Image generation
Seedream 5.0 Lite
ByteDance-Seedream-5.0-lite is the latest image generation model released by BytePlus. For the first time, it introduces web-connected retrieval, enabling the model to fuse real-time online information to significantly improve the timeliness and relevance of generated images. The model’s reasoning and comprehension capabilities are further upgraded, allowing it to accurately interpret complex prompts and visual inputs. In addition, ByteDance-Seedream-5.0-lite delivers notable improvements in global knowledge coverage, reference consistency, and professional-grade scene generation, making it well suited for enterprise-level visual creation workflows.
One image per request
$0.03675Per image
Price
- Per image
- $0.03675
Includes the 5% MiniRouter fee. The final charge uses the provider’s actual cost and stays within your reserved hold. MiniRouter absorbs any overrun.
Estimate your credit hold
Credit is reserved before the request. The final charge may be lower.
Up to 32,000 characters.
Estimated hold
2× the total estimated cost, including the 5% fee. Your charge stays within this hold; unused credit is released.
Estimate only; nothing is sent. Includes text and one output image.
Use the Images API
Set MINIROUTER_API_KEY to your inference key. Copy the example.
curl --fail-with-body --retry 0 --max-time 120 \
'https://api.minirouter.sh/v1/images/generations' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MINIROUTER_API_KEY" \
-D response.headers --output response.json \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"model": "bytedance/seedream-5.0-lite",
"prompt": "A blue circle on a white background.",
"n": 1
}'Keep the request ID. The image response can arrive before its final charge. Check Request logs for the settled cost. A failed or disconnected request may still incur a cost; these examples disable automatic retries.
Supported operations
- Generate from a prompt
- POST /v1/images/generations
- Send JSON with a prompt. The response contains one base64 image.