Seedream vs Midjourney vs Runway vs Stable Diffusion

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Seedream
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Competitor 1
Midjourney
Competitor 2
Runway
Competitor 3
Stable Diffusion
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Seedream
seed.bytedance.com
Seedream 4.0 is an image creation model from ByteDance Seed that merges image generation and image editing in one architecture.
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Competitor Midjourney
midjourney.com
Type words, get art that makes people ask how you made it
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Competitor Runway
runwayml.com
Runway is an AI company with three platforms built on the same world models.
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Competitor Stable Diffusion
stability.ai
Open source AI art you can run on your own computer
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
698.5Kvisits/mo
9.4Mvisits/mo
5.6Mvisits/mo
348.1Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 7.7%
▼ 4.7%
▼ 8.0%
▼ 14.8%
6-month growth
-78.0%
-31.0%
-9.2%
-47.3%
Global rank web
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#2,020
#6,941
#124,212
Avg. last 3 months
742.3K
9.8M
6.1M
417.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
54%
30%
34%
44%
Pages / visit
2.2
27.2
7.5
2.3
Visit duration
1m 29s
9m 07s
5m 30s
1m 04s
Traffic sources
● Direct 74% · ● Referral 25%
● Direct 90% · ● Referral 9%
● Direct 87% · ● Referral 10%
● Direct 64% · ● Referral 33%
SeedreamMidjourneyRunwayStable Diffusion
04.1M8.1M12.2M16.2MSeedream · 647.8KSeedream · 606.3KSeedream · 566.1KSeedream · 3.2MSeedream · 1.8MSeedream · 1.3MSeedream · 879.9KSeedream · 648.6KSeedream · 698.5KMidjourney · 16.2MMidjourney · 16MMidjourney · 15MMidjourney · 12.8MMidjourney · 13.6MMidjourney · 12MMidjourney · 10.7MMidjourney · 10MMidjourney · 9.9MMidjourney · 9.4MRunway · 6.1MRunway · 5.9MRunway · 5.7MRunway · 5MRunway · 6.2MRunway · 6.7MRunway · 8.2MRunway · 6.5MRunway · 6.1MRunway · 5.6MStable Diffusion · 600.6KStable Diffusion · 682.3KStable Diffusion · 655.9KStable Diffusion · 628KStable Diffusion · 660.2KStable Diffusion · 504.8KStable Diffusion · 473KStable Diffusion · 494.5KStable Diffusion · 408.7KStable Diffusion · 348.1K100K1M10M100MSeedream · 647.8KSeedream · 606.3KSeedream · 566.1KSeedream · 3.2MSeedream · 1.8MSeedream · 1.3MSeedream · 879.9KSeedream · 648.6KSeedream · 698.5KMidjourney · 16.2MMidjourney · 16MMidjourney · 15MMidjourney · 12.8MMidjourney · 13.6MMidjourney · 12MMidjourney · 10.7MMidjourney · 10MMidjourney · 9.9MMidjourney · 9.4MRunway · 6.1MRunway · 5.9MRunway · 5.7MRunway · 5MRunway · 6.2MRunway · 6.7MRunway · 8.2MRunway · 6.5MRunway · 6.1MRunway · 5.6MStable Diffusion · 600.6KStable Diffusion · 682.3KStable Diffusion · 655.9KStable Diffusion · 628KStable Diffusion · 660.2KStable Diffusion · 504.8KStable Diffusion · 473KStable Diffusion · 494.5KStable Diffusion · 408.7KStable Diffusion · 348.1KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Free
Starting price
$9per month · free tier available
$10per month
$15per month · free tier available
Free
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API access
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Free FreeStandard $15/moPro $35/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
ImagesText
ImagesText
ImagesTextVideo
ImagesText
Output
Images
ImagesVideo
AudioImagesVideo
Images
Skill level
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Advanced
Categories
Image EditingImage GenerationAI Image GeneratorImage to Image
Image EditingImage GenerationVideo CreationAI Anime Generator+5 more
Development & CodeImage EditingImage GenerationVideo Creation+11 more
Audio & MusicDevelopment & CodeImage EditingImage Generation+6 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
7
10
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8
Image generation
Image to image
Image editing
Art generation
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Video generation
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Anime generation
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Image to video
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4K image generation
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Animations
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Anime
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Anime image generation
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Anime images
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Character image generation
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Image removal
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Lip sync
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Video editing
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Video upscaling
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Image coloring
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Portrait generation
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Video enhancement
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