Luma Ray 3.2's priciest SKU: a 10-second HDR+EXR edit at $12.96

The most expensive single Ray 3.2 item on Luma's pay-as-you-go page is a 10-second video edit at 1080p with HDR and EXR export: $12.96. The cheapest generation is a 5-second 360p draft at $0.06. The ratio is exactly 216 ($12.96 / $0.06), so the same API spans more than two orders of magnitude depending on request type, resolution, dynamic range and length.

Where the multipliers come from

Within edits, HDR doubles the standard price ($4.32 to $8.64) and HDR plus EXR triples it ($12.96). Within generation, HDR is 2x and HDR plus EXR is 3x the SDR 5-second price at 720p and 1080p. HDR generation is limited to 720p and 1080p and to 5 seconds; 540p and 10 seconds are rejected. The edit tables, by contrast, list HDR at every resolution including 360p, and list 10-second totals.

Luma's note that rates may change before general availability applies to all of these figures.

The same question on Sume

Sume's catalog rates are per output second, by model and resolution. The top row is seedance-2.5 at 1080p: $1.42155 per second, so a 10-second clip is $14.2155 and the 30-second maximum is $42.6465. That is more than the Luma extreme, but it is a generation price on a different model, not an edit with EXR export.

At the other end, gemini-omni-flash-1.1 at 360p is $0.0375 per second, so 5 seconds is $0.1875. For 10 seconds at 1080p, Sume lists gemini-omni-flash-1.1 at $1.875, minimax-h3-max at $2.00 and wan-3.0 at $2.50.

• Sume does not list Luma Ray 3.2, so there is no Ray price on Sume.
• Sume bills provider list x 1.25 at submit and shows usage.cost on the finished job.

How to use the spread

If you draft at the cheap end, keep drafts at 360p and only move one clip up. A single 1080p HDR+EXR edit equals 216 drafts, which is a handy way to explain a bill to a producer.

A producer-friendly budget

Here is a concrete mix on Luma's rates: 20 drafts at 360p for 5 seconds each cost 20 x $0.06 = $1.20; three 1080p finals of 5 seconds cost 3 x $1.20 = $3.60; and one 10-second HDR+EXR edit at 1080p costs $12.96. The total is $17.76, of which the single edit is 73 percent. If the edit is dropped, the whole set costs $4.80.

That is a useful way to explain why HDR and EXR should be an explicit deliverable decision. Ask whether the grade needs EXR, and if it does not, HDR alone halves the edit price to $8.64 for the same 10 seconds.