20-ad video test budget on Sume: Wan, H3 Max or Seedance

A 20-variant ad test with 10 second clips costs $20.00 on MiniMax H3 Max at 768p, $25.00 on Wan 3.0 or Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 at 720p, $75.60 on Seedance 2 and $115.56 on Seedance 2.5 at 720p, on Sume. Each figure is the per-clip estimate times 20, where the estimate is the provider list times 1.25.

Rates come from Sume's pricing estimators and the Video Router docs; Seedance 2.5's list ($0.0214 per 1K tokens) matches fal's page as read today.

Per clip and per test

Per clip: H3 Max 768p is 10 x $0.10 = $1.00; Wan 3.0 720p is 10 x $0.125 = $1.25; Gemini Omni Flash 720p is also 10 x $0.125 = $1.25; Seedance 2 is 216,000 tokens x $0.014 per 1K x 1.25 = $3.78; Seedance 2.5 is 216,000 x $0.0214 x 1.25 = $5.778.

A cheaper way to run it

Test hooks and framing on the cheap model, then re-render winners. If a 20 clip test runs on H3 Max ($20.00) and 4 winners are re-rendered on Seedance 2.5 at $5.778 each, the total is $20.00 + $23.11 = $43.11, against $115.56 for rendering all 20 on Seedance 2.5.

The first pass is still a test of a different model, so treat winners as concepts, not as guaranteed to reproduce the same look on the second model.

Headroom check

Jobs reserve their estimate when accepted, so 20 parallel 10 second Seedance 2.5 jobs need $115.56 of available balance before the last one is accepted, and a shortfall returns 402 insufficient_credits. Concurrency and queue limits by plan are in the generation admission docs.