Using Seedream 5.0 Pro on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Seedream · ByteDance

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes Seedream 5.0 Pro through model ID bytedance/seedream-5.0-pro. 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
Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
2
Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call bytedance/seedream-5.0-pro — see the documentation for request format.

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Code Examples

Install

pip install openai

API key

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY

Model ID

bytedance/seedream-5.0-pro

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

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)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

Type	Rate
Image input	$0.04

Capabilities

Multimodal

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.

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Model Specs

Released2026-07-08

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