H3 Max Recast on a 5-second video: person swap price
Swapping people in a 5-second source video with H3 Max Recast on Sume costs $1.8750 at 768p and $2.8125 at 1080p.

H3 Max Recast (h3-max-recast) replaces the people in a source video with the people from 1 to 4 photos, one photo per person. On a 5-second source it costs $1.8750 at 768p and $2.8125 at 1080p on Sume.
It accepts 5 to 30 seconds, the prompt is optional, and the duration is the source length (Sume's Video Router docs, read 2026-10-06).
What is the price per source second?
Provider list is $0.30 per second at 768p and $0.45 at 1080p; Sume bills that times 1.25 and rounds source seconds up.
| Resolution | 5-second source | Per second |
|---|---|---|
| 768p | $1.8750 | $0.3750 |
| 1080p | $2.8125 | $0.5625 |
How do I send it?
Put the source in video_url and the people in reference_image_urls.
curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/video-router/generate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Idempotency-Key: recast-5s-001" \
-d '{
"model": "h3-max-recast",
"video_url": "https://example.com/source.mp4",
"reference_image_urls": ["https://example.com/person.jpg"],
"resolution": "768p",
"mode": "async"
}'Sources
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