Seedream 5.0 Pro

by ByteDance

Seedream 5.0 Pro sits at the top of ByteDance's image lineup, released in July 2026 with a headline trick no sibling offers, splitting a single render into ten or more transparent layers that drop straight into Figma or Photoshop. Deep-thinking prompt reasoning and photographic realism with authentic lighting and skin texture round out the flagship profile. Its strengths cluster around professional production, high-density infographics, interactive precision edits by point, lasso, or sketch, and native text rendering in more than ten languages. Design teams get a model that behaves less like a one-shot generator and more like a controllable stage in a real workflow, with native 2K output.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Pricing
$0.09 / generation
Billing
Per generation
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Pricing

Usage-based pricing, billed per generation, not by token.

VariantPrice
Standard$0.09 / generation

Available routes

Seedream 5.0 Pro runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance — full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingPrice
MultiNot by defaultNo$0.09 / generation

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Seedream 5.0 Pro has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

BytePlus Multi-region

Zero data retention is not on by default — abuse monitoring, 180-day retention. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Not by default — abuse monitoring, 180-day retention. Derived from the logging and moderation facts.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring (180-day retention)
Moderation
Not established
Caching
Not established
Subprocessor access
Not established
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call Seedream 5.0 Pro through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly — Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "bytedance:ap/seedream-5-pro",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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