Seedream 5.0 Pro
Notable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.
Key facts
- Released
- Jul 8, 2026
- What it does
- Makes images: Creates pictures from a description, or edits them.
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- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “Beyond Generation, It Understands Design | Introducing Seedream 5.0 Pro”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Pictures, by people's votes#16 of 78
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst1,428
- 2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst1,406
- 15Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image1,249
- 16Seedream 5.0 Pro1,249
- 17Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro)1,246
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-image
Compare Seedream 5.0 Pro with
It came out 580 days after Infinity, the lab's previous model.
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