ByteDance Seed · image model · Released Sep 9, 2025Seedream 4.0
Seedream 4.0 is an image model from ByteDance Seed, released Sep 9, 2025. It handles text to image and image editing.
- Arena score
- 1,267#34 of 61 · image editing
- Starting price
- —Not published
- Largest size
- —Not published
- References
- Yesinput images for editing
How it rates and what it costs
- Text to image arena
- 1,139 ±7#40 of 82 · 12,563 votes
- Image editing arena
- 1,267 ±7#34 of 61 · 210,031 votes
Arena scores come from blind, side-by-side human votes on the same prompts (higher is better; ± is the 95% range). Boards updated Oct 26, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.
The details
- Lab
- ByteDance Seed
- Type
- Image model
- Released
- Sep 9, 2025
- Inputs
- Text prompts, Reference images
- Output
- Images
- Can do
- Text to image, Image editing
- Weights
- Proprietary
- Availability
- 1 API host
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About Seedream 4.0
How good is Seedream 4.0?
In blind side-by-side votes, Seedream 4.0 scores 1,139 for text to image (#40 of 82) and 1,267 for image editing (#34 of 61). Higher is better; scores within about 14 points of each other are effectively tied.
Who makes Seedream 4.0?
Seedream 4.0 is an image model from ByteDance Seed, released Sep 9, 2025.
What can Seedream 4.0 do?
Seedream 4.0 accepts text prompts and reference images and produces images. In practice: text to image and image editing.
Is Seedream 4.0 open source?
No. Seedream 4.0 is proprietary; you use it through an API or partner apps.
Where can I use Seedream 4.0?
It is listed by 1 API host we track.
What are the alternatives to Seedream 4.0?
The closest image models from other labs, by release date, are Qwen-Image (Alibaba (Qwen), Aug 7, 2025), GPT-5 Image (OpenAI, Oct 14, 2025), FLUX.2 [pro] (Black Forest Labs, Nov 25, 2025) and Lucid Origin (Leonardo.Ai, Jun 1, 2025).