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
Runway gemini_image3_pro: 20 credits at 1K/2K, 40 at 4K
Runway's gemini_image3_pro costs 20 credits per 1K or 2K image and 40 per 4K, or $0.20 and $0.40. Compared with Sume's nano-banana-pro.
Runway grok_imagine_image_2 reference image cost, per request
On Runway, grok_imagine_image_2 costs outputCount × perImage plus 1 credit per reference, charged once per request. Worked example, and Sume's Grok image price.
Runway Hailuo 3 2K: 15 credits a second, and Sume's H3 rate
Runway API lists hailuo3 at 15 credits per second at 2K plus 2 per reference image. Sume's minimax-h3 2K rate, the 5 to 15 second range, and list x 1.25.
Runway ProRes and PNG sequence: 5 credits per second extra
Runway adds 5 credits per second for ProRes and png_sequence, 20 for 10-bit or HDR, on Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0. A 10-second example and Sume's video pricing.
Sync Labs concurrent jobs per plan vs Sume plan-only concurrency
Sync Labs allows 1, 3 or 6 jobs at a time on Hobbyist, Creator and Growth and 429s past that. Sume queues jobs, and only the plan sets processing concurrency.
Sync Labs max video length by plan vs Sume avatar video limit
Sync Labs caps video at 1, 5 or 10 minutes on its lower plans. A Sume avatar video job covers 4 to 60 seconds; split longer scripts into several jobs.
Sync Labs pricing per second, and a Sume dry_run cost preview
Sync Labs bills per second on top of a $5, $19 or $49 plan, and lists sync-3 at $0.107 to $0.133 per second. On Sume, preview a paid call with dry_run first.
Managed Agents budget_reached vs Sume generation_spend_cap_usd
A Managed Agents session budget caps spend at list rates and pauses with budget_reached. Sume's generation_spend_cap_usd is a separate required cap.
Creatify Ad Clone credits: 12 per 5 seconds of output
Creatify bills Ad Clone at 12 credits per 5 seconds of output. Sume Avatar Video uses a named quality tier instead, with previews before a full render.
Creatify Aurora 2k credits per second: 2.8, audio up to 14.375 s
Creatify Aurora 2.0 bills 0.4 to 2.8 credits per second by resolution, and 2k only works for audio up to 14.375 s. Sume Avatar Video renders at 720p.
Ideogram /v2/account/usage line items vs Sume /v1/usage
Ideogram usage returns billed line items in time buckets for org admins. Sume reads USD balance with GET /v1/balance and ledger rows with GET /v1/usage.
LTX API pricing SKUs vs Sume's pricing_skus catalog field
An LTX SKU joins endpoint, model, resolution and output type, read from /pricing. Sume lists pricing_skus per video model in its catalog, at list x 1.25.
Shared credits per seat vs one Sume workspace balance and keys
Runway Team adds 6,900 credits per seat to a shared pool. Sume uses one workspace USD balance and workspace-scoped API keys; concurrency follows the plan.
Sync free trial limits vs how Sume surfaces lip sync cost
Sync's free trial gives 3 lip sync generations a month, 20 seconds each. Sume lists no trial cap here: paid jobs need funds, and dry_run previews cost first.
Amazon Polly price per 1M characters, and a 5,000-character script
Polly lists Standard at $4, Neural at $16, Generative at $30 and Long-form at $100 per 1M characters. A 5,000-character script next to Sume TTS 1.0.
Cheapest AI video API model on Sume: 5-second clips ranked
Grok Imagine 1.5 is the cheapest 5-second clip on Sume at 480p, then Gemini Omni Flash at 360p and Wan 3.0. Ten models ranked by reserved amount.
Creatomate credits per video minute vs Sume's flat Timeline rate
Creatomate lists about 14 credits for a 720p, 25 fps minute and 1 credit per image. Sume's Timeline charges $0.10 per output minute with no resolution tier.
JSON2Video 4K costs 4x the credits; Sume Timeline sizes and rate
JSON2Video charges 1 credit per second, 4 for 4K. Sume's Timeline bills $0.10 per output minute and takes edges from 256 to 2160, so no 3840-pixel width.
Runway Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 credits per second vs Sume's rates
Runway lists gemini_omni_flash_1.1 at 3.4, 10, 15 and 30 credits per second from 360p to 4K. Sume's gemini-omni-flash-1.1 is list x 1.25: $0.0375 to $0.375.
Runway's Gemini Omni Flash at 10 credits a second vs Sume's rates
Runway lists gemini_omni_flash at 10 credits per second. Sume's gemini-omni-flash-1.1 prices by resolution from 360p to 4K, at list x 1.25.
Runway Gen-4.5 is 12 credits a second; the same money on Sume
Runway lists gen4.5 at a flat 12 credits per second, $0.60 for 5 seconds. Sume has no Gen-4.5; here is each model's 5-second 720p price beside it.
Runway Grok Imagine 1.5 credits per second vs Sume's rate
Runway bills Grok Imagine 1.5 at 10, 16 or 29 credits per second by resolution, plus 1 per reference. Sume's grok-imagine-video-1.5 is one flat per-second rate.
Runway h3_max at 5 and 8 credits a second vs Sume's H3 Max
Runway lists h3_max at 5 credits per second for 480p and 8 for 768p. Sume's minimax-h3-max bills 480p, 768p and 1080p per second at list x 1.25. Side by side.
Runway image credits in dollars, and the Sume per-image rate
Runway prices images from 1 credit (muse_image) to 41 (gpt_image_2) at $0.01 a credit. Where Sume lists the same model, its per-image estimate sits beside it.
Runway multi_shot_video at 13 credits per second vs Sume clips
Runway prices multi_shot_video at 13 credits per second at 720p, 17 at 1080p. On Sume you generate clips and join them with Timeline; costs for 15 seconds.
Runway Seedance 2 at 40 credits per second vs Sume at 1080p
Runway lists seedance2 at 36 credits per second for 480p and 720p, 40 at 1080p and 150 at 4K. Sume's seedance-2 reserves list x 1.25 and tops out at 1080p.
Runway Seedance 2 at 36 credits a second vs Sume's Seedance rates
Runway lists seedance2 at 36 credits per second and seedance2_fast at 29 for 480p and 720p. Sume's seedance-2 and seedance-2-fast price by resolution.
Runway Seedance 2 Mini 64-credit minimum vs Sume's mini reserve
Runway bills seedance2_mini at 16 credits per second with a 64-credit minimum. Sume's seedance-2-mini reserves list x 1.25 by the second; 4, 5 and 10 s costs.
Runway Veo 3.1 audio is 40 credits a second, 20 without; Sume's toggle
Runway bills Veo 3.1 at 40 credits per second with audio and 20 without. On Sume, kling-3 has a generate_audio toggle with two list rates.
Runway wan3 at 5, 10 and 20 credits a second vs Sume Wan 3.0
Runway lists wan3 at 5, 10 and 20 credits per second for 480p, 720p and 1080p. Sume's wan-3.0 bills list x 1.25; here are both for 5 and 10 seconds.
Sora 2 vs Sora 2 Pro tiers: Sume's four Seedance prices
Sora split speed (sora-2) from quality (sora-2-pro) before the API ended. Sume has four Seedance tiers; each one's 5-second 720p and 1080p price.
Vidu off-peak mode: 48 hours for half price, and Sume's cheap tiers
Vidu's off-peak mode generates within 48 hours at half price. Sume has no Vidu model and no off-peak flag; the cheap path is a low-resolution tier.
Anam custom avatar slots per plan vs Sume avatar handles
Anam limits active custom avatars by plan, from 1 on Free to 10 on Professional. Sume's avatar docs describe a handle per avatar and one avatar per video.
Anam per-second billing and spend cap vs Sume reserve at submit
Anam bills live sessions by the second against a spend cap. Sume reserves the estimated USD at submit, captures it on success and refunds it on failure.
Anam session limit per plan vs Sume's 4-60 second window
Anam caps one live session by plan, from 3 minutes on Free to 2 hours on Growth. Sume limits each avatar request to a 4-60 second estimated script.
Cartesia Sonic 3.6 heteronyms: read, bass, live, and Sume pricing
Sonic 3.6 improves English heteronyms like read, bass and live in context. When context is enough, when to use a dictionary id, and Sume's TTS rate.
FLUX 3 API price per image: 768sq to 4k, and pricing on Sume
BFL lists FLUX 3 Image at $0.041 (768sq), $0.048 (1k), $0.100 (2k) and $0.607 (4k) per image. Sume prices come from GET /v1/images/models.
Krea 2 API pricing: references and moodboards vs Sume pricing
Krea 2 Medium costs $0.030 to $0.040 and Large $0.060 to $0.070 per generation, rising with style references and moodboards. Sume shows pricing per endpoint.
Luma Agents failed generation refunds vs Sume's not-billed rule
Luma refunds content_moderated, generation_failed and output_not_found, and budget_exhausted may be partly charged. Sume bills failed images at zero.
Luma Provisioned Throughput: 8-unit minimum vs Sume concurrency
Luma Provisioned Throughput sells RPM in units with an 8-unit minimum, from $2,100 to $3,800 per unit per month. Sume concurrency is set by plan only.
MiniMax H3 license: written authorization above 20M USD revenue
MiniMax H3 license IV.1 requires separate prior written authorization above 20 million USD in yearly revenue. The text and Sume billing.
Suno Pro's 20 downloads a month: what 20 Sume tracks cost
Suno caps downloads by plan: 7 trial, 20 Pro, 60 Premier. Sume lists a fixed $0.125 per accepted music generation, so 20 tracks come to $2.50.
What does extracting audio from a video cost by API?
Sume audio detach is $0.01 per job with no provider inference. Timeline audio is also $0.01 flat. Confirm the rate in GET /v1/catalog.
Gemini tiers unlock by spend and days. Sume limits follow the plan
Gemini upgrades a project after spend and elapsed days. Sume sets request and concurrency limits by plan, and a prepaid top-up does not raise concurrency.
Check credits from a script: sume balance and sume usage get
Read the workspace balance and recent usage rows from the Sume CLI or GET /v1/balance and /v1/usage before a paid batch, with the 402 case handled.
Where did the Sume Credits page go? Billing & subscription
The dashboard surface once called Credits is now Billing & subscription: plan status, balance and manual top-ups. What the API can read and what it cannot.
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime pricing vs Sume STT jobs
ElevenLabs lists Scribe v2 Realtime at $0.39 per hour against $0.22 for Scribe v2. Sume STT is an async job priced per minute, not a live stream.
ElevenLabs TTS concurrency limit vs Sume's queued jobs
ElevenLabs added per-product concurrency limits for TTS, music and dubbing on enterprise keys. Sume applies one workspace limit and queues extra jobs.