Audit 100 competitor videos on Sume: $30 analysis plus $20 captions

Auditing 100 competitor videos costs $30.00 for analyses at $0.30 each, $20.00 for standalone captions at $0.20 each, or $50.00 for both. Finding videos to audit is separate: each accepted trending-videos call is $0.10, so six search calls add $0.60.

Both the analysis and caption docs describe these as fixed estimates that Sume reserves and captures per accepted job, and they point to the live catalog for the current price.

The line items

Prices are the documented fixed estimates, read 2026-10-09.

Duration is the gate, not the price

A clip longer than about 90 seconds still succeeds but can return the warning low_confidence_long_video. A clip over 300 seconds is rejected after the probe with a stable duration error. Because the price is flat per accepted analysis, a rejected long video is not a cost but is a wasted step; filter by length before you submit.

Rejections that come after acceptance matter for the ledger. Failed jobs release their holds, so the audit total can end below $30 if some clips fail.

Order and concurrency

A hundred analyses is more than any plan's accepted capacity except Scale (120). On Pro, submit in waves of 24; use jobs_wait with include_results: true in MCP so each wave returns its results without a second read. The budget for a wave on Pro is 24 x $0.30 = $7.20 held at once.

If you want only the captions of the ten best performers, run analyses on all 100 ($30), pick ten, then caption those ten ($2.00): $32 instead of $50.

What the totals leave out

The $50 total covers the two per-video jobs and nothing else. Importing the clips so Sume can read them is a separate step, and any agent turns that orchestrate the audit are metered separately from the generation lines. If you drive the audit from an agent, read debited_usd_micros for the run or thread, which includes the LLM rows, and compare it with the $50 you computed from the fixed estimates. The difference is the orchestration cost, which is the figure to optimise if you repeat the audit weekly.

Doing it in two passes

A cheaper protocol is two passes. Pass one runs analysis on all 100 for $30. Pass two captions only the videos worth studying, for example the top 15, at 15 x $0.20 = $3.00. The total is $33 instead of $50, and the saved $17 buys 56 more analyses. Keep the trending-videos calls separate in your log, because they are per call, not per video.