Seedream 5.5: Features, Availability, API Pricing, and Benchmarks

quantslant@ai:~$ cat news_1 › Update, 9 Nov 2026 (evening): I have since opened a WaveSpeedAI account and tested Seedream 5.5 on 35 images.

quantslant@ai:~$ cat news_2 › Results and a gallery are in the section “I tested Seedream 5.5” below.On the morning of 9 November 2026, ByteDance published an announcement for Seedream 5.5, a new version of its image generation model, on the ByteDance Seed team blog.

quantslant@ai:~$ cat news_3 › Later that afternoon, I checked eight platforms where I typically generate ByteDance images or access their APIs: the BytePlus ModelArk price list, Dreamina, fal.ai, OpenRouter, Replicate, Higgsfield, reAPI, and FlashBoards.

quantslant@ai:~$ cat news_4 › I found a working public Seedream 5.5 API on exactly one third-party provider where I do not have an active account.

Seedream 5.5: Features, Availability, API Pricing, and Benchmarks

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