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
AI avatars for a 5-person team: 5 avatars, 4 clips each, budget
Five team avatars and four 20-second clips each cost $4.75 to create plus $98.00 of Plus video: $102.75 at Sume's listed rates, with Standard and Max compared.
Cost of 12 avatar clips (4 each at 15, 30, 45 s) on Sume
Twelve talking-avatar clips, 360 seconds total, cost $66.24 on Standard, $88.20 on Plus and $198.00 on Max at Sume's listed rates, plus $0.95 once.
Daily AI avatar Short for 30 days with music: monthly cost
A daily 30-second avatar Short for 30 days is 900 seconds: $220.50 on Plus plus $3.75 of music and $0.95 once. Standard and Max compared, with a Python check.
Does Sume use credits or dollars? Reading a credit quote in USD
Sume prices generations in USD per unit and keeps a USD balance; here is how to translate another vendor's credit quote and where to check it.
FLUX 3 Image cost per megapixel: why 2K is the cheapest tier
From BFL's list prices, 2K works out near $0.025 per megapixel against $0.048 at 1K and $0.038 at 4K. A short script for pricing a batch before you commit.
H3 Max Recast price calculator: Python, 768p and 1080p per clip
A short Python function prices a Sume h3-max-recast clip from its length and resolution: $0.30 or $0.45 list per second, times 1.25, rounded up to the cent.
Ideogram 4.5 carousel text slides: what 5 and 10 slides cost
Instagram carousels hold up to 10 slides. Ideogram 4.5 lists $0.03, $0.06 or $0.22 per image by quality; here is the 5 and 10 slide math and a 4:5 call.
MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash '60% cheaper': the baseline that implies
Microsoft calls Flash about 60% cheaper than comparable models at $15 per 1M characters. That implies a $37.50 baseline. A check against a $47.50 TTS rate.
Recast with four people costs the same as one: photos are free
h3-max-recast bills source seconds only; fal includes reference images at no charge. A 10-second clip is $3.75 at 768p on Sume with one photo or four.
Sume avatar quality defaults to plus when omitted: what it costs
Omit quality on an avatar video and Sume renders on Plus at $0.245 per second, 33 percent above Standard. How the default shows up in a 100-clip batch.
Where did the Sume Credits page go? Billing & subscription top-up
The old Credits page is now Billing & subscription in the Sume dashboard: plan status, balance, Stripe top-ups. What the API can and cannot do.
20-ad video test budget on Sume: Wan, H3 Max or Seedance
Twenty 10 second 720p-class ad variants cost $20.00 on H3 Max, $25.00 on Wan 3.0 or Gemini Omni Flash, $75.60 on Seedance 2 and $115.56 on Seedance 2.5.
30-second AI video on Sume: Wan 3.0, Seedance 2.5 or two 15 s clips
A 30 second clip on Sume at 720p: Wan 3.0 $3.75, Seedance 2.5 $17.334; two 15 second clips cost $3.00 on H3 Max and $11.34 on Seedance 2.
A 61-second Short bills two Timeline minutes: price each length
Timeline 1.0 bills $0.10 per ceil(output minute). Price 30, 60, 61, 120 and 180-second Shorts, and see where YouTube's three-minute line falls on that scale.
AI image cost per image: Gemini, Luma, Ideogram and GPT Image lists
Vendor lists per image today: Gemini Nano Banana 2 $0.067 (1K), Luma Uni-1.1 $0.0404 (2K), Ideogram 4.5 $0.03-$0.22, GPT Image 2.5 $0.09366 (xhigh, 1024).
How Sume rounds video cost to credits: why 5 s is 32, not 31.25
Sume's estimator rounds the billable amount up to whole cents (credits). A 5 s H3 Max 480p clip is $0.3125 and reserves 32 credits; ten of them reserve 320.
Ideogram 4.5 for 100 SKUs: low, medium, high totals for a mixed plan
Fal lists Ideogram 4.5 at $0.03, $0.06 and $0.22 per image by quality. The totals for 100 SKUs under five plans, and what Sume's docs say about price.
Monthly AI video budget: 60 five-second clips per month on Sume
Sixty 5 second clips a month cost $30.00 on H3 Max 768p, $37.80 on Wan 3.0 or Gemini Omni Flash 720p, $113.40 on Seedance 2 and $173.40 on Seedance 2.5.
Nano Banana 2 Lite first frame, then Omni Flash: the cost ladder
Draft a still with Nano Banana 2 Lite at $0.034 per 1K image, then animate it with Gemini Omni Flash. Google's list prices and the Sume image_url video request.
What a failed AI video job costs on Sume: reserve, capture, release
Sume reserves the estimate at submit, captures it on success and releases it on failure. In a 20-job Seedance 2.5 batch with 3 failures you pay $98.26.
How long can a Reel be? 3 minutes, and what each render costs
A Reel can run up to 3 minutes as reported in October 2026. A Sume Timeline render of that length costs $0.30, billed at $0.10 per output minute rounded up.
Reel at 181 seconds: Timeline bills four minutes, keep it at 180
One second over 180 turns a $0.30 Timeline render into $0.40 and a Reel that may not fit. How the ceil(minute) rule works and how to cap it with the plan call.
Agency price sheet: AI video cost basis at 2x and 3x markup
A finished 15 s Reel has a Sume cost basis of $2.31, so $4.62 at 2x and $6.93 at 3x. Five deliverables priced, with retake and retainer maths.
AI video cost per minute by finished length, 15 s to 10 min
Finished AI video costs about $9.24 per minute at 15 s and $7.86 at 10 min with Wan 3.0, because captions and render round up. Full table, two models.
Carousel vs 15-second Reel: cost per post and per 30-post month
An 8-slide carousel costs $0.13 on GPT Image 2.5 medium; a finished 15 s Reel $2.31 on Wan 3.0. 30-post month priced three ways, with the full stack.
Cheapest Sume image models that take a reference photo
Reference edits start at $0.025 per image on Sume. Ranked list of every catalog model that accepts input_references, with reference limits and prices.
Ecommerce weekly drops: a month of content priced on Sume
A weekly drop with a 30 s hero Reel, 2 carousels and 3 product clips costs $7.46 on Wan 3.0, $29.84 a month. Priced on three models, with retakes.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 on Sume: one per-second rate for 480p and 720p
Sume's catalog prices grok-imagine-video-1.5 at one per-second list rate for 480p and 720p. Read the live rate from the catalog before budgeting.
Local shop content calendar: 24 posts a month, priced line by line
24 posts a month for a local shop (12 carousels, 8 Reels, 4 clips) cost $24.07 to produce on Sume, with retake and model-swap totals in the table.
Monthly content calendar budget: 12 Reels, 4 Shorts, 8 carousels
A month of 12 Reels, 4 Shorts and 8 carousels runs from about $83 to $372 on Sume by model tier. Per-post finishing costs and retake allowance shown.
Cost of 100 voiceovers by script length with Sume TTS
100 voiceovers of 300 characters cost $1.43: Sume TTS is $0.0475 per 1,000 characters. Price table from 150 to 20,000 characters and a mixed batch.
Clip reject rate: what 25% and 50% rejects add to 40 kept clips
40 kept 8-second clips cost $40.00 on Wan 3.0 at 720p with no rejects, $53.33 at 25% rejected and $80.00 at 50%. Four models priced in one table.
Season budget ceiling: spend cap per episode times the queue size
Cap each Sume bulk item with generation_spend_cap_usd and the queue has a hard ceiling: cap times items, with concurrency limiting what is exposed at once.
Season polling budget by plan: reads per minute for Free to Scale
Sume rate limits are per key and per plan, reads at 40 times writes. Size a season poller against Free 4,800 to Scale 48,000 reads a minute.
60-second Shorts: monthly cost at 3, 5 or 7 a week by AI model
A 60-second Short costs $7.97 on Wan 3.0 or Omni and $35.14 on Seedance 2.5 at 720p. Four-week budgets at 3, 5 and 7 a week, with the cost split.
Cost of 10 TikTok carousels (80 AI slides) by image model
Ten 8-slide carousels are 80 images: about $0.59 on GPT Image 2.5 low, $22 on Ideogram 4.5 high. Per-image rates, retake scenarios and the math.
Three alternative endings for a Short: cost at 360p to 4K
Three 8-second AI endings on Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 cost $0.90 at 360p, $3.00 at 720p, $4.50 at 1080p and $9.00 at 4K on Sume, before the $0.10 Timeline render.
3-minute Instagram Reel: total cost by build route on Sume
A 180-second Reel costs from about $5 (stills) to $105 (Seedance 2.5 720p). Clips, narration, captions, render and music priced step by step.
TikTok Story Highlights as an FAQ shelf: ten 20 second avatar clips
Story Highlights group stories into collections. Fill one with ten avatar answers: 10 x 20 s costs $36.80 on standard and $49.00 on plus.
TTS price per minute of speech: five vendors at 750 characters
At 750 characters a minute: Deepgram Aura-2 $0.0225, ElevenLabs v3 $0.06, Hume $0.0375 to $0.1125, Sume $0.0356. Per-character prices converted.
Weekly 1-hour show: yearly budget for transcript and clips
Transcribing one hour and cutting five captioned clips a week costs $2.20 a week, $114.40 a year on Sume. Ten clips a week is $197.60. Table inside.
Cheapest AI image edit per reference slot on the Sume catalog
Reference slots per dollar for every edit-capable Sume image model: Qwen Image and Grok Imagine lead at 400, ChatGPT Image 2.5 offers the most slots at 16.
ElevenLabs sound effects price vs a Sume music stinger
ElevenLabs lists sound effects at $0.12 per minute. Sume has no sound-effects model. Its nearest tool, Music Router, costs a flat $0.125 per generation.
fal's pricing page vs what Sume bills: Kling v3, H3 Max, Nano Banana
fal lists Kling v3 Pro at $0.14 a second, H3 Max at $0.05, Nano Banana 2 at $0.08. Sume bills list x 1.25; its Kling card splits audio on and off.
MiniMax speech-2.8-hd price per 1k characters vs Sume TTS
MiniMax lists speech-2.8-hd at $0.10 per 1,000 characters and turbo at $0.06. Sume TTS bills about $0.0475 per 1,000 and takes 20,000 characters per request.
Realtor's monthly market update: 4 neighborhoods, 45-second avatar
Four 45-second avatar updates a month cost $33.12 on Standard, $44.10 on Plus and $99.00 on Max on Sume, plus a one-time $0.95 for the avatar.
Sum Sume usd_micros as integers in Python, not floats
Keep usd_micros as ints and divide once at display time. A million micros is one dollar, so integer addition is exact where a float sum drifts.
Sume accepted job capacity by plan: 6, 24, 48, 120 and queue_full
Accepted capacity is concurrency plus queue: 6 on Free, 24 on Pro, 48 on Startup and 120 on Scale. Past it, submits get 429 queue_full until a job finishes.