The world's first AI image model with real-time web search and deep reasoning. Native 4K output, 94%+ text accuracy, and precise local editing. Try it free in Nano Banana 2 Pro AI image generator.
Seedream 5.0 (Lite) is ByteDance's flagship multimodal image generation model — the world's first to integrate real-time web search into the generation process. When your prompt references current events, trending topics, or public figures, the model automatically fetches the latest data and incorporates it. Combined with deep reasoning, native 4K output, and 94%+ text accuracy, it's built for creators who need both creative power and real-world relevance.
Web search, deep reasoning, 4K output, and 94%+ text accuracy — explore Seedream 5.0's unique capabilities.
Seedream 5.0 is the world's first model to integrate real-time web search into the image generation process. When prompts involve recent events, public figures, cultural trends, or hot topics, the model automatically retrieves the latest web data, ensuring generated content stays synchronized with reality without requiring additional user action.
Search for the weather, temperature, and time on February 4, 2026 for the following locations: 1. Beijing, 2. New York, 3. Tokyo, 4. Sydney, 5. Madrid. High-concept composite photography work, blending the weather conditions of five cities in the same frame, each city presented with unique visual elements representing its climate characteristics
Fetch real-time weather data via web search, generate five-city weather composite photography

Based on Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year, transform this abstract word into a concrete visual image.
Web search for 2025 Word of the Year, visualize it

Based on the 2025 Met Gala fashion theme, generate a red carpet look fitting that theme description, worn by a greyhound. Do not anthropomorphize.
Web search for 2025 Met Gala theme, generate creative look

Seedream 5.0 features built-in multi-step logical reasoning capabilities, able to decompose complex creative instructions and understand abstract concepts and implicit intentions. Whether for scenes requiring precise combination of multiple elements or creations requiring cultural background understanding, the model can accurately grasp and generate images that meet expectations.
Please generate a gold price trend chart for the past 7 days (based on domestic spot pricing, showing specific values & time), glassmorphism UI card.
Web search for real gold price data, reasoning to generate professional trend chart card

A row of spheres with different roughness, under uniform lighting, with roughness gradually increasing from left to right.
Deeply understand physical rendering laws, precisely present material changes

Seedream 5.0 achieves a major breakthrough in text rendering, with text accuracy reaching over 94%. Supports Chinese-English mixed layout and multiple font styles, perfectly adapted for commercial design scenarios requiring clear, readable text such as poster design, brand visuals, menu creation, and presentation covers.
You are a 2D illustrator skilled in handwritten font design. Please design 4 PPT images. The first is a cover with 'iPad digital hand-drawn style', pure white background with light blue grid. In the center, huge, chubby colorful hand-drawn bubble letters: '2025 WRAPPED', each letter a different color, full of vitality.
Hand-drawn style text precise rendering, iPad digital hand-drawn PPT cover

Realistic photography educational poster, a wild elephant in a tropical savanna, title at top 'Let elephants not rely on imagining', bottom with elephant educational information text.
English title and educational text precise layout, photography-grade poster effect

Seedream 5.0 is deeply optimized for commercial design scenarios, capable of directly generating production-ready e-commerce detail images, app interface prototypes, brand stickers, and other commercial materials. Understands design specifications and brand tonality, outputting professional-grade visual content.
Image suitable for high-end aromatherapy product e-commerce detail page, presenting high-resolution product images, packaging design, core selling points, product advantages, and promotional copy, using dark and light green color scheme.
High-end aromatherapy e-commerce detail image, green brand visual

Trendy blind box app interface design: 1. Purple gradient background, top showing time, phone signal, WiFi, battery icons. 2. Top left has shopping cart icon, right has notification bell icon. 3. Center displays a mysterious blind box with question mark pattern.
Trendy blind box app interface, purple gradient style

Vintage museum-themed handbook stickers, displaying ancient artifacts, fossils, sculptures, and other elements, beautifully captured in vintage tones, multi-layer stickers, collage elements surrounding, sticker borders showing distinct white, dopamine style, high resolution, hand-drawn aesthetic.
Vintage museum theme stickers, dopamine color scheme hand-drawn style

Seedream 5.0 possesses powerful image understanding and editing capabilities, able to recognize content in images and perform precise annotation or local modification. Edit specified areas directly without regenerating the entire image, preserving original composition and style.
Identify food calories in the image and annotate the information on the image
AI recognizes food and automatically annotates calorie information

Add a cartoon pink rabbit sticker with starry eyes at the green rectangle position; in the two red circles, add cartoon pink heart stickers respectively
Precisely identify specified areas, add sticker elements

Seedream 5.0 Image Generator FAQ
Seedream 5.0 (Lite) is ByteDance's flagship AI image generation model — the world's first to integrate real-time web search into image generation. It features deep reasoning, native 4K output, and 94%+ text accuracy, making it ideal for creators who need both creative power and real-world relevance.
Seedream 5.0 adds three major capabilities over 4.5: real-time web search (automatically fetches current information during generation), a deep reasoning engine (understands complex multi-step instructions), and higher text accuracy (94%+). Seedream 4.5 focuses on cinematic aesthetics and natural language understanding, while 5.0 builds on that with real-world data integration.
When your prompt references recent events, trending topics, public figures, or cultural moments, Seedream 5.0 automatically triggers a web search, retrieves the latest relevant information, and incorporates it into the generation. You don't need to manually update prompts — the model keeps generated content synchronized with current reality.
Seedream 5.0 natively generates 2K and 4K ultra-high resolution images without post-processing upscaling. This preserves maximum detail and texture, making it suitable for print, large-format displays, and professional commercial applications.
Seedream 5.0 achieves 94%+ text accuracy, supporting Chinese-English mixed layouts and multiple font styles. Poster headlines, menu price lists, brand slogans, and infographic text are all rendered clearly and accurately — one of the strongest text rendering capabilities among AI image models.
Yes. Seedream 5.0 supports precise local editing — modify a specific area without regenerating the entire image. The model preserves original lighting, texture, and composition in unedited areas, with results comparable to professional image editing software.
Yes. You can input multiple reference images simultaneously. Seedream 5.0 precisely fuses character features, style elements, and composition from different references — ideal for character design, style transfer, and maintaining brand visual consistency.
New users on Nano Banana 2 Pro receive free credits to try Seedream 5.0 immediately — no credit card required. Additional generations use a credit-based system. See the pricing page for details.
Credit-based billing. Each generation consumes a certain amount of credits, with specific consumption varying based on resolution and generation parameters. See pricing page for details.
“The web search feature is so practical! When creating holiday marketing materials, the model automatically gets the latest popular elements, saving a lot of research time.”
“Deep reasoning capability lets me describe complex scenes with more natural language, the model really understands my creative intent.”
“Timely content generation is what we need most. Web search keeps our marketing images always up-to-date with the latest trends.”
“The web search feature is so practical! When creating holiday marketing materials, the model automatically gets the latest popular elements, saving a lot of research time.”
“Deep reasoning capability lets me describe complex scenes with more natural language, the model really understands my creative intent.”
“Timely content generation is what we need most. Web search keeps our marketing images always up-to-date with the latest trends.”
“The web search feature is so practical! When creating holiday marketing materials, the model automatically gets the latest popular elements, saving a lot of research time.”
“Deep reasoning capability lets me describe complex scenes with more natural language, the model really understands my creative intent.”
“Timely content generation is what we need most. Web search keeps our marketing images always up-to-date with the latest trends.”
“The web search feature is so practical! When creating holiday marketing materials, the model automatically gets the latest popular elements, saving a lot of research time.”
“Deep reasoning capability lets me describe complex scenes with more natural language, the model really understands my creative intent.”
“Timely content generation is what we need most. Web search keeps our marketing images always up-to-date with the latest trends.”
Free to try. No credit card required. Experience the world's first AI image model with real-time web search.