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
Sume API requests per minute by plan: write and read limits
Writes per minute are 120 on Free, 300 on Pro, 600 on Startup and 1200 on Scale. Reads are 40 times that, so 4800, 12000, 24000 and 48000.
Sume image markup at 10,000 images: list vs billed price per model
What the 1.25x house margin adds at 10,000 images per Sume image model, from $50 on Qwen Image and Grok Imagine to $527 on ChatGPT Image 2.
Cost of a 90-second Sume edit pipeline: trim, detach, filter, render
Trim is $0.02, audio detach $0.01, a filter encode $0.02, and a timeline render $0.10 per output minute rounded up. Two minutes of output adds up to $0.25.
What one n=4 image call costs on each Sume image model
A full-size image call costs the per-image price times n. Table of all 19 Sume image models with their n ceiling and the price of one maximum-size call.
Retry buffer for a 50-clip AI video batch: 95th-percentile spend
How much extra to budget when you reroll bad AI clips: expected and 95th-percentile spend for 50 clips at 50-90% keeper rates, priced at $0.50 per H3 Max clip.
Finishing costs: captions and render as a share of a clip
Captions ($0.20) plus a one-minute render ($0.10) add $0.30 to every finished clip. That is 77% of a Grok clip's bill and 9% of a Seedance 2.5 clip's.
Six-shot 30-second ad budget by shot role on Sume
Pay for the expensive model only where it shows: one Seedance 2.5 hero, two H3 Max product shots and three Grok b-roll cuts cost $4.45, against $17.63 all-hero.
Wallet needed to fill the Sume job queue, by plan
Filling Pro's 24 accepted job slots with 30-second Standard avatar clips reserves $132.48 up front; Scale's 120 slots reserve $662.40. Free has 6 slots.
Seedance 2.5 price by duration, 4 to 30 seconds, on Sume
Seedance 2.5 on Sume bills in proportion to seconds: a 30-second 720p vertical clip is $17.33, exactly six times the $2.89 five-second clip. Full 4-30 s table.
Free-trial allowance per signup for an AI video app: Sume costs
What a free trial pack costs per signup and per 1,000 signups on Sume: three packs from $0.14 to $2.76, and cost per paying user at 2-10% conversion.
Edge Add-ons listing images: what a full asset set costs on Sume
One Edge listing needs a logo, two optional tiles and up to six screenshots: nine images. At FLUX.2 Pro's $0.03 list, Sume bills $0.0375 each, about $0.34.
Podcast season launch budget: 12 episodes, art, music, teasers
A 12-episode podcast season with cover art options, three theme tracks, 45-minute transcripts and captioned teasers costs $9.08 at Sume list rates.
Weekly Twitch highlight budget: 3-hour VOD to 6 clips
Transcribe a 3-hour VOD, trim six highlights, caption them and render a reel for about $3.28 a week or $13.12 a month at Sume list rates, plus setup.
H3 Max Recast re-roll budget: 1, 2 or 3 takes per final clip
Because Sume's Recast request has no seed, each retake is a new paid job: a 10 s clip costs $3.75, $7.50 or $11.25 at 768p for one to three takes. Budget table.
Cheapest AI person swap on Sume: the 5-second Recast floor
The lowest price for an H3 Max Recast job on Sume is $1.875 (5 s at 768p). Shorter clips are rejected. Floor table and a cheap way to test a face first.
Re-record one voiceover line: TTS cost for 50 to 5,000 characters
Fixing one 120-character line costs $0.0057 in Sume TTS, 12% of redoing a 1,000-character script at $0.0475. Gluing it in is free inside a Timeline render.
AI person swap cost per minute of video: Recast on Sume
One minute of footage through H3 Max Recast costs $22.50 at 768p and $33.75 at 1080p on Sume, more if your pieces round up. Piece-length table inside.
Video inspect transcribe: per-minute STT add-on, 10-minute cap
Adding transcribe true to a Sume video inspect adds $0.01 per audio-minute of your duration hint, one minute if omitted, up to 10 minutes.
10-slide carousel cost: high-quality cover, low-quality bodies
A 10-slide carousel with a high-quality GPT Image 2.5 cover and nine low-quality slides costs $0.45 on Sume; ten high-quality slides cost $2.23.
Price a Reel or Short before you render it with Timeline plan
Sume's Timeline plan call returns billable minutes and an estimated cost for free. See what 59, 90 and 180 seconds cost against the 3-minute limits.
Comfy Agent Auto mode burns credits per token: how to stay capped
Comfy Agent bills tokens from the same Comfy Credits pool and needs a positive balance. Auto mode skips run approvals. What to cap on Sume instead.
Copilot Studio computer use costs 5 credits a step: set a ceiling
Computer use bills 5 Copilot Credits per step, 15 on a premium model. The step count is unknown up front. A Sume run takes a dollar cap before it starts.
Seedance 2.5 cost per second on Sume: 480p, 720p, 1080p worked out
Seedance is priced per token, not per second. Worked from Sume's rate tables: about $0.27, $0.58 and $1.42 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p, 16:9.
30-second AI video in one take vs stitched clips on Wan 3.0
Wan 3.0 accepts 2 to 30 seconds per request. A 30-second take costs $1.88 at 480p, $3.75 at 720p and $7.50 at 1080p on Sume; stitched clips cost the same.
AI image budget guard in Python: stop when usage.cost passes a limit
Each Sume image response reports usage.cost in USD. Add it up in a loop and stop a bulk run at a cap you set, so a stuck prompt cannot drain credits.
AI video credits in dollars: InVideo, Kapwing, a USD wallet
InVideo credits cost $0.015 to $0.05 each and Kapwing Pro credits $0.016 to $0.024. Sume balances are in USD, so a price reads the same on every call.
Does a product image cost extra in a Sume avatar video?
Yes: product_image raises the per-second rate by $0.010 on standard, $0.013 on plus and $0.030 on max. The numbers, a 30-second example, and when to skip it.
Cost of 1,000 six-second AI video clips by model
A batch of 1,000 six-second clips costs $75 on Grok Imagine Video 1.5 and $750 on Wan 3.0 at 720p. Full Sume table plus how to submit it without queue_full.
Cost of a 30-second AI video ad: clips, captions, music
A 30-second AI ad costs $0.80 on Grok 720p and up to $6.73 on Kling 3 audio on, once clips, timeline render, captions and music are added. Sume prices.
Cost per keeper AI video clip: retakes and failed jobs
One usable AI clip costs the clip price divided by your keep rate: at 25 percent, a $0.75 clip costs $3.00 per keeper. Includes a Python function.
A daily 15-second AI video for 30 days: monthly cost
Posting one 15-second AI video a day for 30 days is 450 generated seconds: $5.63 on Grok Imagine Video 1.5, $56.25 on Wan 3.0 720p, $94.50 on Kling 3 audio on.
What it costs to finish 100 holiday ads: captions, trim, timeline
Sume's documented prices for captions, trim, timeline render and music, added up for 100 finished ads, plus what the total leaves out. Confirm live first.
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 clip cost matrix: 3 to 10 seconds, 360p to 4K
A lookup table for Gemini Omni Flash 1.1: list cost per clip for 3, 5, 8 and 10 seconds at 360p, 720p, 1080p and 4K, with Sume's list x 1.25 beside it.
How much money can Sume hold in flight per plan?
Accepted job capacity is 6 on Free up to 120 on Scale. At $2.50 per 10-second Wan 1080p job, a full Scale queue holds $300. Computed from the docs.
Minimum balance to submit a 10-second AI video job
A 10-second video job needs its estimate in your wallet at submit: $0.125 on Grok, $1.25 on Wan 720p, $3.75 on Omni Flash 4K, or a 402 comes back.
Seedance 2.5 token pricing on fal: formula and a 30-second 720p clip
fal bills Seedance 2.5 as height x width x seconds x 24 / 1024 tokens at $0.0214 per 1,000. Worked examples, a rounding gap on the page, and what Sume lists.
VEED Fabric 1.0 price per second: fal list vs Sume rate
fal lists VEED Fabric 1.0 at $0.15 per second at 720p. Sume bills veed/fabric-1.0 at $0.1875 at 720p and $0.10 at 480p, rounded up per audio second.
Veo 3.1 price per second: Google's API vs fal, audio on and off
Veo 3.1 Standard is $0.40 a second at 720p and 1080p on Google's API; fal splits audio on and off. A dated table, 8-second clip costs, and the Omni alternative.
Video-to-video AI cost per clip: Recast and Genjutsu
Video-to-video on Sume costs $0.375 to $0.85 per second: a 10-second Recast clip at 768p is $3.75 and a 10-second Genjutsu clip at 720p is $8.51.
AI voice isolation API cost per minute: Runway vs ElevenLabs
Runway bills voice isolation at 1 credit per 6 seconds, $0.10 a minute; ElevenLabs $0.12 on its API page. Plus what Sume's $0.01 audio detach does.
Gemini image API price per image: Lite, Flash and Pro tiers
Google lists Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image near $0.0336 per 1K image, Flash from $0.045 to $0.151, Pro $0.134 to $0.24. How to read the per-image line on Sume.
GPT Image 2.5 edit chains: four high passes cost one max image
At 1024x1024, four high-quality GPT Image 2.5 passes add up to the output price of one max image. What that means for a one-change-per-pass edit chain on Sume.
Rask AI minute credits and 3x lip-sync vs a Sume dubbing pipeline
Rask bills 1 credit per video minute for Standard lip-sync, 3 for Enhanced. Sume has no dubbing endpoint; a chained pipeline runs about $0.55-$1.55 per 10 min.
Reference ingest cost: free manifest, STT only if speech is heard
Sume reference ingest reads a clip of up to 300 seconds into shots, OCR and audio facts for free; transcription bills $0.01 a minute only if speech is detected.
Reference ingest transcript: allow_billed_stt and skipped STT
Reference ingest only bills a transcript when you opt in and the clip has speech. What allow_billed_stt reserves and what the stt_skipped warnings mean.
Runway Gen-4 Turbo and Wan3 Prime cost per second in dollars
At $0.01 per credit, Runway Gen-4 Turbo is $0.05 per second and Wan3 Prime is $0.068, $0.14 and $0.28 at 480p, 720p and 1080p. How to compare on Sume.
Runway real-time avatar cost per minute vs a rendered avatar video
Runway bills real-time avatars at 2 credits upfront plus 2 per 6 seconds, about $0.22 a minute. Sume's rendered avatar video is $0.184 to $0.55 per second.
Do reference images or audio change Seedance 2.5's price?
No. On Sume only a reference video changes a Seedance 2.5 estimate. Reference images, reference audio and generate_audio add nothing. What fal says, and a test.