Seedream 4.0: API pricing, providers and specs
Seedream 4.0 is a image model by ByteDance. 15 providers serve it, from $0.018 to $0.06 /img; the lowest price is at Kie.ai.
A newer version is out: Seedream 4.5 · released Dec 3, 2025
How Seedream 4.0 compares
Against the 117 image models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.003 /img, its lowest price undercuts 100% of comparable models (median $0.031).
- 15 providers serve it; 98% of comparable models have fewer.
Seedream 4.0 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Task | Output |
|---|---|---|
 Kie.ai | input image | From$0.003/img |
| Kie.ai | layer-decomposition | From$0.016/img |
| Kie.ai | Text to image | From$0.016/img |
| Kie.ai | Image to image | From$0.016/img |
| Kie.ai | — | $0.018/img |
| APIMart | image | $0.019/img |
| Kie.ai | text-to-image | From$0.025/img |
| Kie.ai | edit | $0.025/img |
| WaveSpeedAI | image-to-image | $0.027/run |
| WaveSpeedAI | text-to-image | $0.027/run |
| Atlas Cloud | text-to-image | $0.027/img |
| Atlas Cloud | image-to-image | $0.027/img |
 AIHubMix | — | $0.028/img |
| BytePlusOfficial | — | $0.03/img |
| Vercel AI Gateway | — | $0.03/img |
 Fal | image-to-image | $0.03/img |
| Fal | text-to-image | $0.03/img |
 Together AI | — | $0.03/MP |
| Replicate | — | $0.03/img |
 CometAPI | — | $0.032/run |
 APIYI | — | $0.035/run |
 LaoZhang API | — | $0.035/run |
| Kie.ai | Layer Decomposition | From$0.035/img |
 Venice AI | — | $0.05/img |
 EmpirioLabs AI | — | $0.06/img |
- Kie.ai$0.018
- APIMart$0.019
- Atlas Cloud$0.027
- AIHubMix$0.028
- BytePlusOfficial$0.03
- Vercel AI Gateway$0.03
- Fal$0.03
- Replicate$0.03
- Venice AI$0.05
- EmpirioLabs AI$0.06
Specs
- Type
- Image
- Maker
- ByteDance
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Image
- Capabilities
- —
- Released
- Sep 9, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Monthly searches
- 6K
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|---|---|---|---|
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Kie.ai, at $0.018 /img. 15 providers serve Seedream 4.0; the table above lists every one with its price.
We have not found Seedream 4.0's weights published by its maker.
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