One 10-second AI clip a day for a year: Veo Lite vs Sume models

A year of one 10-second clip a day is 3,650 seconds of video. That costs $182.50 on Veo 3.1 Lite at 720p and $292 at 1080p, against $228.13 on Sume's Wan 3.0 at 480p, $365 on H3 Max at 768p and $456.25 for Wan 3.0 or Gemini Omni Flash at 720p.

What is excluded

Retakes, captions, music and renders are not in these numbers. If you keep one take in three, multiply the video line by three; add the finishing prices on the rate card.

Sources

Veo prices come from Google's Gemini API pricing page. Sume rates are the billed catalog prices, listed in the Video Router docs by model and resolution.

Recompute it in Python

The yearly total is seconds times the per-second rate. The numbers are the ones in the table above.

seconds = 365 * 10
for name, rate in (('Veo Lite 720p', 0.05), ('Wan 480p', 0.0625), ('Wan 720p', 0.125)):
    print(name, round(seconds * rate, 2))