Seedream API — concept art ideation on rails
Generate storyboards, character explorations, and mood boards with multi-stage refinement and shared palettes.
Style presets
Choose from 80+ curated looks to accelerate concept sprints.
Narrative continuity
Generate scene sequences that keep characters, lighting, and framing consistent.
Stage-based refinement
Move from rough thumbnails to polished frames through a single API.
Collaborative review
Designers can annotate frames in the dashboard to trigger suggested reruns.
Try a prompt in seconds
Stage
Stage 2 · refinement
Select stages to control detail and iteration speed.
Palette
Bioluminescent blues
Lock a shared palette across every frame.
Aspect ratio
16:9
Drop directly into pitches or animatics.
Sequential storyboard
Receive multiple frames plus JSON metadata for scene order and continuity notes.
Stage-aware pricing for creative teams
Higher stages carry more GPU cost; pay only for the fidelity you need.
Start from day one with zero minimums and live usage analytics inside the dashboard.
- Latency-optimised global POP routing
- Automatic retries and circuit breaking
- Per-request billing insights in real time
Ideal for fast-growing teams that want predictable discounts and proactive quota alerts.
- Priority capacity reservations
- Team workspaces with audit trails
- Custom rate and budget controls
Tailored SLAs, private regions, and compliance workflows for regulated workloads.
- Private networking options
- Dedicated solutions engineer
- Custom invoicing and procurement
Run Seedream
Create a workspace and API key
Provision long-lived or temporary keys from the Transend dashboard and configure which providers are available to your team.
Call POST /images/seedream/generation
Bring story IDs, palettes, and stage parameters to orchestrate cross-model pipelines.
Ship the result to production
Each response returns task identifiers, elapsed time, and cost metadata. Wire it into your app with webhooks, polling, or background jobs.
curl -X POST "https://api.transendai.net/v1/images/seedream/generation" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TRANSEND_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type": "application/json" \
-d '{
"story_id": "expedition-01",
"prompt": "Storyboard frame...",
"palette": "bioluminescent",
"stage": 2,
"aspect_ratio": "16:9"
}'
Concept design tooling
| Model | Continuity | Style range | Collaboration | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedream | ★★★★★ | ★★★★★ | Annotations + versions | $0.035 |
| Nano Banana | ★★★★☆ | ★★★★☆ | Basic | $0.02 |
| Flux Kontext | ★★★★☆ | ★★★★☆ | Basic | $0.05 |
Studios rely on Seedream
Teams across finance, creative studios, and indie hackers ship production workloads with Transend AI.
“Seedream API helped us ship a usable MVP in under a week while cutting inference spend by 30%.”
“Latency is steady, failover is automatic, and on-call runs are finally quiet again.”
Answers for builders
Didn't find what you need? Email [email protected] – we reply within 12 hours.
Which regions does the Seedream API support?
Transend operates POPs in us-east, us-west, eu-central, and ap-southeast. The platform routes to the closest region automatically, and enterprise plans can request private regions or custom data residency.
Can we stream logs into our own observability stack?
Yes. Forward operational events through webhooks or export APIs into Datadog, Grafana, BigQuery, or any system that can ingest JSON streams.
How do we enforce budgets?
Real-time spend analytics live in the dashboard. Define model, team, or tag-based alerts and automatically throttle or downgrade when a budget threshold is reached.
Ready to ship with Seedream API?
Deploy unified AI experiences with a single API key. No quota bureaucracy, just blazing fast inference on the models your team loves.