Pricing
How Sume bills API work: plans and one wallet, what one run cost, estimates before you run, avatar video rates, failed jobs, and 402 errors.
Start with How Sume pricing works: plans, one wallet, published model rates
Cheapest 10-second image-to-video clip: price by model on Sume
A 10 second image-to-video clip ranges from $0.125 on Grok to $1.40 on Kling 3. Eight Sume catalog rows at list x 1.25, with the limits that decide the pick.
GPT Image 2.5 quality auto reserves max on Sume: pin quality
Sume's image docs say quality auto reserves max, and auto size reserves the output token upper bound. What to set instead, plus the 1024 by 1024 figures.
Convert audio API prices to dollars per finished minute (Python)
Per 1K characters, per million tokens, per song, per minute: a small Python converter that puts TTS and music prices on one scale with explicit assumptions.
One minute of AI video at Higgsfield's listed per-second rates
Higgsfield's API post lists six per-second video rates, from $0.042 to $0.20. The cost of 30 seconds and one minute for each, and what a three-take retry does.
ElevenLabs API cost for a 1-minute video: v4, Turbo, music, SFX
ElevenLabs lists v4 at $0.022 per 1K characters, v4 Turbo at $0.011, music at $0.15 per minute and SFX at $0.12 per minute. A worked one-minute video.
Video API billing terms checklist: expiry, refunds, storage
Higgsfield's API post lists pay-as-you-go USD, no charge for failed requests, funds expiring in one year and files kept 7 days. A buyer checklist built on it.
FLUX video upscale cost: megapixel-second examples for a 10 s clip
BFL prices video upscaling at $0.07 (Precise) or $0.10 (Creative) per megapixel-second. Worked totals for 1080p, 2K and 4K output over 10 seconds.
Is the Veo 3.1 API free? The per-second prices Google lists
Veo 3.1 on the Gemini API is priced per second for Standard, Fast and Lite, charged only on success. The rates, plus 8-second clip totals and what to verify.
Grok Imagine video: cost of a 10-second clip on each tier
xAI lists grok-imagine-video-1.5 at $0.080 per second, 1.5-lite at $0.020 and the base model at $0.050. The 10-second math and a draft-then-final plan.
Veo 3.1 Lite at 720p: eight drafts cost the same as one Standard clip
At Google's listed rates, one 8-second Veo 3.1 Standard clip costs $3.20 and eight Lite 720p clips cost the same. Here is the draft-then-final math.
Qwen Image 3.0 per-image cost: yuan to dollars
Qwen Image 3.0 is reported at CNY 0.18 Standard or 0.50 Pro per 2K image, plus CNY 0.02 per input image. How to convert, and where Sume prints prices.
Pay only for delivered images: who bills for retries
OrcaRouter says Hy Image 3.5 bills only for delivered images. Sume's image API bills a completed generation in full and does not bill failed or cancelled ones.
Veo 3.1 Lite: 1,000 Flow credits vs per-second pricing on Sume
Google AI Pro's 1,000 Flow credits cover about 100 Veo 3.1 Lite videos. Here is the per-clip math, and how Sume's per-second SKUs compare.
AI video price per minute table, next to Sume's per-model SKUs
A Hedra table from Artificial Analysis lists AI video at $6.00 to $20.16 a minute. How to read it, and where Sume prints its own per-model SKUs.
Wan 3.0 Standard vs Prime per second, plus Sume's x1.25
Wan 3.0 Standard costs $0.05, $0.10 or $0.20 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p; Prime costs more. Sume lists wan-3.0 at 2 to 30 s and bills list x 1.25.
Cutout cost for 1,000 product photos
Photoroom lists Remove Background at $0.02 an image, so 1,000 photos is $20. Sume's docs give no cutout price; preflight with dry_run or read the catalog.
Ideogram 4.5 high costs 7x low: when it pays
Ideogram 4.5 lists at $0.03, $0.06 or $0.22 per image by quality, whatever the size. High is about 7x low; here is a plan for when the extra cost is worth it.
Genjutsu 15 s: 40, 104, 144 credits vs Sume Motion Transfer
Higgsfield lists Genjutsu at 40, 104 and 144 credits for 15 seconds. Here is what that works out to and how Sume's Motion Transfer model id is priced.
Suno Premier's 60 downloads vs 60 tracks on Sume
Suno v6 Premier costs $24 a month for 10,000 credits and 60 downloads. Sume charges $0.125 per music generation, so 60 tracks come to $7.50.
Kling credit plans vs a USD balance for video on Sume
Kling sells credit plans from Free to Ultra. Sume has no Kling text-to-video id in its docs and bills each video job in USD from a workspace balance.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5: cost of 10 seconds
At xAI's listed per-second rates, a 10-second Grok Imagine Video 1.5 clip costs $0.80 at 480p, $1.40 at 720p and $2.50 at 1080p. Check Sume's catalog prices.
Runway 5 vs 15 parallel generations vs Sume queueing
Runway plans cap parallel generations at 5, 15 and up. Sume accepts extra jobs as queued behind a per-plan processing limit and reports USD cost per job.
Grok Imagine: 20 MiB image cap and per-second prices
xAI lists Grok Imagine video at $0.020 to $0.080 a second and a 20 MiB image limit. On Sume, check the live catalog and add the x1.25 billing rule.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0: auto means low, then medium
xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 price list by quality, what auto resolves to, and how to read a model's price lines on Sume before you spend.
3D model API prices: Meshy, Tripo, Rodin side by side
3D model APIs run from about $0.01 per credit to $0.50 per model. Sume has no 3D model endpoint; compare per-asset cost with a still image or short spin clip.
LTX-2.5 audio-to-video price vs Sume audio references
LTX-2.5 audio-to-video is billed per second of input audio: $0.13 Fast, $0.17 Pro. Sume has no audio-to-video id; audio references need an image or video too.
AI music cost per finished minute, compared
Lyria 3.5, ElevenLabs Music v2.5 and Suno Pro priced per minute or song, against Sume's flat $0.125 per accepted music generation.
Is a 9:16 Seedance clip cheaper than 16:9? Pixel math on Sume
On Sume, 9:16, 16:9 and 1:1 Seedance 2.5 clips cost the same at 720p because the token count is identical. 4:3 and 21:9 cost slightly more.
Seedance 2.5 cost calculator in Python: tokens to dollars
A short Python function prices a Seedance 2.5 clip on Sume from width, height and seconds. It gives $1.612063 for 6 s at 480p and $8.667 for 15 s at 720p.
Fund the Sume wallet in four top-ups through Black Friday
A 96-clip Black Friday plan on Sume costs $381.17469 in four phases. Four top-ups timed to the phases keep the balance above each in-flight hold.
26-second AI video API: estimate the price before you submit
A 26 s Wan 3.0 clip bills three amounts on Sume. Read pricing_skus, reserve and refund rules, and check duration support before you submit.
Batch APIs discount 50%: what a Sume bulk run changes instead
OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini each document a 50% batch discount. Sume docs describe no batch price: a bulk queue controls throughput, not the rate.
Captions for 100 ad variants: transcripts at one cent per audio minute
A 15-second ad transcript on Sume is billed per audio minute at $0.01, so 100 variants of 15 seconds plan out at $0.25. Arithmetic inside.
MiniMax H3: 2K by default there, 768p by default on Sume
MiniMax's page says H3 defaults to 2K; Sume's default is 768p, and 2K bills $0.1625 per second versus $0.075. Per-second and 10 s costs by resolution.
Nano Banana 2 API has no free tier: size a 20-image test
Google lists no free tier for Nano Banana 2 image output. Work out a 20-image test budget by tier, then read the live Sume price from the endpoints call.
Queue 12 holiday clips at once: the wallet balance the holds need
Twelve 15-second 720p Seedance 2.5 clips hold $104.004 at submit on Sume. If the balance is lower, later jobs return 402 insufficient credits.
Sume yearly vs monthly plan: what Pro, Startup and Scale save
Yearly Sume plans save $48 on Pro, $180 on Startup and $720 on Scale against twelve monthly payments. Full arithmetic and concurrency per tier.
FLUX.2 tiers: cost per 1,000 images at 1 megapixel, klein to max
At one megapixel, BFL's FLUX.2 list prices work out to $15 for klein 4B, $17 for klein 9B, $30 for pro, $60 for flex and $70 for max per 1,000 images.
Gemini image models: cost per 100 images at 1K, standard vs batch
At 1K, Google lists $3.36 per 100 images for Nano Banana 2 Lite, $6.70 for Nano Banana 2 and $13.40 for Nano Banana Pro. Batch pricing halves each of them.
Black Friday finals: Seedance 2.5 at 720p or 1080p for 20 clips
A 5-second Seedance 2.5 clip is $2.889 at 720p and $7.10775 at 1080p. For 20 finals that is $57.78 against $142.16. Worth it only for hero placements.
Does Lyria 3.5 on the paid Gemini API train on my prompts?
Google's Gemini pricing page lists data use as No on the paid tier for Lyria models and Yes on the free tier. Lyria 3.5 has no free tier.
A 12-track AI music EP: Lyria 3.5 at Google list vs Sume Music
Twelve Lyria 3.5 songs list at $0.96 on Google's API and cost $1.50 on Sume at a fixed $0.125 per track; three takes of each track is $2.88 vs $4.50.
10-second AI video API: Sume models that accept 10 seconds and cost
Almost every Sume video model accepts a 10-second clip. Exact prices for Wan 3.0, Kling 3, MiniMax H3 and H3 Max, and Gemini Omni Flash, plus the request.
TTS monthly bill at 1M, 5M and 20M characters: MAI vs Sume
At 1M, 5M and 20M characters a month, MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash lists $15, $75 and $300; MAI-Voice-2.1 $22, $110 and $440; Sume TTS $47.50, $237.50 and $950.
Five takes of an 800-character script: MAI Flash, MAI 2.1, Sume TTS
Five 800-character takes cost $0.06 on MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, $0.088 on MAI-Voice-2.1 and $0.19 on Sume TTS at $0.0475 per 1,000 characters.
Nano Banana Pro on Sume: 2K costs the same as 1K, 4K doubles
Nano Banana Pro bills $0.1875 per image at both 1K and 2K on Sume and $0.375 at 4K. Nano Banana 2 steps up at every size: $0.075 to $0.20.
Transcribe a 20-second voice note for a third of a cent on Sume
A 20-second clip costs $0.003334 on Sume STT, prorated per second at $0.01 a minute, and about $0.003 on MAI-Transcribe's $0.54 intro hourly price.
Wan 3.0 at 720p by clip length: 2 to 30 seconds on Sume
Wan 3.0 bills $0.125 per second at 720p on Sume: 2 s is $0.25, 5 s $0.625, 10 s $1.25, 15 s $1.875, 30 s $3.75.