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Why use Seedream 5.0 Lite on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Seedream 5.0 Lite 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 Lite across 5 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-liteRequest 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-lite",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "bytedance/seedream-5.0-lite", not the LLMReference slug "seedream-v5".
- 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 Lite Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Volcengine | — | — |
| fal API | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | — | — |
| OpenRouter | — | — |
| BytePlus | — | — |
Pricing
| Type | Rate |
|---|---|
| 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.