Klap 100 clips for $14 vs 100 Sume trims at 2 cents each

Klap's Basic plan works out to $0.14 per clip; a Sume trim is $0.02 per clip and a trimmed, captioned clip is $0.22. So Sume is cheaper only when you skip captions or do not need Klap's AI clip finding. Klap's pricing page (read 2026-10-03) lists 100 clips a month for $14 on Basic, 300 for $39 on Pro and 1,000 for $94 on Pro+, all billed yearly.

Two things happen this week that make clip counts matter. TikTok is reported to be rewarding videos of 3 to 5 minutes, and Instagram Reels now run to 3 minutes, per Metricool's TikTok news and its Instagram page (read 2026-10-03). Longer clips mean fewer clips per hour of source, and the cost of cutting them depends on what you buy: a clip count or a job.

What Klap's page says

The page lists three plans, each with AI clipping, unlimited social accounts across TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn, and analytics. The prices shown are per month when billed yearly, and the page says yearly billing saves 50 percent against monthly, so the monthly-billed prices are higher than the ones in the table. In the text read it listed no maximum video length and no API price, so this post makes no claim about either.

How Sume prices a clip

Video trim takes a start and exactly one of end or duration, and returns a new MP4. The public rate is $0.02 per job. precision: "exact" re-encodes for a frame-accurate cut, and precision: "keyframe" copies the stream but may start up to a group of pictures early, which the result reports as actual_start_seconds. Caption styling is a separate job: video captions is $0.20 for a video up to 60 seconds.

Finding the moments is the part Klap sells and Sume does not. If you want to find them in code, a transcript from video inspect adds $0.01 per audio minute on top of its Modal compute and returns sentence segments with timings. Scoring those sentences for a hook is your logic or an agent's, not a built-in feature.

def klap_per_clip(fee, clips):
    return round(fee / clips, 3)

for name, fee, clips in (("Basic", 14, 100), ("Pro", 39, 300), ("Pro+", 94, 1000)):
    sume_trim_only = 0.02 * clips
    sume_captioned = 0.22 * clips
    print(name, "Klap per clip", klap_per_clip(fee, clips),
          "| Sume trim only", round(sume_trim_only, 2),
          "| Sume trim+caption", round(sume_captioned, 2), "for", clips, "clips")

Worked examples

Suppose you have a weekly 45-minute show and want 8 clips of about 40 seconds. On Sume that is $0.45 of transcript, 8 trims at $0.02 and 8 captions at $0.20, so $2.21. Four shows a month is $8.84 for 32 clips, which is $0.28 per clip all in. Klap Basic would give you those 32 clips inside its 100 as part of the $14. Sume is cheaper in dollars here only by a few dollars, and you carry the clip-finding work.

Now skip captions because your editor already burns them. 100 trims cost $2.00 on Sume against $14 for Klap's 100, which is a $12 gap in Sume's favour. At 1,000 trims it is $20 against $94. For a brand that already has its own caption style and just needs rough cuts of a 3 to 5 minute episode, the trim-only line is the one that scales.

What Sume does and does not do here

• Sume trims one range per job. Ten clips from one source are ten jobs, which you can submit in parallel with ten different Idempotency-Key values.
• Sume does not detect highlights or reframe to follow a speaker. It can crop by fractions with video filter at $0.02 a job, but the rectangle is yours.
• Sume sources must already be on media.sume.com. Importing a social URL has its own SKU in the repo, media_import, priced at $0.15 per job, so add that for sources that are not already hosted.
• Sume trim outputs are capped at 900 seconds, which is well over the 3 to 5 minute range TikTok is reported to favour.

What to do

Run the calculator with your own clip counts. If you need highlights found for you, Klap's flat plans are good value at $0.094 to $0.14 a clip. If you already know the timestamps, or your editor adds captions, Sume's $0.02 trim is the cheaper tool by a wide margin. In both cases the break-even moves with captions, so decide that first.