Comparisons
Sume compared with other video and generative-media platforms. Each post uses the vendor's own pages, read on the date the post states.
3,000 Nano Banana 2.1 images: Google batch, standard and Sume
At 1K, 3,000 Nano Banana 2.1 images cost $50.40 on Google batch, $100.80 standard and $300 on Sume. At 4K: $170.10, $339 and $600. Sources and arithmetic.
Cheapest possible clip per Sume video model: the minimum-length floor
The cheapest legal clip on Sume ranges from $0.11 (Omni, 3 s at 360p) to $1.07 (Seedance 2.5, 4 s at 480p). Per-second rates hide the minimum-duration floor.
Scribe v2 Realtime $0.39 vs batch $0.22: 37 hours vs Sume STT
ElevenLabs charges 77 percent more for Scribe v2 Realtime than Scribe v2. For 37 hours the gap is $14.43 against $8.14, and Sume STT is $22.20.
ElevenLabs v4 Turbo after Oct 12: $0.04 vs Sume TTS $0.0475
ElevenLabs v4 Turbo is $0.011 per 1K characters until Oct 12 and shows $0.04 as the struck-through price. Sume TTS is $0.0475. Costs for 37,500 characters.
BFL FLUX.2 Pro 'from $0.03' x 1.25 = Sume flux-2-pro $0.0375
Sume bills provider list times 1.25. BFL lists FLUX.2 Pro from $0.03 and Sume's flux-2-pro is $0.0375, which is exactly 1.25x. Here is when the match holds.
FLUX 3 Video Draft $0.06/s vs Sume 480p: 20 five-second takes
Twenty 5-second drafts total $6.00 on FLUX 3 Video's Draft mode and $6.25 on Sume's wan-3.0 or minimax-h3 at 480p. Sume's floor is 4% higher.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS vs Sume TTS: break-even is 47 characters
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS costs $0.00225 per 10 seconds of audio; Sume TTS costs $0.0475 per 1,000 characters. They tie at about 47 characters per 10 seconds.
Gemini Live Avatar custom avatars are allowlist-only; Sume is $0.95
Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar went GA on 2026-09-24 with custom avatars restricted to an allowlist. On Sume a photo avatar is $0.95 with no allowlist step.
Gemini Omni Flash on Google ~$0.10/s vs Sume $0.125/s at 720p
Google lists Gemini Omni Flash at about $0.10 per second of 720p video; Sume lists gemini-omni-flash-1.1 at $0.125. A 7-second clip: about $0.71 vs $0.875.
4K image prices: FLUX.3 is 6.07x its 2K, Nano Banana 2.1 on Sume 1.33x
FLUX.3 Image costs $0.607 at 4K and $0.100 at 2K, a 6.07x jump. Nano Banana 2.1 on Sume goes from $0.15 to $0.20, a 1.33x step, and Pro is flat from 1K to 2K.
Keyterm prompting costs $0.05/hour at two vendors: 60 hours is $3.00
ElevenLabs and AssemblyAI both list keyterm prompting at $0.05 an hour: $3.00 for 60 hours of calls. Sume STT has a language hint but no keyterm list.
MiniMax H3 768p vs Gemini Omni Flash 720p: an 8-second clip
On Sume, an 8-second clip is $0.60 on minimax-h3 at 768p and $1.00 on gemini-omni-flash-1.1 at 720p, with $0.30 at Omni's 360p. Price and constraints.
POST /v1/videos vs POST /v1/video-router/generate on Sume
Sume's docs recommend POST /v1/videos for new integrations; Video Router stays available and unchanged. Same catalog, same jobs, different request shape.
Seedance 2.0 at 1080p or Seedance 2.5 at 720p: 10 seconds on Sume
On Sume a 10-second Seedance 2.0 clip at 1080p costs $8.51 and a Seedance 2.5 clip at 720p costs $5.78. Seedance 2.0 at 720p is $3.78. The full grid.
Sume Music Router vs Music 1.0: same $0.125, different model ids
Both Sume music routes charge a fixed $0.125 per generation. Music Router adds a model field (sume/music-auto, lyria-3.5, lyria-3-pro); Music 1.0 is retiring.
Sume TTS 1.0 vs TTS Router: same $0.0475 per 1,000 characters
Sume's catalog prices TTS 1.0 and TTS Router identically: $0.0475 per 1,000 characters, 20,000-character maximum. They differ in how you pick the model.
Tavus Starter 10 video minutes at $59 vs Sume Avatar cost per minute
Tavus Starter is $59 with 10 video-generation minutes, about $5.90 each if used fully; Sume Avatar standard is $11.04 per minute with no plan fee.
Ideogram 4.5 low and FLUX.2 Pro both cost $0.0375 an image on Sume
240 posters cost $9.00 on Sume with Ideogram 4.5 at low quality or with FLUX.2 Pro. Ideogram medium doubles that to $18.00 and high costs $66.00.
90-minute webinar live captions: AssemblyAI bills open socket time
AssemblyAI bills streaming by open WebSocket time, not audio sent. A 90-minute webinar is $0.675 on U3.6 Pro Realtime; Sume STT has no live mode.
AssemblyAI Universal-Streaming $0.15 vs 3.6 Pro $0.45: 250 hours
AssemblyAI lists Universal-Streaming at $0.15 an hour and Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime at $0.45, a 3x step. Over 250 session hours it is $37.50 against $112.50.
AssemblyAI diarization +$0.02/hour: a 12-hour panel vs Sume STT
AssemblyAI prices standard diarization at +$0.02 an hour on a $0.21 base. Twelve hours of panel audio is $2.76; Sume STT is $7.20 with no diarization field.
PII redaction on 40 hours of calls: AssemblyAI $14.40 vs Sume STT
AssemblyAI lists PII audio and text redaction as add-ons. Priced for 40 hours of calls beside Sume STT at $0.01 a minute, which has no redaction option.
Deepgram Flux Multilingual $0.0078/min: 7,500 minutes vs Sume STT $75
Deepgram lists Flux Multilingual streaming at $0.0078 a minute. For 7,500 minutes that is $58.50, against $75.00 on Sume STT. The full Deepgram ladder is below.
Deepgram Nova-3 batch $0.26/hour vs streaming $0.29: 500 hours vs Sume
Deepgram lists Nova-3 monolingual at $0.0043 a minute pre-recorded and $0.0048 streaming. Over 500 hours that is $129 against $144; Sume STT is $300.
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 $0.22/hour vs Sume STT $0.60/hour: 7.5 hours
Scribe v2 lists $0.22 per hour and Sume STT is $0.01 per minute, or $0.60 per hour. For 7.5 hours of audio: $1.65 vs $4.50, 2.7x apart.
ElevenLabs v4 vs v4 Turbo promo prices, and where Sume TTS sits
ElevenLabs v4 is $0.022 and v4 Turbo $0.011 per 1,000 characters until Oct 12; the struck-through prices are $0.08 and $0.04. Sume TTS is $0.0475 in between.
FLUX.2 Klein 9B from $0.015 vs Sume image prices for 4,000 images
At BFL's 'from $0.015' Klein 9B rate, 4,000 images cost $60. Sume's cheapest listed image rows cost $99 to $150 for the same count. Sume lists no Klein.
FLUX.3 Image 1k at $0.048 vs five cheaper Sume image models
Five Sume image models cost less per image than FLUX.3 at 1k ($0.048): gpt-image-2.5 low, grok, imagen-4-fast, flux-2-pro, seedream-5-lite. Ranked.
FLUX 3 Video HD $0.17/s vs Sume Wan 3.0 at 720p: a 12-second clip
A 12-second clip costs $2.04 at FLUX 3 Video's HD rate and $1.50 on Sume's wan-3.0 at 720p. Resolution names differ, so read the table before choosing.
HeyGen Business 5 custom avatars vs five Sume avatars at $4.75
HeyGen Business lists $149 a month plus $20 per seat with 5 custom avatars; creating five avatars on Sume is 5 x $0.95 = $4.75, with video billed separately.
MiniMax H3 Max vs Wan 3.0 at 1080p: 5, 10 and 15 seconds on Sume
On Sume, MiniMax H3 Max at 1080p costs $0.20 a second and Wan 3.0 costs $0.25. For 5, 10 and 15 seconds: $1.00/$2.00/$3.00 vs $1.25/$2.50/$3.75.
Nano Banana 2.1 and GPT Image 2.5 both list $30 per million tokens
Google and OpenAI both list $30 per million image output tokens. Google's per-image prices imply 1,120, 1,680 and about 3,767 tokens for 1K, 2K and 4K.
Sume POST /v1/images (sume/auto) vs Image 1.0: which for new code
Sume's docs say Image 1.0 is retiring and is an alias for Image Router Auto. New code should use POST /v1/images. The field differences.
Synthesia Basic free 10 minutes vs 10 minutes of Sume avatar video
Synthesia Basic is $0 with 10 minutes and 9 avatars; the same 10 minutes on Sume standard is $110.40, so the free plan wins until you outgrow it.
Amazon no-text lower-right rule vs Walmart contrast: where captions go
Amazon Sponsored Brands bans text in the lower right; Walmart wants 4.5:1 contrast. How to move Sume burned-in captions up with anchor ratios and check a still.
200 drafts at 2.5 cents: Imagen 4 Fast, Qwen Image or Grok Image
Each costs $5.00 for 200 images on Sume. Imagen 4 Fast and Qwen Image take n up to 4, so 50 calls; Grok Image takes n of 1, so 200. Ratios and edits differ.
Four Sume image rows between 3.75 and 5 cents: Flux, Seedream, Recraft
Flux 2 Pro $0.0375, Seedream 5.0 Lite $0.04375, Seedream 4.5 and Recraft V4 $0.05. Compare ratios, references and formats before you choose on price alone.
First paid AI avatar plan, October 2026: $18 to $59 vs Sume seconds
Cheapest paid plans at Synthesia, HeyGen, Colossyan and Tavus from their pricing pages, with the seconds of Sume Standard avatar video the same money buys.
Synthesia roleplay training at $29 per learner: 20-person cost
Synthesia lists Roleplay Training at $29 per learner a month, $25 billed yearly. What 10, 20 and 50 learners cost, and what Sume's scripted clips cost instead.
Omni Flash vs Wan 3.0 on Sume: same 12.5 cents a second, what differs
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 and Wan 3.0 both cost $0.125 a second at 720p on Sume. They differ in length, aspect ratios, audio and 4K. Side-by-side table.
AI avatar news, October 8, 2026: what is worth acting on
Synthesia Sessions and plans, Tavus Griffin-Lite, HeyGen LiveAvatar, Teams and Zoom avatars: dated, with what a buyer can actually do this week.
Claude MCP connector or Sume Agent Completions for a long video job?
A Messages API request with the MCP connector holds open while Claude works. Sume Agent Completions return 202 and a run to poll. Which one fits a long job.
Custom avatars per plan: HeyGen, Colossyan, Tavus, Teams, Sume
Custom avatars each plan lists: HeyGen 1 to 10+, Colossyan 15 or 20, Tavus 0 to 7, Teams 3. Sume prices each new avatar at $0.95; no plan cap is listed.
Haiku 5.5 vs Sonnet 5.5 token prices for an agent calling Sume
Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and Sonnet 5.5 costs $2. What the gap does and does not change for a Sume agent's spend cap.
HeyGen LiveAvatar Essential $99 vs Business $475: limits and cost
HeyGen LiveAvatar Essential is $99 with 20-minute sessions; Business is $475 with 60-minute sessions. Credits, cost per minute and a Sume alternative.
Soul vs Seedream 5.0 Lite for 100 concept frames on Sume
100 concept frames: Soul bills $0.50 at 720p in 25 calls of four; Seedream 5.0 Lite bills $4.375 and can edit a reference. Ratios, limits and when each fits.
Imagen 4 Ultra or Ideogram V3 on Sume: same $0.075, not the same row
Both bill $0.075 per image on Sume. Imagen 4 Ultra is text-only with five ratios and 1K or 2K. Ideogram V3 edits, lists 15 ratios and has a quality setting.
LinkedIn video ad vs Page video: which numbers differ
LinkedIn video ads and Page video use different limits for length, size and ratio. Both lists read on 2026-10-08, with the Sume tool that fixes each mismatch.