Seedream 5.0 Lite API — pricing & specs

Seedream 5.0 Lite is a ByteDance model that generates images from text prompts. On KeepRouter, Seedream 5.0 Lite costs $0.0350 per image, billed pay-as-you-go with no monthly fee. Call it through a compatible KeepRouter endpoint supported by its active route, with the model id seedream-5-0-lite.

MakerByteDance
ModalityText-to-image
Pricing$0.0350 per image
CapabilitiesImage generation (text-to-image)
EndpointPOST /v1/images/generations
Model idseedream-5-0-lite

How pricing works for Seedream 5.0 Lite

Seedream 5.0 Lite is an image model billed per image ($0.0350 per image) — the same regardless of prompt length. The published price is pay-as-you-go, with no monthly fee.

Calling Seedream 5.0 Lite on KeepRouter

Point a compatible client at the supported KeepRouter endpoint and set the model to seedream-5-0-lite. KeepRouter preserves the client-facing request shape while handling upstream routing or translation. Send image-generation requests to POST /v1/images/generations.

cURL

curl https://keeprouter.com/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEEPROUTER_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"seedream-5-0-lite","prompt":"a red bicycle on a beach"}'

Python

import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://keeprouter.com/v1", api_key=os.environ["KEEPROUTER_KEY"])
img = client.images.generate(model="seedream-5-0-lite", prompt="a red bicycle on a beach")

JavaScript

const res = await fetch("https://keeprouter.com/v1/images/generations", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer " + process.env.KEEPROUTER_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ model: "seedream-5-0-lite", prompt: "a red bicycle on a beach" }),
});

Estimate API costs

At the current KeepRouter customer price, an example workload of one image per request costs approximately $0.0350 per request. At 100 requests per day, that is $105.00 over 30 days. This is a usage estimate, excluding processing fees, taxes, retries and application infrastructure. Actual usage, cache hits and supported generation durations need their own checks.

Adjust quantities in the API cost calculator.

How to evaluate Seedream 5.0 Lite

Seedream 5.0 Lite is listed on KeepRouter as text-to-image under the exact id seedream-5-0-lite. Use /v1/images/generations for the listed route; a maker's upstream features do not automatically apply to this gateway endpoint. No context limit is asserted here because the exact upstream limit has not been verified for this catalog entry.

First workload: Generate a small batch from your real prompt and asset dimensions; review text rendering, composition, retry rate and cost per accepted image.

Before production: This is an image-generation route. Do not send it to chat completions or assume another router's image parameters are interchangeable.

Public model usage evidence

No public, exact-variant usage figure has been verified for this KeepRouter model id. Missing data is not zero usage; family-level or maker-wide traffic is not presented as this model's traffic.

Published examples and cases

No exact-model customer case has been verified for this entry. The workload above is an evaluation recipe, not a claim of a public deployment.

Source and verification boundary

Official ByteDance website. KeepRouter's live catalog is authoritative for the customer price and enabled endpoint shown here; the maker remains authoritative for upstream model capabilities and limits.

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