Using Seedream 5.0 Lite on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · Seedream · ByteDance

Serverless

OpenRouter exposes Seedream 5.0 Lite through model ID bytedance-seed/seedream-5-0-lite. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call bytedance-seed/seedream-5-0-lite — see the documentation for request format.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypeRate
Image input$0.04

Capabilities

Multimodal

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.

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Model Specs

Released2026-02-13

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Provider

OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA