Seedance 2.5 price per second on Sume: 480p, 720p and 1080p
Seedance 2.5 on Sume costs about $0.27, $0.58 and $1.42 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p in 16:9. How the token math and the 1.25 factor get there.
On Sume, Seedance 2.5 costs roughly $0.27, $0.58 and $1.42 per output second at 480p, 720p and 1080p in 16:9. Those figures come from Sume's published formula, not a flat per-second card.
The Video Router catalog prices each model at the provider list times 1.25, and the docs note that this applies to every model.
The formula
Video tokens equal width x height x duration x 24 fps / 1024. The 480p 16:9 output is 864x496, 720p is 1280x720 and 1080p is 1920x1080. The provider list is $0.0214 per 1,000 tokens, and $0.0234 per 1,000 at 1080p. Multiply by 1.25 for the Sume price.
Per-second and per-clip table
| Resolution | Per second | 10 s | 30 s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 480p | $0.269 | $2.69 | $8.06 |
| 720p | $0.578 | $5.78 | $17.33 |
| 1080p | $1.422 | $14.22 | $42.65 |
What moves the price
The final charge is usage.cost on the completed job.
- Resolution: 1080p is more than five times the cost of 480p.
- Duration: the cost scales linearly with seconds, from 4 to 30.
- Reference video: the estimator adds an assumed input length, covered in a sibling post.
- Aspect ratio: other ratios change the pixel count slightly, so read
usage.coston the first job.
A worked example
Take a 12-second 9:16 clip at 720p. The output is 720x1280 pixels, so the token count is 720 x 1280 x 12 x 24 / 1024, which is 259,200 video tokens. At $0.0214 per 1,000 tokens that is $5.55 at list, and $6.93 after the 1.25 factor.
Run the same clip at 1080p and the tokens rise to 583,200 at $0.0234 per 1,000, which is $13.65 list and $17.06 on Sume.
- Round-trip the formula against
usage.coston your first job. - If the numbers disagree, trust the poll response and tell support.
- Never hardcode a per-second figure for budgeting a campaign.
How this compares with a per-second card
Wan 3.0 uses a flat per-second list by resolution, so its price is easy to quote. Seedance is token-based, so 16:9 and 9:16 at the same label can differ by a few pixels and the price follows. For planning, the per-second column above is accurate to the cent for 16:9.
Sume bills from a workspace USD balance, so a Seedance job draws on the same wallet as every other model.
Sources
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