Seedream 5.0 Lite Edit
bytedance/seedream/5.0/lite/editSeedream 5.0 Lite — Fast Text-to-Image API The lightweight version of Seedream 5.0, delivering high-quality, low-latency AI image generation from text prompts. Ideal for real-time creative tools, e-commerce visuals, and high-volume AIGC pipelines.
- Base price
- $0.04USD / run
- Execution
- async
- Model type
- image
- Input fields
- 4
Try the model
Playground
PNG, JPEG, WebP, or GIF · 20 MiB maximum each
Your output will appear here
Complete the inputs, then click Run.
Model card
Specifications
Pricing
- Base price
- $0.04 / run
Context & modalities
- Input
- Schema-defined
- Output
- image
Capabilities
- Chat
- Not supported
- Vision
- Not supported
- Reasoning
- Not supported
- Structured output
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Not supported
- Audio input
- Not supported
Access
- Provider
- ByteDance
- Model ID
- bytedance/seedream/5.0/lite/edit
- Execution
- async
- Base URL
- https://api.sandbase.ai
- API
- Unified Run API
- Endpoint
- /v1/run
Human preference
Arena
Elo ratings from blind side-by-side votes, compared with other image and video models.
Rankings sourced from Artificial Analysis Arena
- Leaderboard
- Image Editing
- Rank
- #33 of 77
- Elo
- 1062 ±13
- Gap to #1
- −137
Image-editing arena: people pick the better of two edits of the same image and instruction, without seeing the model names.
- #28Ideogram 4.5 (High)1070±15
- #29Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro1069±13
- #30Qwen-Image-3.01068±13
- #31Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo1064±14
- #32HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct1063±13
- #33Seedream 5.0 Lite1062±13
- #34Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)1058±17
- #35Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1054±12
- #36Wan 2.7 Pro1050±13
- #37DreamImage 2.01048±13
API README
Seedream 5.0 Lite Edit
Seedream 5.0 Lite edit: fast, low-cost edits and multi-image composition.
Fields
| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
images | image URL[], required | — | Images to edit or combine, Image 1, Image 2, … |
prompt | string, required | — | Up to 50,000 characters. |
aspect_ratio | 21:9 / 16:9 / 3:2 / 4:3 / 1:1 / 3:4 / 2:3 / 9:16 | — | Omit to follow the first input image. |
output_format | jpeg / png | png | Output file format. |
Billing
$0.035 per output image.
| Request | Price |
|---|---|
| One image | $0.035 |
Failed runs are not charged.
Prompting
- Say which image is the base and what each other image contributes.
- List what must not change.
Limits
- One output image per request.
Also on SandBase
Other Seedream endpoints: bytedance/seedream/5.0/pro, bytedance/seedream/5.0/pro/edit, bytedance/seedream/5.0/lite, bytedance/seedream/5.0/flash, bytedance/seedream/5.0/flash/edit, bytedance/seedream/4.5, bytedance/seedream/4.5/edit.
Start building
Send your first request
OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "bytedance/seedream/5.0/lite/edit",
"images": [
"https://p9-arcosite.byteimg.com/tos-cn-i-goo7wpa0wc/77024d8e03f24862b066bfc385301120~tplv-goo7wpa0wc-image.image",
"https://p9-arcosite.byteimg.com/tos-cn-i-goo7wpa0wc/2cbc5cf5a68d44899fc52f177fb9cf51~tplv-goo7wpa0wc-image.image"
],
"prompt": "Generate 3 images of a girl and a cow plushie happily riding a roller coaster in an amusement park, depicting morning, noon, and night.",
"output_format": "png"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
run_id=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .id)
for attempt in $(seq 1 120); do
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
case "$status" in completed|failed|timeout) break ;; esac
sleep 2
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
"https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$run_id")
done
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
[ "$status" = completed ] || { echo "Generation ended: $status" >&2; exit 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$result"Choose your model
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Questions
FAQ
How do I call ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Lite Edit through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "bytedance/seedream/5.0/lite/edit" to Unified Run API (/v1/run) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.
Do I need a separate ByteDance account?
No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Lite Edit and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with ByteDance separately.
