A 47-second Avatar 1.0 video: $8.65 standard, $11.52 plus, $25.85 max

A 47-second Sume Avatar 1.0 talking video costs about $8.65 at standard (47 x $0.184 = $8.648), $11.52 at plus (47 x $0.245 = $11.515) and $25.85 at max (47 x $0.55). If you omit quality, Sume uses plus. These figures assume no product image and the planned 47 seconds.

Why 47 seconds fits

Avatar video accepts a script or multi-scene plan when Sume estimates the target duration at 4 to 60 seconds inclusive. 47 seconds sits inside that window with 13 seconds of headroom. Longer scripts must be shortened or split into several jobs.

Within the window, cost grows in a straight line, so you can cost a script before you write it: 30 seconds at plus is $7.35, 47 seconds is $11.515 and 60 seconds is $14.70. Anything beyond 60 seconds must be split into jobs, as the 75-second example on this site does.

What the numbers depend on

The catalog describes submit-time reservations as exact USD micros over the current chunk-planned billable seconds. That means the billed seconds come from Sume's plan for your script, not from a stopwatch on the finished clip. Treat 47 x rate as an estimate and read the reservation on the job to confirm it.

The docs describe standard as the fastest execution path, plus as the balanced default and max as the highest quality with slower turnaround. Aspect ratio defaults to 9:16 and the only resolution is 720p.

Product images add a per-second surcharge, listed in the catalog at $0.194, $0.258 and $0.58 per second for the three tiers. On 47 seconds that moves standard from $8.648 to $9.118, plus from $11.515 to $12.126 and max from $25.85 to $27.26. Leave the product image out when the product does not need to be shown.

• Quality values: standard, plus, max.
• Aspect ratios: 1:1, 3:4, 9:16, 4:3, 16:9.
• Resolution: 720p.

Choosing a tier for a long read

Max costs $17.20 more than standard on this clip ($25.85 - $8.648 = $17.202). For a review draft, use standard. If the preview stills are good and you want the final render at a higher tier, the preview flow lets you override quality at generate-video time without a new preview, as described on the avatar video previews page.

A short worked budget helps. Suppose you publish five 47-second explainers a week at plus. The weekly cost is 5 x $11.515 = $57.575, and a month of four weeks is $230.30. Dropping the drafts to standard saves 5 x ($11.515 - $8.648) = $14.335 a week if you render every explainer once at standard first and only the approved ones at plus. Whether that fits depends on how many drafts you discard, so count them over a month before you commit.