Seedream 4.0
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bytedance/seedream-4-0 · by ByteDance Seed · Diffusion transformer (DiT)
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- $0.030 / image Current 2026-07-19 → present
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Capability profile
Text rendering strong
Resolution ceiling strong
Inference speed strong
Compositional accuracy strong
Prompt adherence unknown
Photorealism unknown
Artistic style range unknown
Operator guidance
Route here for fast generation with strong text/formula/table rendering and multi-image composition. Compare against Gemini 3.1 Flash Image or Gemini 3 Pro Image (also strong on text rendering) or Imagen 4 (Google's more conventional diffusion pipeline) — no independently verified head-to-head exists between any of these in this registry.
Use cases
- In-image text, formulas, tables, and chart rendering
- Multi-image composition/fusion from up to a dozen reference images
- Fast, high-volume generation and editing in one unified model (background replacement, portrait retouching)
- Structured reasoning-adjacent generation — ByteDance's own blog specifically mentions puzzles, crosswords, and comic-strip continuation
Limitations
- Prompt adherence, photorealism, and artistic range are unrated — no independent or vendor-specific claim distinct from generic marketing found
- ByteDance's own blog cites benchmark wins (highest Elo in single-image editing, leading text-to-image on "MagicArena," beating Gemini 2.5 Flash) on ByteDance's own MagicBench evaluation — a vendor-run benchmark, not one of this registry's tracked independent benchmarks (GenEval/T2I-CompBench/etc.), so deliberately not recorded in the structured benchmarks field; flagged here as a vendor claim, not verified
- No independently published GenEval / T2I-CompBench score found