Seconds of video per dollar: Veo 3.1 Lite 20, Omni Flash on Sume 8

One dollar buys 20 seconds of Veo 3.1 Lite at 720p, 10 seconds of Veo 3.1 Fast, 2.5 seconds of Veo 3.1 Standard, and 8 seconds of Gemini Omni Flash at 720p on Sume. Dividing 1 by the per-second price is the fastest way to compare models that quote rates in different ways.

The table below does that for every Google tier and resolution on the pricing page, plus Sume's four Omni rates.

Seconds per dollar

Inverting the price removes the confusion of small decimals. A model at $0.05 a second sounds close to one at $0.08, but the first gives you 20 seconds a dollar and the second 12.5.

Figures are rounded to two decimals. Lite has no 4K row because Google's page lists none.

What stands out

Omni Flash on Sume at 360p gives the most seconds per dollar of anything in the table, at 26.67, ahead of Veo Lite at 720p. At 720p, Sume's Omni (8 seconds) is behind Veo Fast (10 seconds) and Lite (20).

Standard gives 2.5 seconds a dollar at both 720p and 1080p, so the cheapest way to use it is to render at 1080p. 4K Standard gives 1.67 seconds, so a dollar does not buy two seconds of it.

Turning it into clips

Divide again by your clip length. At 8 seconds, 20 seconds a dollar is 2.5 Lite clips, and 10 seconds a dollar is 1.25 Fast clips. At 10 seconds on Sume, 8 seconds a dollar is 0.8 of a 720p Omni clip, so a 10-second clip costs $1.25.

Seconds per dollar says nothing about quality or how many takes you need. A model that gives half the seconds per dollar but needs half the takes is the same price in practice.

Where Sume fits

Sume does not list a Veo model. Its Google video model is gemini-omni-flash-1.1, which takes 3 to 10 seconds at 360p, 720p, 1080p or 4K, in 16:9 or 9:16, with audio always on. Sume bills the provider list rate times 1.25 for each output second, so its rates are $0.0375, $0.125, $0.1875 and $0.375 a second. Veo rows are Google-direct figures and are not available on Sume.