
| Conditions/ image | Image | Image · Input |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | ¥0.22 | Free |
Prices from 火山方舟：模型价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 9, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16, 3:2, 2:3, 21:9
- Reference images
- 14
- Model ID
Not stated on ByteDance Seed’s pages: context, max output, reasoning efforts, structured output, knowledge cutoff.
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us- LMArena Text-to-Image 1,141
#22 of 38 listed models · CI 1,137–1,144 · 144,261 votes
- LMArena Image Edit 1,294
#19 of 34 listed models · CI 1,291–1,296 · 515,710 votes
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
- changes we made
Changes
All changes →- Available → Deprecated on Volcengine Ark, cn-beijing
Sources
- Pricing--ModelArk-Byteplus (opens in a new tab) docs.byteplus.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- 火山方舟：模型价格in Chinese (opens in a new tab) docs.volcengine.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
- BytePlus ModelArk: Image generation API (opens in a new tab) docs.byteplus.com · checked Sep 26, 2026
- Deeper thinking, more accurate generation: introducing Seedream 5.0 Lite (opens in a new tab) seed.bytedance.com · checked Nov 6, 2026
- bytedance/seedream-5-lite on Replicate (opens in a new tab) replicate.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- bytedance/seedream/v5/lite/text-to-image on fal.ai (opens in a new tab) fal.ai · checked Nov 9, 2026
- 火山方舟：模型下线公告in Chinese (opens in a new tab) docs.volcengine.com · checked Nov 4, 2026
- 图片生成（Seedream 系列模型）--AI 数据湖服务-火山引擎in Chinese (opens in a new tab) docs.volcengine.com · checked Nov 4, 2026
- 产品介绍in Chinese (opens in a new tab) ai.volcengine.com · checked Nov 7, 2026
- 团队动态 - 字节跳动Seedin Chinese (opens in a new tab) seed.bytedance.com · checked Nov 7, 2026
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