POST /v1/videos vs POST /v1/video-router/generate on Sume
Sume's docs recommend POST /v1/videos for new integrations; Video Router stays available and unchanged. Same catalog, same jobs, different request shape.
Use POST /v1/videos for new integrations. Sume's Video Router docs say so directly: Video generation has the same catalog and the same jobs behind an OpenRouter-compatible wire, and Video Router 'stays available and does not change'. If you already call POST /v1/video-router/generate, nothing forces you to move.
Side by side
Facts below come from the two Sume docs pages.
| Question | POST /v1/videos | POST /v1/video-router/generate |
|---|---|---|
| Recommendation | New integrations | Stays available, unchanged |
| Wire format | OpenRouter-compatible | Sume's explicit model catalog |
| Model catalog | GET /v1/videos/models | GET /v1/video-router/models |
| Let Sume pick the model | model: sume/auto | Video Router Auto is reached through /v1/videos |
| Pin a model | Catalog model id, such as seedance-2.5 | Catalog model id from the router catalog |
| Billing | Provider list x 1.25 | Provider list x 1.25 |
Auto defaults and limits
With sume/auto, the Auto create controls default to 720p and 8 seconds, with 3 to 10 second clips in 16:9 or 9:16. Pinned models have their own ranges: seedance-2.5 accepts 4 to 30 seconds and wan-3.0 accepts 2 to 30. Check the model before you submit, because limits differ per model.
The Video Router docs example sends an Idempotency-Key header with the job request. If you retry a submit, send the same key so you do not pay for two jobs.
What about Video 1.0?
The docs say Sume will retire Video 1.0 soon, and until then it is a compatibility alias for the same Auto pipe. If your code posts to a Video 1.0 route, plan to move it to /v1/videos with model sume/auto. See the Video generation docs and the Video Router docs.
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