Cost per SKU for an AI product video: 500 holiday SKUs priced
What one vertical product clip costs on seedance-2.5 at 480p and 720p for 6 and 10 seconds, and what 500 SKUs add up to. Computed from Sume's pricing code.
A single 9:16 clip on seedance-2.5 costs $3.47 at 720p for 6 seconds, so 500 SKUs with one clip each come to $1735.00. The figures below are the amount Sume reserves for one clip, taken from the pricing code the API uses, rounded up to the cent, before any agent fee.
Sume facts are from the Videos API docs, where seedance-2.5 accepts 4 to 30 seconds at 480p, 720p and 1080p. This is a cost model, not a quote: confirm live prices in GET /v1/catalog.
What does each setting cost?
Cost scales with length and resolution. Each row shows one clip and the same clip for 500 SKUs. Failed generations are not billed, so retries of a failure do not add to the total.
| Resolution | Length | Per clip | 500 SKUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 480p | 6 s | $1.62 | $810.00 |
| 480p | 10 s | $2.69 | $1345.00 |
| 720p | 6 s | $3.47 | $1735.00 |
| 720p | 10 s | $5.78 | $2890.00 |
How do I run the whole catalog?
Use bulk runs: up to 100 items per request, concurrency from 1 to 16, one queue to poll. Five requests cover 500 items. Run one SKU as a test first and price your real mix, because a longer clip or a 1080p tier changes the total. Reviewing the output is a person's job and is not in these numbers.
What is not in the total?
Taxes, your own review time, and any music, captions or editing passes you add after the clip. For the photo side see AI product photo cost per SKU, and for a single clip across models see the 5-second cost table.
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