$100 of AI video: how many seconds Veo 3.1 tiers and Sume models buy

Divide $100 by a per-second rate and you get seconds of video. Google's Gemini API pricing page (read 2026-10-03) lists Veo 3.1 at 720p for $0.05 per second on Lite, $0.10 on Fast and $0.40 on Standard. Sume's rates are provider list times 1.25 (see the Video API docs).

Seconds per $100

Rows below are ordered cheapest to most expensive per second.

Reading the table

From the table, $100 is 100 clips of 10 seconds on Veo 3.1 Fast or H3 Max 768p, and 47 on Kling 3 Pro with audio on (476 seconds). On Veo 3.1 Standard it is 25.

The point of a table like this is not to crown a winner. It is to show how much a model choice matters: the same $100 buys eight times as much video on the cheapest line as on the dearest. Quality differences between tiers are real, and the best budget buys the tier you will actually ship, not the cheapest one.

Retakes eat the budget

If two takes of every clip are normal in your workflow, halve every figure above. $100 on Veo 3.1 Fast or H3 Max 768p then yields 50 finished 10-second clips, not 100.

Use this snippet with your own budget, rate and retake factor.

budget = 100.0
rate = 0.10  # per second
retakes = 2
seconds = budget / rate / retakes
print(f'{seconds:.0f} finished seconds, {seconds / 10:.0f} clips of 10 s')