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ByteDance Seed: Seedream 5.0 Lite

Seedream 5.0 Lite is an intelligent image creation model from ByteDance with enhanced multimodal understanding, visual reasoning, image editing, subject consistency, and real-time search capabilities. It supports text- and image-guided generation for professional creative, design, marketing, education, and information visualization scenarios.

Modetext、image → image
Input price$0.035 per M tokens
Output price—
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Listed at2026-02-13T00:00:00Z

ByteDance Seed

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Input price$0.035per request
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Cache read—per request
Cache write—per request

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Code Example

curl ${API_BASE_URL}/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "seedream-5-0-lite",
    "prompt": "Describe the image you want"
  }'

Replace <YOUR_API_KEY> with the API key generated on your token management page.

Authentication

All requests must include the Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN> header.

Endpoint Path

POST
images

Supported Parameters

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
string2KOutput image size or resolution.
booleanfalseWhether to add a watermark to the generated image.
stringurlResponse format for the generated image, such as url or b64_json.
stringpngOutput image format, such as png or jpeg.
stringdisabledControls whether to generate a single image or a related image set.

Rate Limits

GroupRPMTPMRPD

RPM = requests per minute, TPM = tokens per minute, RPD = requests per day. Limits apply by token group.

Pricing

ProviderBilling typePrice summary
Doubao0%
Per call
Input price$0.035per request
Completion price$—per request
Cache read price$—per request
Cache write price$—per request
Doubao0%
Per call
Input price$0.035per request
Completion price$—per request
Cache read price$—per request
Cache write price$—per request
Doubao0%
Per call
Input price$0.035per request
Completion price$—per request
Cache read price$—per request
Cache write price$—per request