Seedream 5.0 Pro AI image generator

Seedream 5.0 is a family of image models from ByteDance’s Seed team. DreamBench runs Seedream 5.0 Pro, announced in July 2026, which ByteDance built for text-rich images such as infographics and posters as well as photographic scenes.

Pro. DreamBench runs Seedream 5.0 Pro, ByteDance’s model dola-seedream-5-0-pro-260628, for every image in a run. ByteDance built Pro to plan the content and layout of an image, not only its style, for infographics, posters and photographic scenes. Seedream 5.0 Lite, an earlier release with features of its own, isn’t offered, so what you read about Lite may not apply here.

Freeform images from a prompt, plus character, prop and location sheets and location schematics. Seedream 5.0 Pro’s strengths are infographics, menus and posters, where it organizes data, labels and text into one layout, and photographic scenes. Sheets are saved the way DreamBench saves the ones it builds for a video, so you can add them to a video as references and they’re used as they are.

Yes. ByteDance built Seedream 5.0 Pro for text-rich images such as infographics, menus and posters, in Chinese and English plus more than ten other languages, including Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Arabic. ByteDance notes that very fine text can still come out imperfect, so keep labels large and few, put each line in quotation marks and check small print before you publish.

Yes. Add reference images in the composer and mention each one by its @name in your prompt, and Seedream 5.0 Pro can bring its subject, clothes or setting into the new image.

Yes. Make a character, prop or location sheet with Seedream 5.0 Pro, then add it to a video as a reference. DreamBench uses the sheet as it is, and the video model builds its scenes from it.

Each image uses credits, so a run costs more the more versions you ask for, up to 10. The table on this page lists the current rate per image, and the composer shows the exact cost before you generate.

Yes. On DreamBench, each Seedream 5.0 Pro image uses credits, and credits come with a paid plan, with Seedream 5.0 on every plan. A run makes 1 to 10 images, and the composer shows the exact cost before you generate.

Say what the image must contain and in what order, name every label or line of text in quotation marks along with its language, and give the layout, such as title at the top and chart at the bottom. Pro plans the layout as well as the style, so a list of elements works. On DreamBench, mention each reference image by its @name.

No. On DreamBench, Seedream 5.0 Pro makes new images from your prompt and reference images. Editing a region you mark and splitting an image into layers are features of ByteDance’s own tools.

Both developers list text and infographics among their models’ abilities, and both are in DreamBench’s image mode, so run the same brief on each and keep the version that reads best. Seedream 5.0 Pro plans the layout of an image as well as its style; the Nano Banana 2 and GPT Image 2 pages, linked below, state their own facts.

No. DreamBench offers Seedream 5.0 Pro through its composer, in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install. Developers can use ByteDance’s own API on BytePlus ModelArk, linked under Sources, where the prices and limits are ByteDance’s, not DreamBench’s.

No. Images you make on DreamBench carry no DreamBench watermark, on any plan, and come to you as Seedream 5.0 Pro generated them.

Yes. DreamBench’s Terms of Use allow personal and commercial use, including ads and client work. You need the rights to anything you upload.

Seedream 5.0 is on every DreamBench plan, from Starter at $9.99 a month. Every plan makes freeform images, character sheets, prop sheets, location sheets and location schematics with it, up to 10 images in one run.

From 1 to 10 in a single run, each at 15 credits, in any of 6 aspect ratios (1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16 and 21:9). You see the exact cost before you generate.

Press Create with Seedream 5.0, or pick it in the composer’s image mode, describe the image, choose how many and the aspect ratio, and generate. Add up to 8 reference images to steer the look.