Seedream v5
Seedream v5 is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Seedream
- Released
- 2025-03-23
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 2 routes · fal API
About
Seedream v5 by ByteDance Seed team. Text-to-image generation model. Available via Fal API (fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v5/lite/text-to-image).
Seedream v5 is a proprietary model in the Seedream family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through Volcengine and fal API. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Seedream v5 yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| fal API | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
| Volcengine | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
When was Seedream v5 released?
Seedream v5 was released on 2025-03-23.
Which providers offer Seedream v5?
Seedream v5 is available from 2 providers: Volcengine, fal API.
Cheapest of 2 routes · fal API