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ByteDance Seed: Seedream 5.0 Lite

Source description (English)

Seedream 5.0 Lite is an image generation model from ByteDance Seed. It is suited for professional visual creation that benefits from web-connected retrieval, complex-prompt comprehension, visual references, and broad knowledge...

Overview

Model specifications

Context
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Maximum output
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Architecture
text+image->image
Tokenizer
Media
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Image output
$0.035
per image
Image input
Free
per image
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"bytedance-seed/seedream-5-0-lite","prompt":"A sunlit mountain landscape"}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
textimage
Output
image
API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltymax_tokenstemperaturetop_p
Available providers

1 Provider

Checked: September 7, 2026

Live providers on OpenRouter

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OpenRouter

Seed

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bytedance-seed

4 models

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ByteDance Seed: Seedream 5.0 Pro

Seedream 5.0 Pro is an image generation and editing model from ByteDance Seed. It is suited for commercial visual-production workflows that require precise editing control, lifelike scenes, and natural rendering.

Context
Not provided
Input
text · image
Output
image
Image input: $0.003 per imageImage output: $0.045 per image
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ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo

Seed 2.1 Turbo is a multimodal model from ByteDance Seed for coding and long-horizon agent workflows. It is suited for end-to-end software delivery, multi-step task execution, and understanding visual and...

Context
262K
Input
text · image · video
Output
text
Input: $0.5Output: $2.5per 1M tokens
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ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code

Seed 2.0 Code is a model from ByteDance Seed optimized for agentic coding. It is suited for frontend development, multilingual programming tasks, and coding-agent workflows in tools such as Claude...

Context
262K
Input
text · image · video
Output
text
Input: $0.5Output: $3per 1M tokens
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ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

Seed-2.0-Lite is a versatile, cost‑efficient enterprise workhorse that delivers strong multimodal and agent capabilities while offering noticeably lower latency, making it a practical default choice for most production workloads across...

Context
262K
Input
text · image · video
Output
text
Input: $0.25Output: $2per 1M tokens
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