$50 of MiniMax H3 on Sume: how many 10-second clips per tier

With $50 you can buy 66 ten-second clips at 768p on minimax-h3 ($0.75 each), 50 on minimax-h3-max ($1.00 each), or 25 at 1080p on Max ($2.00 each). Shorter or lower-tier clips stretch further.

The figures are from the per-second prices in the Sume Video Router docs: list x 1.25, rounded up to the cent per clip. They exclude extra reference-image charges on H3 and any retries.

Per-second prices

The fal list prices that Sume documents are $0.05 and $0.06 per second for H3 at 480p and 768p, and $0.05, $0.08 and $0.16 for H3 Max at 480p, 768p and 1080p. After the 1.25 multiple they are $0.0625, $0.075, $0.0625, $0.10 and $0.20. A job is rounded up to the cent, so a 5-second H3 clip at 768p is $0.375, billed as $0.38.

Clips per $50

The table divides $50 by the billed price of one clip and rounds down.

What the numbers mean for a test plan

If you want to test 30 hooks for an ad, a $50 test at 10 seconds fits 30 clips at 768p on Max ($30.00) with $20 left for ten 1080p finals ($20.00). On H3, 30 hooks at 768p are $22.50, leaving $27.50 for finals if you pay for Max 1080p at $2.00, that is thirteen of them.

Short clips are the cheapest unit. A 5-second clip is half the cost of a 10-second one, and the 5-second minimum of both rows means that is the floor. A 4-second clip is not accepted; the docs give the duration range as 5 to 15 seconds.

Where the numbers do not apply

These are per-clip prices for generation only. If a brief uses more than five reference images on minimax-h3, each extra image adds $0.10. A failed job is refunded according to the docs, so a failure does not spend your budget, but a poor take that completes does. Retries, upscales and other models are separate.

The 2K and 4K upscale rows on H3 are priced if a request includes them, at $0.13 and $0.16 per second list. At 2K a 10-second clip is $1.63, which fits 30 clips in $50. Check the live catalog before you plan a budget around them.

• Budget by billed clip price, not by per-second price, because each clip rounds up.
• Add $0.10 per extra reference image after five on H3.
• Use usage.billable_amount_usd_micros from each submit to track spend.

How to rerun the math

The formula is simple: take the Sume per-second price, multiply by the clip length, round up to the cent, and divide your budget by that number. For a $200 budget at 10 seconds, that is 266 clips on H3 at 768p and 200 on H3 Max at 768p. Replace the length with 7 seconds and the H3 768p clip becomes $0.525, billed as $0.53, which fits 94 clips into $50.

The catalog's usage.billable_amount_usd_micros on each submit is the authority. If your quote differs from the table, the resolution or duration in the request is probably different from what you assumed.

How to spend the $50 well

Treat the budget as two pools. Put roughly a fifth into 480p drafts, where a 10-second clip is $0.63, so you can test a dozen prompts for about $7.50. Put the rest into the tier you intend to ship, and only on prompts that survived the draft pass.

Remember that billing is list price times 1.25, rounded up to the cent per clip. Failed jobs are refunded, so a clip that errors does not eat the budget, but a clip that completes and is simply not good does. That is the reason the draft pool exists.