VARIANT · Bytedance / Seedream

Seedream seedream-v4-text-to-image API

Same API, same SDK — switch variants by changing one parameter.

Operational · text · Commercial OK

# Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 50+ agents
npx skills add runapi-ai/seedream -g

The -g flag installs globally so every project picks it up.

Or paste this prompt to your AI agent:

Install the Seedream skill for me:

1. Clone https://github.com/runapi-ai/seedream
2. Copy the skills/seedream/ directory into your
   user-level skills directory (e.g. ~/.claude/skills/
   for Claude Code, ~/.codex/skills/ for Codex).
3. Verify that SKILL.md is present.
4. Confirm the install path when done.

Switch variant

seedream-4.5-edit seedream-4.5-text-to-image seedream-5-lite-edit seedream-5-lite-text-to-image seedream-v4-edit

OVERVIEW

seedream-v4-text-to-image targets the sweet spot of quality and cost within the Seedream family.

Pay-per-call pricing in USD
Failed generations not charged
Streaming when supported by the model
Schema-validated tool calls

PRICING

Pricing

Failed generations are not charged

Text to image

$0.10 / request

SPEC SHEET

Technical details

Model ID	seedream-v4-text-to-image
Provider	Bytedance
Modality	text
Task type	asynchronous
Billing unit	call
API endpoint	/api/v1/seedream/text_to_image
Commercial license	Yes — included via API
Status	Operational

QUICKSTART

Quickstart — seedream-v4-text-to-image

runapi.ai

curl -X POST https://runapi.ai/api/v1/seedream/text_to_image \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RUNAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "seedream-v4-text-to-image",
  "prompt": "Create a social media graphic for a coffee shop sale with the text '50% OFF' in bold, warm tones, 4K."
}'

import { SeedreamClient } from "@runapi.ai/seedream";

const client = new SeedreamClient();
const result = await client.textToImage.run({
    model: "seedream-v4-text-to-image",
    prompt: "Create a social media graphic for a coffee shop sale with the text '50% OFF' in bold, warm tones, 4K.",
});

require "runapi/seedream"

client = RunApi::Seedream::Client.new
result = client.text_to_image.run(
    model: "seedream-v4-text-to-image",
    prompt: "Create a social media graphic for a coffee shop sale with the text '50% OFF' in bold, warm tones, 4K."
)

@runapi.ai/seedream v1

HOW IT WORKS