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
Firecrawl crawl credits per page, and how Sume meters crawl_site
Firecrawl charges 1 credit per crawled page plus 4 more in JSON mode. Sume's crawl_site is listed as an unbilled utility in a bounded rollout.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS price: audio-time vs per-character
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS Standard costs $0.00225 per 10 s of audio until Dec 31, 2026, then $0.0045. Sume bills TTS per character. How to compare.
Genjutsu 1080p: Sume serves it at 480p or 720p only
Higgsfield lists Genjutsu output up to 1080p. On Sume, Genjutsu Motion Transfer accepts 480p (default) or 720p, and any other value is rejected.
OpenAI TTS pricing per 1,000 characters, and a 5,000-character script
OpenAI lists tts-1 at $15 and tts-1-hd at $30 per 1M characters. Converted to per 1,000 and a 5,000-character script, next to Sume TTS 1.0's rate.
Whisper API cost per minute, and what an hour costs
OpenAI lists Whisper at $0.006 per minute and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe at $0.003. Here is the per-hour math next to Sume STT 1.0's per-minute rate.
Text to speech failed request: charged? Sume dry_run and cap
A TTS job that fails on Sume's duration limit captures no credit. Use dry_run to preview cost and max_spend_usd to cap it before a paid request.
Prime Big Deal Days product videos: cap the spend per run
Prime Big Deal Days runs October 6-7. Queue the product videos as a Format bulk run, with a generation spend cap per item and a small concurrency window.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live pricing and Sume's async STT job
Google lists Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live at about $0.009 per minute for streaming audio. Sume's STT is an upload-and-poll job priced per audio minute.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe pricing per minute and the Sume STT rate
Google lists Gemini 3.5 Transcribe at about $0.005 per minute. Sume STT is billed per audio minute and reserves 1 minute when you send no duration.
GPT-Live 1 pricing per second vs Sume's per-job audio billing
GPT-Live 1 voice sessions cost $0.05 per minute billed per second. Sume bills TTS per character and STT per audio minute, each reserved at submit.
Seedance 2.5 80-credit minimum per generation vs Sume's reserve
Runway lists Seedance 2.5 with an 80 credit minimum per generation. Sume reserves provider list x 1.25 at submit; here is a 4-second clip by resolution.
Seedance 2.5 reference video cost: per input second vs Sume
Runway bills Seedance 2.5 reference video per input second. Sume reserves one provider list x 1.25 amount per job; check supported_input_references.
Magnific video upscaler per-frame price vs Sume per-second
Runway bills its Magnific video upscaler per output frame; Sume's video upscale is priced per input second, with a 5 second default reserve and a 30 second cap.
Magnific precision upscaler credits per image vs Sume
Runway lists the Magnific precision upscaler at 25 credits per image, 150 above 4096px. Sume's image upscale is one per-job rate with a reserved output size.
GPT Image 2.5 reference image cost: Runway credit vs Sume tokens
Runway charges 1 credit per GPT Image 2.5 reference image, once per request. Sume prices reference images as input image tokens inside the endpoint price.
Runway product_ugc recipe price vs Sume avatar video rate
Runway's product_ugc recipe starts at 192 credits for 4 seconds at 720p. Sume's avatar video with a product is a per-second rate by quality tier.
Lyria 3 Clip Preview 30-second price vs Sume Music fixed price
Google lists Lyria 3 Clip Preview (30s) at a per-song price. Sume Music charges one fixed price per accepted generation, whatever length the prompt asks for.
MiniMax H3 regeneration to 2K re-bills the original inputs
MiniMax bills a 768P-to-2K H3 regeneration per output second and bills the original task's inputs again. Sume reserves list x 1.25 on submit.
MiniMax H3 Max input video: billed per second, by resolution
MiniMax bills H3 Max input video by duration, at a rate set by output resolution. Sume lists video references for H3 Max and reserves list x 1.25.
MiniMax H3 Max reference images: 2 free, then per image
MiniMax includes the first 2 images free on H3 Max (5 on H3) and charges per extra image. On Sume, check the catalog for accepted reference types.
Eleven v4 TTS on Runway: 2.2 credits per 1,000 chars, then 5
Runway prices eleven_v4 at 2.2 credits per 1,000 characters until October 12, 2026 PT, then 5. Check a long script's cost on Sume before submit.
Do API price changes affect jobs already submitted? Sume
On Sume, the estimate is reserved when the request is accepted, then captured on success or refunded on failure. Here is how to read it in Usage.
HeyGen API concurrency limit: 1.5x burst vs Sume queued jobs
HeyGen Enterprise burst adds up to 50 slots billed at 1.5x. Sume queues jobs above plan concurrency and returns 429 only when the queue is full.
HeyGen voice clone API: 20+ minutes, paid slot, no Sume clone
HeyGen's professional voice clone needs 1-10 recordings totaling 20+ minutes and a paid slot. Sume's TTS tool selects voices and has no clone upload.
Hedra API pricing: estimate endpoint vs Sume dry_run
Hedra says you can price the exact request with an estimate endpoint. Sume's hosted MCP has dry_run and max_spend_usd gates that preview cost before a job.
Descript jump cut smoothing cost vs Sume flat edit rates
Descript prices smoothing at 0.5 AI credits per second of audio and 1.0 per second of video. Sume's edit steps are flat per job or per output minute.
Unlimited AI video generator subscription: does one exist?
An unlimited AI video plan still limits something. Sume has no unlimited or lifetime plan: paid plans include some usage, then bill per clip.
Text to speech API pricing: per-character rates explained
Text to speech API pricing is a rate per character of input text. Sume's TTS API rate, what counts, worked costs, and how you pay for it.
Speech to text API pricing: cost per minute and per hour
Speech to text API pricing is a rate per minute of audio. Sume's STT rate, what it includes, what an hour costs, and the per-request limits.
AI music generator cost: what one track costs to make
An AI music generator API costs a flat price per generated track on Sume, not per minute. The rate, what changes it, and budgets for takes.
AI dubbing rate per minute: a step-by-step cost breakdown
An AI dub's rate per minute is the sum of its steps: transcribe, translate, speak, render. Sume's per-step prices and a worked 1- and 10-minute dub.
Cost to make an audiobook with AI narration
The cost to make an audiobook with AI is the book's characters times the TTS rate, plus small joining jobs. Worked budgets by manuscript size.
Text to speech commercial use: what the terms allow
Whether you can use text to speech audio commercially is set by the tool's terms and plan. What Sume's terms say, and what to check for a cloned voice.
Affordable AI avatar solutions for small businesses
An affordable AI avatar setup for a small business: pay per second of video, reuse one avatar, render short clips on the standard tier. What it costs.
HeyGen Creator vs Pro: credits, 4K export and price
HeyGen Creator is $29/mo with 600 credits and 1080p export; Pro is $49/mo with 1,000 credits, 4K export and larger tiers. Rollover and watermark rules.
Argil pricing: plans, API credits per minute, and the API
Argil sells plans by monthly credits, and its API spends them: 160 credits per minute of video plus 20 per minute of voice. Plans, credit rules, API calls.
Synthesia AI dubbing costs: minutes per plan and lip sync
Synthesia AI dubbing costs plan credits: up to 48 minutes a month on Starter ($29) and 140 on Creator ($89), and lip sync uses twice the credits.
How much does closed captioning cost? Per clip and per minute
Automated captions on Sume cost $0.20 per job for a video up to 60 seconds. What a 10-minute video costs, and open vs closed captions.
AI image generator for commercial use: what the terms allow
Commercial use of AI images is set by each tool's terms and plan, not the model. On Sume, paid plans include it and Sume claims no ownership of outputs.
Is AI image generator free? What a free plan covers
Some AI image generators have a free plan, but images still have a price. What Sume's Free plan includes, what each image costs, and what's paid.
AI video generator refund policy: what you can get back
Two refunds: money back on a plan, which Sume's terms rule out except where law requires, and failed jobs, whose hold returns to your balance automatically.
How to cancel an AI subscription and what happens next
Cancel from the tool's billing page, after stopping anything that spends. On Sume: Billing & subscription in the dashboard, which uses Stripe's portal.
What are AI credit overages? Billed later or refused
AI credit overages are usage past a plan's included credits, billed later or blocked until you buy more. Sume refuses the job with a 402 until funds are added.
Do API keys cost money? The key is free, the calls are not
An API key is a credential; the calls it makes are what cost money. On Sume, you create keys in the dashboard, and each billed call draws on your balance.
AI video generator for enterprise: terms, billing, limits
Buying an AI video generator for an enterprise means a signed order form, invoice or PO billing and higher limits. What Sume's Enterprise tier lists.
Is HeyGen free? What the Free plan includes
Yes, with limits: HeyGen's Free plan is $0 with no credit card, up to 3 videos a month, each up to 1 minute. Paid plans start at $29 a month.
Is Kling AI free? Free plan, credits and the API
Kling's app has a free Basic plan with no monthly credits, listed for personal non-commercial use. Paid plans add credits; the API is paid.
Is the Replicate API free? Free runs, credit and tokens
Only briefly: Replicate lets you run select models free, then asks you to set up billing and buy prepaid credit. The API token itself costs nothing.