Pika credit packs: 60 credits per dollar, from $25 for 1,500
Pika sells one-time credit packs at 60 credits per dollar, from $25 for 1,500 to $1,000 for 66,000. How packs differ from a plan, and how Sume top-ups work.
Pika's pricing page (read 2026-10-02) sells one-time credit packs at 60 credits per dollar: $25 buys 1,500 credits, and the largest pack, $1,000, buys 66,000 credits including a 10% bonus. Packs sit alongside the monthly plans, and the Free plan is the one that lists 0 monthly credits and relies on packs.
The pack math
The page states the 60 credits per $1 rate. The table works out the two ends of the range from the numbers it prints.
| Pack price | Credits | Credits per $1 | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| $25 | 1,500 | 60 | Smallest listed pack |
| $1,000 | 66,000 | 66 | 60,000 base credits plus the 10% bonus the page mentions |
Packs versus monthly credits
A pack is a one-time purchase. Plan credits are listed per month: Starter 900, Creator 3,150, and Fancy 8,550 or more. Starter at $10 a month works out to 90 credits per dollar, better than the 60 per dollar base pack rate, so a pack mainly makes sense when your usage is irregular or the Free plan is enough for everything else.
Credits are not a unit of video. How many credits a clip costs depends on the model and length you pick inside Pika, so compare tools in dollars per finished second, not in credits.
How Sume top-ups differ
Sume has no credit pack tiers to choose between. In the dashboard, a Stripe-backed manual top-up adds balance, and the billing docs say API clients should treat top-ups as dashboard operations: the public API exposes GET /v1/balance and GET /v1/usage reads, not a top-up endpoint.
What a generation costs is listed on the API pricing page, which is the source of truth for prices. Video jobs are charged by the model and parameters you request, so the cost of a clip is known before you submit it from the catalog's pricing metadata.
What to do with this
Sume does not list Pika models, so the comparison is a price check across tools, not a like-for-like model swap.
- Ask what a 5-second clip costs on your chosen model in Pika credits, then multiply by 1/60 to get dollars at the base pack rate.
- Compare that dollar figure with the per-clip price on the Sume pricing page.
- Check whether a pack's credits expire; this page's summary does not state an expiry, so confirm it on Pika before buying a large pack.
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