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Seedream 4 by ByteDance — Pricing, Benchmarks & Real Outputs

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Updated Jan 27, 2026

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Best for:Image Generation Photorealism Illustration Product Design

Seedream 4 performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. Overall win rate: 50.0% across 24 duels. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference judgments across 200+ AI models. Model responses are curated from 17 challenges.

Seedream 4

Unified text-to-image generation and precise single-sentence editing at up to 4K resolution by ByteDance.

Image Generation

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Provider

Bytedance

Release Date

2025-11-15

Size

LARGE

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17 outputs from Seedream 4

Seedream 4Architectural Blueprint Sheet

Seedream 4

Architectural Blueprint Sheet

Architectural Blueprint Sheet

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Seedream 4Corkboard Outfit Collage

Seedream 4

Corkboard Outfit Collage

Corkboard Outfit Collage

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Seedream 4Fantasy Character Design

Seedream 4

Fantasy Character Design

Fantasy Character Design

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Seedream 4Glass Caustics Still Life

Seedream 4

Glass Caustics Still Life

Glass Caustics Still Life

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Seedream 4Imaginary Transit Map

Seedream 4

Imaginary Transit Map

Imaginary Transit Map

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Seedream 4Museum Exhibit: Odd Artifact

Seedream 4

Museum Exhibit: Odd Artifact

Museum Exhibit: Odd Artifact

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Seedream 4Product Visualization

Seedream 4

Product Visualization

Product Visualization

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Seedream 4Botanical Scientific Plate

Seedream 4

Botanical Scientific Plate

Botanical Scientific Plate

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Seedream 4Exploded Diagram of a Gadget

Seedream 4

Exploded Diagram of a Gadget

Exploded Diagram of a Gadget

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Seedream 4Fluid Dynamics Explainer

Seedream 4

Fluid Dynamics Explainer

Fluid Dynamics Explainer

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Seedream 4Hyperrealistic Portrait

Seedream 4

Hyperrealistic Portrait

Hyperrealistic Portrait

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Seedream 4Isometric Cutaway Home

Seedream 4

Isometric Cutaway Home

Isometric Cutaway Home

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Seedream 4Claymation Absurd Ad

Seedream 4

Claymation Absurd Ad

Claymation Absurd Ad

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Seedream 4Futuristic City

Seedream 4

Futuristic City

Futuristic City

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Seedream 4Illustrated Scene

Seedream 4

Illustrated Scene

Illustrated Scene

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Seedream 4Microscope Slide Microcosm

Seedream 4

Microscope Slide Microcosm

Microscope Slide Microcosm

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Seedream 4Packaging Shelf Mockup

Seedream 4

Packaging Shelf Mockup

Packaging Shelf Mockup

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ByteDance's Seedream 4.5 text-to-image model designed for strong aesthetics and composition.

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Seed 2.0 Lite is a balanced model from ByteDance designed for high-frequency enterprise workloads, optimizing for both capability and cost. Its overall performance surpasses the previous-generation Seed 1.8, supporting reasoning with configurable effort levels, multimodal understanding, and structured outputs. Well-suited for production tasks such as unstructured information processing, text creation, search, recommendation, and data analysis.

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