Seedream 4.5 is the latest in-house image generation model developed by ByteDance. Compared with Seedream 4.0, it delivers comprehensive improvements, especially in editing consistency, including better preservation of subject details, lighting, and color tone. It also enhances portrait refinement and small-text rendering. The model’s multi-image composition capabilities have been significantly strengthened, and both reasoning performance and visual aesthetics continue to advance, enabling more accurate and artistically expressive image generation.
Pricing is $0.04 per output image, regardless of size.
Modalities
Price
$0.04/image
Context
4K
Released
Dec 23, 2025
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Seedream 4.5 is the latest in-house image generation model developed by ByteDance. Compared with Seedream 4.0, it delivers comprehensive improvements, especially in editing consistency, including better preservation of subject details, lighting, and color tone. It also enhances portrait refinement and small-text rendering.
Seedream 4.5 costs $0.04/image.
Seedream 4.5 renders at 1K, 2K and 4K, supports the 1:1, 1:2, 2:1, 2:3, 3:2, 3:4 and 11 more aspect ratios and can generate up to 10 images per request.
Seedream 4.5 accepts images and text as input and returns images. Up to 14 reference images can be attached to one request for image editing.
Seedream 5.0 Lite and Seedream 5.0 Pro are other image models from ByteDance Seed.
Seedream 4.5 was released on December 23, 2025.
| $0.04 | 11.09s | 1,194 tps |
Throughput
1194tok/s
P50, best across providers
Latency
11.09s
P50, best provider
100.00%
99.97%
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