Maestra translates 30 minutes for $12: what Sume offers instead

On Maestra's pricing page 60 credits cost $12 and cover either 60 minutes of subtitles or 30 minutes of translation. Sume does not translate text, so the equivalent job is a pipeline: detach the audio, transcribe it, translate with a tool of your choice, synthesize speech and render the result.

The Sume pipeline, step by step

Each step is one documented endpoint with its own price, so you can see where the money goes.

What the numbers say

Excluding translation and speech, a 10-minute video costs about $1.11 in the Sume steps: $0.01 to detach, about $0.10 to transcribe, and $1.00 to render. Add the translation tool and the per-character TTS price from GET /v1/catalog for the full figure.

Maestra's translation is $0.40 per minute from the page's own arithmetic, bundled with the translation itself. Sume's total depends on the translator you pick, which is the trade for controlling the wording.

When to build it yourself

Build it when you need translation review, a glossary, or a particular voice. STT takes duration_seconds up to 600 per job, so a longer file is transcribed in chunks.