Headliner Basic's 10 audiograms vs a podcast clip at $0.10 on Sume
Headliner Basic gives 10 unwatermarked audiograms a month for $9.99. A Sume Timeline clip is $0.10 per output minute. What you gain and what you give up.
An audiogram is a podcast clip made of audio and a still image. On the page read today, Headliner's Free plan includes one unwatermarked audiogram a month with a 2-hour audio limit, Basic is $9.99 monthly ($7.99 annual) for 10 unwatermarked audiograms, and Pro is $25.99 monthly ($19.99 annual) for unlimited. The question here is what ten of those cost if you assemble them yourself on Sume.
The comparison is lopsided on purpose. Headliner is a product with an editor, and its price covers that. Sume is a set of metered jobs, so the same ten clips can cost a fraction as much, provided you are comfortable wiring the pieces together or letting an agent do it. Both are legitimate; they suit different people on different days.
What ten clips cost on Sume
A Timeline render bills $0.10 per output minute, rounded up, and treats a still image as a static hold, so an audio file plus a cover image is a valid render. Burned-in captions are a separate job: the video captions docs price a standalone captions job at $0.20 for videos up to 60 seconds.
| Option | Rate | Ten 60-second clips | Ten 3-minute clips |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headliner Basic, monthly | $9.99 for 10 audiograms | $9.99 | $9.99 |
| Headliner Basic, annual | $7.99 for 10 audiograms | $7.99 | $7.99 |
| Sume render only | $0.10 per output minute | $1.00 | $3.00 |
| Sume render plus captions | $0.10 render + $0.20 captions per clip | $3.00 | $3.00 render only; captions not priced |
What the table leaves out
The last cell comes with a catch: standalone captions cover videos up to 60 seconds, so a 3-minute clip would need captions applied another way or split into segments, and I have not priced that path. The $3.00 in the 3-minute column is the render alone. I also did not read whether Headliner animates a waveform or what its templates offer. Sume's Timeline holds a still for the length of the audio, so you get audio over a picture, not an animated waveform.
How to choose
- If you want ten polished, template-driven clips a month and do the work in a browser, $7.99 to $9.99 is a fair price and I do not claim Sume beats it on convenience.
- If your clips are assembled by a script, such as every new episode producing a 60-second teaser, the metered route costs about $0.10 a clip and scales to hundreds without a plan change.
- If you need exactly one clip a month and can accept Headliner's free-plan limits, Free costs nothing; Sume has no equivalent free video render.
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