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Cheapest Seedream 4.5

Run ByteDance's official Seedream 4.5 from $0.0309/image — 23% below the official price, and below 6 popular platforms. Same price in the Studio and the API, no subscription needed, and failed generations are refunded.

Cheapest image
$0.031
2K
Per image from
$0.0309
2K
Below official
up to 23%
Subscription
Optional
pay per use

Try it

Try Seedream 4.5 at its lowest price

Pre-set to the cheapest settings (2K). The price is on the button; failed runs are refunded.

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Price comparison

Where Seedream 4.5 costs less

Price per image here, at the official price and on popular platforms that charge more.

Seedream 4.5 price per image by platform
Where2K4K
CheaperGen
live price
$0.0309/image−23%$0.0309/image−23%
ByteDance (official)
official list price
$0.04/image$0.04/image
fal
$0.04/image—
Replicate
$0.04/image—
WaveSpeed
$0.04/image—
Atlas Cloud
$0.036/image—
Runware
$0.04/image—
OpenRouter
$0.04/image$0.04/image

Per image. Official price: BytePlus ModelArk international list price for seedream-4-5-251128 ($0.04 per output image at 2K and 4K; input images free), verified October 18, 2026. Other platforms: public list prices, checked October 21, 2026; not every platform is listed. Sources: fal (fal.ai/models/fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v4.5/text-to-image), Replicate (replicate.com/bytedance/seedream-4.5), WaveSpeed (wavespeed.ai/models/bytedance/seedream-v4.5), Atlas Cloud (atlascloud.ai/models/bytedance/seedream-v4.5), Runware (runware.ai/models/bytedance-seedream-4-5), OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5). Ours are live.

Cheapest settings

The least you can pay for a Seedream 4.5 image

One image at each size, at its lowest price.

Seedream 4.5: cheapest output at each size
SizeOfficialCheaperGen
2K$0.04$0.031
4K$0.04$0.031

Try it in the Studio — the price is on the Generate button before you run. Totals for real projects: Seedream 4.5 API Cost.

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Lower starting prices in the same family; quality, speed and features differ.

Why it costs less

The official Seedream 4.5, for less

The model and its output are the same; the cost of serving it is lower. How our inference works.

01

Official partnerships

Direct partnerships with the official model labs give us their lowest partner pricing on official models like Seedream 4.5.

02

Our own GPU inference

For open-source models, our own GPU inference — optimized kernels, warm pools and per-model tuning — makes generation several times faster and lowers the cost further.

03

Automatic routing

Every Seedream 4.5 request is routed to the most cost-effective healthy route, with live health checks and failover.

FAQ

Cheapest Seedream 4.5: questions

Run it at 2K: $0.031 per image here, against $0.04 at the official price. The Studio and the API charge the same, with no subscription needed. Every tier is on the Seedream 4.5 pricing page.

Than the platforms listed on this page, yes. At 2K, Seedream 4.5 is $0.0309/image here, against $0.04/image on fal, $0.04/image on Replicate, $0.04/image on WaveSpeed, $0.036/image on Atlas Cloud, $0.04/image on Runware and $0.04/image on OpenRouter (their public prices, checked October 21, 2026). Prices change, so check before you buy.

Yes. It's ByteDance's official Seedream 4.5. The lower price comes from lab partnerships, our own GPU inference for open-source models and automatic routing — not a smaller model.

Not here: there's no free tier, but no subscription is needed either. You pay per image from prepaid credits, and failed generations are refunded.

Seedream 5.0 Flash starts at $0.0154/image, against $0.0309/image for Seedream 4.5. See Cheapest Seedream 5.0 Flash.

No — it's the same price per image in both, and the same rules: the price is shown before you generate, held while it runs, and refunded if it fails. Developers: Cheapest Seedream 4.5 API.

Seedream 4.5 is developed by ByteDance. CheaperGen provides API access and does not own the model. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.