# Seedream 5.0 Pro AI image generator

URL: https://dreambench.ai/models/seedream-5.0

DreamBench runs Seedream 5.0 Pro, ByteDance’s image model for text-rich layouts like infographics and posters as well as photographic scenes. Use it for images on their own, or for the character, prop and location sheets your videos are built from.

**What Seedream 5.0 is.** Seedream 5.0 is a family of image models from ByteDance’s Seed team, and DreamBench runs Seedream 5.0 Pro, which ByteDance announced on July 8, 2026. ByteDance describes it as a multimodal image model with advanced reasoning: it plans the content and layout of an image, not only its style, which suits pictures that have to carry information. ByteDance says Pro improves on earlier Seedream versions in how closely images follow the prompt, how well their structure holds together, how text is rendered and how they look overall. It works from a prompt alone or from a prompt with reference images, and ByteDance positions it as the Seedream 5.0 version for work where image quality comes first. ByteDance says very fine text and pixel-precise edits still need work. Seedream 5.0 also comes in other versions, such as Lite, with features of their own; this page covers Pro, the version DreamBench uses.

**What Seedream 5.0 is good at.**
- Infographics and text-rich layouts: It can organize data, labels and blocks of text into a clear layout in one image, for posters, explainers and teaching material.
- Photographic light and skin: ByteDance tuned it to reproduce real lighting, shadows and reflections, and natural skin texture in portraits.
- Text in many languages: You can write prompts in many languages and have text set in them, from Spanish accents to Arabic read right to left.
- Several references, one picture: Give it more than one reference image and it can bring their subjects, clothes or settings together in a single new scene.

**Seedream 5.0 on DreamBench.**
- Picking Seedream 5.0 on DreamBench always means Seedream 5.0 Pro, ByteDance’s model dola-seedream-5-0-pro-260628. DreamBench doesn’t offer Seedream 5.0 Lite, so what ByteDance says about Lite may not apply here.
- Through ByteDance’s own tools, Seedream 5.0 Pro can also edit a region you mark on an image and split an image into separate layers. On DreamBench it makes new images from your prompt and any reference images you add.
- Character, prop and location sheets and location schematics made here are saved the way DreamBench saves the sheets it builds for a video, so when you add one to a video, DreamBench uses it as it is.
- Ask for several versions and each one after the first follows its own direction, such as a new angle, light or palette, while keeping what your prompt spells out.

**Specifications.**
- Made by: ByteDance Seed
- Credits: 15 per image
- Images per run: 1 to 10
- Aspect ratios: 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16 and 21:9
- What you can make: Freeform images, character sheets, prop sheets, location sheets and location schematics
- Reference images: Up to 8 per run
- Plans: Every plan

**Prompt ideas.**
- How sourdough rises: An educational infographic titled “How Sourdough Rises”. A cut-away loaf sits in the center, surrounded by 4 labeled stages: starter, mixing, proofing and baking, each with a small illustration, a timer and a temperature. A simple line chart along the bottom tracks the dough’s volume over 24 hours. Warm cream background, a light dusting of flour, clean sans-serif labels in English.
- A menu in 2 languages: A chalkboard menu for a small corner café, written in English and Japanese side by side: 6 drinks with prices, a hand-drawn coffee cup in one corner and a sprig of lavender in the other. The board leans against a brick wall in soft morning light, with a potted fern beside it and chalk dust along the frame.
- Window-light portrait: A photographic portrait of an elderly fisherman mending a net in his workshop. Late-afternoon light falls through a dusty window, catching the stubble on his jaw, the creases around his eyes and the frayed rope in his hands. Shallow depth of field, warm tones, with floats and coils of rope hanging on the wall behind him, softly out of focus.

**Seedream 5.0 FAQ.**
- **What is Seedream 5.0?** 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.
- **Is Seedream 5.0 on DreamBench the Pro or the Lite version?** 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.
- **What can I make with Seedream 5.0 on DreamBench?** 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.
- **Can Seedream 5.0 render text in images?** 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.
- **Can I use reference images with Seedream 5.0?** 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.
- **Can I turn Seedream 5.0 images into a video?** 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.
- **How much does Seedream 5.0 cost on DreamBench?** 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.
- **Does Seedream 5.0 cost anything to use?** 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.
- **What should a Seedream 5.0 Pro prompt say?** 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.
- **Can I edit an image with Seedream 5.0 on DreamBench?** 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.
- **Should I use Seedream 5.0 Pro or Nano Banana 2 for infographics?** 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.
- **Does DreamBench have a Seedream 5.0 API?** 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.
- **Do Seedream 5.0 images have a watermark on DreamBench?** No. Images you make on DreamBench carry no DreamBench watermark, on any plan, and come to you as Seedream 5.0 Pro generated them.
- **Can I use Seedream 5.0 images commercially?** Yes. DreamBench’s Terms of Use allow personal and commercial use, including ads and client work. You need the rights to anything you upload.
- **Which DreamBench plans include Seedream 5.0?** 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.
- **How many images can Seedream 5.0 make 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.
- **How do I make images with Seedream 5.0 on DreamBench?** 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.

**Sources.**
- Seedream 5.0 Pro on ByteDance Seed: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedream5_0_pro
- ByteDance’s Seedream 5.0 Pro launch post: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/beyond-generation-it-understands-design-introducing-seedream-5-0-pro
- Seedream 5.0 Pro API reference (BytePlus): https://docs.byteplus.com/en/docs/ModelArk/2582774

Seedream 5.0 is developed by ByteDance Seed (https://seed.bytedance.com/en/). DreamBench is an independent platform that offers Seedream 5.0 alongside other models and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by ByteDance Seed. Seedream 5.0 and ByteDance Seed are trademarks of their owners, used here only to name the model and its developer. Released 2026-07. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.