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Seedream 5 Pro vs Qwen 3.5 397B A17B

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Seedream 5 Pro
bytedance/seedream-5-pro
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Provider
ByteDance
Alibaba
Family
Seedream
Qwen
Modality
image
text
Context window
262,144 tok
Max output
32,768 tok
Released
2026-07-23
2026-05-22
License
Proprietary
Open-weight
Input price
$0.600 /1M
Output price
$3.60 /1M
Per image
$0.045 /img
Tools
yes
Streaming
yes
Vision
JSON mode
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
Batch API
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Seedream 5 Pro
bytedance/seedream-5-pro
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Seedream 5 Pro is ByteDance's high-quality image generation and editing model with text prompts, up to 10 reference images, and 1K, 2K, or explicit pixel-size output controls.

Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
Use cases
Marketing assetsProduct mockupsConcept art
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b
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Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 is a 397B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 17B active parameters, offering strong reasoning capabilities with efficient inference.

Strengths
  • MoE efficiency: 17B active of 397B
  • Strong reasoning at low cost
  • 262k context
Use cases
Production chatMulti-lingualCost-sensitive reasoning

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Seedream 5 Pro
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="bytedance/seedream-5-pro",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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