$5,000 of Omni Flash on Sume: 40,000 seconds at 720p, 11 hours

$5,000 buys 40,000 seconds of gemini-omni-flash-1.1 at 720p on Sume, which is about 11.1 hours of video or 5,000 clips of 8 seconds. At 1080p the same money buys 26,666 seconds (7.4 hours), at 4K 13,333 seconds (3.7 hours) and at 360p 133,333 seconds (37 hours). The division is budget divided by the per-second rate, where the rate is Sume's provider list times 1.25.

The table

Each row divides $5,000 by the Sume per-second rate and rounds seconds down to a whole number. The last column counts 8-second clips, a typical short-form length that fits Omni's 3 to 10 second range.

What the budget does not include

It covers generation only. Re-renders count against it, as do edits, because each edit pass is another job billed per output second. Voice, music, captions, trims and Timeline renders are separate Sume jobs with their own prices. A realistic plan holds back 20 to 30 percent of the budget for re-renders: $1,000 to $1,500 of the $5,000, leaving $3,500 to $4,000, or 28,000 to 32,000 seconds at 720p.

It also assumes prices stay where they are. Sume's docs describe a rule, provider list times 1.25, not a fixed table, so a change in the provider list moves your seconds. Re-read the catalog before each quarter.

A sample split

Suppose the quarter has 2,000 concepts. Draft each at 360p for 8 seconds: 2,000 x $0.30 = $600. Re-render the best 500 at 720p: 500 x $1.00 = $500. Finish the best 100 at 1080p: 100 x $1.50 = $150. The total is $1,250, a quarter of the $5,000 budget, which leaves $3,750 for edits, extra variants or a larger campaign.

• Drafts: 2,000 x 8 s x $0.0375 = $600.
• Reviews: 500 x 8 s x $0.125 = $500.
• Finals: 100 x 8 s x $0.1875 = $150.

Where Google's list differs

Google's pricing page puts Omni at about $0.10 a second at 720p, from 5,792 tokens a second at $17.50 per million. On that list $5,000 buys about 49,000 seconds at 720p. That is the comparison most readers ask about, and it shows the 25 percent: Sume's 40,000 seconds is 81 percent of Google's 49,300. Sume's draw is one balance, one API and one set of job records across video, image and audio, rather than a lower per-second price.

Checking the division

Each figure is $5,000 divided by the rate: 5,000 / 0.125 = 40,000; 5,000 / 0.1875 = 26,666.7; 5,000 / 0.375 = 13,333.3; 5,000 / 0.0375 = 133,333.3. Because Sume bills whole jobs rounded up to a cent, a run of many short jobs at 360p or 1080p will land slightly under these counts. Treat the table as an upper bound and keep the last two percent of the balance as slack.