Seedream 5 Pro
ByteDance's flagship Seedream 5 model — top-tier aesthetic quality, prompt fidelity, and multi-reference editing up to 2K.
Seedream 5 Pro is a cloud image-generation model from ByteDance. It generates images from a text prompt, and can take reference images to guide style or composition (image-to-image). It outputs up to 2K across 8 aspect ratios. Images can be saved as PNG, JPEG, and WebP. It runs through Runware and Replicate using your own API key, from about $0.045 per image.
- Released
- 1 month ago (Jul 2026)
- Pricing
- $0.045 per image
- Max resolution
- 2K
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 16:9, 9:16 +5 more
- Image-to-image
- Up to 10 reference images
- Output formats
- PNG, JPEG, WebP
Examples
Generated with Seedream 5 Pro 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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