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seedream-v5lite is the lowest-cost image tier in the ByteSpike image lineup. The trade-off vs seedream-4 and nano-banana: noticeably cheaper per image, with looser quality on hard prompts (complex composition, dense in-image text, precise product shots). The right call for programmatic volume where the per-image cost shows up in the monthly bill more than the per-image quality shows up in the output. Pricing: $0.012 / image — see the rate card. Failures don’t bill.

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Protocols

ProtocolPath
OpenAI ImagesPOST https://llm.bytespike.ai/v1/images/generations

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Quickstart

curl https://llm.bytespike.ai/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BYTESPIKE_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "seedream-v5lite",
    "prompt": "Simple illustration of a coffee cup on a wooden desk, top-down",
    "n": 8,
    "size": "1024x1024"
  }'
n=8 batch generation is one of this model’s natural use cases — programmatic content pipelines hammer it for thumbnails, A/B variants, and placeholder assets.

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Capabilities

CapabilitySupported
Text-to-image✅
Image-to-image (with source_image)✅ basic
n ≥ 2 batch generation✅
size 1024×1024 / 1024×1792 / 1792×1024✅
response_format url / b64_json✅
Modalityimage
Capability bucketimage_generate

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When to use

  • Programmatic volume — thumbnail generation, asset libraries, A/B variants, demo placeholders.
  • Internal-facing creative — mockups for design reviews where quality just needs to land “in the ballpark”.
  • Budget-bound DOSIA users — main brain reaches for this when capability bucket includes it and you’ve configured cost preference toward cheap.
When not to use:

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