Seedream 5.0 Lite
Released
2026-02-13
Last refreshed
2026-10-20
Status
Researched 23d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodal
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Specifications
- Family
- Seedream
- Released
- 2026-02-13
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Pricing
Price / image
$0.035/image
Cheapest of 5 routes · BytePlus
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About
Seedream 5.0 Lite is ByteDance Seed's image creation model, launched 2026-02-13, with deeper reasoning and online search. It does text-to-image, single and multi-image-to-image, and sequential image sets (reference images plus outputs up to 15), with 2K/3K/4K output, streaming, and web search. Proprietary API model: Volcengine Ark doubao-seedream-5-0-260128 (also doubao-seedream-5-0-lite-260128); fal fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v5/lite/text-to-image.
Providers(5)
Compare all 5Compare published price / image across 5 tracked provider routes.
| Provider | Price / image | Route |
|---|---|---|
| BytePlus | $0.035/image | Serverless |
| fal API | $0.035/image | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.035/image | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.035/image | Serverless |
| Volcengine | — | ServerlessPartial Scheduled retirement: November 24, 2026 |
Capabilities
Multimodal
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Benchmark scores(1)
Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,140 | text_to_image overall 2026-10-26Observed 2026-10-27 | Configuration: Seedream 5.0 Lite Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: LMArena text to image leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-26 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, latest split). Board entry 'Seedream 5.0 Lite': rank 39 of 82, Arena Score 1139.6 (95% CI 1136.5-1142.8), 141120 votes. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
doubao-seedream-5-0-260128doubao-seedream-5-0-lite-260128Pricing
Price / image
$0.035/image
Cheapest of 5 routes · BytePlus
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