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Seedream

ByteDance’s unified image generation and editing family with visual reasoning and professional controls.

First model
2025
Models
5
Latest dated version
Seedream 5.0 Pro

01 / RELEASE SEQUENCE

Family release sequence

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  1. 2025-03-10Seedream 2.0Image generation
  2. 2025-04Seedream 3.0Image generation
  3. 2025-09-09Seedream 4.0Image generation · Reasoning
  4. 2026-02-13Seedream 5.0 LiteImage generation · Reasoning
  5. 2026-07-08Seedream 5.0 ProImage generation · Reasoning
5 versions
What changed ↓

02 / GENERATIONS

What changed

01

Seedream 2.0

A bilingual text-to-image research model emphasizing text rendering and Chinese semantics; this date records the technical publication.

02

Seedream 3.0

A native-2K text-to-image model improving small text, layouts, and portraits; official history dates its service launch to April 2025.

03

Seedream 4.0

Unified text-to-image and editing, using a vision-language model for world knowledge and supporting up to 4K.

04

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Brought deeper reasoning and live search into lightweight image generation and editing.

05

Seedream 5.0 Pro

The professional-design flagship for information visualization, pixel-level interactive editing, realism, and multilingual generation.