fal runs ByteDance’s Seedream 5.0 Pro on US-hosted infrastructure, from US$0.0675 an image

fal has put ByteDance’s Seedream 5.0 Pro image model on US-hosted infrastructure, with inference running entirely in the United States, fal said on X on 14 November. The two endpoints, text to image and image editing, cost US$0.0675 per output image up to 1536 by 1536 pixels and US$0.135 up to 2048 by 2048.

The post says the model joins Seedance 2.5 and other models in fal’s lineup of US-hosted models, and that it’s available now through the fal API.

Seedream 5.0 Pro is now available on US-hosted infrastructure on fal.

It joins Seedance 2.5 and others in our lineup of US-hosted models, enabling you to generate and edit AI images with inference running entirely in the United States.

Available now via the fal API.

— fal (@fal) November 14, 2026

What’s on offer

The endpoint IDs are bytedance/seedream/v5/pro/us/text-to-image and bytedance/seedream/v5/pro/us/edit. fal’s standard Seedream 5.0 Pro endpoints use the same IDs without the us segment.

fal’s text-to-image page lists output sizes from 921,600 to 4,624,220 total pixels, aspect ratios from 1:16 to 16:1, up to six images per request and JPEG or PNG output. The safety checker is on by default, and turning it off needs account authorisation. The page prices output by size: US$0.0675 per image up to 1536 by 1536 pixels, and US$0.135 above that and up to 2048 by 2048.

The edit endpoint charges for input images as well as output. The first input image is free and each additional one costs US$0.0045, on top of the same two output prices. fal’s edit page calls that pricing tentative.

Those are the same figures fal lists for its standard Seedream 5.0 Pro endpoints, which went live on fal on 8 July, the day ByteDance introduced the model. ByteDance’s Seed team describes Seedream 5.0 Pro as a multimodal image creation model.

fal’s US-hosted lineup

fal announced US-hosted Seedance 2.0 on 10 September as available to US companies, hosted entirely on US infrastructure, and US-hosted Seedance 2.5 followed on 19 September. fal’s Seedance 2.5 US-hosting page now says the US endpoints are open to companies worldwide, with no separate access request, and that US hosting is priced separately from the standard endpoints.

That page says some of the biggest advances in generative video have come from Chinese AI labs, and that companies need infrastructure, contracting, security and governance that can pass internal review before a model enters a production workflow. It lists three things fal provides for Seedance 2.5: US-hosted infrastructure, a US contractual counterparty (agreements signed with fal, a US company) and enterprise controls. The Seedream 5.0 Pro post and endpoint pages don’t mention contracting terms.

The Seedance pages add that faces and additional IP permissions are subject to a separate approval process, and that enterprise terms go through fal’s sales team.