BAGEL: Benchmarks, Pricing & Size
BAGEL is a image generation model from Bytedance, released in May 2025.
ByteDance-Seed BAGEL is a 7B open multimodal model that can generate images from text prompts and reason over multimodal inputs.
BAGEL examples
Recent arena outputs from BAGEL, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
BAGEL API
Set for image-to-image / editing models.
Run a request to see the response
Use it in your code
OpenAI-compatible endpoint through the LLM Stats gateway.
import requests
# Create the generation. wait="auto" long-polls (up to 60s) so most short
# jobs return as "completed" in a single round-trip.
res = requests.post(
"https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1/generations",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
json={
"model": "bagel",
"input": {"prompt": "A beautiful sunset over mountains"},
"wait": "auto",
},
)
job = res.json()
# If it didn't finish inside the wait window, poll the same resource.
while job["status"] in ("queued", "running"):
res = requests.get(
f"https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1/generations/{job['id']}",
params={"wait": 60},
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
job = res.json()
if job["status"] == "completed":
print("image:", job["output"]["media"][0]["url"])
else:
print("Failed:", job["error"]["message"])Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.
BAGEL pricing
Providers
BAGEL starts at $0.100 per generated image via Fal.
| Provider | Price $/image | Latency p95 s | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Fal | $0.100 | — |
BAGEL benchmarks
Rankings
Performance by category and language
Where BAGEL is strongest across prompt themes and languages. Conservative TrueSkill score (μ − 3σ), only axes with 3+ votes.
Quality Tracker
Similar Models
How BAGEL compares to its closest neighbors on each image arena it competes in.
BAGEL license
BAGEL is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use.
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use allowed
Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use
Models like BAGEL
Other image models ranked closest to BAGEL.
FAQ
Common questions about BAGEL.