$100 of 30 s shots: 5 Seedance 2.5 clips or 26 Wan 3.0 at 720p

A $100 budget buys 5 thirty-second Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p or 26 on Wan 3.0 (as of 2026-10-08). At 480p the counts are 12 and 53, and at 1080p they are 2 and 13.

Counts

Each count is floor(10000 cents / price per clip), and the bracket shows the money spent.

Arithmetic

Seedance 2.5 at 720p: 10000 / 1734 = 5.77, so 5 clips for 8670 cents with 1330 left. Wan 3.0 at 720p: 10000 / 375 = 26.67, so 26 clips for 9750 cents with 250 left. At 1080p, Seedance 2.5: 10000 / 4265 = 2.34, so 2; Wan: 10000 / 750 = 13.33, so 13.

The leftover buys something: after 5 Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p, $13.30 covers one more 15 s clip at 720p ($8.67) and one 10 s clip at 480p ($2.69).

Counting retakes

These are first attempts. If one in three clips needs a redo, you would budget 1.5 attempts per accepted clip, which turns 5 into about 3 accepted Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p and 26 into about 17 on Wan. The one-in-three rate is an assumption for illustration, not a Sume figure.

Cutting a clip into shorter shots lowers the cost of a retake, since only the failed shot is redone.

Shorter clips for the same money

At 720p the same $100 buys 17 Seedance 2.5 clips of 10 s ($5.78 each, $98.26) or 80 Wan 3.0 clips of 10 s ($1.25 each, exactly $100.00). In seconds of video that is 170 s against 800 s, versus 150 s and 780 s for the 30 s case.

Seconds per dollar are almost the same for long and short clips, so choose length for the story.

Check the number yourself

To confirm the figure behind this post, read the seedance-2.5 entry from GET /v1/video-router/models and check that 30 s and 720p are inside its duration_seconds and resolutions. The grid price for that cell is 1734 cents ($17.34). It is the provider list price times 1.25, rounded up to the next cent for the job, as of 2026-10-08.

Use an Idempotency-Key on every create call so a retry cannot start a second paid job, then poll the job until it is complete and download the file from the result. Media inputs for Timeline or for references must be hosted files, so import them first.

None of the prices here say anything about picture quality, motion or how well a model follows a prompt. Prices can change when a provider changes its list, which is why every table carries a date. Re-read the catalog before you commit a large batch, and run one test job at the exact setting you plan to use.