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Seedream 5 Pro vs Grok 4.5

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
Grok 4.5
xai/grok-4.5
Provider
ByteDance
xAI
Family
Seedream
Grok 4
Modality
image
text
Context window
500,000 tok
Max output
32,768 tok
Released
2026-07-23
2026-07-21
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input price
$1.00 /1M
Output price
$1.00 /1M
Per image
$0.045 /img
Tools
Streaming
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
Reasoning
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
Grok 4.5
xai/grok-4.5
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xAI's Grok 4.5, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Accepts text and image inputs, and supports function calling, structured outputs, and configurable reasoning effort (low, medium, high).

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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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"}],
)

# Grok 4.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-4.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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