Seedream 4.5

Built for text-heavy, reference-driven image work.

Professional images for every use case

Poster design.

Great for poster layouts, event art, and ads where headlines need to stay readable.

E-commerce product creatives Character portraits.

Helps preserve key facial traits and styling when you need repeatable character images.

Brand campaign variations.

Useful for generating matching visuals that keep colors, mood, and composition aligned.

E-commerce product creatives .

Keeps product shape, finish, and lighting more stable across multiple campaign variants.

Multi-image composites.

Good for combining products, text, and layout ideas into one controlled visual.

Readable text inside posters and ads

ByteDance highlights typography and dense text rendering as a core upgrade, and the official gallery leans into posters, product pages, and small readable copy. That makes Seedream 4.5 unusually useful for marketing images where text is part of the design, not an afterthought.

•Readable headlines and labels
•Better than average with small supporting copy
•Useful for posters, product pages, and ads
•Official demos include direct text replacement edits
•Good fit for brand visuals with built-in copy

Up to 9 reference images for edits

In edit mode, the model can take up to 10 input images and identify target elements across them. That makes it practical for product swaps, layout remixes, and brand asset assembly without heavy manual masking.

•Up to 9 input images in edit mode
•Preserves facial features, lighting, and color tone from references
•Useful for product swaps and multi-source composites
•Natural-language instructions instead of manual masking
•Good for brand asset reuse across variants

One model path for generate and edit

Seedream 4.5 is available for both text-to-image creation and image editing, so the workflow can move from first draft to revision without switching model families. That is useful when a team needs fast concepting followed by controlled follow-up edits.

•Text-to-image and edit endpoints available
•Easy path from concept to revision
•Helpful for iterative campaign work
•One model family for creation and follow-up edits

Flexible square, portrait, and landscape output

The API exposes square, portrait, and landscape presets, including 4:3 and 16:9, plus auto 2K and auto 4K modes. Custom dimensions are supported too, which helps when you need social, storefront, and presentation formats from one model.

•Square, 4:3, and 16:9 preset shapes
•Auto 2K and auto 4K modes
•Custom width and height support
•Useful for web banners, socials, and decks
•Easy fit for common marketing aspect ratios

Flexible square, portrait, and landscape output

How it works

Describe the image

Start with the subject, composition, lighting, style, and any exact text that must appear. Clear, structured prompts usually give more predictable layouts and typography with Seedream 4.5.

Add references if needed

If you need consistency or editing, add the images that should anchor the result. Edit workflows can use up to 10 inputs, so be explicit about what to preserve, replace, or move.

Generate and refine

Create a first pass, then refine with targeted edits instead of restarting from scratch. Seedream 4.5 is exposed for both creation and editing, so that loop is built into the workflow.

Top community creations

Recent Seedream 4.5 images shared by the BudgetPixel community.

@justrob

A colossal western-style ice dragon with ice-blue scales and frozen glacier-blue veins pulsing beneath its surface perches atop a crumbling frozen medieval castle tower. The dragon's wings are fully extended, casting an ominous shadow over the frozen village below. Streams of brilliant frost blue and white fire erupt from its maw, illuminating the night sky. The castle stones glow frozen teal from the intense cold. In the background, stars are visible through gaps in cold misty clouds, and a full moon hangs low on the horizon, partially obscured by the dragon's serpentine neck.

Style: High Fantasy Realism / Epic Digital Painting

Composition: A low-angle shot looking upward at the dragon, emphasizing its massive size. The dragon dominates the upper two-thirds of the frame, while the burning village in the lower third adds depth.

Lighting: Dramatic chiaroscuro lighting—the primary light source is the dragon's own frosty breath, creating arctic blue/glacial depths highlights against deep blue moonlight and shadows. Rim lighting outlines the dragon's silhouette.

Adjectives: Monumental, Devastating, Majestic, Apocalyptic

Edmund Dulac + Ivan Bilibin + Byzantine mosaic atmosphere, where Dulac's Persian-influenced glazing creates luminous jewel-tone depth through layered color saturation, Bilibin's stippled linework produces ornate textural density via precise dot accumulation, and Byzantine opulence infuses sacred decorative reverence. The fusion manifests as delicate Eastern ornamentation with curvilinear intricacy, pointillist granulation building micro-pattern richness, and deep saturated harmonies, transforming any subject through teal-emerald depths, purple-violet accents, ivory highlights, and warm bronze undertones rather than dominant gold.

Rooster made of jewels

A hypnotic black-and-white scene composed of swirling concentric patterns and spiraling motion lines, creating a mesmerizing optical illusion background. At the center, a graceful female dancer is captured mid-motion, her body partially wrapped in flowing black and white ribbons that twist and spiral around her form, covering her essentials in an elegant and artistic way.

The ribbons extend outward into the environment, seamlessly blending into the hypnotic vortex, as if she is both generating and being consumed by the motion. Her pose is dynamic—arched spine, extended limbs, caught in a continuous spin—suggesting fluid, rhythmic movement.

The entire composition feels synchronized to the energy of the song “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”, visually echoing rotation, repetition, and pulsating rhythm. Motion blur subtly trails her limbs and ribbons, enhancing the sense of spinning velocity.

Lighting is high-contrast, studio-style monochrome, emphasizing silhouette, curvature, and ribbon flow. The aesthetic leans toward avant-garde fashion editorial with a touch of surrealism and Op Art.

op art, hypnotic spiral, high contrast monochrome.
avant-garde fashion editorial, surreal motion.
long exposure motion blur, dynamic spin pose.
elegant sensuality, non-explicit artistic nudity.
studio lighting, sharp highlights, deep blacks.

On sweet plum blossoms > The sun rises suddenly. > Look, a mountain path!

"梅の香に > のっと日の出る > 山路かな"

OVERLAY: "Apply vertical neon light streaks with translucent plasma columns in vivid magenta and cyan. Create parallel light beams of varying widths and intensities that appear to pierce through the atmosphere, with subtle bloom effects and chromatic aberration at edges. Include floating light particles and bokeh elements scattered throughout, with occasional horizontal light leaks. Maintain subject clarity while adding this luminous neon rain that creates depth layers from foreground to background."

surreal gothic design brings whimsical elegance, fluid anatomy and soft femininity enhance character grace, and dreamlike, layered compositions enrich the scene with poetic fantasy. The fusion should manifest as a delicate, theatrical underwater dreamscape with sculptural textures and moonlit mystique

Rockin rooster

A stunning gothic Black woman, wearing a dark, revealing emo-inspired lace and leather horror couture outfit. Hauntingly beautiful face, intense dark eyes, glossy black hair with crimson streaks. Posed in a decaying Victorian gothic mansion filled with creeping shadows, cobwebs, and weeping stone statues. Dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, deep crimsons, midnight blacks, and bruised purples. Aesthetic of 1970s Italian horror cinema, vintage Giallo film poster style, pulp art illustration, high contrast, film grain, hyper-detailed, masterpiece

Intricate crosshatching layered with luminous neon washes and crisp cel-shaded outlines, merging Victorian mechanical detail with digital precision and retro-futurist simplicity. The result should manifest as gleaming copper gears intertwined with holographic circuitry, rendered in bold clean lines with a saturated pop-art palette of teals, oranges, and chrome.

A sprawling sky-city of brass-riveted towers and transparent pneumatic tubes, hovering platforms connected by glowing magnetic rails, and domed glass buildings with exposed clockwork innards crackling with neon energy. Robots in top hats glide alongside sleek hovercars trailing vapor and light.

Figures in corseted leather jackets with luminous circuit-traced lapels and bubble-dome helmets stride across elevated walkways. Mechanical monocles project holographic data. A family rides a compact atomic-powered flying car with spinning brass propellers and a glowing exhaust ring, their pet robot dog perched on the tailfin.

Warm, low-key cinematic realism built on amber and deep brown tones with pockets of saturated red punctuating the muted surroundings. Light falls from overhead fixtures in soft pooled circles, creating gentle glow with deep contrast ratios and rich shadow falloff into darkness. Rendering is naturalistic and lightly filmic, with smooth skin gradients, softly diffused highlights, subtle grain, and shallow depth that lets backgrounds dissolve into warm bokeh. Composition favors layered planes and an intimate, candid staging with balanced asymmetry.

Three adults: a red-haired woman in a low-cut red top, an older man in a dark waistcoat over an open white shirt, and a second man in a brown jacket holding cues in the background.

Medium shot at eye level. In the foreground left the woman leans low over a pool table, bridging a cue and lining up a shot, gaze down at the balls. The older man stands to the right, body angled toward her, looking down at the table. Behind them a third figure stands holding cues, blurred in shallow focus.

Scene set in a dim upscale billiards lounge during evening, with a warm intimate atmosphere, featuring a green felt table with scattered balls, hanging pendant lamps, a glowing floor lamp, and patterned drapery.

Intricate crosshatched linework layered with luminous glazed washes, blending hyper-detailed ornamental engraving with atmospheric oil painting depth. Rich teal and amber complementary tones push and pull through volumetric cave light, while every surface carries dense decorative patterning reminiscent of illuminated manuscripts rendered at architectural scale.

A stout dwarven warrior seen from behind, wild copper-red hair cascading over ornate scaled pauldrons and leather armor, hoisting a massive stone warhammer over one shoulder. Belt laden with pouches and tools, sturdy brown boots planted wide on the cavern floor, gazing ahead in awe.

A colossal underground cavern housing an ancient dwarven city carved into the living rock, towering spires and domed temples rising among stalactites and frozen mineral cascades. Warm golden lantern light bathes the ornate gatehouse entrance while cool teal bioluminescence filters from the vast ceiling above, mist drifting across the stone-paved path.

Chiarotech Surrealism
STYLE: "A hyper-realistic, hyper-detailed illustration inspired by Noah Bradley's use of volumetric lighting and chiaroscuro to create dramatic contrasts, his moody, contemplative tones and vibrant color palettes with painterly brushwork that give his art a tactile feel; Yoshitaka Amano's use of flowing, graceful lines and soft washes of watercolor and acrylics that create shimmering, otherworldly effects with iconic characters—elegant, mysterious, and often draped in elaborate costumes; and Ash Thorp's use of textures, lighting, and geometry rendered with uncanny fidelity, crafting sleek, dystopian worlds filled with cybernetic forms, alien architectures, and speculative tech."

SUBJECT: "A beautiful, well-endowed young woman with long, windblown auburn hair standing on a sandy beach wearing a tropical dress. She is in a 3/4 pose looking at the camera."

SETTING: "A beach in Hawaii"

Grainy film-emulsion texture combined with hazy diffused available-light rendering, creating a dreamlike intimacy. The result should manifest as soft naturalistic skin under gentle window light, a muted cinematic grade balancing cool teal shadows against warm flesh highlights, delicate analog grain, extremely shallow depth of field, and tender emotional closeness with feathered focus falloff.

A young woman with long auburn hair and a slender gold hoop earring, reclining on her side with cheek pressed to her female lovers face, one dark contemplative eye meeting the viewer, lips gently parted, expression quiet and vulnerable, skin luminous and freckle-soft in the near light.

Scene set in an intimate interior during soft overcast daylight, with a hushed tender atmosphere, featuring diffuse pale light spilling across bedding, blurred warm-and-cool tones dissolving into a gauzy out-of-focus background, quiet stillness and cinematic proximity filling the frame.

Refined ink-and-mineral-pigment technique on silk combined with stylized geometric robe construction and flat decorative patterning, creating a hieratic ceremonial portrait effect. The result should manifest as a Muromachi-era nise-e formal portrait with crisp black sumi outlines, subtle facial modeling through delicate line work, broad sweeping silhouettes built from triangular volumes, gold leaf accents on textiles, and muted earth-tone backgrounds evoking aged silk hanging scrolls.

A dignified Japanese nobleman with a composed expression and faint mustache, seated in formal cross-legged repose, wearing a voluminous black silk court robe with sharply structured angular shoulders, a small black eboshi cap atop his head, a sheathed tantō resting across his lap, while a graceful geisha kneels beside him in seiza posture, draped in a flowing patterned kimono with an elaborate obi, hair pinned with ornaments, delicately presenting a small ceramic tea bowl on a lacquered tray with both hands.

Scene set within a sparse aristocratic chamber during a quiet ceremonial afternoon, with a warm ochre-brown backdrop of aged silk paneling, the figures resting upon a deep emerald tatami platform edged with brocade trim in gold and crimson, a low black-lacquer tea tray between them, soft diffused light, no shadows, atmosphere of stillness, refined ritual, and quiet authority.

Rendered in high-contrast monochrome with a full grayscale range, from deep velvety blacks to luminous soft whites, no color anywhere. Light falls directionally and diffuse, sculpting raised planes with gentle gradients while pooling into tender low-key shadow. Surfaces read hyper-detailed and photoreal, every fine filament and delicate pore crisply resolved yet smoothly blended, edges softening naturally into shallow-focus falloff. Fine granular tonal transitions give a silvery film quality. Intimate compositional density with soft flowing rhythm and close balanced framing.

Two adult women with long wavy hair, one darker-haired, one light blonde, one wearing a thin delicate strap and a patterned ring on one hand.

Extreme close-up at eye level, the two faces pressed cheek to cheek with eyes closed, heads tilted together and overlapping; one figure's hand cradles the other's head with fingers threading into the hair; bare shoulders angled toward the lens, faces sharp against a softly blurred background.

Scene set in a quiet interior beside a window during soft daytime, with a calm intimate hush, featuring faint out-of-focus wall and light framing behind.

Pricing for Seedream 4.5

Runs on credits — no per-model surcharges, no surprise billing.

45credits

per generation

45 credits per image

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Use SeeDream 4.5 via the API

SeeDream 4.5 is available through the BudgetPixel developer API — the same model the studio runs, supporting text-to-image, and image editing / references. Pricing is metered in credits (45 credits per image), charged only on success, with an API key available on Premium plans and above.

curl -X POST https://api.budgetpixel.com/v1/images/seedream-4.5 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BUDGETPIXEL_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt": "your prompt here"}'

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No code? Use SeeDream 4.5 from Claude or Cursor

SeeDream 4.5 is also available through the BudgetPixel MCP server. Connect your account to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-enabled agent and generate with SeeDream 4.5 by asking in plain language — same credits, same pricing, no code required.

Set up the MCP server Or use it in ComfyUI, WordPress or Cursor →

Frequently asked questions

What is Seedream 4.5?▾

Seedream 4.5 is an image model from ByteDance built for both text-to-image generation and image editing. The official pages emphasize stronger reference preservation, multi-image editing, and improved typography for professional visual work.

What is Seedream 4.5 best for?▾

Based on the official examples, it is especially good for posters, product visuals, brand creatives, and multi-image edits where text and layout need to stay controlled. It is a strong fit for commercial design tasks that need consistency, not just one-off art prompts.

Does Seedream 4.5 render text well?▾

Yes. ByteDance highlights typography and dense text rendering as a core improvement, and the official examples include posters, product detail pages, and direct text edits inside images.

Does Seedream 4.5 support reference images?▾

Yes in editing workflows. Seedream 4.5 accepts up to 10 input images for edits, and ByteDance's official page focuses on preserving facial features, lighting, color tone, and other reference details.

Can Seedream 4.5 edit existing images?▾

Yes. It has a dedicated editing workflow that lets you describe changes in natural language and apply them to one or more source images. Official examples show object replacement, text replacement, translation, and style-preserving transformations.

What resolutions or aspect ratios does Seedream 4.5 support?▾

The model offers square, portrait, and landscape presets, including 4:3 and 16:9, plus auto 2K and auto 4K modes. Custom sizing is available too, so check your provider's docs before locking a production export spec.

Can I use Seedream 4.5 commercially?▾

Commercial use is marked as available under its partner agreement. If you access Seedream 4.5 through another platform, check that platform's terms before using outputs in client or paid work.

How much does Seedream 4.5 cost?▾

45 credits on Budgetpixel AI. Ultra plan has 10% OFF.

Seedream 4.5 vs Midjourney: which should I choose?▾

If you care most about readable text, reference-driven consistency, and edit workflows, Seedream 4.5 is the stronger match. If you want a more style-led, exploratory workflow, many users still lean toward Midjourney, so the better option depends on control versus interpretation.

Does SeeDream 4.5 have an API?▾

Yes — SeeDream 4.5 is available through the BudgetPixel developer API via the `POST /v1/images/seedream-4.5` endpoint, supporting text-to-image, and image editing / references. Generate an API key from the developer console (available on Premium plans and above) and see the full reference at docs.budgetpixel.com.

How much does the SeeDream 4.5 API cost?▾

API usage is billed in credits from the same balance your plan includes, at the standard metered rate: 45 credits per image. Failed generations are never charged. You can estimate any request's exact cost with POST /v1/cost before running it.

Can I use SeeDream 4.5 with Claude or other AI agents (MCP)?▾

Yes — SeeDream 4.5 is exposed through the BudgetPixel MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent can generate with it from a plain-language request. Connect your account at budgetpixel.com/mcp; generations use the same credit balance and pricing as the web studio and the API.

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