60 vs 180 seconds: what a longer Short costs by video model
A 60-, 120- and 180-second Short built from Wan 3.0, Seedance 2.5 or Gemini Omni Flash clips plus a Timeline render, priced from Sume's estimators.
Tripling a Short from 60 to 180 seconds roughly triples the clip bill, because every model here bills per second, and the render adds only $0.10 per started minute. At 720p, Wan 3.0 goes from $7.60 to $22.80, and Seedance 2.5 from $34.768 to $104.304. YouTube's help page says Shorts can reach three minutes (read 2026-10-08).
Clip counts
Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 reach 30 seconds per request, so 180 seconds is six clips. Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 stops at 10 seconds, so the same Short is 18 clips, which is past 12 slots and renders in chunks under the default auto strategy. All three prices include the final Timeline render.
Total clip plus render cost, 720p, 9:16
| Model | 60 s | 120 s | 180 s | Clips for 180 s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wan-3.0 (30 s clips) | $7.60 | $15.20 | $22.80 | 6 |
| seedance-2.5 (30 s clips) | $34.768 | $69.536 | $104.304 | 6 |
| gemini-omni-flash-1.1 (10 s clips) | $7.60 | $15.20 | $22.80 | 18 |
A caution on the comparison
Prices say nothing about quality or fit. Omni includes native audio in the clip; Wan and Seedance clips are joined under a spine of your own. Google lists Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video at about $0.10 per second at 720p before Sume's margin (read 2026-10-08); Sume's figure for the same second is higher because it adds the 1.25 factor.
Cost-saving order of work
- Draft the script and the shot list at 480p on Wan 3.0, where 180 seconds of clips cost $11.25.
- Run Timeline's
plancall to confirm minutes before you render. - Regenerate only the clips you reject, since each slot is a separate file.
Re-rendering without paying twice
Clips are separate files, so a rejected clip is a new job for that slot only. Each Timeline render is billed at $0.10 per started output minute, so a 180-second Short is three billed minutes ($0.30) whether it is the first render or the fifth.
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