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ByteDance

ByteDance: every model, side by side

Builds multimodal generative models, including image generation systems.

Compare ByteDance models
Total models
6
Text models
3
Image models
3
Active period
Nov 2025 to Aug 2026

ByteDance models and answers

Models6Responses6
  • Seed 2.1 Turbo

    Aug 2026

    Seed 2.1 Turbo is a multimodal model from ByteDance Seed for coding and long-horizon agent workflows. It is suited for end-to-end software delivery, multi-step task execution, and understanding visual and video content, with capabilities for planning, debugging, and self-correction.

    conversation · reasoning · code-generation · analysis · planning · agentic-tool-use

  • Seed 2.0 Code

    Aug 2026

    ByteDance Seed's coding-agent model. Suited to frontend work, multilingual programming, and coding agents such as Claude Code, Kilo and OpenCode.

    code-generation · conversation · reasoning · tool-use · agentic-tool-use

  • Seed 2.0 Lite

    Mar 2026

    ByteDance's mid tier Seed model for high-frequency enterprise work, ahead of Seed 1.8 overall. Reasoning effort is configurable, and it handles multimodal input and structured output. The target jobs are unstructured information processing, text creation, search, recommendation and data analysis.

    conversation · reasoning · code-generation · analysis · data-extraction

  • 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.

    image-generation

  • Seedream 4.5

    Dec 2025

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

    image-generation

  • Seedream 4

    Nov 2025

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

    image-generation