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
Is fal.ai free? Credits, keys and what you pay for
fal's docs list no standing free tier: you buy prepaid credits and pay per output. A key costs nothing, and server errors are never billed.
Seedance 2.0 API price: which is lowest, by resolution
The lowest-priced Seedance 2.0 API depends on resolution: at list prices for a 5-second clip, fal is lowest at 720p and Runway at 1080p. Dated table.
4K AI image: generate at 4K or upscale a 1K image? The cost
Nano Banana can render at a 4K tier on Sume. Image Upscale 1.0 enlarges an existing image. What each costs per image and what each needs as input.
Why an AI image costs list × 1.25 on Sume: worked examples
Sume's image catalog prices a model at its list price times 1.25, rounded up to a cent. Worked examples for five models and where the number shows.
Am I charged when an AI image generation fails or is canceled?
On Sume's image API a completed image is billed in full and a failed or canceled one is not. How the reserve, capture and refund work, and what a 402 means.
AI video API cost calculator: price a clip from pricing_skus
Build a video cost calculator from Sume's pricing_skus: per-second, per-resolution and per-token rates, a short Python function, and worked examples.
API spend limit: can you set a monthly budget on Sume?
Sume's docs describe no monthly spend limit. The controls they do describe are the wallet balance, a per-run spend cap, and plan concurrency.
ElevenLabs music commercial use: credit required, download caps
ElevenLabs says Music v2.5 tracks can be used commercially with an ElevenMusic credit and caps lossless downloads by plan. What that means on Sume.
FLUX 3 pricing per second vs how Sume prices video
BFL prices FLUX 3 Video per second: $0.40 at QHD and $0.80 at UHD. Sume video models are priced per SKU from the catalog. How to compare them.
GPT Image 2.5 auto quality: why the reserve is the max price
quality auto on GPT Image 2.5 reserves the max amount on Sume, not the amount you end up paying. How reserve differs from charge, and how to size a batch.
GPT Image 2.5 xhigh vs max: what the extra tier costs per image
At 1024x1024, max output costs about 2.25 times xhigh before Sume pricing. The per-image and per-100-image numbers, and a small test to decide if max earns it.
GPT Image 2.5 API price: token rates and per-image estimates
GPT Image 2.5 is priced in tokens: $30 per million output image tokens. See the per-image reserve on Sume at 1024, 1920x1088 and 4K for each quality level.
How much does a 5-second AI video cost?
A 5-second AI video costs from cents to a dollar or two on Sume, depending on the model and resolution. The reserved price on every listed video model.
How much does it cost to try an AI video API?
Trying an AI video API costs from about a dime a clip on Sume. The shortest, lowest-resolution test clip for five models, and the balance a test needs.
How to top up AI API credits and check your balance
To top up Sume API credits, buy them in the dashboard's Billing & subscription page; the API only reads your balance. The steps and the balance fields.
Ideogram 4.0 price per image: what Sume charges today
Sume lists no Ideogram 4.0. The Ideogram V3 it does list costs $0.075 per image at every quality, so four images cost $0.30. Here is how to read the live price.
Is Gemini Omni Flash free? Vids, YouTube Create and the API
Gemini Omni Flash is free inside Google Vids and paid in the Gemini API; YouTube Create in five countries lists no price. Where each applies, and Sume's price.
Kling motion control credits per second: 3.0 and 2.6
Kling charges 9 or 12 credits per second for 3.0 Motion Control and 5 or 8 for 2.6. Rounding rules, and Sume's per-second dollar rate for the same job.
Lyria 3.5 pricing: what a song costs on Google and on Sume
Google lists Lyria 3.5 at $0.08 per song on the paid tier. Sume lists its own per-generation music price. Both rate cards, side by side.
MiniMax H3 pricing per second on Sume, by resolution
What a MiniMax H3 or H3 Max clip costs on Sume: a per-second rate by resolution, reserved on submit. Rates for 480p, 768p, 1080p and 2K, with 10-second totals.
MiniMax H3 reference images: what you pay past the fifth
MiniMax H3 reference-to-video on Sume includes the first five reference images; each one after that adds a charge. Worked totals for 6 to 9 images.
Nano Banana 2 pricing per image on Sume, by resolution tier
What one Nano Banana 2 image costs on Sume at 512, 1K, 2K and 4K, how the price scales with n, and where Google publishes its own per-image rates.
Nano Banana 3 API key and cost: what you can buy today
No Nano Banana 3 price exists on the Google pages read. What Google lists for Nano Banana 2 Lite, and how to read the cost of Sume's Nano Banana models.
AI avatar video preview before render: what you pay when
Sume's docs publish no price for an avatar video preview. The render is billed per second by tier, and the tier is chosen at generate-video, after you approve.
Seedance 2.5 free: what is actually free on Sume, and the smallest job
Sume's docs describe no free Seedance 2.5 allowance: jobs reserve from a USD balance. What is unbilled, and what the smallest seedance-2.5 request costs.
Seedance 2.5 1080p: request it and what it costs
Seedance 2.5 offers 480p, 720p and 1080p on Sume. Set resolution to 1080p, see the reserved cost at 5, 10 and 15 seconds, and the vendor's output notes.
Seedance 2.5 price per second: 480p, 720p and 1080p
What a Seedance 2.5 clip costs on Sume at 480p, 720p and 1080p for 5, 10 and 30 seconds, from the pricing code. Cost scales close to linearly with seconds.
Wan 3.0 pricing: what a clip costs per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p
Wan 3.0 is priced per output second by resolution. fal lists $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 a second; Sume bills that list price × 1.25. Costs for 2 to 30 s clips.
HeyGen API pricing: how pay-as-you-go credits work
HeyGen's API is pay-as-you-go: USD credits bought apart from any plan, priced per minute by avatar engine and charged by actual seconds generated.
Synthesia API pricing: which plan, and how credits work
Synthesia's API comes with a subscription on the Creator plan and up. API video is paid in plan credits: 75 credits per minute of API usage.
Sora 2 API pricing: per-second rates and the shutdown
OpenAI priced the Sora 2 API per second: $0.10 for Sora 2, $0.30–$0.70 for Sora 2 Pro. The API shut down on September 24, 2026. What a clip costs now.
Runway API pricing: credits per second by video model
Runway's API sells credits at $0.01 each and bills video per second: 12 credits a second on Gen-4.5, 5 on Gen-4 Turbo. Rates, minimums and add-ons.
Runway credits per video: what one clip costs
A Runway video costs its length times the model's credits per second: Gen-4.5 uses 60 credits for 5 seconds. What each plan's credits buy, dated.
How do AI credits work? Price, tokens and expiry
AI credits are prepaid units a vendor sells at a set price and spends per generation. What a credit is worth, how it differs from tokens, when it expires.
Pay as you go AI video generator: API or subscription?
A pay-as-you-go AI video generator bills each clip by its length, with no monthly allowance to use up or lose. How that compares with credit plans.
AI video production cost: a line-item breakdown
AI video production cost is the clips plus voiceover, music, captions and assembly. A 30-second video on Sume, line by line, at each published rate.
Creatify pricing: app plans, API plans and credits
Creatify pricing: app plans from Free to $99/month, separate API plans at $99 and $299/month, and 5 credits per 30 seconds of URL to Video.
Is MCP free? The protocol is; some server tools are paid
MCP itself is a free, open-source standard. Charges come from the servers you connect: a hosted server's owner decides which of its tools bill.
Seedance tokens: how video tokens turn into dollars
A Seedance token measures output size: width × height × seconds × 24 ÷ 1,024. How tokens become seconds and dollars, with per-model rates.
AI video generator for commercial use: what the terms allow
Commercial use of AI video is set by each tool's terms and plan, not the model. What Sume, HeyGen, Synthesia, Kling, Higgsfield and Argil allow.
Stripe metered billing for AI video: bill each job's cost
Stripe metered billing sums meter events into each customer's invoice. Send one event per finished AI video job, valued at what the job cost.
AI image generator API cost: price per image, model by model
Each image model on Sume has a price per image: flat rates from $0.025 to $0.09375, while tiers and quality move the rest. Failed images cost nothing.
How much does AI video generation cost per second via API?
AI video APIs bill per second of output: $0.0125 to $1.43 on Sume, $0.042 to $1.50 on Kling and Runway. Dated rates, retries and budgets.
Why are AI videos so expensive? What drives the cost
On Sume, AI video is billed by output length at a rate that rises with resolution, and discarded takes are billed too. Why it adds up, how to cut it.
Free AI video API calls on Sume: unbilled checks, flat fees
Which Sume API calls are unbilled, which routes need no API key, and which paid calls charge one flat amount per call instead of a metered rate.
What is the Sume agent fee? The default 5.5%, explained
The Sume agent fee is charged on top of a request's model amount, 5.5% by default. Where the API reports it, and how to read the fee line.
Estimate AI video generation cost before running a Sume job
See what an AI video will cost on Sume before paying: published rates, GET /v1/catalog estimates, unbilled plan checks, MCP dry runs, and spend caps.
AI avatar video API pricing: cost per second and per minute
Sume bills AI avatar video per second by quality tier, with separate rates when you send a product image. Per-minute costs for standard, plus, and max.