Maestra $12 per 60 credits for subtitles vs Sume caption jobs
Maestra pay-as-you-go is $12 per 60 credits: 60 minutes of subtitles, about $0.20 a minute. Sume burns captions for $0.20 per job on a clip up to 60 s.
Maestra's pay-as-you-go plan is $12 for 60 credits, and 60 credits cover 60 minutes of subtitles. That is $0.20 per minute, the same as a Sume caption job for a video up to 60 seconds.
Same price, different deliverable
Maestra's subtitles are text you download or edit in its app. A Sume caption job returns a video with captions burned into the pixels, ready to post. If you need an SRT file, Sume does not take or produce one: SRT upload is unsupported and phrase text goes in as cues or segments.
| Item | Maestra pay-as-you-go | Sume caption job |
|---|---|---|
| Price basis | $12 per 60 credits | $0.20 per job |
| Covers | 60 minutes of subtitles | One video up to 60 seconds |
| Output | Subtitles | Video with captions burned in |
| 10 clips of 45 s | 7.5 credits, $1.50 | 10 jobs, $2.00 |
Where the cost lines cross
Short clips are where per-job pricing costs more, since you pay for 60 seconds even when the clip is 30. Forty 30-second clips are 20 minutes of subtitles on Maestra, $4.00 of credits, against $8.00 on Sume. Long single files flip the question: a 20-minute video is 20 Maestra credits, while Sume's quoted $0.20 is for up to 60 seconds, so check the catalog price for longer sources first.
Pick Sume when the burned-in video is the thing you ship and the clips run near a minute.
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