Seedream

ByteDance's (TikTok's parent company) image model, and the one that first cracked readable text in pictures. The Seedream 5.0 family arrived in 2026: Pro (July) is the flagship with a reasoning step, web search grounding, precise region editing and output split into separate editable layers, and Lite is the cheaper version for volume. It renders clean text in about a dozen languages, which makes it great for posters, social media graphics, banners and infographics where the words matter, and the photorealism is strong too. You can try it in ByteDance's Dola app or the BytePlus playground; the API is paid. If you've ever rage-quit a generator because it turned your caption into alien hieroglyphics, this is the antidote.

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