ByteDance

Seedream 4.5

AI Image Editing Model

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All Text to Image Image Edit

Image Featured #10 Text-to-Image #10 Image-to-Image

ByteDance's latest image generation model unifying text-to-image and image editing in a single architecture, with improved text rendering and 30-40% faster generation than v4.0

What Seedream 4.5 is good at

Rankings based on human votes in the Lumenfall Arena, where real users pick their favorite without knowing which model made which image. Excels at #1 Anime (Image Editing), #3 Art (Text-to-Image), #6 Photorealism (Text-to-Image), #11 Text Rendering (Text-to-Image), and #8 Photorealism (Image Editing) , placing in the top 35% of all competing models.

Seedream 4.5 Strengths

Seedream 4.5 outperforms most competing models here

Anime

Image Editing

Ranked #1 of 14 models · 66.7% win rate Leaderboard

Seedream 4.5

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Studio Ghibli Anime Style

Art

Text-to-Image

Ranked #3 of 19 models · 50.0% win rate Leaderboard

Seedream 4.5

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using The Halloween Invitation The Reversed Rodeo

Photorealism

Text-to-Image

Ranked #6 of 38 models · 67.4% win rate Leaderboard

Seedream 4.5

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Candid Street Photography Chalkboard Menu Magic Burger Explosion: Fie... The Capybara Taxi Driver The Reversed Rodeo

Text Rendering

Text-to-Image

Ranked #11 of 39 models · 49.5% win rate Leaderboard

Seedream 4.5

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Apollo 11: Journey to Tranq... Chalkboard Menu Magic Burger Explosion: Fie... Modern Clean Menu The Halloween Invitation Vintage Cafe Logo

Photorealism

Image Editing

Ranked #8 of 21 models · 45.7% win rate Leaderboard

Seedream 4.5

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Bald man challenge

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Golden Hour Stroll

Same prompt, other models

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#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#6 Wan 2.6 ranks higher

Before After

#16 Seedream 4.0 ranks lower

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#6 Wan 2.6 ranks higher

Ranked using Bald man challenge Golden Hour Stroll Man and Car in California Outfit Transfer Challenge

Other categories

Seedream 4.5 competes but doesn't rank as highly

Product, Branding & Commercial

Text-to-Image

Ranked #14 of 29 models · 48.5% win rate Leaderboard

Seedream 4.5

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Magic Burger Explosion: Fie... Vintage Cafe Logo

Portrait

Image Editing

Ranked #9 of 15 models · 53.0% win rate Leaderboard

Seedream 4.5

Seedream 4.5 — Portrait (edited)

Before After

Bald man challenge

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana 2 ranks higher

Before After

#4 Seedream 5.... ranks higher

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#12 FLUX.2 [pro] ranks lower

Before After

#15 Z-Image Turbo ranks lower

Ranked using Bald man challenge