# Seedream 5 Pro

> Seedream 5 Pro is available on Artifio.ai — a unified AI workspace with a single pay-as-you-go wallet.

- Canonical page: https://artifio.ai/models/seedream-5-pro-image-to-image
- Run it: https://artifio.ai/create/seedream-5-pro-image-to-image
- Modality: image editing
- Model brand: bytedance
- Pricing: from about $0.035 per generation (exact cost shown in the workspace before you confirm; varies with selected options)
- Typical generation time: ~30s (catalogue estimate)
- Full pricing table: https://artifio.ai/pricing/models

## About Seedream 5 Pro

Seedream 5.0 Pro is ByteDance Seed's flagship image model, released July 8, 2026, and this variant is its editing mode. ByteDance says the model's core strength here is precise spatial grounding and regional semantics: it understands exactly which part of the image you mean, which unlocks pixel-level interactive editing driven by pointing, lassoing, and sketched annotations rather than prompt gymnastics.

The most unusual capability is intelligent layer separation. From a text description, the model can split a finished image into more than 10 independent layers, text, subjects, backgrounds, and decorations, exported with transparency while automatically inpainting whatever the removed layer had hidden. On Artifio it runs pay-per-generation in the same workspace as 100+ other models.

## Features

- Interactive selection editing: point selection, lasso selection, annotated boxes, and handwritten or sketch-based instructions all steer the edit.
- Layer separation that decomposes an image into more than 10 independent, transparency-preserving layers with automatic inpainting of previously obscured areas.
- Color and material replacement, including exact Hex color codes for brand-precise recoloring.
- Material swaps that keep the surrounding environmental perspective and lighting coherent.
- Multi-image fusion for combining source images into one result.
- Sketch rendering that turns rough guidance drawings into finished imagery.

## What people use it for

- Producing layered, editable design assets from a flat image for downstream work in design tools.
- Precise regional edits selected by pointing or lassoing instead of describing coordinates in words.
- Brand-exact recoloring of products or packaging via Hex codes.
- Compositing several photos into a single coherent scene.
- Converting annotated mockups or sketches into finished artwork.

## Reported strengths

- Layer separation with transparency and inpainting is rare among image models and aims squarely at professional design pipelines.
- Annotation-driven editing removes much of the prompt engineering that instruction-only editors require.
- Hex-level color control gives designers exactness that natural-language color words cannot.

## Reported limitations

- ByteDance's own release post flags pixel-level editing consistency as an area with room to improve.
- As of mid-July 2026 it does not appear on the Artificial Analysis image-editing arena, so no independent editing rating exists yet.
- Released days before this write-up, its editing features are documented through curated official examples rather than a technical report.

## Sources

1. Beyond Generation, It Understands Design: Introducing Seedream 5.0 Pro (ByteDance Seed): https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/beyond-generation-it-understands-design-introducing-seedream-5-0-pro
2. Seedream 5.0 Pro (ByteDance Seed): https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedream5_0_pro
3. Image Editing Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis): https://artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/editing

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