Seedream 5.0 Pro vs Nano Banana Pro — products, places, people

Two flagships, two very different price points. Seedream 5.0 Pro is ByteDance's: dense detail, rich texture and photographic realism, for 36 credits / image, typically about 20 seconds a take. Nano Banana Pro is Google's: the top of its line for fidelity, lettering accuracy and prompt understanding, for 124 credits / image, typically about 25 seconds. The one-line answer: Seedream when the image lives on texture and atmosphere, Nano Banana Pro when it lives on words or on a long list of things that must all be true at once. Below, the call for the three subjects people actually render: products, places and people.

The numbers

	Seedream 5.0 Pro	Nano Banana Pro
Price per image	36 credits / image	124 credits / image
At the entry pack	$0.36	$1.24
Typical render	about 20 seconds	about 25 seconds
Ten images	360 credits	1,240 credits
Positioned for	detail, texture, realism	fidelity, text, complex briefs

A Nano Banana Pro render costs 3.44 times as much as a Seedream render, which is the whole tension of this comparison.

Neither one reads a picture on eroq, and that matters more here than anywhere: two photoreal flagships, and both invent their subject from your words alone. The controls otherwise match (five formats at one price, up to four takes a run, open on any plan), and both are moderated upstream; a declined prompt is not billed.

Products

Seedream is the material photographer. When the product is its surface (glazed stoneware, waxed canvas, brushed steel, oiled walnut), Seedream's texture is the sale. It also handles the product in an environment well: a boot on a wet forest trail, where the moss and the leather both have to read.

Nano Banana Pro is the art director with a checklist. Reach for it when a label has to read, or when the brief arranges several items precisely: five bottles in a row, the third uncapped, every label identical. Each of those clauses is a constraint, and constraints are what it is positioned to honor.

Neither renders your product. Both invent one from words. For a real SKU that must match its photos, compose the scene on either model, then render the product into it on Eroq One, which reads up to ten reference pictures (product shots, the set, a model) for 20 credits / image. The full workflow is in AI product photography in 2026.

Places

Seedream for landscapes, architecture, interiors and weather, and for dense environments where many elements must stay coherent: a market street, a forest canopy, a cluttered workshop. Give it the materials, the time of day and the lens, and it rewards each detail you add.

Nano Banana Pro for places that carry text, such as a station sign, a shopfront or a café menu board, and for places built to a plan, where the fountain must be on the left and the tram must be crossing on the right.

If you are filling a travel page or a location board with twenty atmospheric views, Seedream does it for a fraction of the money. If one of those views needs the city's name painted on a wall, that one goes to Nano Banana Pro.

People

Both models render invented people from the prompt. Neither holds a real, recurring face, because neither reads pictures on eroq. For the same character across a series, use Eroq One (up to ten references) or Krea2 (up to four, 10 credits / image).

Within that limit:

• Seedream for texture-led portraits. Weathered skin, knitwear, wet hair, freckles in daylight. Name the skin, the hair and the fabric and it steers the texture accordingly. Documentary and editorial looks are home ground.
• Nano Banana Pro for staged scenes. Several people, each with their own wardrobe and action: "the woman on the left pays, the man in the middle holds the bowls, the woman on the right laughs". The more the scene depends on who does what, the more its prompt understanding earns its price.

For portrait structure that works on both, the character portrait prompt formulas still apply.

Let the budget break ties

Most real jobs mix both. Take a 30-image set for a travel guide: all Seedream costs 1,080 credits, all Nano Banana Pro costs 3,720 credits. Split it as 27 atmospheric views on Seedream plus three hero images with text on Nano Banana Pro, and the bill is 1,344 credits. That is the pattern: volume and texture on Seedream, the few frames that must be exactly right on Pro.

Each model has its own deep dive: the Seedream 5.0 Pro guide and the Nano Banana Pro guide. Start the first take in the image studio, on whichever side of the list your subject sits.

Example prompts

Seedream, product as material. The texture is the subject.

A hand-thrown stoneware mug with a speckled oatmeal glaze on rough linen, a drip of glaze frozen at its base, faint thumbprints near the handle, soft morning side light, visible clay grain, shallow depth of field, 100mm macro photograph.

Nano Banana Pro, product with a checklist. An arrangement and a label that both have to hold.

Five amber glass apothecary bottles in a row on a white marble shelf, the third bottle uncapped with its glass dropper laid in front of it, every label reading "FERN & FIELD" in small black serif, soft diffused daylight, clean catalogue photograph.

Seedream, a dense landscape. Many elements, one coherent scene.

A terraced rice valley after rain in early morning, mist pooled in the lower terraces, flooded paddies mirroring a pale sky, a hut with a rusted tin roof on the far ridge, layered green ridgelines fading into haze, wide landscape photograph, 24mm.

Nano Banana Pro, a place with words. Two pieces of text and a mood.

A small-town railway platform at dusk, a vintage enamel station sign reading "ELMBROOK", a departures board above it showing "18:42 HARBOUR", an empty wooden bench, sodium lamps just flickering on, light rain on the platform edge, 35mm photograph.

Seedream, a texture-led portrait. Skin and wool carry it.

An environmental portrait of a fisherman in his seventies mending a net on a harbour wall, deep sun-creased skin, a salt-stiff wool sweater, rope fibres in his fingers, overcast light, boats soft in the background, 85mm documentary photograph.

Nano Banana Pro, a staged group. Each person has a wardrobe and an action.

Three friends at a street food stall at night: the woman on the left in a yellow raincoat paying with her phone, the man in the middle holding two paper bowls of noodles, the woman on the right laughing with chopsticks raised, steam rising between them, a neon sign behind reading "LATE NIGHT", warm practical light, 35mm.

FAQ

Is Seedream 5.0 Pro or Nano Banana Pro more realistic?

Both are photoreal flagships. On eroq, Seedream is positioned for texture and photographic realism, Nano Banana Pro for top fidelity, in-image text and complex prompts. When the realism lives in surfaces and atmosphere, start on Seedream.

Which is cheaper, Seedream 5.0 Pro or Nano Banana Pro?

Seedream: 36 credits / image against 124 credits / image for Nano Banana Pro, the priciest image model on eroq. Neither charges extra for wide or tall formats, and a take that fails is refunded.

Which is better for product photography?

Seedream for material-led hero shots, Nano Banana Pro for legible labels and precise arrangements. For your actual product, matched to its photos, use Eroq One with references.

Can either model keep the same person across images?

No: neither takes a picture as input on eroq. For a consistent character, use Eroq One (up to ten references) or Krea2 (up to four).