ByteDance/bytedance-seedream-5-lite/Released Feb 2026

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Image generation and editing, up to 4K

Commercial use
Image

About Seedream 5.0 Lite

ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Lite generates images from a text prompt, with single-image and multi-reference image-to-image editing. Supports 2K, 3K, and 4K output resolutions, batch generation, and PNG or JPEG output.

Ready to build with Seedream 5.0 Lite?

Try Seedream 5.0 Lite in the Workbench to prompt it, compare outputs, and iterate on prompts without writing any code. When you're ready to ship, call the same model from our API and build your own apps on top of it.

curl -sSf -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/edit \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
    -d '{
  "model": "bytedance-seedream-5-lite",
  "prompt": "A cat sitting on a chair",
  "size": "2K",
  "output_format": "png",
  "watermark": false
}'

Request parameters

Every field Seedream 5.0 Lite accepts in the request body. See the API reference for response formats.

POSThttps://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/images/edit
FieldTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
promptstringYes
Text prompt for image generation. Use @Image1, @Image2, etc. to reference the input images.
input_imagearray<string>No
Optional reference image URLs for image-to-image editing. Provide one image for single-image editing or multiple for multi-reference fusion; reference them in the prompt as @Image1, @Image2, etc. Up to 14 images.
sizestringNo"2K"Image resolution.
2K3K4K
output_formatstringNo"png"Output image format.
pngjpeg
watermarkbooleanNofalseWhether to add an 'AI generated' watermark.