Seedream 5.0 ProAI image generator
ByteDance's newest: detailed images up to 2K and edits of up to 10 reference images. On Leap, it sits beside 174 other models in one studio.
- Text to image
- Image edit
- 9 aspect ratios
- No subscription
- Every top model, one account
- Pay per run, priced before it starts

AI image generator
Seedream 5.0 Pro at a glance
Seedream 5.0 Pro is an image model from ByteDance. It makes images from words or up to 10 photos, at up to 2K.
- Made by
- ByteDance
- Makes
- Images
- Starts from
- Words or up to 10 photos
- Resolution
- 1K, 1.5K or 2K
- Shapes
- 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, 2:3, 16:9, 9:16, 21:9, 4:5
- Per run
- Up to 4 images
- Prompt
- Up to 32,000 characters
- Price per run
- $0.048
- Run time
- About 60 seconds
- Updated
- October 7, 2026
How it's made
From a still to a film, in one place.
"Basement show", replayed step by step: Seedream 5.0 Pro makes the still, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 brings it to life. Two models, one studio.


- 01Seedream 5.0 ProMakes the stillDone
Live concert photograph, 16mm wide lens, handheld from inside the crowd, 1/30 s with motion blur and red flare. A packed, sweaty basement punk show in...
- 02Gemini Omni Flash 1.1Brings it to lifeDone
One continuous handheld shot with no cuts, from inside the pit, staying on the singer. The singer screams the chorus into the microphone held in both...
"Basement show", made on Leap: two models, one studio, one library.
Made on Leap
More from Seedream 5.0 Pro

Away to me
Documentary photograph, 85mm lens, from just behind a farmer's shoulder, sideways rain. A steep hillside in Snowdonia, Wales: wet rust-coloured bracken, dry-stone walls, low cloud rolling over slate ridges. A Welsh hill farmer, 68, ruddy weathered face, white stubble, rain dripping from his tweed flat cap, a torn waxed jacket, a hazel crook, whistles with two fingers in his mouth. Ahead in the grass a black-and-white border collie crouches low, eyes locked on a tight bunch of twenty wet Welsh Mountain sheep further up the slope. Palette: bracken rust, slate grey, wet green, off-white fleece. Real rain streaks, mud, wet fur. No readable text, no logos.

Riad
Architectural interior photograph, 24mm lens at chest height, late morning. A restored riad in the Marrakech medina seen through a tall carved cedar doorway: an open courtyard with green-and-white zellige tiles, a tiled fountain in the centre, a small orange tree with fruit, carved stucco arches, terracotta pots, a sharp shaft of sunlight falling from the open roof onto the water. Beside the fountain a housekeeper, 55, Amazigh, in an indigo kaftan and headscarf, henna on her hands, scatters pink rose petals onto the water. Palette: zellige green and white, terracotta, orange-tree green, rose pink. Dust in the light shaft, worn tiles, ripples. No readable text, no logos.

Margherita
Food documentary photograph, 35mm lens from the counter side. The wood-fired dome oven of a century-old pizzeria in the Quartieri Spagnoli, Naples, its mouth glowing with fire, blue-and-yellow majolica tiles around it, flour hanging in the air. A Neapolitan pizzaiolo, 70, broad and heavy with huge hairy forearms, a white cotton cap and T-shirt dusted with flour, a small gold horn charm on a chain, slides a long wooden peel with a fresh margherita toward the flames, his face lit orange, squinting at the heat. Palette: fire orange, flour white, tomato red, majolica blue. Sweat, flour on skin, a charred peel. No readable text, no logos.

The tailor
A frame from a handmade stop-motion animated film: felt, wood and wire puppets on a miniature set, visible fingerprints in the felt, tiny imperfect stitching, the shallow depth of field of a macro lens. A cramped tailor's shop in Old Havana built in miniature: faded teal walls, bolts of fabric on shelves, an old black sewing machine, a ceiling fan, warm light from a tiny lamp, a window with a blurred vintage car outside. An old Cuban tailor puppet with a felt face, a white wire-wool moustache, half-moon glasses on a chain, rolled shirt sleeves and a yellow tape measure around his neck holds up a red jacket and inspects a seam. Palette: teal, ochre felt, fabric red, warm lamp light. No readable text, no logos.

Aish
Street documentary photograph from a moving car, 35mm lens, morning haze. A chaotic street in Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo: white-and-blue minibuses, a donkey cart, old minarets in the dusty distance. A 17-year-old Egyptian bread delivery boy, skinny, a faded red T-shirt and flip-flops, rides a rusty black bicycle one-handed through the traffic while balancing on his head a huge wooden tray stacked with dozens of round baladi loaves, his other hand steadying it, calm and focused. Palette: dust gold, bread brown, minibus white and blue, faded red. Motion blur on the traffic, sharp on him, real dust and grain. No readable text, no logos.

MIRRA, shot 2
Beauty close-up, 85mm, a hard key light and a saffron-yellow backdrop: the woman from the reference image, the same silver close-cropped hair, gold hoops and cobalt silk suit, in profile with her eyes closed. No readable text, no logos. Fragrance commercial look: colour-blocked studio sets in hot pink, cobalt and saffron, hard strobe with crisp shadows, macro precision, fine grain.

MIRRA, shot 4
Medium close shot, 50mm, a hot-pink backdrop: the woman from the first reference image in the cobalt silk suit raises the amber perfume bottle from the second reference image toward her wrist, a hard backlight behind her. No readable text, no logos. Fragrance commercial look: colour-blocked studio sets in hot pink, cobalt and saffron, hard strobe with crisp shadows, macro precision, fine grain.

Hot pot
Vertical documentary photograph at water level, 50mm lens, blue hour. An outdoor geothermal hot pot at a public swimming pool in Reykjavik during heavy snowfall: thick steam rising off the water, aqua tiles, a snowy railing and a street lamp coming on. An 84-year-old Icelandic woman, tiny and round, rosy cheeks, white hair escaping a floral rubber swimming cap, a red swimsuit, sits up to her shoulders in the hot water laughing with her eyes shut as snowflakes land on her face; behind her in the steam a bald man and a woman with a towel on her head chat. Palette: steam white, snow blue, red, aqua. Real skin, condensation, snowflakes in focus. No readable text, no logos.

KOLO, shot 2
Vertical close-up from a phone camera, a dorm desk under a desk lamp: two hands with short unpainted nails and a hospital wristband hold the terracotta espresso maker from the reference image upright over a clear glass cup, a dark stream of espresso with golden crema pouring out. No readable text, no logos. Real phone-camera UGC look: front or back phone camera, natural light, slight wide-angle distortion, unpolished.
Pick the right one
Seedream 5.0 Pro and its siblings
| Model | Best for | Resolution | Price per run |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seedream 5.0 Pro (this page) | ByteDance's newest: detailed images up to 2K and edits of up to 10 reference images. | Up to 2K | $0.048 |
| Seedream 4.5 | 2K or 4K images with crisp typography, and edits of up to 14 reference images. | Up to 4K | $0.054 |
| Seedream 5.0 Lite | The quicker Seedream 5.0: 2K to 4K images and edits of up to 14 reference images. | Up to 4K | $0.048 |
| Seedream 4.0 | The lowest-priced Seedream: 1K to 4K images and edits of up to 14 reference images. | Up to 4K | $0.041 |
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Questions
Seedream 5.0 Pro, answered
- What is Seedream 5.0 Pro?
- Seedream 5.0 Pro is an image model from ByteDance. ByteDance's newest: detailed images up to 2K and edits of up to 10 reference images. On Leap it runs in one studio beside every other top model, with one account.
- Can Seedream 5.0 Pro start from a photo?
- Yes. Seedream 5.0 Pro starts from words or up to 10 photos.
- What resolution and sizes does it make?
- Up to 2K, in 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, 2:3, 16:9, 9:16, 21:9 or 4:5.
- How is it different from Seedream 4.5, Seedream 5.0 Lite and Seedream 4.0?
- Seedream 5.0 Pro: ByteDance's newest: detailed images up to 2K and edits of up to 10 reference images. Seedream 4.5: 2K or 4K images with crisp typography, and edits of up to 14 reference images. Seedream 5.0 Lite: The quicker Seedream 5.0: 2K to 4K images and edits of up to 14 reference images. Seedream 4.0: The lowest-priced Seedream: 1K to 4K images and edits of up to 14 reference images. They all run in the same studio, so you can try one prompt on each.
- How much does a run cost?
- An image costs $0.048. You see the exact price before you press go, and a run that fails costs nothing.
- Is Seedream 5.0 Pro free to try?
- No. There is no free credit: you add credit from $5, and your first top-up has no card fee. The cheapest run is $0.048 (an image), so $5 covers 104 of those. You pay per run, in dollars, with no subscription.
- Can I use what I make commercially?
- Yes. You own what you make on Leap, so you can use it commercially, and we never train AI on it. The people and brands shown in a result can still have rights in it; the Terms say more.
- Is there an API?
- Yes. Leap's REST API runs it as bytedance/seedream-5.0-pro, at the same price per run as the studio, and agents can call it through Leap's MCP server. The request is at the bottom of this page.
- Do I need a ByteDance account?
- No. Leap sends your request to ByteDance's model and gives you what it makes. One Leap account runs Seedream 5.0 Pro and every other model, in the studio, through the API and from your agents.
Your idea, Seedream 5.0 Pro.
Every run shows its price before it starts, and one that fails costs nothing.
Make it with Seedream 5.0 ProFor developers
Run Seedream 5.0 Pro from code
- Model ID
- bytedance/seedream-5.0-pro
- Makes
- Image
- Pricing
- Per run, quoted first: POST /v1/quotes
Inputs
What the model takes. Leave out anything with a default.
The request
The same envelope for every model; only the model and its input change. With prefer: wait=60 the answer holds the result when the run finishes within a minute; a longer one is read again by its ID. Agents can call it through the MCP server at app.tryleap.ai/api/mcp.
curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations \ -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY" \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ -H "prefer: wait=60" \ -d '{ "model": "bytedance/seedream-5.0-pro", "input": { "prompt": "Candid 35mm film still, Kodak Vision3 500T pushed one stop, visible grain and soft halation. 1:40 a.m. in a tiny standing soba shop built into the brick arches under the elevated train tracks in Yurakucho, Tokyo. A 58-year-old Japanese salaryman, stocky with a round face, grey stubble, thinning grey hair combed back and damp from rain, loosened dark-green tie, rumpled beige raincoat, reading glasses pushed up on his forehead, leans over a narrow steel counter holding a steaming bowl of soba close to his mouth with chopsticks, eyes half closed with exhaustion and relief. Behind the counter a young cook in a white cotton headband and indigo apron ladles broth, out of focus. Light: one bare tungsten bulb over the counter and cold fluorescent spill from the street, steam glowing in the bulb light, wet brick, a fogged glass door. Eye level from just across the counter, 40mm lens at f/2, focus on his face, background soft. Palette: tungsten amber, wet brick red, fluorescent cyan. Real skin with pores, oily shine and tired eye bags, no retouching. No readable signs or text." } }' # Video often outlasts the wait and answers "queued" or "running".# Put its "id" in GENERATION_ID and read it again until it is done:# curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations/$GENERATION_ID -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY"





