Seedream 5 Pro for text on pack

Open Seedream 5.0 Pro when the still has to carry readable pack copy, a flavor line, or GTIN-ish type. Do not open a photoreal row, generate a pretty carton, and hope the letters land. Hope is a workflow. It is not a typesetter.

This page is that routing. It is not a Seedream version pick. It is not a single industrial SKU. It is not a dieline tutorial. The job is the still that a buyer can read at postage-stamp size: the name, the flavor, the digits that look like a code. If those strings fail, motion will crawl the miss.

Numbers below are min_credits from src/data/models.json on 19 September 2026. Versely credits are credits. This page does not convert them to USD.

Hope rows paint cartons. They do not typeset them

Generate-then-hope is the default most people already run. You pick a beauty stills row because the last hero looked expensive. You write "matte pouch, studio light, artisan granola, Honey Almond on the front." You get a handsome pack with cousin spelling, a melted barcode, and a net weight that is not the weight you ship. Then you I2V it, because the still was pretty. Now the wrong flavor is in motion.

That is not a Seedream miss. That is a catalog miss. Photoreal rows sell a photograph. Typography is a listed feature on a different card.

Flux 1.1 Pro is 4 credits, text-to-image, 4K listed. The catalog line is professional-grade Flux with enhanced features. It is a workhorse for product stills that will receive type later, or for packs you already photographed. It does not list typography, multilingual text, or dense layouts. Four credits for a carton that almost says Honey Almond is not a savings. It is a reroll budget you will spend twice, then spend again on video.

Flux 2 Max is 6 credits flat. Same sticker as Seedream 5.0 Pro on this catalog snapshot. The catalog job is ultra-detailed photorealistic output. If you pay 6 credits for Max because "Pro should be sharper," you bought sharpness. You did not buy a typesetter. Same bill, different contract.

Imagen 4 used to be the 4-credit Google photoreal hope row. It is shut down. Google's Gemini API page (last updated 17 September 2026) says Imagen is gone and the replacement is Nano Banana. Do not open a leftover Imagen card, squint, and decide the flavor is close enough. Nano Banana 2 is 4 credits discounted and built to iterate, not to typeset a SKU. Zoom in. Read the letters aloud. That is the test hope rows fail.

Grok Imagine is 2 credits. Fast, loosely-styled generations, a distinctive creative bent, unexpected takes rather than strict prompt adherence. That sentence is the hope row in catalog language. Two credits is a cheap sketch. It is a terrible place to quote a SKU. If the prompt says "MAPLE PECAN · 40 g" and the model is hired to surprise you, you will not get Maple Pecan. You will get a cousin dessert and a number the model liked.

Nano Banana 2 sits at 4 credits discounted (7 full) for ultra-fast lightweight iteration. Speed is the product. A flavor line is not an iteration toy. Do not burn four fast stills hoping one of them spells the SKU.

GPT Image 2 text-to-image is 9 credits at the discounted SD/HD cell, 17 credits at the discounted 4K cell (50 percent off 17 / 33). Strong prompt adherence, up to 4K. It will follow "the front reads X" more often than Flux. It is still a high-fidelity scene row. You are paying 9 credits minimum for a photograph that might letter. Seedream 5.0 Pro lists typography and dense layouts at 6 credits flat. If the still is a pack document, that is the cheaper honest row, and it is the row whose features match the job.

Hope feels cheaper because the first generate is 2 or 4 credits. Count the week. Two Flux misses, one Max "upgrade," one I2V pass on the wrong plate: you paid for a film of a SKU you do not sell.

Pack copy, flavor line, and GTIN-ish type

Three strings show up on a pack still. They fail in three different ways. Treat them as three jobs, not as "some text on the pouch."

Pack copy is the house name, the product word, net weight, a short claim you would actually print. OAT HAUL. INSTANT OATS. 340 g. Unquoted "healthy granola pack, twelve ounces, chocolate" will letter a slogan you cannot legal. Quote every string. Cap the claims. A front panel can carry a name, a flavor, a weight. It cannot carry a nutrition table you will certify. Past that density, generate the structure and composite real type for the legal block.

The flavor line is the SKU. Honey Almond is not Maple Pecan with warmer light. If the still paraphrases the flavor, you have a different product. Video will not correct it. Overlay can stamp the live line after picture lock if the flavor rotates every drop. Generated flavor inside the pixels is a reprint every time the sheet changes. Decide which you are doing before you generate. Mockup of a flavor that does not exist as a photo yet: generate the line, quoted, on Seedream. Photograph of a pouch you already ship: keep the photo. Overlay the limited drop if it has to match this week.

GTIN-ish type is the human-readable digits, a lot-looking code, a SKU string, barcode-shaped marks in the quiet zone. It is not a scannable GTIN. No stills row on this catalog mints a checksum. A barcode is encoded data. A picture of a barcode is a picture. If the listing needs bars a scanner will accept, composite a real symbol after lock. If the listing needs a buyer to read 0 12345 67890 5 at thumbnail size, that is type. Quote the digits. Proof them. Do not ask any model to "enhance" bars. Prettier bars are a different number.

The three strings share one rule: if a buyer asked "which SKU is this," you could point at the same words on screen and on the sheet. If the model chose the words, the still is not a listing. It is a vibe of a listing.

Do not invent a person holding the pack so the type has a "lifestyle." A generated face on a pack plate is a different compliance problem. Letter the SKU. Leave the customer off the carton.

The catalog row is Seedream 5.0 Pro

Seedream 5.0 Pro is ByteDance, text-to-image only, min_credits 6, max_credits 6, flat per call. Catalog description: flagship text-to-image, deep-thinking prompt understanding, native text rendering in 14 languages, precise control over dense layouts and structured designs. Features on the card: text_to_image, typography, multilingual_text, dense_layouts, flagship. Quality chip: 2K. No 4K badge. Audio is null. Empty durations. It does not move. Requires no image. Aspects: 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16. Released 5 August 2026 on this catalog row.

That is the pack-type still. You pay 6 credits for a plate that is supposed to letter. You do not pay 6 credits for a beauty hero. If the brief is a carton with no type-as-the-test, Flux or Imagen is the cheaper photograph. If the brief is letters on a pack, Seedream is the row whose feature list matches the brief.

The door is text to image. Confirm seedream-5-pro. Write a layout brief, not a mood board:

Quote pack copy: the front reads "OAT HAUL"
Quote the flavor line: flavor line "DARK CACAO"
Quote the weight: net weight "340 g"
If you need GTIN-ish digits in frame, quote them as a human-readable line, and say the bars are out of frame or will be composited
Name the substrate: matte pouch, tin, glass, foil. Type sits on an object
Name hierarchy: name louder than flavor louder than weight
Name what is not a claim. The model will invent a slogan if you leave a hole

Unquoted claims get paraphrased. Deep-thinking prompt understanding is a feature flag, not a lawyer.

Proof at 100 percent, like a press check:

Spelling and diacritics. A missing accent is a different word.
Numbers. 340 g versus 34.0 g versus 3.40 g. Flavor digits too: 70 percent is not 7.0.
Hierarchy. If the weight only exists when you zoom, the pack does not carry a weight at ad size.
Survival at the delivery crop. Pick 1:1, 4:3, or 9:16 before you generate. Image-to-video inherits the still. A 1:1 pouch will not become a 9:16 hook because you typed "vertical" later.

A wrong character is a different SKU. Regenerating the whole carton to fix one line is how the other panels move. If the structure is right and one region is wrong, that is an edit job on an edit slug, not a new 5.0 Pro generate that also rewrites the flavor. This generate card is for when there is no board yet.

Fourteen-language lettering is on the card. It is not this page's spine. If the pack is not English, quote the string in the language you mean and proof it with someone who reads it. Do not prompt "now in Japanese" as a suffix on an English board and skip the read-aloud.

Do not put a licensed brand wordmark in the prompt and hope. Composite the real mark. The generate is not a font file.

After the type holds, motion is optional and separate. Camera, not a rewrite of the ingredients. If you would not send the still to a printer, you do not have an I2V input.

Proof the glyphs. Do not certify a scribble

The cheap miss is still a miss on every flavorway you clone from it. 6 credits is not a reason to skip the press check.

What this still will not certify:

A scannable GTIN. Composite a real symbol. Overlay the digits you typed if the human-readable line is the listing claim.
A full nutrition table, an ingredients list, a warning block a regulator will read. Generate the window. Drop in real type.
A licensed brand font by foundry name. Composite the font.
A live flavor that changes next Tuesday. Add a text overlay to a video burns one authored line for the whole clip: top, center, or bottom. You write the line. It does not transcribe. A mute pack shot has nothing to listen to. Overlay is editable. In-frame type is a new still every run.

What not to do with hope rows after you already know the job is type:

Open Flux 2 Max at 6 credits because it costs the same as Seedream and the last hero was sharp. Sharpness is not spelling.
Open Grok Imagine at 2 credits "just to see." You will see a surprise. The SKU sheet is not a surprise.
Open a leftover Imagen 4 card at 4 credits, squint, and decide the flavor is close enough at feed size. Imagen 4 is shut down. Buyers pinch-zoom. Listings get screenshots.
Ask a video row to letter the pack while it turns. Type will drift. You will not know if you have a layout bug or a motion bug. Letter the still. Then, if the shot needs to move, move the camera on a keeper.

If the physical pack already exists, photograph it. Seedream is for boards that do not exist yet: mockups, flavorways, a second language, a dense claims panel you are still designing. Photographing a real SKU and then "fixing" the type in a photoreal generate is how you pay for a cousin carton. Photographing a real SKU and overlaying the live line is how you keep the carton you actually ship.

The test is boring on purpose. Read the pack copy aloud. Read the flavor line. Read the digits. If any of the three is a guess, you are still on a hope row. Switch to Seedream 5.0 Pro, or switch to a photograph, or switch to overlay. Do not switch to a sharper beauty engine and call it a typesetter.

When the strings read, sign up and run Seedream 5.0 Pro as pack type, not as a product film.

FAQ

Can I generate the carton on Flux and overlay the flavor later?

Yes, if the carton is a photograph of a SKU you already ship, or a beauty still that was never asked to letter. Overlay the live flavor, the limited drop, the weight that will change. No, if the mockup is the pack and the letters are the object. Overlay on cousin spelling still shows cousin spelling in the pixels underneath. Generate pack type on Seedream 5.0 Pro, or photograph the real pouch.

Will Seedream 5 Pro draw a scannable GTIN?

No. It can letter human-readable digits you quoted. It can draw barcode-shaped texture. That texture is not your checksum. Composite a real symbol if the listing needs bars. Keep the quiet zone. Do not enhance bars in a second generate.

Is a 4-credit photoreal still cheaper than Seedream at 6?

On the first click, yes. Flux 1.1 Pro is 4 credits. Grok Imagine is 2. Nano Banana 2 is 4 credits discounted. Imagen 4 is shut down, so it is not a cheaper row. Count the week you spend hoping the flavor lands, then the I2V pass that crawls the miss. Seedream 5.0 Pro is 6 credits flat for the row that lists typography and dense layouts. Flux 2 Max is also 6 credits, for photoreal detail. Same sticker. Different job. Pick the job.