One Sume image upscale costs the same as 22 seconds of video upscale

Image upscale is $0.20 per image and video upscale is $0.009 per second on Sume's rate card. $0.20 / $0.009 = 22.2, so one image upscale costs as much as about 22 seconds of video upscale. At 24 fps, that is 533 frames upscaled for the price of one.

Media tools side by side

The table puts the media-tool rows in one place and normalizes each to a cutout.

A caution on the comparison

The 24 fps figure is arithmetic on a common frame rate, not a statement about how Sume bills: video upscale is billed per second, not per frame. The comparison only says that stills are expensive relative to video seconds.

Worked example and checks

Think of it as a conversion table for mixed projects. A 30-second video upscale at $0.27 is about 1.4 image upscales. A 90-second spot upscaled and 12 stills upscaled cost 90 x 0.009 + 12 x 0.20 = $0.81 + $2.40 = $3.21, and the stills are three-quarters of it.

So the practical rule is to check the stills first. Resizing them to the final canvas size before upscaling does not change the per-image price, but sending only the ones that are below target resolution does.

Practical use

If your video is mostly stills with motion added, upscale the source stills once and animate afterwards, or upscale the final video; compare the two totals for your length. Sume bills model and tool usage at the published rate on top of the plan fee, so the plan price is separate from every number in this post.