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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

Wan 2.2 TI2V-5B: 5 s of 720p in under nine minutes on a consumer GPU

Wan 2.2's card says TI2V-5B makes 5 seconds of 720P video in under nine minutes on one consumer GPU. What that means for a queue, and a hosted comparison.

Voiceover or video: which is the bigger cost in a 15-second ad?

A 250-character voiceover is $0.012 on Sume TTS. A 15-second clip is $1.88 on Wan 3.0 at 720p. Where the money goes in a short ad, with the arithmetic shown.

Why Seedance 2.5 costs 4.6x Wan 3.0 per second at 720p

At 720p Seedance 2.5 is $0.578 per second on Sume and Wan 3.0 is $0.125. The gap comes from billing by video tokens (21,600 per second) versus a flat rate.

MiniMax H3 on 4 H200s: 75 s, or 53.7 s with Cache-DiT, and break-even

MiniMax's guide times one H3 run on 4 H200s at 75.1 s, about 53.7 s with Cache-DiT. The GPU-seconds, and the hourly rate where renting breaks even.

Launch discounts: FLUX 3 ended Oct 8, Vidu Q4 runs to Nov 30

Two new-model promos, two dates. FLUX 3 Image's 50% launch price ended Oct 8; Vidu Q4's 30% image-to-video discount runs to Nov 30. Rates read Oct 9, 2026.

Luma Ray3.2 video-to-video costs 4.8x text-to-video at 540p

Luma's API lists a 5-second 540p video-to-video job at $0.72 and text-to-video at $0.15. The full table, and what a Gemini Omni edit costs on Sume.

Runway Gen-4 Turbo 5 credits vs Gen-4.5 12: a 10-second clip costs

Runway's API lists Gen-4 Turbo at 5 credits a second and Gen-4.5 at 12, with credits at $0.01. What 10 seconds cost, next to the Sume rates.

2,000 product stills: FLUX.2 Pro $75 vs FLUX.2 Flex $125 on Sume

FLUX.2 Pro is $0.0375 per image on Sume and FLUX.2 Flex $0.0625. 2,000 stills: $75.00 or $125.00. FLUX 3 Image is $0.048 at 1K on fal but not in Sume's catalog.

Runway API Veo 3.1: 40 credits a second with audio, 20 without

Runway's API prices Veo 3.1 at 20 credits a second silent and 40 with audio, at $0.01 a credit. An 8-second example, and what audio costs on Sume.

15 trailers of 25 seconds on Seedance 2.5: 1080p $533.08, 480p $100.75

A 25-second Seedance 2.5 trailer is $6.72 at 480p, $14.45 at 720p and $35.54 at 1080p on Sume. Fifteen trailers: $100.75, $216.68 or $533.08.

Inworld TTS-2 at $25 per 1M characters vs Sume TTS, one year of ads

Inworld's pay-as-you-go TTS-2 is $25 per 1M characters, Flash $15. Sume TTS is $47.50. A year of 20 ads a month at 600 characters: $3.60, $2.16 or $6.84.

Nano Banana 2.1 thought images: free at Google, one price on Sume

Google says Nano Banana 2.1 interim thought images are not charged. What that means for your invoice and how Sume bills one flat price per finished image.

40 property tour clips of 30 seconds on Wan 3.0 at 720p: $150

A 30-second Wan 3.0 clip at 720p is $3.75 on Sume in one job; 40 listings are $150.00. The same set at 480p is $75.00 and at 1080p $300.00.

Vidu Q4 'credits' in the response vs Sume's usage.cost in USD

Vidu returns credits per task. Sume's poll response returns usage.cost in dollars on completed jobs. How to total spend and when the number appears.

Vidu Q4 clip price at 3, 6, 10 and 16 seconds, promo vs regular

Vidu Q4 image-to-video clips run 3 to 16 seconds. What one clip costs at 540p, 1080p and 4K with the 30% promo, and after November 30. Sume does not list it.

Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 price ladder: 4K is 10x the 360p rate

Omni Flash is $0.03 to $0.30 per second on fal; Sume bills list x 1.25. Price of the 8-second default, a 10-second max clip and a minute at each resolution.

Ideogram 4.5 price by quality: fal list vs Sume, per 1,000 images

Ideogram 4.5 is $0.03, $0.06 or $0.22 per image on fal by quality, size-independent. Sume bills list x 1.25: $0.0375, $0.075, $0.275. Per-1,000 table.

Seedance 2.5 with a reference video: 1.5x a plain 10 s clip

Sume prices a Seedance 2.5 job with a reference video at 60% of output plus an assumed 15 s of input. 5 s clips cost 2.4x; 30 s clips cost less. Table at 720p.

Nano Banana 2.1 has no free tier on Google: what Sume bills instead

Google lists the Nano Banana 2.1 free tier as Not available. A look at paid per-image prices, what Google's figure leaves out, and Sume's flat billed price.

52 weekly 15-second Wan 3.0 spots at 1080p: $195 a year on Sume

A weekly 15-second Wan 3.0 clip at 1080p is $3.75 on Sume, $195.00 for 52 weeks. At 720p $97.50, at 480p $48.75. With one retake in four, add 25%.

Wan 3.0 price per second: 1080p costs 4x the 480p rate

Wan 3.0 is $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p on fal. Sume bills list x 1.25. Per-clip prices at 5, 15 and 30 seconds.

250 product videos of 6 seconds on Seedance 2.5 at 480p: $403.02

250 six-second Seedance 2.5 product clips at 480p are $403.02 on Sume ($1.612 each); at 720p $866.70. Token math from fal's rate, with the per-clip table.

Check a Sume video price yourself: fal list x 1.25, three examples

How to verify a Sume video price from the vendor page: take the fal rate, multiply by 1.25. Worked for Wan 3.0, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 and Seedance 2.5.

Luma Ray3.2 HDR is 2x the SDR price, HDR plus EXR is 3x

Luma's API prices HDR at twice SDR and HDR plus 16-bit EXR at three times. A 5-second 1080p example, and what Sume's MP4 pipeline does and does not keep.

What 25% adds to a fal bill: 100, 1,000 and 10,000 seconds of Wan 3.0

Sume bills provider list x 1.25. On Wan 3.0 at 720p that is $12.50 vs $10.00 for 100 seconds and $1,250 vs $1,000 for 10,000. What the gap is, sized.

Seedance 2.5 price calculator: the token formula in Python

Seedance 2.5 bills video tokens, not seconds. Width x height x seconds x 24 / 1024, then the per-1,000 rate. A 20-line Python calculator, checked against fal.

One brief, two outputs: 6-slide carousel and 15-second reel, $2.448

A 6-slide image carousel plus a 15-second Wan 3.0 reel with voice, music and render costs $2.448 on Sume list prices. Line items, swaps and a monthly total.

38-second ad: stills, clips, voice, music, render, cost per second

One 38-second ad from 6 stills, five 8-second Wan clips, a 640-character voiceover, a music bed and a render costs $5.8554, or $0.1541 per finished second.

Small timeline jobs for 100 clips into 20 ads cost $7.60 on Sume

Cutting 100 clips into 20 five-clip ads costs $7.60 in small Sume jobs (trim, filter, detach, concat, compose, render) against $75.00 of footage.

Avatar creation is $0.95: its share of 1, 2, 4, 10 and 25 clips

A new Sume avatar costs $0.95 once. Spread over 15-second standard clips at $2.76 each, it adds 24 cents per clip at 4 clips and under 4 cents at 25.

Wan 3.0 720p plus Video Upscale vs native 1080p: 8, 12, 30 seconds

Wan 3.0 at 720p plus Sume Video Upscale at $0.009/s costs 53.6% of native 1080p at 12 s: $1.608 vs $3.00. The table covers 8, 12 and 30 seconds.

LTX-2.3 to 2.5: Fast 720p goes from 3 to 9 cents per second

LTX lists 2.3 and 2.5 side by side. 720p triples (Fast $0.03 to $0.09, Pro $0.04 to $0.12); 4K rises only 22-25%. Table and 10-second math.

Shortest valid clip on each Sume video model and what it costs

The minimum duration differs by model: Wan 3.0 starts at 2 s, Omni Flash at 3 s, Seedance at 4 s, MiniMax H3 at 5 s. Cost of one minimum clip at two sizes each.

Gemini TTS bills 1,500 tokens a minute: 1.35 cents on Flash

Google's per-10-second price implies 25 audio tokens a second, so a minute of Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS costs 1.35 cents in 2026. Compared with Sume per minute.

Nano Banana Pro costs 1.25x the 2.1 at 2K on Sume, 4x at Google 1K

Google lists Pro at $0.134 and 2.1 at $0.0336 for 1K (about 4x). Sume bills Pro $0.1875 and 2.1 $0.15 at 2K, only 1.25x. The ratio at each size.

GPT Image 2.5 low is $24.75 per 1,000: 25 cents under 2.5-cent rows

On Sume, GPT Image 2.5 at low 1K lists at $0.02475 per image, below the $0.025 of Grok Image, Imagen 4 Fast and Qwen Image. 1,000 drafts: $24.75 against $25.00.

47,000-character chapter: TTS in three requests, $2.2325 on Sume

Sume text to speech costs $0.0475 per 1,000 characters and one request caps at 20,000 characters ($0.95). A 47,000-character chapter needs three requests.

Music for 63 videos: 9 briefs, 3 takes each, $3.375 at 12.5 cents

Music 1.0 is a flat $0.125 per generation, with no duration parameter. 63 videos on 9 shared briefs cost $1.125; three takes per brief cost $3.375.

42-second talking still: image, voice, lip sync, $4.33 to $8.01

A 42-second talking still costs $4.3304 with MiniMax H3 Max Lip Sync (768p) and $8.0054 with VEED Fabric (720p), with the still and 640 characters of TTS.

Paying for seconds you cut: generate 30 s, keep 12, on Sume video

Sume bills the seconds you generate, not the seconds you keep. Asking Wan 3.0 for 30 s and using 12 costs $3.75 for 12 s of use, $0.3125 per kept second.

FLUX.2 Flex: from $0.05 at BFL, $0.0625 on Sume, 24 type posters

BFL lists FLUX.2 Flex from $0.05 for typography work. Sume lists flux-2-flex at $0.0625 per image, so 24 posters cost $1.50. What the 'from' price leaves out.

MiniMax H3 Max reference video: 5 seconds of input adds 71 cents

MiniMax bills H3 Max reference video at $0.143 per second at 768P, on top of output. A 10-second clip with 5 seconds of reference is $1.515 direct.

Ray 3.2 extend bills one 5-second block whatever duration you send

Ray 3.2 single-keyframe extend is $0.15, $0.30 or $1.20 per call at 540p, 720p, 1080p, even if duration is set. Chain math and Sume's per-clip equivalents.

7-second 720p AI video clip: Luma lists 5 or 10 seconds, Sume bills 7

A 7-second 720p clip: $0.56 on MiniMax, $0.63 on LTX Fast, $0.525 on Sume H3. Luma's page lists only 5 and 10 second totals ($0.30, $0.90).

LTX-2.5 Pro costs 30-33% more than Fast at every resolution

On LTX's price page Pro is $0.12-$0.39 per second against Fast at $0.09-$0.30. That is +30 to +33% at each tier; per-minute math and the nearest Sume rows.

30-second 1080p AI video: Luma $7.20, LTX $3.90, Sume from $5.63

What 30 seconds of 1080p costs: Luma as six 5-second clips ($7.20) or three 10-second ones ($10.80), LTX Fast $3.90, and Sume. Arithmetic shown.

Luma Ray 3.2 edit at 360p costs 9x a 360p generation: $0.54 vs $0.06

Ray 3.2 edits bill $0.54 per 5 seconds at 360p against $0.06 for generation. The gap shrinks to 1.8x at 1080p. Table, test-loop math, and what Sume lists.

Vidu Q4 Preview 4K costs 8.7x the 540p price: 78 credits vs 9

Vidu's table runs 9 to 78 credits per second, 540p to 4K. The two published USD points ($0.045, $0.39) imply half a cent per credit. Plus Sume's 4K row.