Seedream 5.0 Pro AI Image Generator
Seedream 5.0 Pro is the top tier of the Seedream family. It takes a prompt, an aspect ratio and a quality setting, and it is the tier to reach for when the subject is a person, motion, or anything a viewer will study.
Seedream 5.0 Pro AI Image Generator
From prompt to final image
Four steps, and the first one is where the money is saved.
Find the prompt lower down
Settle the wording on Seedream 4.0 or 4.5 first. It transfers to Pro unchanged.
State the light and the lens
Direction of light and a focal length do more for a photoreal result than any adjective.
Say what moves and what does not
Selective motion has to be described as such, or you get either a still frame or a blurred one.
Only then go high
The high setting roughly doubles the cost, so spend it on the frame you already know works.
What is Seedream 5.0 Pro?
Seedream 5.0 Pro is the highest tier ByteDance sells in the Seedream line, above 5.0 Lite, 4.5 and 4.0. The interface is the same as the rest of the family — a prompt, one of eight aspect ratios, and a quality setting of basic or high — so moving up a tier is not a different way of working, only a different price and a different result.
What you are buying is the difficult cases. Any modern model can produce a pleasant landscape; the ones that separate are a face under mixed lighting, a hand holding something, motion that is meant to be in one part of the frame and not the rest, and reflective material that has to stay material rather than turning into plastic.
Those are where Pro earns the gap. The quality switch matters more here than on the tiers below it, because on this model it is also the price: high costs roughly twice what basic does, so it is sent explicitly on every request rather than left to a provider default.
Creative engine
What an image costs
Two settings, two prices. The aspect ratio does not change either of them.
Top of the Seedream family
Above 5.0 Lite, 4.5 and 4.0, and the tier to finish on rather than iterate on.
Quality is a price, not a label
high is roughly double basic. This page runs basic unless you change it.
Text to image only
Image-to-image is a separate model id on the provider and is not wired on this page.
When Pro is worth the gap
The honest answer is: for the image you keep, not the ten you throw away. The workflow that wastes the least money on this site is to find the prompt on Seedream 4.0 or 4.5 at twenty to twenty-five credits a run, then generate the final on Pro once the wording is settled — the prompt transfers unchanged between every Seedream tier, so nothing is lost in the move. Reach for Pro directly when the subject is a person, when part of the frame has to be in motion and part still, or when the surface is glass, chrome, water or skin. Stay on 4.5 when the picture contains writing that has to be readable and little else that is hard, and stay on 4.0 when the image is decorative.
People and faces
The subject where tier differences are most visible and least forgiving.
Selective motion
Blur that belongs to one element while the rest of the frame holds still.
Reflective material
Glass, chrome, water and wet surfaces, which cheaper tiers tend to render as plastic.
Feature overview
What the top tier accepts, and where it is the same as the rest of the family.
Text to image
One prompt in, one image out, with no source material required.
Eight aspect ratios
1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:2 and 21:9 — the same set as 4.5.
Basic and high
The quality switch, which on this tier is also roughly a doubling in price.
PNG or JPEG
An output format option the lower Seedream tiers do not expose.
Seedream 5.0 Pro specs
Taken from the model's published API schema.
- Model
- Seedream 5.0 Pro (ByteDance), text-to-image
- Required inputs
- Prompt, aspect ratio, quality
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1 / 4:3 / 3:4 / 16:9 / 9:16 / 2:3 / 3:2 / 21:9
- Quality
- basic or high, and the two are priced differently
- Output format
- PNG or JPEG
- Credit cost
- About 30 credits at basic, about 55 at high
- Tiers below
- Seedream 5.0 Lite, Seedream 4.5 and Seedream 4.0
What people generate with it
The images that were going to be looked at closely anyway.
Portraits
Faces under mixed or difficult light, where a tier down starts to look synthetic.
Hero and campaign images
The single image at the top of a page, where one generation has to land.
Product photography
Glass, metal and liquid, shot the way a studio would shoot them.
Cinematic stills
Frames built around depth, atmosphere and a single point of focus.
SayMaker pricing — you pay per generation, never per seat
One credit pool covers Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video. The cost shows before every run, the safety check runs before the model does, and a failed run is refunded automatically. Use a subscription for ongoing work, or a one-time pack when you just need to top up.
Free
What's included
- 15 credits before you sign up
- +40 when you create an account
- +100 a week from daily check-ins
- = 488 a month — 97 images or 12 videos
- No card, no account
- Free engine every day Grok Imagine
- Photo editing Nano Banana 2 Lite
- Not included: Clean downloads, no watermark
- Not included: Every model unlocked
- Not included: No shared queue
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Starter
What's included
- 3,150 credits per month
- Up to 630 images or 78 videos Grok Imagine Nano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Every model unlocked Veo 3.1 Seedance Nano Banana
- Cost shown before you generate
- Generation history
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Creator
What's included
- 7,200 credits per month
- Up to 1,440 images or 180 videos Grok Imagine Nano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Every model unlocked Veo 3.1 Seedance 2 Nano Banana 2
- No shared queue
- Priority credit top-ups
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Studio
What's included
- 13,200 credits per month
- Up to 2,640 images or 330 videos Grok Imagine Nano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Every model unlocked Seedance 2.5 Kling 3.0 Veo 3.1
- No shared queue
- Built for 4K runs
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Credit packs
One-time top-ups — buy extra credits any time you run low.
Credit Pack 1500
What's included
- 1,500 credits that never expire
- Up to 300 images or 37 videos Grok Imagine Nano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- No ongoing subscription
- Available across the supported models
- Credits never expire
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Credit Pack 3600
What's included
- 3,600 credits that never expire
- Up to 720 images or 90 videos Grok Imagine Nano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- No ongoing subscription
- Available across the supported models
- Use for both video and image generation
- Credits never expire
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Credit Pack 9000
What's included
- 9,000 credits that never expire
- Up to 1,800 images or 225 videos Grok Imagine Nano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- No ongoing subscription
- Handy for Seedance 2.0 final renders
- Credits never expire
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One credit balance for every SayMaker image and video model
Use one balance across every image and video model on the shelf — the main ones are listed below — and check the credit cost before each request.
Video models
Image models
Model credit guide
What each model costs in credits
A failed run is refunded automatically. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.5 | The long-take tier, priced per second: 5s 480p ≈ 525 credits, 5s 720p ≈ 1,185. A full 30s take runs ≈ 3,150 at 480p and ≈ 7,090 at 720p. |
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | Supplying a starting frame or clip costs less than starting from words alone: 6s 720p ≈ 565 credits from an image, ≈ 925 from text. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 6s 720p text-to-video ≈ 745 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Mini | The cheapest tier of the Seedance 2 family. 6s 720p ≈ 465 credits, 6s 480p ≈ 215 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 1.5 Pro | Audio doubles the rate. 6s 720p ≈ 85 credits silent, ≈ 160 with audio; 1080p ≈ 175 and ≈ 340. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video, not per second, and the tier you pick is the whole price: Lite ≈ 115 credits at 720p and ≈ 135 at 1080p, Fast ≈ 225 at 720p, Quality ≈ 940 at 720p. |
| Video | Kling 3.0 | Audio raises the rate by about half. 6s 720p ≈ 320 credits silent, ≈ 455 with audio; 1080p ≈ 405 and ≈ 610. |
| Video | MiniMax H3 | Fixed 2K, no resolution ladder. Priced per second — a 5s clip ≈ 395 credits. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. 20 credits per 1K image, 30 at 2K, 45 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. 30 credits per 1K or 2K image, 55 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant, and the everyday editing price: a flat 15 credits per image at every resolution. |
| Image | GPT Image 2 | The lowest-cost premium image model here. 10 credits per 1K image, 15 at 2K, 30 at 4K. |
| Image | GPT Image 2.5 Flare | OpenAI's newest image model, on the fast tier. 25 credits per 1K image, 40 at 2K, 60 at 4K — same price whether you generate or edit. |
| Image | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | The 2.5 tier for edits that touch only what you named. Same price as Flare: 25 credits per 1K image, 40 at 2K, 60 at 4K. |
| Image | Seedream 5.0 Lite | Flat pricing — 20 credits per image whether you generate or edit. |
Seedream 5.0 Pro FAQ
Common questions about the top tier of the Seedream family.
Lite takes only a prompt and a size and runs at a flat low rate; Pro adds the quality switch, an output format option and a noticeably higher ceiling on hard subjects like faces, motion and reflective material.
About 30 credits at the basic quality setting and about 55 at high. The aspect ratio does not change the price.
basic, unless you change it. It is sent explicitly on every request because on this model the setting is also the price.
Usually not. Find the prompt on Seedream 4.0 or 4.5, which cost less per run, then generate the final here — the prompt carries over between tiers unchanged.
Not on this page. Seedream image-to-image is a separate model id on the provider and only the text-to-image path is wired here.
Credits are returned automatically, unless the request broke the content policy.
Both hold up on hard subjects; they get there differently. Seedream 5.0 Pro carries strong art direction with it — illustration, poster looks, a deliberate visual language — while Banana Pro is the more literal of the two through edits. A stylised poster of a real product may even take both: compose in Seedream, refine the label in Banana Pro.
Make an image with Seedream 5.0 Pro
Bring a prompt you have already tested lower down the family, pick the ratio, and run it once.