ByteDance image model
Seedream 5.0 Lite AI Image Generator
The everyday Seedream: art-directed images from 2K to 4K, built for exploring.
Prompt length 0
At a glance
- Provider
- ByteDance
- Best for
- Editorial scenes, lifestyle concepts, and social campaign sequences.
- Sizes
- 2K to 4K
- Reference images
- Up to 10
- Price
- 7 Credits at default settings
Character
Seedream 5.0 Lite is the working Seedream 5 model: prompt-led and reference-led pictures with a 2K to 4K quality step.
Lite carries the Seedream interest in atmosphere and styling into day-to-day art direction. You can look for the scene, the wardrobe, and the grade, then step the same idea from 2K to 4K when it holds. It is the model for a board of options that look like Seedream.
Image to Image is available, so a reference can enter early. Use it to keep a person, a garment, or a room while the prompt changes the hour and the mood.
Style
How Seedream 5.0 Lite tends to see a picture.
Atmospheric realism
Weather, practical lights, and color grade do a lot of the work.
Styled everyday
Lifestyle and editorial scenes feel observed and arranged at the same time.
Figure and ground
People sit inside places. Describe both, or the place will invent a person and the person will invent a place.
Searchable range
Variations stay in one visual family, which makes a contact sheet useful.
In practice
The work this model is built to carry.
Editorial scenes
Story frames for a feature, a lookbook, or a pitch.
Lifestyle concepts
Products and people in a believable hour of the day.
Social campaigns
Sequences of related frames, not one isolated icon.
Reference edits
A photo moved into a Seedream grade and place.
Briefing
Start with place and light, then the subject. 'Rain on a Tokyo side street, sodium lamps, a wool coat, camera at chest height.' is a Seedream sentence.
Use 2K while you are choosing. Move to 4K for the frame that will be shown.
2K decides, 4K delivers
Do not hunt for the idea at the largest step. Confirm the scene, then increase quality.
Keep a series consistent
Repeat the grade and the camera sentence across prompts when the images must belong together.
Hand the final to Pro
When one frame needs the closest look, continue that prompt on Seedream 5.0 Pro.
How Seedream 5.0 Lite compares
Not sure it is the right pick? Here is when another model is the better start.
- Seedream 5.0 Pro
Choose Seedream 5.0 Pro when one frame needs the closest look.
- Seedream 5.0 Flash
Choose Seedream 5.0 Flash for quicker single images at 1K, 1.5K, or 2K.
- Seedream 4.5
Choose Seedream 4.5 when you want its distinct grade and staging at 2K or 4K.
Seedream 5.0 Lite FAQ
Seedream 5.0 Lite is the working Seedream 5 model: prompt-led and reference-led pictures with a 2K to 4K quality step, built for day-to-day art direction.
Use 2K while you are choosing and 4K for the frame that will be shown. 2K decides, 4K delivers.
Repeat the grade and the camera sentence across prompts when the images must belong together. Variations stay in one visual family, which makes a contact sheet useful.
When one frame needs the closest look, continue that prompt on Seedream 5.0 Pro.
The price depends on the resolution, the number of outputs, and whether you use a reference image. At default settings, Seedream 5.0 Lite costs 7 Credits. Create always shows the exact price before you start.
Yes. Images generated while a paid kitchen is in force include commercial use, including through the end of a period you already paid for. That permission stays with those images after the kitchen ends, subject to our Terms. Images generated with starter Credits, or while no paid kitchen is in force, are for personal, non-commercial use. See Pricing.
More in the Seedream family
Same family, different jobs. Pick by the work in front of you.
- Seedream 5.0 Pro
Art-directed Seedream frames, finished rather than explored.
- Seedream 5.0 Flash
Quick art-directed Seedream frames for fashion and campaign looks, 1K to 2K.
- Seedream 4.5
Staged, atmospheric fashion and editorial scenes with the Seedream 4.5 grade, at 2K or 4K.
Cook with Seedream 5.0 Lite
Create opens on this model. Write the prompt, set the frame, and keep the image on your private shelf.
Create with this modelSeedream 5.0 Lite is a model made by ByteDance. Model names and logos belong to their owners, and image.cooking is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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