Restaurant daily clip for 30 days: 5 seconds on Wan 3.0, $9.38 at 480p

A new 5-second restaurant clip every day for 30 days is 150 seconds of video, which costs $9.38 at 480p, $18.75 at 720p and $37.50 at 1080p on Sume's wan-3.0 (150 seconds times $0.0625, $0.125 or $0.25). That is the generation cost only; a caption line or a music bed would be extra.

The month in numbers

Sume's catalog lists wan-3.0 at 2 to 30 seconds with per-second rates of $0.0625 at 480p, $0.125 at 720p and $0.25 at 1080p (read 2026-10-09). Thirty clips of 5 seconds is 30 times 5, which is 150 seconds. At 480p that is 150 times $0.0625, or $9.375, shown as $9.38.

A 5-second clip is one dish and one move, such as steam rising or a fork lifting. Keep the prompt to what is on the plate that day, and use the photo of the dish as a reference where the model takes one.

What the clip needs besides the model

A daily special needs the day's price on screen. Baking text into generated video is unreliable, so burn it afterwards with the standalone caption job, which accepts authored cues (text, start, end) and does not need speech. That job reserves $0.20 for videos up to 60 seconds, so a 5-second clip with a price line adds $0.20, and 30 days adds $6.00.

With captions the month is $15.38 at 480p and $24.75 at 720p. Compare that with a re-shoot or an editor's time on your own terms; this post only prices the generation and captions.

Keeping it cheap

Generate on Monday for the week rather than each morning, so a failed take does not land on a service day. Wan 3.0 starts at 2 seconds, so a 5-second clip is not near any floor, and shorter clips scale linearly: a 3-second clip is $0.1875 at 480p.

Watch spend with a prompt discipline: one dish per clip, no text in the prompt, and a single retry budget. Ten retries at 5 seconds and 480p is 10 times $0.3125, or $3.13.

A practical note

A weekly rhythm is easier than a daily one. Prepare seven prompts on Sunday, generate all seven at 480p for 7 times $0.3125, which is $2.19, review them together and regenerate only weak ones. Put the day's price in a caption cue so the clip itself stays reusable. If a dish stays on the menu for a month, reuse the clip and change only the caption, which restyles for the same $0.20 and does not need a new generation.

Before you scale

Every price in this post is a Sume list price read from the public catalog on 2026-10-09, and the arithmetic is shown so you can redo it with your own counts. Rates can change, so re-read the catalog before a large batch and run a small test first. Sume bills the job's captured amount, and the job result tells you what was used, so compare the first run's receipt with your estimate before you scale the work to the full set.