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# Seedream 4 API pricing

Seedream 4 by ByteDance costs about $0.027 per image (1K image) at WaveSpeed, the one provider the board counts, as of 17 Oct 2026.

Prices as of 17 Oct 2026. Every price links to its source.

## Seedream 4 price by provider

| Provider | Sold by | Price | vs official | Counted | Source | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [WaveSpeed](https://modelpricetrack.com/providers/wavespeed/models/bytedance/seedream-4) | [Platform](https://modelpricetrack.com/methodology#platform) | $0.027/image | — | counted | [WaveSpeed](https://wavespeed.ai/models/bytedance/seedream-v4) | 17 Oct 2026 |
| [Krea](https://modelpricetrack.com/providers/krea/models/bytedance/seedream-4) | [Reseller](https://modelpricetrack.com/methodology#reseller) | No public price | — | not counted (no price) | — | — |

## Seedream 4 price per variant

| Variant | Median | Range | Providers counted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1K | $0.027/image | — | 1 of 2 |

## Seedream 4 quality

1140 (1133.3030246048577–1146.435329657004) · rank 39. Ratings: Arena (arena.ai) · CC BY 4.0. Read from [the Hugging Face dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), published 7 Oct 2026. Arena does not endorse rankings derived from this score.

## About Seedream 4

High quality photorealism and text rendering.

## Seedream 4 pricing questions

**How much does Seedream 4 cost per image?**
The median is about $0.027 per image across 1 counted provider, for a 1K image, as of 17 Oct 2026.

**What is the cheapest Seedream 4 API?**
Only WaveSpeed publishes a price for Seedream 4 that the board counts: $0.027 per image, as of 17 Oct 2026.

**Which providers sell Seedream 4?**
2 providers list it: WaveSpeed and Krea. 1 publishes a price the board counts, as of 17 Oct 2026.

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