Captions.ai Max $24.99 for 500 credits vs Sume per-job prices
Captions.ai Max is $24.99 for 500 credits, about $0.05 a credit; its pricing page lists no per-feature credit costs. Sume prices every job in dollars.
The number
On the Captions pricing page, Max is $24.99 a month for 500 credits, which is $0.04998 per credit ($24.99 divided by 500). The page does not state what a credit buys for any one feature, so a per-video price cannot be read from it. I will not guess it.
Captions plans
Every tier lands at about five cents per credit, so a bigger plan buys volume, not a discount. Enterprise is custom.
| Plan | Monthly price | Credits | Per credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max | $24.99 | 500 | $0.0500 |
| Frontier 2x | $69.99 | 1,400 | $0.0500 |
| Frontier 4x | $139.99 | 2,800 | $0.0500 |
| Frontier 8x | $279.99 | 5,600 | $0.0500 |
The Sume side
Sume sells a standalone caption job, POST /v1/video-captions, with styles slam, punch, tiktok-green and korean-ad. Every job is priced in dollars on the public rate card, and that is what you compare: dollars per finished caption job. Speech to text is $0.01 per audio minute, to the maximum of 10 minutes. See the rate card.
How to compare fairly
Captions is an app with a subscription; Sume is an API with per-job billing. If you need captions inside a pipeline, the API shape is the deciding factor, not the credit.
- Find out in Captions' help center what a credit costs for your exact feature.
- Multiply by $0.05 to get dollars.
- Price the same clip on Sume, using the caption job and any avatar or TTS job.
- Compare per finished clip, not per plan.
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