Wan 3.0 text-to-video: fal list price vs Sume per second

fal's Wan 3.0 text-to-video page lists $0.05 per second at 480p, $0.10 at 720p and $0.20 at 1080p. Sume's price for the same three tiers is the list times 1.25: $0.0625, $0.125 and $0.25 per second. The difference is exactly 25% before the per-job cent rounding.

The fal figures were read on 2026-10-07 from the fal Wan 3.0 page, which carries the note that pricing is subject to change. Re-read it before you budget a large job.

The comparison

Columns 4 and 5 are a 10-second clip at fal list and at Sume (rounded up to the cent). Columns 6 and 7 are a minute (60 seconds) of footage the same way.

What the 25% pays for

Sume runs the job on fal for you and adds the platform layer: one API key and a single job envelope (submit, status, result) for every video model, a shared balance, admission control with a reserve-and-capture model, and a receipt for every job. If Wan 3.0 is the only model you will ever call, going direct to fal saves 20% of the Sume price. If you also call image, speech and music models, the per-vendor accounts and keys you do not have to manage are the benefit.

Sume also exposes Wan 3.0 as one id covering its modes, with the mode chosen by which fields you send; see the Wan 3.0 modes post.

Another way to see the 25%: it is $0.0125 per second at 480p, $0.025 at 720p and $0.05 at 1080p. On a 30-second 1080p spot that is $1.50 of margin on $6.00 of fal list, which buys the shared balance, the receipt and the single API. Whether that is a good trade depends on how many other models and media types you are also paying vendors for.

Another way to see the 25%: it is $0.0125 per second at 480p, $0.025 at 720p and $0.05 at 1080p. On a 30-second 1080p spot that is $1.50 of margin on $6.00 of fal list, which buys the shared balance, the receipt and the single API. Whether that is a good trade depends on how many other models and media types you are also paying vendors for.

Minute-level budgets

A 60-second Wan 3.0 sequence at 720p is $6.00 on fal list and $7.50 on Sume. At 1080p it is $12.00 and $15.00. For a 100-clip campaign of 15-second ads at 720p, fal list gives $150.00 and Sume $187.50 (the figure in the 100-video-ads post).

How to decide

Choose by what else the project needs. If it is only Wan, only video, and you already have a fal account, the direct route is cheaper. If you need a second model next week, or you want the voice, music and timeline on the same bill, the 25% is the cost of not integrating a second and third vendor. Whichever you choose, send an explicit duration and read the billed amount on the first job.

Wan 3.0 accepts 2 to 30 seconds per job on Sume, so a minute is at least two jobs. Budget each job's rounding, and read the Video Router docs for the fields that select the mode.

Wan 3.0 accepts 2 to 30 seconds per job on Sume, so a minute is at least two jobs. Budget each job's rounding, and read the Video Router docs for the fields that select the mode.

Dated facts used here

fal's three prices were read from its Wan 3.0 text-to-video page on 2026-10-07, which marks them as subject to change. Sume's three prices are the same figures times 1.25 from the video catalog. The 10-second and 60-second columns multiply those rates; Sume totals round each job up to the cent, which only matters on the 10-second 480p row ($0.625 billed as $0.63).

No claim is made here about output quality or speed on either route, because the same model runs behind both.