ByteDance Seedream 5 Lite
Lightweight Seedream variant for fast, high-quality image generation.
From ByteDance, Seedream 5 Lite is a cloud image-generation model. It generates images from a text prompt, and can take reference images to guide style or composition (image-to-image). It outputs up to 4K across 15 aspect ratios. Images can be saved as PNG, JPEG, and WebP. It runs through Runware, Replicate, OpenRouter, and ByteDance using your own API key, from about $0.035 per image.
- Released
- 7 months ago (Feb 2026)
- Pricing
- $0.035 per image
- Max resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 16:9, 9:16 +12 more
- Image-to-image
- Up to 14 reference images
- Output formats
- PNG, JPEG, WebP
Examples
Generated with Seedream 5 Lite via Runware. The same three prompts run against every model in the catalog, first result kept, so the only thing that changes between two models’ tiles is the model.
Materials, reflections, macro detail
Skin texture, lighting, shallow depth of field
Text rendering, layout, flat colour
ByteDance
ByteDance's AI labs ship the Seedream image models and the Seedance video models, among other Doubao-branded research.
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