Crayo Hobby at $13: the same faceless parts priced on Sume

Faceless channels run on a repeating bundle: a voiceover, a pile of images or clips, captions and an export. On the page read today, Crayo's Hobby plan is $13 a month billed yearly and lists 250 workflow credits, 2 hours of export, 30 voiceover minutes and 100 AI images. This post prices those same parts on Sume. It is not a feature comparison; I only read Crayo's plan limits, not what its editor does.

The bundle, priced per part

Sume bills each part separately, so the question is what 30 voiceover minutes, 100 images and 120 export minutes cost. Assumptions are mine: about 750 characters of script per spoken minute, and the Image router estimate of $0.2225 per image, a high-quality GPT Image 2.5 prompt-only run. Real image cost depends on the model and settings, within the estimate range of $0.01 to $7.36.

The honest result

At list prices, Sume costs more than the Hobby bundle if you use every image and every export minute. Crayo's $13 is a subscription priced for exactly this workload. Sume's advantage is not the bundle price; it is that the parts are separable and the image line is a dial.

Where the Sume number moves

• Images are the biggest line. Choose a cheaper image model and the 100-image line falls far below $22.25; ask for a high-quality premium model and it rises.
• Export is $0.10 per output minute, rounded up, so ten 5-minute videos cost $5.00, not a flat $12.00. Most channels do not export 120 minutes in a month.
• Timeline renders default to 1080x1920 and stills are held as static frames, so a slideshow of images is a valid episode with no video-model spend.
• There is no yearly commitment. A $10 top-up is the smallest purchase.

When each makes sense

If you publish daily and use the full allowance, the Hobby price is hard to beat. If you publish a few episodes a week, or need an API call rather than an editor, per-part pricing is easier to predict. For a worked monthly budget, see the faceless-channel pricing math linked below. Whichever you pick, run one real episode first and compare the receipt to this table: the assumptions of 750 characters a minute and a single image per scene are mine and your script style may differ.