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Why use Seedream 5.0 Lite on fal API?
fal API offers Seedream 5.0 Lite with pay-as-you-go image pricing at $0.035/image. fal API is a developer platform for calling a large catalog of production-ready image, video, audio, vision, 3D, and multimodal generation models through a unified API surface.
Compare Seedream 5.0 Lite across 5 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v5/lite/text-to-imagefal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v5/lite/text-to-imageRequest example
fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v5/lite/text-to-image.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v5/lite/text-to-image", not the LLMReference slug "seedream-v5".
Compare Seedream 5.0 Lite Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Volcengine | — | — |
| fal API | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | — | — |
| OpenRouter | — | — |
| BytePlus | — | — |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Image input | $0.04 |
Capabilities
About Seedream 5.0 Lite
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.