When was Seedream 5.0 Pro released?

ByteDance released Seedream 5.0 Pro on 8 Jul 2026. It is available through the Opper gateway.

Does Seedream 5.0 Pro support zero data retention?

With abuse monitoring, yes. On BytePlus through the Opper gateway, prompts and outputs are not used for training and are kept only for abuse monitoring, for up to 180 days.

Where is Seedream 5.0 Pro hosted?

See the per-route table for Seedream 5.0 Pro hosting locations and residency details.

Is Seedream 5.0 Pro trained on prompts and outputs?

No. Every hosting route for Seedream 5.0 Pro is configured so customer prompts and outputs are not used to train models by default.

Is a GDPR DPA available for Seedream 5.0 Pro?

Yes. A GDPR Data Processing Agreement is available on at least one route serving Seedream 5.0 Pro. Contact hello@opper.ai to receive it.

Seedream 5.0 Pro

by ByteDance

Released 15 days after Seed 2.1 Turbo · Announcement · All ByteDance releases

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.

Call Seedream 5.0 Pro on Opper through POST /v3/images. Sign up without a credit card. Get started

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Key info

Input

Output

Features

Pricing

$0.09 / generation

Billing

Per generation

Released

8 Jul 2026

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring
No training by default
GDPR DPA available

Pricing

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

Variant	Price
Standard	$0.09 / generation

Available routes

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

Provider	Region	Zero data retention	Training	Price
BytePlus	Multi		No	$0.09 / generation

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=bytedance%3Aap%2Fseedream-5-pro

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 with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for up to 180 days for abuse monitoring only, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention: With abuse monitoring, 180-day window.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: Abuse monitoring (180-day retention)
Abuse monitoring: On by default, holds flagged content, 180 days, stored in Malaysia, a person can view samples
Caching: Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: SCCs

Get started

Call Seedream 5.0 Pro through the Opper gateway with one API key. Image models run on Opper's images endpoint: POST /v3/images returns the image in the response, as base64 by default.

See the Opper images guide and the Opper multimodal skill.

Seedream 5.0 Pro is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.

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

1curl -s https://api.opper.ai/v3/images \
2  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPPER_API_KEY" \
3  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
4  -d '{
5    "model": "bytedance:ap/seedream-5-pro",
6    "prompt": "A watercolor lighthouse on a cliff at sunrise",
7    "size": "2048x2048"
8  }' \
9  | jq -r '.data[0].b64_json' | base64 --decode > image.png
10
11# To edit an image, add "image": "https://..." (or a file_<id>) to the body