Seedream 4.5 AI Image Generator
Seedream 4.5 is ByteDance's photoreal text-to-image model, sitting between Seedream 4.0 and the 5.0 line. It takes a prompt, an aspect ratio and a quality setting, and returns a single image.
Seedream 4.5 AI Image Generator
Three images Seedream 4.5 made here
AI-generated reference frames covering the mid-tier's usual ground.
Helsinki as a city model
What is Seedream 4.5?
Seedream 4.5 is a text-to-image model in ByteDance's Seedream family, positioned above 4.0 and below the 5.0 Lite and 5.0 Pro tiers. It takes three things: a written prompt, one of eight aspect ratios, and a quality setting of basic or high. There is no separate resolution ladder and no image count — one request returns one image.
What it is good at is the photoreal end of the range: material surfaces, skin, and the small print inside a scene. Text rendering is the part most worth knowing about, because it is where image models have historically failed in a way that is obvious to anyone looking; asking 4.5 for a sign, a label or a book spine returns something readable far more often than the generation before it did.
It is not an editor. Handing it an existing image to modify is a different model id on both shelves, and that path is not wired here.
Creative engine
What an image costs
One flat rate per generated image, independent of the aspect ratio you choose.
Between 4.0 and the 5.0 line
The mid tier of the Seedream family, and the cheapest one that does photoreal well.
Three inputs, no more
Prompt, aspect ratio, quality. There is no seed, no batch and no resolution field.
Text to image only
Editing an existing image is a separate model and is not available on this page.
When 4.5 is the right pick
Pick 4.5 when the image has to look photographed and has to contain writing. That combination is narrower than it sounds and it is exactly where the cheaper tiers give up: Seedream 4.0 will produce a handsome image and turn the sign in the background into ornamental squiggles. Go up to 5.0 Pro when the subject is a person in motion, or when you need the extra fidelity enough to pay twice as much for the high quality setting. Stay on 4.0 when the picture is decorative and nobody will read anything inside it. The prompt transfers between all three, so testing down the ladder costs almost nothing. When the writing is the whole picture rather than a sign inside it — a headline, a set of numbered steps, a caption under every panel — [Qwen Image 3](/image/qwen-image-3) is built for that specific job.
Signs, labels and packaging
Anything where the words in the frame are part of the point rather than set dressing.
Material and surface
Rust, condensation, worn leather, wet rope — texture is where photoreal is won or lost.
Fixed ratio from the start
Generating at 21:9 or 9:16 directly beats cropping a square down to it afterwards.
Feature overview
What the model accepts, and what it deliberately does not.
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.
Basic and high quality
Two settings rather than a resolution ladder; basic is what this page generates by default.
In-scene typography
Words asked for inside the image come back legible more reliably than on 4.0.
Seedream 4.5 specs
Taken from the model's published API schema.
- Model
- Seedream 4.5 (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
- Images per request
- One
- Credit cost
- 40 credits per image, any resolution
- Image editing
- A separate model id on the provider; not offered on this page
From prompt to image
Four steps, and the third is the one that changes the result most.
Pick the ratio first
Decide the shape before you write, because framing changes what belongs in the prompt.
Describe the light
Photoreal models respond to stated lighting far more than to adjectives like beautiful or stunning.
Quote any text exactly
Put the words you want rendered in the prompt verbatim. Paraphrasing them is how they come back wrong.
Run it twice
Two images at 40 credits each is a cheaper way to find the shot than rewriting the prompt blind.
What people generate with it
Jobs where the image has to survive being looked at closely.
Product and packaging shots
Labels, bottles and boxes where the printed text has to read correctly.
Editorial photography
People and places lit like a magazine shoot rather than an illustration.
Storefronts and signage
Scenes built around lettering — shop fronts, menus, street signs.
Flat lays and still life
Overhead arrangements where every object has to hold its own detail.
One credit balance for every image model
Every model on this page draws from the same balance, and the credit cost appears before you press generate. Failed jobs are never charged.
Free · Unlimited free pictures once you sign in
No card, nothing to cancel.
Starter
- Full speed
- Every day
- Heaviest days
- Queue, never blocked
What's included
- Unlimited pictures and photo edits on Veida AI Image v1
- Skip the free queue — your runs start when you press Generate
- 2 generations at once
- No watermark on anything you make
- Commercial use rights
- GPT Image 2, Nano Banana 2 and every other model on credits, up to 4K
- Past the full-speed allowance the queue lengthens — it never blocks
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Pro
- Full speed
- Every day
- Heaviest days
- Queue, never blocked
Everything in Starter, plus
- Every model Max has, at 60% of Max's price
- Unlimited on every model — GPT Image 2.5, GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 5.0 Pro, Qwen Image 3
- 4 generations at once
- No credit cost on any model, at any size
- Up to 4K output, unlimited
- Past the full-speed allowance the queue lengthens — it never blocks
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Max
- Full speed
- Every day
- Heaviest days
- Queue, never blocked
Everything in Pro, plus
- 2× Pro at once — 8 generations running together
- 1.7× Pro's full-speed allowance, the largest on the site
- Unlimited on every model, up to 4K
- Past the full-speed allowance the queue lengthens — it never blocks
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Credit packs
One-time top-ups — buy extra credits any time you run low.
Small pack
- Extra full speed
- +2 days Pro · +1 days Max
What's included
- Credits never expire
- Puts any unlimited plan back at full speed, instantly
- Stacks on top of any plan
- Pay per run on the models your plan doesn't cover
- Works on every model on this page
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Medium pack
- Per credit
- 16% better vs small
- Extra full speed
- +5 days Pro · +3 days Max
What's included
- Credits never expire
- Puts any unlimited plan back at full speed, instantly
- Stacks on top of any plan
- Pay per run on the models your plan doesn't cover
- Works on every model on this page
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Large pack
- Per credit
- 30% better vs small
- Extra full speed
- +12 days Pro · +7 days Max
What's included
- Credits never expire
- Puts any unlimited plan back at full speed, instantly
- Stacks on top of any plan
- Pay per run on the models your plan doesn't cover
- Works on every model on this page
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One credit balance for every image model
Use one balance across every model listed below, and check the credit cost before each request. Nothing is charged for a job that fails.
Image models
Model credit guide
What each model costs in credits
You're only charged for successful generations, and the price of a model does not change with resolution — a 4K run costs exactly what a 1K draft costs.
| Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|
| Veida AI Image v1 | 4 credits. The house model, for a picture or an edit of your own photo, and the cheapest run on the site. |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite / Nano Banana 2.1 | 30 credits. Nano Banana 2 Lite and the newer Nano Banana 2.1, both of which also edit a photo you upload. |
| Seedream 5.0 Lite / Seedream 4.0 / Qwen Image 3 | 35 credits. Fast drafts and iteration passes, and the model built for legible text. |
| Seedream 4.5 / Seedream 5.0 Pro / Qwen Image 3.0 Pro | 40 credits. Photoreal detail and the Qwen text tier, flat across every aspect ratio. |
| Nano Banana 2 / GPT Image 2 / GPT Image 2.5 / Grok Imagine Image 2.0 | 50 credits. Both OpenAI models, GPT Image 2.5 included, plus Nano Banana 2 and Grok — 4K costs the same as 1K. |
| Nano Banana Pro | 70 credits. Nano Banana Pro, for fine detail that has to hold at print size. |
Seedream 4.5 FAQ
Common questions about the mid tier of the Seedream family.
4.5 is the newer generation and is noticeably better at rendering text inside an image. 4.0 takes an image size and a 1K/2K/4K resolution instead of a quality setting, and costs a little less.
A flat 40 credits, whichever aspect ratio you choose. Seedream 4.0 is 35, and Seedream 5.0 Pro is also 40.
Not on this page. Seedream editing is a separate model id on the provider, and only the text-to-image path is wired here.
They are the two settings the API exposes. This page generates at basic; on the 5.0 Pro tier the same switch is also a price difference, which is why it is sent explicitly rather than left to a default.
Short text, yes — legible lettering is what Seedream 4.5 improved over earlier models. Quote the words verbatim in your prompt and keep them to a headline, a sign or a label.
Your credits return on their own — any run that fails costs you nothing.
4.5 is the middle child on purpose: flat 40 credits, more detail than 4.0, more predictable than the 5.0 line. It is the safe default for batch work where you want one engine's consistent look across fifty images.
Make an image with Seedream 4.5
Pick a ratio, write the scene, quote any text you want in it, and run it.
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