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
Seedance 2.5 reference video: dearer at 10 s, cheaper at 30 s
On Sume a reference video raises a short Seedance 2.5 clip's estimate and lowers it past 23 seconds: the 15 s assumption, 0.6x rate, and a 480p-1080p table.
Seedance reference video cost: 2.5, 2.0, Fast and Mini priced
Estimates for a 5, 10 and 15 second 720p clip with and without a reference video on seedance-2.5, seedance-2, seedance-2-fast and seedance-2-mini on Sume.
WellSaid Starter 20 minutes vs Sume TTS per character: cost per hour
WellSaid sells narration as download minutes per plan. Sume bills per character. Cost per minute for each WellSaid plan against Sume at the same speaking rate.
Why Sume usage rows add up to more than you spent
Summing rows from GET /v1/usage overstates spend: refunded rows keep their hold amount. Read summary.debited_usd for a thread, run or job instead.
fal pricing units: per megapixel, per 1,000 tokens, per second
fal's price page quotes per second, per image, per megapixel, per 1,000 tokens and per 1,000 characters. Convert each to dollars per output first.
Kling motion control duration_seconds: it sets the credit hold
On Sume's Kling 3.0 Motion Control, duration_seconds (1 to 30) sizes the credit reservation; the output length follows the driving video, not this field.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 on Runway: 10, 16, 29 credits a second
Runway bills grok_imagine_1_5 at 10, 16 or 29 credits per second by resolution, plus 1 per reference. Sume takes grok-imagine-video-1.5 as image-to-video.
Veo 3.1 audio block: not charged. What happens on a failed Sume job?
Google says a Veo 3.1 video blocked by an audio error is not charged. Sume reserves cost at submit and releases or refunds the hold when a job fails.
Video inspect transcript: the one-minute reserve and duration_seconds
transcribe true in video-inspect costs $0.01 per audio minute. Omit duration_seconds and Sume reserves one minute; the hint maxes at 600 seconds.
WaveSpeed starting price: lowest resolution, and a 10 s clip cost
WaveSpeed's page says starting prices are list prices at the lowest resolution or quality. At those rates a 10-second clip runs $0.30 to $1.80. Table inside.
xAI Batch API discount: 20% on four text models, none on images
xAI's pricing page says the Batch API discount applies to text models only, 20% on four listed ones. Image and video batches are billed at standard rates.
AIVA plans: 3, 15 or 300 downloads vs Sume per-generation price
AIVA counts downloads (3, 15 or 300 a month) and caps tracks at 3 to 5:30. Sume's Music charges per accepted generation, so a discarded take still costs.
Does a failed Format run cost money? What bills and what is free
A 4xx at create, an idempotent replay and a skipped run cost nothing; generation that finished before a cancel or failure is billed. The exact Sume rules.
Veo 3.1 in Flow credits vs the Gemini API: cost of an 8-second clip
Flow charges 10, 20 or 100 credits for an 8-second Veo 3.1 Lite, Fast or Quality clip; the Gemini API lists $0.40 to $3.20. Sume does not list Veo.
Gemini image batch is half price: what that means for Sume users
Google lists Gemini 3.1 Flash Image batch at $0.25 input and $30 output per 1M tokens, half standard. Sume documents no batch tier; here is how to plan.
Flow 4K costs 50 credits and needs Ultra; Sume lists 4K per second
Google Flow upscales Omni Flash to 1080p free for subscribers and to 4K for 50 credits on Ultra only. Sume bills 4K at $0.375 a second on any plan.
gpt-image-2.5 default quality: auto on OpenAI, high on Sume
If you omit quality, OpenAI's gpt-image-2.5 defaults to auto while Sume uses high. What that means for cost, how auto reserves max, and when to pin a level.
organization_wallet_not_provisioned vs insufficient_credits (402)
A Format run can fail at create with 402 for two reasons: an empty wallet or an unfunded organization wallet. How to tell them apart and who fixes each.
generation_admission_preview: check before paid hosted MCP calls
Sume's hosted MCP has generation_admission_preview, dry_run and max_spend_usd. What each one checks, when to use it, and when a plain single create is fine.
Can a per-run spend cap raise the limit? Formats yes, schedules no
Formats honor a per-run generation_spend_cap_usd above the Format cap, schedules clamp it, and Agent Completions require it. Defaults and edge cases.
Recraft Studio plan includes all models: when per-image billing wins
Recraft says every model in Studio is included in its standard plans. That is a seat model; Sume bills each completed image to a wallet. Which suits you?
Seedance usage.cost on Sume: the billable amount, not provider cost
The poll response for a Seedance job carries usage.cost. Sume docs say it is the Sume billable amount, reserved at provider list times 1.25.
Cartesia plans: Sonic minutes on Free, Pro, Startup and Scale
Cartesia's plans give about 27 to 10,667 Sonic TTS minutes a month at $0 to $299. Derived cost per minute, concurrency, and how Sume TTS billing differs.
ElevenLabs Avatars credit cost vs Sume per-second tiers
ElevenLabs says Avatar credits vary by lip-sync model, resolution and duration. Sume Avatar 1.0 publishes a fixed per-second rate for each quality tier.
Estimate a Sume image batch cost from endpoint pricing lines in Python
Estimate an image batch before you run it: read cost_usd from the model's endpoint pricing line and multiply by n. A short Python script, with a caveat.
Higgsfield credits expire after one year: budget vs Sume's USD balance
Higgsfield credits expire one year after they are added. Sume bills a workspace USD balance reserved at list times 1.25. What to check before you top up.
Higgsfield failed and nsfw requests: no charge. What Sume bills
Higgsfield does not charge failed or nsfw requests and refunds reserved credits. Sume reserves on submit and refunds on failure or cancel before capture.
Higgsfield UGC video at 52-142 credits vs a 15 second Sume avatar
Higgsfield lists AI UGC videos at 52 to 142 credits, roughly $2.60 to $7.10. A 15 second Sume Avatar 1.0 clip is $2.76 to $8.25 depending on quality tier.
Dreamina plans: how many 10-second videos per month (19 to 737)
Dreamina's plan page lists 19, 48, 220 or 737 ten-second videos a month by plan. What that does and does not tell you about Seedance 2.5.
Dreamina Seedance 2.5 credit savings 43%, 57%, 76%: what they mean
Dreamina's plan page labels Seedance 2.5 access with 43%, 57% and 76% credit savings by plan. The page does not define the baseline; how to price it instead.
Veo 3.1 API: you pay only for successful videos; Sume refunds
Google's Gemini API charges for Veo 3.1 only when the video is generated. Sume reserves cost on submit and refunds failures. What each means for your balance.
Luma Ray 3.2 API price per second: 540p, 720p and 1080p
Luma lists Ray 3.2 text and image to video at $0.15, $0.30 and $1.20 per 5-second clip at 540p, 720p and 1080p. The per-second math, and 10-second clips.
Luma Ray 3.2 HDR price: 2x SDR, and 3x with EXR, worked out
Luma's API page prices HDR at twice SDR and HDR plus EXR at three times. On a 5-second 1080p Ray 3.2 clip that is $1.20, $2.40 and $3.60. Sume's output.
Pika commercial license: Creator has it, Starter and Free do not
Pika's pricing page lists a commercial license on Creator and above, none on Free or Starter. What that means for client work, and what Sume's paid plans say.
Runway cost per credit: Standard, Pro and Max, monthly vs annual
From Runway's pricing page: Standard $15, Pro $35, Max $95 monthly (or $12, $28, $76 annual). Divide by credits to get 2.4 cents down to 0.8 cents per credit.
Runway image credits: Muse 1, Gen-4 Image 5-8, Gemini Flash 5-16
Runway lists Muse Image at 1 credit, Gen-4 Image at 5-8, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image at 5-16. What 100 images cost at $0.01 a credit, and how Sume bills images.
Runway parallel generations: 5, 15 and 20 by plan vs Sume
Runway lists 5 parallel generations on Standard, 15 on Pro and 20 on Max. How that limit works for batch jobs, and how Sume's plan concurrency compares.
Runway Team plan: 6,900 credits per seat, up to 9 users, 1 TB
Runway's Team plan launched Sept 4 with 6,900 monthly credits per seat in a shared pool, up to 9 users and 1 TB storage. What Sume offers for teams instead.
Suno Premier 60 downloads a month vs Sume cost per track
Suno Premier is $24 a month with 60 song downloads, about $0.40 each if all are used. Sume charges a fixed $0.125 per accepted music generation, with no plan.
Vidu Q3 turbo vs pro API price per second: 540p, 720p, 1080p
Vidu lists Q3-turbo from $0.035 and Q3-pro from $0.045 per second, half price off-peak. The per-second table, a 10-second cost, and what Sume offers instead.
What is one AI credit worth in dollars? Runway, Vidu, Pika, Topaz
One credit is $0.01 on Runway's API, $0.005 on Vidu, about $0.011 on a Pika plan and $0.08 to $0.12 on Topaz. Convert to dollars before you compare.
Sume catalog price bands: estimated, minimum and maximum USD cents
GET /v1/catalog returns three prices per model in USD cents. Read the estimate, the minimum and the maximum, and learn which one your wallet must cover.
Avatar video 402 insufficient_credits: what Sume reserves first
A 402 insufficient_credits on an avatar video means Sume could not reserve the estimate at submit, so nothing rendered. Check balance, cut cost, then retry.
ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 plan minutes: 2, 9 or 44, and Sume's steps
ElevenLabs lists Dubbing v2 minutes per plan: 2 on Starter, 9 on Creator, 44 on Pro. Here is what a 10-minute video needs there and how Sume prices the steps.
Charged for a failed Seedance or Kling job? Reserve, capture, refund
How Sume bills a Seedance or Kling video: a hold at submit, capture on success, refund on failure, and cancel only before generation starts.
Are flat Sume timeline, trim and filter prices ceilings or fixed fees?
Flat prices for Sume timeline, compose, trim, filter and audio detach are reserved up front and captured at actual compute, never above the reservation.
Veo 3.1 Fast 20 credits vs Quality 100 in Flow: a draft ladder
Flow charges 100 credits for Veo 3.1 Quality and 20 for Fast. Draft count per final, why the free daily credits cannot buy a Quality clip, and the Sume way.
Veo 3.1 Lite in Flow: 10 credits, 5 on Ultra. How many drafts?
Flow's credits page prices Veo 3.1 Lite at 10 credits, or 5 for Ultra. What that buys per plan, and a cheap draft step before you spend on a final.