ByteDance: Seedream 5.0 Lite
Seedream 5.0 Lite is an image generation model from ByteDance released on Feb 13, 2026. It reads text and writes images.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- n/a
- Context
- n/a
- Max output
- n/a
- Released
- Feb 13, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Seedream 5.0 Lite through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Temperature
temperature
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Seedream 5.0 Lite questions
Is Seedream 5.0 Lite open source?
No. ByteDance serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Seedream 5.0 Lite released?
Feb 13, 2026.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.