Seedream
TikTok owner's top image model, inside Dreamina and CapCut.
Free
- Best for
- Social media visuals and CapCut users
- On your PC
- No, online only
- Works on
- Web, iPhone, Android, Windows
- Made by
- ByteDance
What’s good
- Top 20 on both big image leaderboards
- Built into CapCut for video makers
- Good at photos and editing in one model
Downsides
- Prices and free credits are unclear
- Best version mostly reached through ByteDance apps
The details.
- For developers
- About $0.09 per image (Seedream 5.0 Pro)
- Version
- Seedream 5.0 ProReleased 2026-07
- Works on
- Web, iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, API
- Open source
- No
- Made by
- ByteDance
- Website
- dreamina.capcut.com
How it ranks.
- LMArena Text-to-Image#16 · score 12512026-11-05
- Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena#16 · score 11022026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
No. It only runs online.
Your prompts and files go to the company’s servers. See the local options in this category for a private alternative.
Want it offline? The best local option for image generators is FLUX 3 Image Klein.