Wan 3 on Runway Dev vs Sume: a 30-second 1080p clip is $6.00 vs $7.50
Runway Dev lists wan3 at 5, 10 and 20 credits per second ($0.01 each). Sume lists wan-3.0 at $0.0625, $0.125 and $0.25. The 30-second totals.
A 30-second 1080p clip of Wan 3 costs $6.00 on Runway Dev (20 credits per second x 30 seconds x $0.01) and $7.50 on Sume's wan-3.0 row (30 x $0.25). Runway's Wan rate is 20% lower. The two are separate products: Runway sells credits for $0.01 each in its developer portal, and Sume bills in USD per output second from one balance.
Runway's pricing page, read 2026-10-09, lists three Wan 3 rows by resolution plus a wan3_prime tier. Sume's catalog lists one wan-3.0 row, 2 to 30 seconds, at 480p, 720p and 1080p.
Per second and per 30 seconds
Runway prices in credits per second; at $0.01 a credit the dollar rate is the credit count divided by 100. Sume's rates are list price times 1.25, which is why they are exactly 1.25 times the Runway dollar figure for this model.
| Resolution | Runway wan3 credits/s | Runway $/s | Runway 30 s | Sume wan-3.0 $/s | Sume 30 s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 480p | 5 | $0.05 | $1.50 | $0.0625 | $1.875 |
| 720p | 10 | $0.10 | $3.00 | $0.125 | $3.75 |
| 1080p | 20 | $0.20 | $6.00 | $0.25 | $7.50 |
Runway also lists wan3_prime
Runway's wan3_prime rows are 6.8, 14 and 28 credits per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p, which is $0.068, $0.14 and $0.28. A 30-second 1080p clip there is 28 x 30 = 840 credits, or $8.40. Sume does not list a separate Prime row, so the like-for-like comparison with Sume's single Wan row is the base wan3 rate.
What to weigh besides price
Twenty percent on a 30-second 1080p clip is $1.50. If you render 40 of them a month that is $60 in favor of Runway Dev. What you give up is a single billing surface: Sume jobs share a balance with image, TTS, music, upscale and timeline calls, and the same job polling endpoints.
To test the Sume side, submit one wan-3.0 request and read the usage on the finished job. The /v1/videos/models response lists supported durations, resolutions and aspect ratios for the live catalog.
Monthly examples
The following figures use the same list prices as the tables above.
- 100 thirty-second 480p clips: Runway 100 x $1.50 = $150.00; Sume 100 x $1.875 = $187.50.
- 100 ten-second 720p clips: Runway 100 x $1.00 = $100.00; Sume 100 x $1.25 = $125.00.
- The Sume premium is always 25% of the Runway dollar rate for this model, which is $0.025, $0.025 and $0.05 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p.
- Wan 3.0 on Sume accepts 2 to 30 seconds, so the 30-second figures above are the longest single clip, not a stitched sequence.
Limits of this comparison
The Runway page also says generations routed through a Model Router are billed at the standard rate of whichever model the router selects, and that the response metadata reports the model and the realized cost in credits. Sume's Auto path is different: it reports sume/auto and does not disclose the family. If you need to know which model made a clip, pin wan-3.0.
What I could not confirm
Runway's page lists wan3 and wan3_prime at 720p and does not explain the difference between them. The comparison is on price alone. All vendor figures were read on 2026-10-09 and are listed in the sources; Sume figures come from its public catalog and docs the same day.
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