ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Lite

API

ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Lite is a image model from ByteDance. Provider list price is $0.035 per item; on Allocate you pay $0.037 with the 7% transaction fee. It is a closed model served over API; the weights are not published.

Pricing

Token usage bills at the provider list price plus the 7% transaction fee. Prices checked 2026-07-08.

Price against its peers

Provider list prices per item, ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Lite against its nearest image peers by price.

What a real workload costs

Generating 1,000 one-megapixel images costs 1,000 × $0.035 = $35 at list, or $37.45 billed on Allocate with the 7% transaction fee included.

ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Lite is served over API. Route traffic to it by name, meter every token, and swap it out in one click when a better fit ships.

Example usage

Point a route at bytedance/seedream-5.0-lite and the endpoint never changes; swap the model behind it whenever you want.

curl https://api.allocate.network/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ALLOCATE_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "bytedance/seedream-5.0-lite",
    "messages": [{"role": "user",
      "content": "Summarise the attached contract."}]
  }'

Common questions