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
One 30-second Seedance 2.5 clip or three 10-second clips: price
On Sume a 30-second Seedance 2.5 clip costs the same as three 10-second clips: both are 648,000 tokens at 720p, about $17.33. What differs is retakes.
Seedance 2.5 1080p vs 720p price: about 2.5x per clip on Sume
On Sume a 5-second Seedance 2.5 clip is about $1.34 at 480p, $2.89 at 720p and $7.11 at 1080p (16:9). 1080p costs roughly 2.5x the 720p price.
Seedance 2.5 720p clip price: 5, 10, 15 and 30 seconds on Sume
A 5-second Seedance 2.5 clip at 720p 16:9 reserves about $2.89 on Sume; 10 s is $5.78, 15 s $8.67, 30 s $17.33. fal token list price times 1.25.
Seedance 2.5 price by aspect ratio: 9:16 vs 16:9 vs 21:9 on Sume
At 720p a 5-second Seedance 2.5 clip is $2.889 at 9:16, 16:9 and 1:1, $2.903 at 21:9 and $2.907 at 4:3. Aspect ratio barely moves the price.
Seedance 2.5 with a reference video: the reserve by clip length
Sume's rate card assumes a 15-second reference video at 0.6x token price: a 5 s Seedance 2.5 720p clip reserves about $6.93 instead of $2.89; 30 s is cheaper.
TTS cost by script length on Sume: 1,000 to 20,000 characters
Sume text to speech costs $0.0475 per 1,000 characters, at least $0.01 and at most $0.95 per request. A price table by script length, plus the full-video bill.
Wan 3.0 clip price table: 2 to 30 seconds on Sume
Wan 3.0 on Sume is $0.0625, $0.125 and $0.25 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p. A 10-second clip: $0.625, $1.25 or $2.50; 30 seconds: $1.875 to $7.50.
Wan 3.0 price per clip: 480p, 720p and 1080p for 2 to 30 seconds
Wan 3.0 lists at $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 per second by resolution. What a 5, 10 and 30 second clip is at list and with Sume's 1.25 multiplier.
Ten ad variants from one avatar take: trim, caption, cost vs 10 new
Ten cut and caption variants of one 15-second avatar take cost about $6.88 on Sume against $38.75 for ten fresh renders. The trim, caption and timeline prices.
Agency cost ledger: what each client's Sume jobs cost, by job id
Charge clients for AI video from real numbers: store each Sume job id per client, read /v1/usage?job_id and quote debited_usd_micros. Python with a markup line.
AI ad production cost per 1,000 impressions: when a clip is too costly
Turn a Sume clip price into a production CPM: a 15-second Avatar Plus ad with captions is $3.875, so 100,000 views carry about 3.9 cents per thousand.
AI video cost per deliverable: a rate sheet for finance approval
A cost-per-deliverable sheet built from Sume's published rates: 15-second avatar ad, captioned cut, 6-image set, voiced script, music bed, with a retake factor.
Opus 5.5 costs 20% less than Opus 5: video agent turn math
Opus 5.5 lists $4 input and $20 output per MTok against Opus 5 at $5 and $25. Priced on a 200K-token video-agent turn, and what Sume did with Opus 5.
How many days of Sume balance are left? A daily snapshot forecast
Forecast how long a Sume wallet lasts: snapshot GET /v1/balance daily, sum the drops, divide. Why /v1/usage's 100-row page is the wrong input. Python included.
Does Sume offer invoice or PO billing? What is public and what is not
The Sume pricing page lists invoice and PO billing under Enterprise with custom volume pricing. What is public, what is not, and how to budget before the call.
Ideogram 4.5 four images in one request: what Sume reserves
A four-image Ideogram 4.5 request reserves $0.15 at low, $0.30 at medium and $1.10 at high on Sume, and a 402 means the balance can't cover that hold.
Ideogram 4.5 ad text: cost of low drafts then one high final
Six ad-headline concepts, drafted at low quality and the best two re-run at high: $0.775 on Sume, against $1.65 for six at high. The arithmetic.
Ideogram 4.5 price per image on Sume: low, medium, high
Ideogram 4.5 reached the Sume Image Router this week. Per-image price by quality: $0.0375 low, $0.075 medium, $0.275 high, whatever the size.
Launch countdown: seven daily 10-second avatar clips, priced
A 7-day countdown of 10-second Avatar 1.0 clips, each captioned and joined into one video, costs $14.55 at standard, $18.82 at plus, $40.17 at max.
Balance to fill a Sume queue: 15-second avatar clips by plan
Filling a Free queue with 15-second standard avatar clips holds $16.56; Pro $66.24; Startup $132.48; Scale $331.20. Why each queued job counts.
Do more credits make Sume jobs faster? Concurrency is plan-only
No. Sume's processing concurrency is set by plan, not by balance: Free 1, Pro 4, Startup 8, Scale 20. Top-ups only raise what you can reserve.
GPT-6.1 Sol Flex and Batch at half price: is there a Sume equivalent?
OpenAI prices GPT-6.1 Sol Batch and Flex at half of Standard and Fast at 2x. A Sume Format run exposes only a model field; the picker has a Fast box.
Cheapest 10-second 1080p AI video on Sume: five models ranked
A 10-second 1080p clip costs $1.40 on Kling 3 with audio off and $2.50 on Wan 3.0. The ranking by Sume price, with what each model does at that size.
Video Router: what a request with no resolution or duration costs
Leave out resolution and duration and Sume prices a default. Wan 3.0 reserves a 1080p, 5-second clip. See each model's default and cost per clip.
BytePlus Seedance 2.5 plans: how many 30-second 480p clips fit
BytePlus lists Seedance 2.5 plans valid for 3 months with about 120 to 10,000 seconds of 480p video. What that means in 30-second clips, and the Sume side.
GPT-6.1 Sol past 272K input tokens: the price doubles for the request
GPT-6.1 Sol charges 2x input and 1.5x output once a prompt passes 272K tokens. What that means for a long Format thread, with the vendor tables read Oct 3.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash peak hours: half price off-peak, one Sume card
DeepSeek bills V4.1 Flash at half price outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC on weekdays. Here is the vendor schedule and what Sume's catalog card says.
Ideogram 4.5 on Sume: 1K vs 2K cost the same, quality sets price
Sume's docs list Ideogram 4.5 at $0.03, $0.06 or $0.22 per image by quality, whatever the size. Resolution is 1K or 2K, five references, default medium.
How much do 1,000 AI images cost on the Sume image API?
Per-image list prices from the Sume image catalog for 18 model rows, multiplied out to 1,000 images, with the rows where the listed price is only a default.
Does aspect ratio change AI video price on Sume? No, resolution does
On Sume's per-second video rows the rate is keyed by resolution, not aspect ratio, so 9:16 and 16:9 cost the same. The real price levers, in a table.
H3 Max Recast price: why a 12.4-second clip bills 13 seconds
H3 Max Recast bills the source video length rounded up to a whole second, 5 to 30 s. Worked costs at 768p and 1080p, and how to read the length first.
Most one AI video request can cost on Sume, by model
One 30-second Seedance 2.5 clip at 1080p can cost $42.65; a Wan 3.0 clip tops out at $7.50. The per-request ceiling for each Sume video model, for sizing caps.
Holiday gift guide: what 60 AI images cost on each Sume model
60 gift-guide images cost $0.30 on higgsfield-soul and $11.25 on nano-banana-pro. A per-model table and a tiered plan that costs $1.70.
How is a sume/auto video job billed if Auto has no price?
sume/auto is not a priced model: billing keys off the family that served the job, at list x 1.25, reserved on submit. What the receipt shows and what it hides.
Most expensive single AI video request on Sume: max cost per model
The ceiling for one request on Sume: Genjutsu at 30 s costs $25.54, Recast at 30 s 1080p $16.88, Wan 3.0 at 30 s 1080p $7.50. Table for every priced row.
Does aspect ratio change AI video price? Seedance 2.5 vs Wan 3.0
On Sume, Seedance 2.5 bills by frame pixels, so 1:1 at 480p is 4.4% cheaper than 16:9 and 4:3 at 1080p is 0.6% dearer. Wan 3.0 charges the same for any ratio.
Seedance 2.5 price per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p on Sume
Seedance 2.5 costs $0.2687 per second at 480p, $0.5778 at 720p and $1.4216 at 1080p on Sume. 1080p is 2.46 times 720p: more tokens and a higher rate.
Seedance 2.5, 2.0, Fast and Mini: price of a 15-second 720p clip
One 15-second 720p vertical clip is 324,000 tokens. On Sume that is $8.667 on Seedance 2.5, $5.67 on 2.0, $4.536 on Fast and $2.835 on Mini.
Fabric talking clip cost by audio length: 480p vs 720p table
VEED Fabric 1.0 on Sume bills per audio second: $0.10 at 480p, $0.1875 at 720p, up to 300 seconds. Cost of 15, 30, 60, 120 and 300 second clips.
FLUX.2 pro edit takes 9 references, 9MP total: price effect
fal says FLUX.2 pro edit accepts up to 9 reference images, 9MP of input in total, and bills input megapixels too. A worked cost range and a Sume check.
Free-plan video batch on Sume: six accepted, one renders at a time
On a one-slot plan Sume accepts valid video jobs as queued up to six. What the 7th submit returns and how to pace a batch.
HeyGen credits in dollars: Creator and Pro cost almost the same
HeyGen Creator is $29 for 600 credits and Pro is $49 for 1,000: about $0.048 and $0.049 per credit, so Pro buys 4K and models, not a cheaper credit.
Magnific credits in dollars: what a Kling or Wan clip really costs
Magnific prices video in credits. At Premium's monthly $0.001 a credit, a 5-second Kling 2.5 clip is $0.14 and 4 seconds of Seedance 2.5 1080p is $4.40.
Ten-language voiceover: cost of a 600-character script in TTS
A 600-character script costs $0.0285 to voice on Sume at $0.0475 per 1,000 characters, so ten versions cost $0.285. Cost table and what the math leaves out.
How many TTS jobs a script needs: the 20,000-character cap and cost
Sume TTS takes up to 20,000 characters a job at $0.0475 per 1,000. A table of jobs and cost for 3,000 to 100,000 characters, plus a paragraph-safe splitter.
Video to transcript cost: audio detach plus STT, by minutes
Detach a video's audio for $0.01, transcribe it at $0.01 a minute. One-, three-, five- and ten-minute videos cost $0.02 to $0.11 at Sume list rates.
Wan 3.0 and MiniMax H3 Max clip price on Sume at 5, 10 and 15 seconds
At list times 1.25, a 10-second Wan 3.0 clip is $0.625 at 480p, $1.25 at 720p and $2.50 at 1080p. MiniMax H3 Max is $0.625, $1.00 and $2.00 at its three tiers.
Where to read your video concurrency: dashboard tab, not a table
Sume lists plan concurrency in a table but says the dashboard Concurrency tab and generation_limits.concurrency_limit are the source of truth. How to read them.