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See how ByteDance's models evolved by answering the same challenge across generations.

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ByteDance

ByteDance

ByteDance develops multimodal generative models, including image generation systems geared toward aesthetics and composition.

Total Models

4

Text Models

1

Image Models

3

Active Period

Nov 2025 – Mar 2026

Compare ByteDance Models

Seed 2.0 Lite

Mar 2026

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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Seedream 5.0 Lite

Feb 2026

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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Seedream 4.5

Dec 2025

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

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Seedream 4

Nov 2025

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

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