Elai Creator $29 for 15 minutes vs Sume avatar per-second pricing

Elai's pricing page lists Creator at $29 for 15 minutes of video and Team at $125 for 50 minutes. Sume Avatar 1.0 bills per second, starting at $0.184 per second on the standard tier without a product, so 15 minutes of avatar video is about $165.60 and subscription minutes are far cheaper per minute.

Per-minute arithmetic

Elai Creator works out to $29 / 15 = $1.93 a minute and Team to $125 / 50 = $2.50 a minute, from the page's own numbers. Sume standard at $0.184 per second is $11.04 a minute, plus is $0.245 per second ($14.70 a minute), and max is $0.55 per second ($33 a minute). Confirm the live rates in GET /v1/catalog.

What the per-second price buys

Sume has no monthly minute commitment: you pay for the seconds you generate, and a clip is 4 to 60 seconds. There is no unused allowance and no plan to outgrow, which matters when your volume is a few clips a month or swings widely.

Quality is a request parameter (standard, plus or max, default plus), so a draft pass on standard costs about two thirds of a plus render.

Which fits

For a steady stream of long talking-head videos, a monthly minute plan wins on price. For a product that generates short avatar clips from code, where each clip is one API call with a webhook at the end, per-second billing without a seat or plan keeps the cost tied to output.