Krea Pro $21: 83 Seedance 2.0 videos is $0.25 each. Sume's?

Krea's pricing page says its Pro plan, $21 a month on annual billing or $35 monthly, includes 20,000 units, enough for 83 Seedance 2.0 videos, so each video is about $0.25 annually or $0.42 monthly by my division. Sume has no plan to divide: it reserves list price times 1.25 from a USD balance, so the comparable number comes from the catalog or a real job. I did not fetch a Seedance 2.0 rate for Sume, so I give the method, not a figure.

Krea's own example numbers

Krea lists Free at 100 units a day, Pro at 20,000 units a month, Max at $63 annually or $105 monthly for 60,000 units, Business at $160 annually or $200 monthly for 80,000 units with up to 50 seats, and Enterprise custom. For Pro it says 20,000 units equal 257 Nano Banana 2 generations or 83 Seedance 2.0 videos.

Why the plan price can mislead

The per-output figures hold only if you spend every unit. At half the usage the price per video doubles. Sume's model avoids that: the docs say the workspace balance is reserved at submit at provider list times 1.25 and refunded on failure, and usage.cost is the billed amount.

Steps: get Sume's number

• Read model price metadata from GET /v1/catalog.
• Submit one real job for the model and length you would use.
• Read usage.cost on the finished job.
• Compare it with $0.253 or $0.422, and note which side includes unused capacity.

What Sume does not do

Sume has no monthly units plan, no seats pricing and no in-browser creative canvas. If you want a prompt-and-click studio with a fixed fee, Krea is built for that. Sume also surfaces errors you should plan for: 402 insufficient_credits when the balance is below the reserve, and 429 for queue_full or rate_limited.

Using the free plan to test

Krea's page gives the Free plan 100 units a day, which is a way to judge quality before paying $21. On Sume there is no daily free allowance in the docs I read, so you test by funding a small balance and watching usage.cost per job. Spend $5 across a few models and write down cost against output quality. That table, not a plan page, tells you which route is cheaper for the clips you actually make, including your failed attempts.

Credit math for the larger plans

Krea Max lists 60,000 units for $63 annual, the same $1.05 per 1,000 units as Pro at $21 for 20,000, so Max does not change the unit price on annual billing. Business at $160 for 80,000 units is $2.00 per 1,000 units, nearly double the cost per unit, but includes up to 50 seats. The seat count, not the unit price, is what you pay for at the top.

Verdict

Fixed fee plus a studio: Krea. Pay only for jobs you run, through an API: Sume. The honest comparison needs one measured job, not a guess.