How many minutes of AI avatar video does $100 buy on Sume?
At Avatar 1.0 per-second rates, $100 buys 9.06 minutes at standard, 6.80 at plus and 3.03 at max. In 30 and 60 second clips, 18 to 2 whole videos.
A $100 balance buys about 9.06 minutes of Avatar 1.0 talking video at standard quality, 6.80 minutes at plus and 3.03 minutes at max, without a product image. In whole videos that is 18 thirty-second clips at standard, 13 at plus and 6 at max. The rest of this page shows the division, the product-image variant, and the rounding that decides how many whole videos fit.
What are the per-second rates?
Avatar Video accepts quality: "standard" | "plus" | "max", with plus the default when quality is omitted. The avatar video doc describes the tiers: standard is the fastest path, max is the highest-quality and slowest. Scripts and multi-scene plans must land in the 4 to 60 second window.
The per-second rates come from the Avatar 1.0 rate card in the clone's provider-pricing package. Adding a product image raises each rate slightly. The table converts $100 into minutes of output.
| Quality | No product image, per second | Minutes per $100 | With product image, per second | Minutes per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| standard | $0.184 | 9.06 | $0.194 | 8.59 |
| plus (default) | $0.245 | 6.80 | $0.258 | 6.46 |
| max | $0.55 | 3.03 | $0.58 | 2.87 |
How many whole videos is that?
Minutes overstate what you can ship, because every job is a whole clip reserved up front, and you cannot buy a fraction of the next one. Divide $100 by the cost of one clip and round down.
At 30 seconds and standard quality a clip is $5.52, so 18 clips cost $99.36 and the 19th would not fit. At 60 seconds and max quality a clip is $33.00, so three fit and the fourth is a 402.
| Quality | 15 s clip | 30 s clip | 60 s clip |
|---|---|---|---|
| standard | 36 ($2.76 each) | 18 ($5.52) | 9 ($11.04) |
| plus | 27 ($3.675) | 13 ($7.35) | 6 ($14.70) |
| max | 12 ($8.25) | 6 ($16.50) | 3 ($33.00) |
What else counts against the $100?
A reusable avatar costs a one-time $0.95 to create, so a first project spends it once. Standalone captions are $0.20 per job for videos up to 60 seconds, and inline captions on the avatar request are a separate add-on on the avatar estimate. If you plan to caption each clip, subtract it per clip before you divide.
Cost is also bounded by the reserve rule. Paid generation reserves its estimate when accepted, captures it on success and releases it on failure, so a failed clip does not eat your $100. A cancel works only before generation starts.
How should I plan a $100 budget?
Pick the quality tier first, since it moves the price by a factor of three, then the clip length, then divide. Ten 30-second standard clips are $55.20, which leaves room for captions at $2.00 and a second round for the winners. Check the live rates on the API pricing page before you rely on this arithmetic, and read GET /v1/balance to see what you actually have.
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