Seedream 5.0 Pro is ByteDance's flagship image model for layouts, dense designs and text in many languages: in Flick it makes an image from a prompt and up to 10 reference images for 14 credits at 1.5K.
By Zoey Z.Last updated
Seedream 5.0 Pro launched on July 8, 2026 and reached Flick on October 29, 2026, and its pitch is text and layout: posters, signs and sheets that come back spelled right. A model that misspells one word costs a rerun, so for this Seedream 5.0 Pro guide we ran six prompts in Flick at default settings, from a film still to Japanese signs, a comic page and a storyboard. Below are its features, prices, the exact prompts and what came back, letter by letter.
Add an image node on a Flick canvas, choose Seedream 5.0 Pro in the model list, and set the aspect ratio of the frame you need.
Write the scene, then put every title, sign or label in quotes exactly as it should read, since the model copied quoted words letter for letter in our tests.
Keep 1.5K for drafts at 14 credits, switch to 2K for finals at 28, and zoom into any text before you use the image.
| Seedream 5.0 Pro in Flick | |
|---|---|
| Maker | ByteDance Seed |
| Released | July 8, 2026 |
| In Flick since | October 29, 2026 |
| Ways to use it | Image node, Text to Image and Edit Image |
| Price | 14 credits at 1.5K, 28 at 2K |
| Resolutions | 1.5K or 2K |
| Default 16:9 image, measured | 2048 × 1152 |
| Prompt Enhancement | Standard or fast, standard by default |
| Reference images | Up to 10 |
| Flickpedia styles | Yes |
| Picker estimate | About a minute |
| Plan | Free |
Prices, settings, reference limits, the plan and the picker's estimate are read from Flick's model config; the image size is measured on our test files. The release date and the claims below are from ByteDance Seed's launch post.
| What you make | At 1.5K | At 2K |
|---|---|---|
| A new image | 14 | 28 |
| An edit in Edit Image | 14 | 28 |
Each card shows the prompt exactly as it was run, at 1.5K with no reference image or style.
It gave the grey stubble, the single oil lamp and the rain on the glass, but framed him from the waist up rather than in the close-up the prompt asked for.
Cinematic film still, close-up of an old lighthouse keeper with a weathered face and grey stubble, lit by a single oil lamp at night, rain on the window behind him, shallow depth of field, 35mm film grain
Both quoted lines came back exact, and it added a readable credits block of invented names, "DIRECTED BY J. HALE" among them, so check names before you print.
A vintage sci-fi movie poster. Title at the top in bold condensed letters: "THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE". Tagline at the bottom: "Every light goes out eventually." A lone lighthouse on a cliff under a green aurora, a small credits block under the tagline.
It wrote "夜明けの喫茶店" and "Coffee 500円" correctly but rendered "Dawn Café" as "Dawn Cafe", so check accented letters at full size.
A narrow Tokyo side street at night, rain on the asphalt. A small café's lit sign reads "夜明けの喫茶店" in large letters with "Dawn Café" underneath, and a chalkboard by the door reads "Coffee 500円". Cinematic, 35mm.
All three balloons landed in panels 1, 3 and 6 and read correctly, with panels numbered 1 to 6, though the gutters came out white inside black borders.
A full comic book page with six panels in a 2 by 3 grid, clean black gutters. A girl and her robot dog search a flooded city for a lost kite. Speech balloons: panel 1 "It flew this way!", panel 3 "Woof?", panel 6 "Found it!". Inked lines, flat colors.
It painted a full scene with a blue grey wash across the sky, so near-white paper or snow covers 21% of the picture, less than the prompt's "lots of white paper" suggests.
A children's picture book illustration in soft watercolor and pencil: a fox reading a map by lantern light in a snowy forest, warm and cold colors, lots of white paper showing.
It drew four pencil panels in a row and typed all four labels letter for letter, hyphens kept, with a bright glow on the fish in panel 3.
A film storyboard sheet with four panels in a row, each with a hand-drawn sketch and a typed label underneath: "1. WIDE - harbor at dawn", "2. MEDIUM - fisherman pulls the net", "3. CLOSE - a glowing fish", "4. OVER THE SHOULDER - the town watches". Pencil on white paper.
Put titles, balloons and labels in quotes and say where each goes, as the comic prompt did with panels 1, 3 and 6, because each quoted line landed where it was asked.
Zoom into accented letters and fine print before you use an image, since our test lost the "é" in "Café" and a billboard carried unreadable small print.
Write "no credits" or "no extra text" when a poster should carry just your words, because Seedream 5.0 Pro added a credits block and a billboard on its own.
Ask for plain white paper or an empty sky in so many words, since a single "lots of white paper" left most of the watercolour painted over.
State the framing in the prompt's first words and again later, because "close-up" alone came back as a waist-up shot of the lighthouse keeper.
In Edit Image, refer to each connected picture as Figure 1, Figure 2 and so on, which is how Seedream 5.0 Pro reads several references in one prompt.
| Seedream 5.0 Pro | GPT Image 2.5 | Seedream 5.0 Lite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credits at default | 14 | 5 | 7 |
| Reference images | Up to 10 | Up to 10 | Up to 10 |
| Plan | Free | Free | Free |
The full side by side, with all twelve images, is in Seedream 5.0 Pro vs GPT Image 2.5.
Seedream 5.0 Pro is ByteDance Seed's flagship image model, launched on July 8, 2026, for layouts, dense designs and text in many languages. In Flick it makes and edits images at 1.5K or 2K from a prompt and up to 10 reference images.
In Flick, Seedream 5.0 Pro costs 14 credits an image at 1.5K and 28 at 2K. Edits cost the same, and reference images add nothing.
Seedream 5.0 Pro runs on Flick's Free plan, and each image uses credits. A new Flick account gets 100 credits, enough for several Seedream 5.0 Pro images.
Yes. In our tests it spelled a poster title, a tagline, three comic balloons and four storyboard labels correctly, and wrote a Japanese café sign right. It dropped the accent from "Café", so check accented letters.
ByteDance says Seedream 5.0 Pro takes prompts and renders text natively in over ten widely used languages. We tested Japanese and English in one image, and both came back readable.
In Flick, Seedream 5.0 Lite costs 7 credits an image and Seedream 5.0 Pro 14. ByteDance positions Pro for dense layouts, multilingual text and precise editing.
Yes. Seedream 5.0 Pro accepts Flickpedia styles in Flick, which send the style's reference images with your prompt. We have not tested a style on it yet, so this guide shows plain prompts.
Pick Seedream 5.0 Pro on an image node, paste a prompt from this guide, and keep the result beside the rest of your film.
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