How far does $5 go on Sume? Images, speech, transcripts, music, video

A $5 test budget buys 63 medium Ideogram 4.5 images, 111 minutes of speech or 473 transcript minutes on Sume, all-in. The count for each asset type.

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Before committing to a plan you may want to know what a small test buys. This table divides $5 by the all-in catalog price (list × 1.25, plus the 5.5% fee) for seven common assets. Each row is alone: $5 spent on one thing, not a split.

Sume prices every job at the vendor list price × 1.25, then adds a 5.5% fee on that result, so $1.00 of list becomes $1.31875 (how the formula works). The tables below show both the catalog price (list × 1.25) and the all-in figure with the fee.

$5, one asset at a time

Sume catalog prices with the 5.5% fee; counts rounded down; read 2026-10-06
AssetWhat $5 buys
Ideogram 4.5 images (medium)63
Ideogram 4.5 images (high)17
Minutes of speech (900 chars)111
Transcript minutes473
Music tracks (Lyria 3.5)37
Seconds of Grok Imagine Video 1.5379
Seconds of Wan 3.0 at 720p37

A realistic test split

A better first test is a mix: ten medium images ($0.79), two minutes of speech ($0.09), a transcript of a five-minute clip ($0.05) and one 5-second Grok clip ($0.07) come to $1.00. That is enough to feel how the jobs return, what a retry costs and how the usage rows read.

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