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Seedream 5.0 Lite

doubao-seedream-5-0-260128

Doubao-Seedream 5.0 Lite is ByteDance's optimized text-to-image generation model designed for fast, cost-efficient visual creation while retaining strong visual quality. It offers improved prompt understanding and rendering performance over previous "Lite" variants, making it suitable for real-time applications and interactive creative workflows. With a focus on speed, responsiveness, and lightweight deployment, Seedream 5.0-Lite enables rapid generation of visually appealing images across a wide range of styles and scenarios, making it ideal for user-facing creative tools and large-scale content pipelines.

Context
128K tokens
Endpoint
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Pricing

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Request$0.235 / request
BillingPay Per Request
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Endpoint
python
from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",    base_url="https://api.apertis.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="doubao-seedream-5-0-260128",    messages=[        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}    ],    max_tokens=1024,    temperature=0.7) print(response.choices[0].message.content) # Optional: Enable context compression to reduce token usage# response = client.chat.completions.create(#     model="doubao-seedream-5-0-260128",#     messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],#     extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )

Supported Parameters

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Common5 params
modelpromptsizequalityresponse_format
Extended4 params
nstylebackgroundoutput_format

Cursor IDE Model IDs

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doubao-seedream-5-0-260128

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