Luma Ray 3.2 360p draft costs $0.06 for 5 seconds: the draft ladder

Luma's pricing page lists Ray 3.2 at 360p, labeled as a draft, for $0.06 per 5-second clip or $0.18 for 10 seconds, against $1.20 and $3.60 at 1080p. One 1080p 5-second render pays for 20 drafts. On Sume, the lowest tier is 480p on seedance-2.5 and 360p on gemini-omni-flash-1.1.

Luma's numbers are from its pricing page and models page, read 2026-10-03. Luma notes that video rates remain subject to change before general availability. Sume's limits are from the Video Router docs.

What is Luma's full SDR ladder?

The earlier Ray 3.2 price post starts at 540p. The pricing page has one more tier below it, the 360p draft. Here is the whole ladder with a per-second figure.

How many drafts does one final pay for?

For a 5-second clip, a 1080p final at $1.20 equals 20 drafts at 360p, 8 at 540p, or 4 at 720p. For 10 seconds, $3.60 buys 20 drafts at $0.18. So a workflow that tries ten prompt variants at 360p and renders only the winner at 1080p costs $0.60 plus $1.20, or $1.80, for a 5-second clip, against $12.00 for rendering all ten at 1080p.

Note that the per-second column shows 10-second clips cost more per second than 5-second ones at every tier on this page, so check the clip length before multiplying.

What is the nearest Sume draft?

Sume lists seedance-2.5 at 4 to 30 seconds across 480p, 720p and 1080p, and gemini-omni-flash-1.1 at 3 to 10 seconds across 360p, 720p, 1080p and 4K. So a 360p draft exists on Sume only for that Gemini model; for anything else the floor is 480p or higher in the docs read here.

Sume bills provider list price times 1.25 on every model, and the finished job reports the billable amount as usage.cost. Sume's docs do not publish a price table in the pages read for this post, so read the live price from the model catalog, not from this article.

Is a 360p draft a good predictor?

Luma's page does not say how closely a draft matches the final. Draft tiers are useful for composition, timing and prompt adherence, and less useful for fine detail, faces or small text. Treat a draft as a filter, not a preview. If the idea survives at 360p, spend on the next tier up before committing to 1080p, which at $1.20 is still 20 times the draft price.

How should you log drafts so they pay off?

Save each draft with its prompt, model and resolution, and mark the winner. When you render the final, the log shows which prompt earned it, and you can reuse that wording for the next clip in the series. A spreadsheet row per clip is enough: prompt, tier, price, and whether it passed.