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Why use Seedream 5.0 Pro on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Seedream 5.0 Pro with competitive pricing. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Compare Seedream 5.0 Pro across 6 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Python + curlpip install openaiexport AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],bytedance/seedream-5.0-proRequest example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="bytedance/seedream-5.0-pro",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "bytedance/seedream-5.0-pro", not the LLMReference slug "seedream-v5-pro".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare Seedream 5.0 Pro Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| fal API | — | — |
| Volcengine | — | — |
| Replicate API | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | — | — |
| OpenRouter | — | — |
Pricing
| Type | Rate |
|---|---|
| Image input | $0.04 |
Capabilities
About Seedream 5.0 Pro
Seedream 5.0 Pro is ByteDance Seed's multimodal image generation and editing model, officially launched 2026-07-08. It does text-to-image, single and multi-image-to-image, interactive editing guided by boxes, points, arrows and sketches, layer decomposition (1 base image plus up to 16 layers), and native multilingual text rendering. Output resolutions are 1K, 1.5K and 2K. Proprietary API model: Volcengine Ark doubao-seedream-5-0-pro-260628, BytePlus ModelArk dola-seedream-5-0-pro-260628.