HeyGen Free allows 3 videos of 1 minute: the same on Sume costs $33.12

Short answer

Three 60-second talking videos on Sume Avatar 1.0 cost $33.12 at standard, $44.10 at plus and $99.00 at max, with no product image. HeyGen's pricing page lists a Free plan at $0 per month with 3 videos per month, 1 minute of video length, and access to Avatar IV. This post puts the two side by side: free but capped, against paid and not capped by count.

The HeyGen Free plan as listed

The HeyGen page shows the Free plan with these limits. It is a way to test a workflow at no cost. It is not a production plan for a team that ships weekly.

Sume's equivalent, priced

Sume Avatar 1.0 accepts jobs of 4 to 60 seconds, so a 60-second clip is the longest single job. Three of them are 180 seconds. At $0.184, $0.245 and $0.55 per second, that is the amount in the table. Add $0.95 once for creating an avatar.

How to use both honestly

A free plan is useful before you pay for anything. If your content is one-minute clips and three a month is enough, the free HeyGen plan covers it on its own terms. When you need more than three, or you want to produce clips from code, the Sume API is a pay-per-second option: you submit a script, poll the job and fetch the result. A smaller test is cheaper still. A 10-second clip at standard costs 10 x $0.184 = $1.84, so you can judge the look and voice of a presenter for under two dollars before committing.

• Use a preview first: it shows first-frame stills before the full render.
• Test at standard, then render the final at plus or max if you need it.
• Keep scripts under about 60 seconds of speech so the job is accepted.

Limits to know

Sume renders at 720p only today, and a script that Sume estimates above 60 seconds is rejected rather than trimmed. HeyGen lists up to 1080P on its Free plan. If resolution matters more than anything else in your comparison, that point favors HeyGen.

Another difference is how you work. A free plan is operated in a web studio. Sume Avatar 1.0 is a set of API routes: POST /v1/avatar-1.0/generate to create the avatar and POST /v1/avatar-1.0/talking-video to render. Both return a job, and the finished result carries a public media URL. If you want to schedule weekly clips from a spreadsheet of scripts, that matters more than the sticker price.

What a typical test costs

A short test of three 15-second clips at standard is 45 seconds, or 45 x $0.184 = $8.28. Add the $0.95 avatar and the total is $9.23. That is a fair price for a pilot, and you can approve first frames before each render to avoid paying for a look you will reject.