Seedream 3.0

Closed weights ByteDance April 2025

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
ByteDance
Organisation type
Industry
Country
China
Published
16 April 2025
Authors
Yu Gao, Lixue Gong, Qiushan Guo, Xiaoxia Hou, Zhichao Lai, Fanshi Li, Liang Li, Xiaochen Lian, Chao Liao, Liyang Liu, Wei Liu, Yichun Shi, Shiqi Sun, Yu Tian, Zhi Tian, Peng Wang, Rui Wang, Xuanda Wang, Xun Wang, Ye Wang, Guofeng Wu, Jie Wu, Xin Xia, Xuefeng Xiao, Zhonghua Zhai, Xinyu Zhang, Qi Zhang, Yuwei Zhang, Shijia Zhao, Jianchao Yang, Weilin Huang

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Image generation
Task
Image generation, Text-to-image

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Seedream 3.0 Technical Report
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

Seedream 3.0 was published by ByteDance, in China, in April 2025. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Image generation, and is recorded as doing image generation, Text-to-image.

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

Answers

Seedream 3.0 — common questions

01

What is Seedream 3.0 used for?

Seedream 3.0 works in Image generation, and is recorded as handling image generation, Text-to-image. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

02

What GPU do I need to run Seedream 3.0?

None. Seedream 3.0 is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

03

Is Seedream 3.0 open source?

No. Seedream 3.0 has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

04

How many parameters does Seedream 3.0 have?

No parameter count has been published for Seedream 3.0, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

05

Who created Seedream 3.0?

Seedream 3.0 was published by ByteDance, based in China, categorised as industry.

06

When was Seedream 3.0 released?

Seedream 3.0 was published in April 2025.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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