Akool Instant Avatar slots (1 to 10) vs Sume at $0.95 per avatar
Akool caps Instant Avatars at 1, 3, 5 and 10 by plan. Sume creates an avatar for a flat $0.95, so ten cost $9.50. What the comparison does and does not show.
Akool's pricing page gives Starter 1 Instant Avatar, Pro 3, Pro Max 5 and Business 10. Sume does not slot avatars by plan: each avatar is a $0.95 creation job from a prompt, a profile or a photo, so ten avatars cost $9.50.
What the Akool page lists
The avatar rows sit under the streaming and lip-sync feature matrix. I read counts only, with no per-avatar price.
| Plan | Instant Avatar | Studio Avatar | Voice clone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 1 | not listed | not listed |
| Pro | 3 | not listed | 5 voices |
| Pro Max | 5 | 1 | 30 voices |
| Business | 10 | 1 | 180 voices |
How Sume creates an avatar
The create avatar guide lists three inputs: a text prompt, structured profile traits, or a reference image at a public HTTPS URL. Creation is a job, and you poll it. When it completes, the avatar is a reusable resource you call by handle in later avatar videos.
The catalog rate for sume/avatar-1.0/generate is a flat $0.95 per avatar. At that price, 3 avatars cost $2.85, 5 cost $4.75 and 10 cost $9.50.
A worked roster
Say a team wants six presenters: two for sales, two for support, one for product and one for events. On Sume that is six creation jobs, $5.70, before any video. Each presenter then needs a handle, which the API normalizes to lowercase without a leading @.
On Akool, six presenters would need Pro Max (5 Instant Avatars) or Business (10), by the counts on the page, so the avatar count alone can decide the plan. Check what each slot includes before you rely on it, since the page gives the number but not the details.
What this does not tell you
Akool's Instant Avatar and Sume's avatar are different products, and a count is not a quality measure. The Sume figure covers creating the identity only. Every talking video is then billed per second at $0.184, $0.245 or $0.55 depending on tier.
Use the numbers for roster planning. A team that needs 25 distinct presenters hits Akool's top slot count early, while on Sume the constraint is the video spend. Only consent for real people's likeness still needs your own process.
Consent and likeness
Whichever tool you use, creating an avatar of a real person needs that person's permission. Sume's create-avatar guide takes a reference image URL, and it is your job to hold the consent record. Keep it keyed to the avatar handle so you can find it later.
A fictional presenter made from a prompt or profile avoids that question, but still check that the result does not resemble a real person.
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