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
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 vs GPT Image 2.5: flat price or tokens?
xAI charges Grok Imagine Image 2.0 a flat price per image. GPT Image 2.5 on Sume is built from token rates and a quality level. What each means for a budget.
The largest hold one Sume call can place: a wallet sizing table
Maximum catalog band per Sume endpoint, from 13 cents for music to $56.25 for a 300-second Fabric clip. Use the table to size a wallet for concurrent jobs.
Per-second lip-sync and motion bands: Fabric, H3 Max, Kling on Sume
Fabric holds up to $56.25, H3 Max lip-sync up to $3.00 and Kling motion control up to $4.73. Read the catalog bands and the per-second rates behind them.
Hosted Wan 3.0 per clip vs running Wan 2.2 on a rented GPU
Sume's wan-3.0 bills $0.0625, $0.125 or $0.25 per second at 480p, 720p, 1080p. Here is the break-even arithmetic against your own GPU hourly rate.
Cost to clean 200 product photos: background removal and upscale
Removing 200 backgrounds costs $4.50 at $0.0225 each and upscaling all 200 adds $40.00 at $0.20 each. Upscale only the keepers and the total drops to $16.50.
Does a bigger Sume plan make each video cheaper? Rates vs concurrency
Sume bills usage at each model's published rate on every plan. Pro, Startup and Scale differ in monthly price and concurrency: 4, 8 and 20 jobs, Free allows 1.
OpenRouter's 5.5% credit fee vs Sume's list x 1.25 margin
OpenRouter bills provider list price and charges a fee on credit purchases. Sume reserves list x 1.25 per job. Where each cost shows up.
Runway sound effects API: 1 credit a second, 2 if you skip duration
Runway's eleven_text_to_sound_v2 costs 1 credit per second with a duration, or 2 credits without one. What 20 effects cost, and what Sume offers instead.
Cost of audio for 20 ad variants: voiceover, music and a check
Twenty ad variants with a 450-character voiceover, a $0.125 music track and a $0.01 transcript check cost about $3.13 in Sume audio steps. Line-by-line table.
AI video price per minute: normalize per-second and per-token prices
To compare AI video API prices, convert everything to dollars per finished minute at one resolution. Hedra's figures as an example, and where Sume's come from.
Budget a 20-ad batch before you run it: spend caps on Sume
Before a 20-ad batch, set a spend cap per run, read the estimate, and keep failed jobs out of the bill. What Sume documents for each.
Cost of 20 fifteen-second AI ads at per-minute video prices
Twenty 15-second ads are 5 minutes of video. At Hedra's listed per-minute prices that is $30 to $100.80 per round; one reroll doubles it.
Cost of one AI video job: read GET /v1/usage with job_id
Add job_id to GET /v1/usage to see what one video job debited, held and refunded. The summary fields to quote, and why not to sum rows yourself.
Cost per approved ad image: divide usage.cost by what you keep
Cost per image is not what you pay per approved image. Sum usage.cost over your batches, divide by images kept, and see which model earns its price.
Gemini Omni Flash cost per minute: reported rates vs Sume rows
Two pages list different 1080p prices for Gemini Omni Flash. Per-second rates from both, plus Sume rows and what a minute of finished footage costs.
Higgsfield API pricing: what to check before you build on it
Higgsfield's public API was reported in September. Before you build, check price unit, limits, webhooks and retention; here is how Sume documents each.
Estimate an image campaign's cost from Sume's endpoint pricing
Read the pricing lines from GET /v1/images/models/{id}/endpoints and multiply by n. Per-image models are exact; token-priced models need a different estimate.
MiniMax H3 vs H3 Max: billable cost of a 10-second clip by resolution
A 10-second clip on minimax-h3 bills $0.63 at 480p and $0.75 at 768p; minimax-h3-max bills $0.63, $1.00 and $2.00 at 480p, 768p and 1080p.
Runway MCP Kling models need a paid plan: Sume Kling 3 per-clip price
Runway lists its four Kling MCP models for paid plans. Sume bills Kling 3 per second from a wallet; here are the 5, 10 and 15 second clip prices from the code.
TikTok Symphony avatar pricing: no figure found, and what Sume lists
We found no Symphony avatar price in our sources. Here is what a Sume-side cost model can use from the docs: compose, trim, captions and speech-to-text.
Wan 3.0 cost for 100 five-second clips by tier, list times 1.25
A worked budget for 100 five-second Wan 3.0 clips at 480p, 720p and 1080p on Sume: list $0.05, $0.10 or $0.20 a second, times 1.25.
What did one image job cost? Read the usage ledger by job_id
Get the exact wallet movement for one image job with GET /v1/usage and a job_id: reserved, captured or refunded, and the summary's debited figure.
Creatify Boreal price per second vs Sume's reserve ledger
Creatify prices Boreal at a cent per second of finished video. Sume shows each model's supported durations, reserves credits at admit and logs it in /v1/usage.
ElevenLabs API pricing: USD, not credits, and Sume's wallet
ElevenLabs says API usage is billed in US dollars, not credits: TTS is $0.08 per 1,000 characters, $0.04 Flash/Turbo. Sume also bills a USD balance.
Is Runway free? 125 one-time credits, and Sume's Free plan
Runway has a $0 Free plan with 125 one-time credits; Standard is $15 per month. Sume's Free plan covers image generation with no card and 1 concurrent job.
Kling 3.0 4K on Luma: 147 credits per second, audio on or off
Luma lists Kling 3.0 at 2160p for 147 credits per second with or without audio; at 1080p it is 40 without and 49 with. Sume has a generate_audio field.
MiniMax H3 Max on Luma: credits per second in dollars
Luma lists MiniMax H3 Max at 18, 28 and 56 credits per second. Here is that in dollars by plan, and the per-second dollar rate Sume bills instead.
Veo 3.1 on Luma with audio: 280 credits per second, double 140
Luma lists Veo 3.1 at 140 credits per second without audio and 280 with, at 720p and 1080p. Google lists dollars per second. Sume has a generate_audio field.
Replicate cost estimate before running vs Sume dry_run preview
Replicate lists cost estimates on each model's page. On Sume, send dry_run=true on a paid MCP tool to preview admission and cost without submitting the job.
Replicate Wan 3.0 30% off this week: what Sume bills
Replicate's pricing page shows a one-week 30% banner on Wan 3.0. A Sume video job reserves at provider list times 1.25 and reports usage.cost.
Runway autobilling: how it works, and Sume's manual top-up
Runway autobilling checks hourly, recharges below a threshold, at least 1,000 credits ($10), and stops after three failed charges. Sume top-ups are manual.
Do Runway credits roll over? Max plan: one month
Runway's pricing page says Max credits roll over for 1 month. Sume's plan descriptions list no monthly credit allotment, so there is no plan roll-over.
Runway model router cost: billed at the model it picks
Runway bills a router generation at the rate of the model the router selects and reports model and cost. Sume's sume/auto echoes its id and reports usage.cost.
Suno free plan: 50 credits a day, no downloads. Sume's Free plan
Suno Free gives 50 credits per day with no monthly song downloads or commercial rights. Sume's Free plan has no credit allotment and covers image generation.
Synthesia auto top-up vs Sume: manual dashboard top-ups
Synthesia now offers automatic credit top-ups. Sume top-ups are a manual Stripe-backed dashboard action; a low balance fails at submit, not mid-job.
Video render priced per minute: 61 seconds bills two minutes
Sume Timeline bills per ceil(output minute), so a 61-second render counts as 2 minutes. A worked rounding table for 59, 60 and 61 seconds.
Render cost estimate before export: Timeline plan is unbilled
POST /v1/timeline-1.0/plan returns billable_minutes and an estimated cost without creating a job or reserving credits. What it cannot predict.
Arcads MCP out of credits vs Sume 402 insufficient_credits
Arcads says generation fails without credits. Sume answers 402 insufficient_credits before provider work, and an MCP agent can preview cost with dry_run first.
Workers AI paid models 20/min, 50 with prepaid vs Sume plans
Cloudflare lifts paid Workers AI models from 20 to 50 requests per minute with prepaid credits. On Sume, top-ups do not raise concurrency; the plan does.
Gemini Omni Flash edit billed per input second vs Sume reserve
Runway bills Gemini Omni Flash video-to-video at 11 credits per input second, capped at 10 seconds. Sume reserves an edit from an 8s hint, not a probe.
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 price per hour vs Sume STT per minute
xAI lists STT at $0.10 per hour batch and Voice Transcribe 2.0 since Sep 17. Sume STT bills per audio minute, reserving 1 minute by default, max 10 minutes.
Hedra Character 3 price per second vs Sume Avatar Video 720p
Hedra Character 3 lists 2.5, 5 and 6.25 cents per second at 540p, 720p and 1080p. Sume Avatar Video is 720p with standard, plus and max quality tiers.
Ideogram API 402 Payment Required, and Sume image billing
Ideogram tool endpoints can return 402 for insufficient credits or quota. Sume image billing is all-or-nothing: failed generations are not billed.
Ideogram dry_run price quote vs Sume image pricing lines
Ideogram's dry_run=true returns a PriceQuote without generating. Sume's images API has no dry_run; read endpoint pricing lines from the catalog first.
Luma Agents usage: Pro 4x, Ultra 15x, and Sume Agent by plan
Luma lists 4x Luma Agents usage on Pro and 15x on Ultra. Sume gates Sume Agent by plan (limited on Free, full on Pro) and draws it from one credit balance.
Luma Plus, Pro, Ultra credits per month vs a USD wallet
Luma Plus is $30 for 10,000 credits, Pro $90 for 40,000 and Ultra $300 for 150,000. See the implied price per credit and how a USD balance works.
OpenRouter image pricing: billable and unit vs Sume pricing
OpenRouter image pricing lines carry billable, unit and cost_usd. Sume's endpoints response shows lines with the same fields in its docs example.
Pika parallel generations: 2 on Free, 8 on Creator; Sume by plan
Pika lists 2 parallel video generations on Free and Starter and 8 on Creator. Sume sets concurrency by plan and returns 429 queue_full when the queue is full.