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Seedream 3.0 is a closed-weights image model from ByteDance Seed, released April 2025.

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56.0±1.8comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 4 benchmark results across 4 sources

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

$ how it compares

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

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
71MAI-Image-1 Microsoft AI57±3comparison only2025-11
72LongCat-Image-Edit Meituan56±2api $0.15/image +local~36GB2025-12
73Seedream 3.0 ByteDance Seed56±2comparison only2025-04
74P-Image-Edit Pruna56±4api $0.010/image2025-12
75FireRed-Image-Edit-1.0 FireRedTeam (Xiaohongshu)56±4comparison only2026-02
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▁▂▇▇▆▅█▇▂▃▁▁ #64 of 157 · 86% of its score · 3 tests

Beats HunyuanImage 2.1 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails LLaDA-Image, Z-Image-Turbo, Qwen-Image-2512 here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena text-to-image1081.6 ✎▂▂▃▄▇█▄▂▄▂·▂ beats 21/75avg 1027▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 49%typical
ServImage task acceptance (human payment decisions, commercial design tasks)31.4% ✎▂▃··▂··▃█··▂ beats 9/11hard · avg 18%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 19%sharp · at its level
GenExam (relaxed overall, GPT-5 judge)23.4% ✎▆▆·▂▂····▂▂█ beats 3/13hard · avg 20%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 18%sharp · at its level · noisy
image to image / editing▁▁▁▃▂▃█▃▃▃▁▁ #44 of 81 * · 19% of its score · 1 test

Beats Imagen 4, GPT Image 1 Mini, FLUX.2 [dev] here, though they rank higher overall. Trails FLUX.2 [klein] 9B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
ServImage task acceptance (human payment decisions, commercial design tasks)31.4% ✎▂▃··▂··▃█··▂ beats 9/11hard · avg 18%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 19%sharp · at its level
other tests1 not in a task · 13% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Rapidata human-face generation alignment (Elo)1123.6 ✎▃··▅▃··▃▃··█ beats 8/8avg 1012▇▇▇▇▇ 13%typical

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 49%, ServImage: An Image Generatio… 19%, GenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLa… 18% and 1 more

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

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