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SeedEdit 3.0 is a closed-weights image model from ByteDance Seed, released June 2025.

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47.5±2.8comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 3 benchmark results across 3 sources

Score within the LMArena text-to-image comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The image models ranked either side of SeedEdit 3.0, out of 197 with a score, then more from ByteDance Seed.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
110VQ-Diffusion (ITHQ) Microsoft48±15local~4.1GB2022-11
111LAFITE (HPS v2 checkpoint) LAFITE authors48±15comparison only2021-11
112SeedEdit 3.0 ByteDance Seed48±3comparison only2025-06
113Ovis-Image-7B Alibaba (AIDC-AI)48±7local~12GB2025-11
114FLUX.1 Krea [dev] Black Forest Labs / Krea47±3api $0.025/image +local~41GB2025-07
more from ByteDance Seed
12Seedream 5.0 Pro ByteDance Seed75±2api $0.050/image2026-07
29Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance Seed65±2api $0.035/image2026-02
45Seedream 4.0 ByteDance Seed61±1api $0.040/image2025-09

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$ what it's good at

text to image▁▂▇▇▆▅█▇▂▃▁▁ #118 of 157 * · 30% of its score · 1 test

Beats Latent Diffusion text2img-large (LDM-KL-8-G, LAION-400M), VQ-Diffusion (ITHQ) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails SDXL-Lightning (4-step UNet), Stable Cascade, BLIP3-o 8B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
ServImage task acceptance (human payment decisions, commercial design tasks)7.0% ✎▃▃··▂··▃█··▂ beats 0/11hard · avg 18%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 30%sharp
image to image / editing▁▁▁▃▃▃█▃▃▃▁▁ #63 of 81 · 97% of its score · 3 tests

Beats FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] here, though they rank higher overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena image edit1138.9 ✎▂▁▁▃▆▇█▄▆▅▁▂ beats 5/53avg 1153▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 44%typical
ServImage task acceptance (human payment decisions, commercial design tasks)7.0% ✎▃▃··▂··▃█··▂ beats 0/11hard · avg 18%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 30%sharp
UnicBench (EN, overall)78.7% ✎▂····▂▄▂▄·█▂ beats 8/11easy · avg 73%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 23%at its level

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 44%, ServImage: An Image Generatio… 30%, UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and B… 23%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
LMArena leaderboard dataset1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 44%CC BY 4.0
ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 30%CC-BY-4.0
UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched Edits1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 23%CC-BY-4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 3%
weighted average= 47.5

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