Submagic API caption minutes at $0.10 to $0.23 vs Sume's $0.20 job

Submagic's pricing page sells API minutes as add-on packs from $0.23 per minute (250 minutes for $57) down to $0.10 per minute (5,000 minutes for $500, 10,000 for $1,000). Sume's standalone caption job is a fixed $0.20 for a video of up to 60 seconds under the current estimate, so a one-minute caption on Sume is $0.20 whatever the pack size.

Submagic facts are from its pricing page, read 2026-10-01; the Sume price is from the Video captions docs. Style and accuracy are not compared here.

What do Submagic's API packs cost per minute?

The page lists add-on packs, and says plans also include 10 to 100 API minutes.

How does Sume price a caption job?

Each accepted standalone caption job reserves and captures $0.20 of Sume usage for videos up to 60 seconds, per the docs' pricing note. The docs say to confirm the live figure in GET /v1/catalog and OpenAPI. A 5.5% agent fee applies by default. Captions built into an avatar video are a separate add-on on that estimate.

What do 1,000 one-minute videos cost?

Arithmetic from the numbers above, before Sume's agent fee, and only for videos that are 60 seconds or shorter.

Which unit should I budget in?

Count videos for Sume and minutes for Submagic. Ten 20-second videos are ten Sume jobs ($2.00) but about 3.3 minutes at Submagic's per-minute packs, which makes short clips the case to compute before choosing. For longer sources see add captions to a long video.