Meta One Advanced schedules stories 30 days out: render a month first

Meta says its Advanced creator and business plan, which starts at $49.99 a month, includes "scheduling stories up to 30 days in advance". To use that window you need up to 30 finished vertical clips ready, and Sume Timeline renders one 1080x1920 MP4 per call at $0.10 per started output minute, so 30 clips of 60 seconds or less come to about $3.00.

The plan facts come from Meta's Introducing Meta One announcement (read 2026-10-06). Sume does not publish to Instagram for you in this workflow; it makes the files you schedule.

What does Meta say Advanced adds?

The announcement lists the Advanced tier's publishing features in one sentence. Meta also says the core experience across its apps stays free.

How do I render 30 days of story clips?

Plan one clip per day. For each, create a Timeline render with an audio.duration_seconds of 60 or less, video[] slots from your footage, and no output block, because the default output is already 1080x1920 MP4. Give every request its own Idempotency-Key such as story-2026-10-07, so a retry returns the original job.

Before submitting, call the unbilled POST /v1/timeline-1.0/plan on each body. It returns billable_minutes and estimated_cost_usd_micros without creating a job. A 60-second clip bills one minute; a 61-second clip bills two.

If a clip is cut from a longer recording, use video trim first, then place the trimmed file in video[]. Full request shapes are in the Timeline 1.0 docs.

What does the month cost?

At $0.10 per started minute, 30 clips of 60 seconds or less are 30 billed minutes, or $3.00. That is the render only; captions, if you add them, are a separate $0.20 job for clips up to 60 seconds. The Meta One subscription is a separate purchase from Meta and is not needed to receive the MP4s.

What should I not assume?

Meta's announcement names the 30-day story window but not file specs, so check the length and ratio rules on Instagram's own help pages before you batch. Plans are described as rolling out gradually, so the Advanced tier may not be on your account yet.