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Seedream 4.5

Seedream 4.5 is an iteration on ByteDance's Seedream 4.0 image model, refining photorealism, prompt adherence, and text rendering. It maintains the Seedream line's strengths in high-resolution output and bilingual prompt understanding while incorporating updated training. A practical choice when you want the latest Seedream-tier quality for production creative pipelines.

Pricing

Input

$0.030 / image

Output

Pay only for what you use. No subscriptions, no minimums.

Specs

Context
Max output
Latency
Fast
Category
Image
Arabic
Partial

Constraints & limits

Pixel area

3.69M – 16.78M px

Images per call

1 – 15

Output

Presigned URLs (~24h TTL)

The gateway auto-clamps requests to the model's limits where possible.

Quick start

This sample hits the image generation endpoint. Change base_url and your key, then run it.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="tl-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    base_url="https://api.thalam.ai/v1",
)

response = client.images.generate(
    model="bytedance/seedream-4.5",
    prompt="A futuristic city skyline at sunset.",
    size="1024x1024",
    n=1,
)

print(response.data[0].url)

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