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Seedream 5.0 Lite by ByteDance — Pricing, Benchmarks & Real Outputs

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Updated Feb 13, 2026
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Seedream 5.0 Lite performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. 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 0 challenges.

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Seedream 5.0 Lite

ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Lite is a unified multimodal image generation model with chain-of-thought reasoning and real-time web search, producing native 2K/4K images with accurate multi-language text rendering.

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Release Date
2026-02-13
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