Seedream 5.0 Pro is the top tier of the Seedream family. It takes a prompt, an aspect ratio and a quality setting, and it is the tier to reach for when the subject is a person, motion, or anything a viewer will study.
Above 5.0 Lite, 4.5 and 4.0 — the one to use for the final image.
basic and high are two different prices, not two labels on the same run.
Generated with Seedream 5.0 Pro on this site on 2026-08-04, unretouched, at the basic quality setting. Each one targets something the cheaper tiers tend to lose: selective motion blur, wet and reflective surfaces, and a foreground that stays sharp while everything behind it falls away.
Seedream 5.0 Pro is the highest tier ByteDance sells in the Seedream line, above 5.0 Lite, 4.5 and 4.0. The interface is the same as the rest of the family — a prompt, one of eight aspect ratios, and a quality setting of basic or high — so moving up a tier is not a different way of working, only a different price and a different result.
What you are buying is the difficult cases. Any modern model can produce a pleasant landscape; the ones that separate are a face under mixed lighting, a hand holding something, motion that is meant to be in one part of the frame and not the rest, and reflective material that has to stay material rather than turning into plastic.
Those are where Pro earns the gap. The quality switch matters more here than on the tiers below it, because on this model it is also the price: high costs roughly twice what basic does, so it is sent explicitly on every request rather than left to a provider default.
Creative engine
Two settings, two prices. The aspect ratio does not change either of them.
Above 5.0 Lite, 4.5 and 4.0, and the tier to finish on rather than iterate on.
high is roughly double basic. This page runs basic unless you change it.
Image-to-image is a separate model id on the provider and is not wired on this page.
The honest answer is: for the image you keep, not the ten you throw away. The workflow that wastes the least money on this site is to find the prompt on Seedream 4.0 or 4.5 at eight to ten credits a run, then generate the final on Pro once the wording is settled — the prompt transfers unchanged between every Seedream tier, so nothing is lost in the move. Reach for Pro directly when the subject is a person, when part of the frame has to be in motion and part still, or when the surface is glass, chrome, water or skin. Stay on 4.5 when the picture contains writing that has to be readable and little else that is hard, and stay on 4.0 when the image is decorative.
The subject where tier differences are most visible and least forgiving.
Blur that belongs to one element while the rest of the frame holds still.
Glass, chrome, water and wet surfaces, which cheaper tiers tend to render as plastic.
What the top tier accepts, and where it is the same as the rest of the family.
One prompt in, one image out, with no source material required.
1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:2 and 21:9 — the same set as 4.5.
The quality switch, which on this tier is also roughly a doubling in price.
An output format option the lower Seedream tiers do not expose.
Taken from the published KIE (kie.ai) schema for this model, which is the API it runs on here.
Four steps, and the first one is where the money is saved.
Settle the wording on Seedream 4.0 or 4.5 first. It transfers to Pro unchanged.
Direction of light and a focal length do more for a photoreal result than any adjective.
Selective motion has to be described as such, or you get either a still frame or a blurred one.
The high setting roughly doubles the cost, so spend it on the frame you already know works.
The images that were going to be looked at closely anyway.
Faces under mixed or difficult light, where a tier down starts to look synthetic.
The single image at the top of a page, where one generation has to land.
Glass, metal and liquid, shot the way a studio would shoot them.
Frames built around depth, atmosphere and a single point of focus.
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Model credit guide
You're only charged for successful generations. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | 5s 720p image-to-video ≈ 188 credits; text-to-video ≈ 308 credits. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 5s 720p text-to-video ≈ 248 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Mini | The cheapest Seedance tier. 5s 720p ≈ 154 credits, 5s 480p ≈ 72 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 1.5 Pro | Audio doubles the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 27 credits silent, ≈ 53 with audio; 1080p ≈ 57 and ≈ 113. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video, not per second (Lite tier). About 45 credits at 720p and 53 at 1080p. |
| Video | Kling 3.0 | Audio raises the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 105 credits silent, ≈ 150 with audio; 1080p ≈ 135 and ≈ 203. |
| Video | MiniMax H3 | Fixed 2K, no resolution ladder. Priced per second — a 5s clip ≈ 158 credits. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. About 8 credits per 1K image, 12 at 2K, 18 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. About 12 credits per 1K or 2K image, 21 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant. A flat 8 credits per image at every resolution. Start here to test. |
| Image | GPT Image 2 | The lowest-cost image model here. About 3 credits per 1K image, 6 at 2K, 12 at 4K. |
| Image | Seedream 5.0 Lite | Flat pricing — about 8 credits per image whether you generate or edit. |
Common questions about the top tier of the Seedream family.
Lite takes only a prompt and a size and runs at a flat low rate; Pro adds the quality switch, an output format option and a noticeably higher ceiling on hard subjects like faces, motion and reflective material.
About 11 credits at the basic quality setting and about 21 at high. The aspect ratio does not change the price.
basic, unless you change it. It is sent explicitly on every request because on this model the setting is also the price.
Usually not. Find the prompt on Seedream 4.0 or 4.5, which cost less per run, then generate the final here — the prompt carries over between tiers unchanged.
Not on this page. Seedream image-to-image is a separate model id on the provider and only the text-to-image path is wired here.
Credits are returned automatically, unless the request broke the content policy.
Bring a prompt you have already tested lower down the family, pick the ratio, and run it once.
Examples made on Kavel with this model.
At the basic setting, which is what this page generates by default.
