Cursor Integration with Seedream MCP

You ask Midjourney to draw a "Happy Chinese New Year" poster, but the result has garbled text. You ask DALL-E to draw "ink-wash landscape painting," but what comes out looks like an oil painting.

Seedream, developed by ByteDance, is specifically designed to solve this problem—it really understands Chinese. Write "Happy New Year" and it can generate clear, readable Chinese characters; ask it to draw "Chinese trendy style" and it really captures that distinctive feel.

Configure MCP in Cursor, and when working on projects for the Chinese market, you no longer have to worry about Chinese visual assets.

Get API Token

Before using the Seedream MCP Server, you need an API Token from Ace Data Cloud. The process is very simple:

  1. Open the Ace Data Cloud platform, which supports GitHub, Google, or WeChat login. After registration, you automatically receive free credits
  2. After logging in, you can see your API Token directly on the homepage. Click the copy button to obtain it

Get Ace Data Cloud API Key

  1. If you run out of credits, you can go to the console to recharge. Alipay, WeChat, and Stripe are supported

One Token can be used for all MCP Servers, with no need to apply separately for each service.

Configuration

Create .cursor/mcp.json in the project root directory:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "seedream": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://seedream.mcp.acedata.cloud/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer 你的Token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Seedream's Unique Capabilities

Chinese Text Rendering

This is Seedream's core advantage—the Chinese characters in images are clear and correct:

> Generate a poster with the large text "2025 Developer Conference" and the subtitle "AI Drives the Future", with a blue tech-style background

Try it with Midjourney or DALL-E? The Chinese characters are basically all garbled.

Chinese Aesthetics

If you are building an App for domestic users and want to add some Chinese cultural elements to the onboarding page:

> Generate a New Chinese-style App onboarding illustration, with ink-wash mountains in the distance, a faintly glowing digital river in the foreground, and an overall blue-green color palette

Seedream's training data contains a large amount of Chinese internet aesthetics, and this type of style is its comfort zone.

Marketing Materials in One Go

For an e-commerce project, the PM wants a promotional Banner:

> Generate an e-commerce promotional Banner, with the title "70% OFF for a Limited Time", a gradient orange-red background, and some shopping bags and gift box elements

Chinese text + commercial design sense, one Seedream image is enough.

Tools

Tool Description
seedream_generate_image Text-to-image generation

Other Editor Configurations