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Official / liveDoubao (ByteDance)

Seedream

Doubao's production image model — artistic, multilingual, and running right here while you wait for GPT Image 2.

Strengths

  • Strong artistic and stylized output (Seedream 5.0)
  • Low-cost tier via Seedream 5.0 Lite — fastest of the three
  • Solid multilingual text rendering including CJK scripts

Limitations

  • Less well-known outside the Chinese-speaking market
  • Photorealistic portrait rendering behind Nano Banana 2
  • English developer docs are thinner than Google / OpenAI

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