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Seedream 5.0 Lite

Seedream 5.0 Lite Image Generation is available in the Business API catalog.

bytedance/seedream-5.0-lite/text-to-image

Capabilities

Best for

  • Concept art and mood boards
  • Product and marketing visuals
  • Batch generation at scale

Not for

  • Exact text rendering at small sizes
  • Precise brand-logo reproduction
  • Vector output

Authentication

api key header

The Pika API uses API keys to authenticate requests. Send your key in the X-API-Key header. Your API key is a secret. Don't expose it in browsers or other client-side code. Instead, call the API from your server. The signed-in playground uses a portal session and never sends your API key.

header
X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

Endpoint

asynchronous · poll for the result

POSThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/bytedance/seedream-5.0-lite/text-to-imagegenerate endpoint
GEThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}poll until completed
GEThttps://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/contentget the result URL

REST Setup

plain HTTPS

Image generation runs through the REST endpoint shown above. The API is plain JSON over HTTPS, so any HTTP client works. No provider-specific SDK is required.

Generate

POST /v1/media/bytedance/seedream-5.0-lite/text-to-image

Request

curl -X POST https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/bytedance/seedream-5.0-lite/text-to-image \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"prompt": "Mixed-media artwork, image-plus-object, physical read: a full-bleed sheet of creased sage-green #A8BBA0 paper filling the frame, real folds and fiber texture modeled by soft raking light, with a clean horizontal torn slot at eye height through which a photographic pair of calm eyes and brow look out — the only photographic element, a few crease lines converging toward the slot. 85% uninterrupted paper field, radical negative space, the paper lit like a portrait subject. Light uniform film grain fusing all layers, milky low-contrast palette, no pure black, matte finish, refined and restrained, one device only. No feathered edges, no second device, no HDR.",
"num_images": 1,
"size": "2K"
}'

Response

{
"id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0",
"status": "queued"
}

Request body

promptstringrequired
Text prompt describing the image to generate.
num_imagesinteger1 – 6default: 1
Number of images to generate.
seedinteger0 – 2147483647
Seed for a reproducible generation.
sizeenum
Output resolution.

Accepted values

size

Returns

Returns a job object with status , not the final output. Store the id from the response and poll the job until it completes.

Poll status

GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}

Request

curl https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id} \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
"id": "media_8f3a2c91-5b7d-4e0a-9c26-31d4f2a8e6b0",
"status": "running"
}

Poll the job by id until it reaches a terminal state: completed or failed.

The job object

idstring
Unique identifier for the job.
statusenum
The status of the job.One of:
object
The generation output. Present once the job completes.
errorstring
If the job failed, the reason for the failure.

Get result

GET /v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content

Request

curl https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/media/jobs/{request_id}/content \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
"url": "https://api.dev.pika.art/v1/files/img_8f3a2c91.png"
}

Once the job completes, fetch a download URL for the generated media.

Returns

urlstring
Download URL for the generated file.

Errors

shared across calls

Errors use conventional HTTP status codes with a JSON body of the shape {"message": "..."}. The one exception is validation: a request body that fails validation returns 422 with a plain-text body.

StatusWhenBody
401 UnauthorizedThe API key is missing or invalid.{"message":"Invalid API key"}
403 ForbiddenThe key is not active, or the org balance cannot cover the request.{"message":"Insufficient org balance"}
404 Not FoundNo job with that id exists in your org.{"message":"media job not found"}
409 ConflictThe result was requested before the job completed, or an Idempotency-Key header was reused with a different body.{"message":"media job is not ready"}
422 Unprocessable EntityThe request body failed validation: an invalid enum value, a missing required field, a wrong type, or malformed JSON. Returned as plain text, not JSON. A schema-valid parameter combination that cannot be priced returns the same status with a JSON message.Unprocessable entity
429 Too Many RequestsOrg limit reached: requests per minute or day, or concurrent jobs. Check the Retry-After header.{"message":"rate limit exceeded: rpm"}
503 Service UnavailableThe model rail or a backend dependency is temporarily unavailable. Retry with backoff.{"message":"media dispatch unavailable"}

Pricing

only successful runs are charged

TierPrice
lite$0.035 / image

Per-model pricing

Transparent, usage-based rates for every ByteDance model.

Seedance 2.0

Video

Image to Video

4kstandard$4.20 / 1M tok
480pstandard$7.35 / 1M tok
720pstandard$7.35 / 1M tok
1080pstandard$8.085 / 1M tok

Reference to Video

4kstandard · with video input$2.52 / 1M tok
4kstandard · no video input$4.20 / 1M tok
480pstandard · with video input$4.515 / 1M tok
720pstandard · with video input$4.515 / 1M tok
1080pstandard · with video input$4.935 / 1M tok
480pstandard · no video input$7.35 / 1M tok
720pstandard · no video input$7.35 / 1M tok
1080pstandard · no video input$8.085 / 1M tok

Text to Video

4kstandard$4.20 / 1M tok
480pstandard$7.35 / 1M tok
720pstandard$7.35 / 1M tok
1080pstandard$8.085 / 1M tok

Seedance 2.0 Fast

Video

Image to Video

480p$5.88 / 1M tok
720p$5.88 / 1M tok

Reference to Video

480pwith video input$3.465 / 1M tok
720pwith video input$3.465 / 1M tok
480pno video input$5.88 / 1M tok
720pno video input$5.88 / 1M tok

Text to Video

480p$5.88 / 1M tok
720p$5.88 / 1M tok

Seedance 2.0 Mini

Video

Image to Video

480p$3.675 / 1M tok
720p$3.675 / 1M tok

Reference to Video

480pwith video input$2.205 / 1M tok
720pwith video input$2.205 / 1M tok
480pno video input$3.675 / 1M tok
720pno video input$3.675 / 1M tok

Text to Video

480p$3.675 / 1M tok
720p$3.675 / 1M tok

Seedream 5.0 Pro Image Editing

Image

Image to Image

Output1K$0.045 / image
Output2K$0.09 / image
Input images$0.003 / image

Text to Image

1K$0.045 / image
2K$0.09 / image

Seedream 5.0 Lite Image Editing

Image

Image to Image

$0.035 / image

Text to ImageCurrent

$0.035 / image

Seedream 4.5

Image • Text to Image

$0.04 / image

Seedream 4.0 Image Editing

Image

Image to Image

1K$0.03 / image

Text to Image

1K$0.03 / image

Seed Audio 1.0

Audio • Text to Audio

$0.15 / min