Submagic caps video at 2, 5 or 30 min; Sume prices up to 60 seconds

Submagic's plans cap the video you can process at 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro and 30 on Business, according to its pricing page (read 2026-10-11). Sume's caption job is priced at $0.20 for videos up to 60 seconds, and its docs publish no price for longer ones, so for a 5-minute video you should ask the catalog before you submit.

Short-form creators rarely hit either limit. Anyone captioning long interviews or webinars will, and that is where the two products diverge.

What Submagic's page lists

The Submagic pricing page (read 2026-10-11) lists Starter at $19 a month with 45 credits, 15 videos, a 2-minute maximum and 1080p/30fps. Pro is $39 with 120 credits, 40 videos, 5 minutes and 1080p/30fps. Business is $69 with 300 credits, 100 videos, 30 minutes and 4K/60fps. Annual billing is listed at a 41% discount, and API credits are sold as add-on packs from "250 min $57/mo" to "10,000 min $1000/mo".

Dividing each plan's monthly price by its video count gives $1.27 a video on Starter ($19 / 15), $0.98 on Pro ($39 / 40) and $0.69 on Business ($69 / 100), if you use every video. That is a ceiling on utilization, not a promise that a plan is cheaper per video than a per-job price.

What Sume's docs say

Sume's Video captions page says each accepted standalone caption job reserves and captures $0.20, and that this price is for videos of a maximum of 60 seconds under the current fixed estimate. For the live price, the docs send you to GET /v1/catalog and OpenAPI. The input must be a public HTTPS video URL, and speech-to-captions works only when the clip has audible speech; a silent clip fails with caption_no_speech, and authored cues can burn text without speech recognition.

For longer material, Sume's other tools can cut first. Video trim is $0.02 a job and returns a new MP4 for a [start, end) range, but its source must be a media.sume.com clip your workspace owns, so check how your file gets there.

Side by side

Three cases

A 45-second Reel: Sume's price applies as written, $0.20 per job, so 100 of them cost $20.00. Submagic's Business plan at $69 covers 100 videos, so at that volume Sume is cheaper for clips this short, and Submagic's Starter at $19 covers only 15.

A 4-minute product demo: Submagic Pro handles it within the 5-minute cap. On Sume the docs do not give a price for a clip over 60 seconds, so I would not budget one; check the catalog first, or cut the demo into sub-minute pieces with trim and caption each.

A 25-minute interview: only Submagic Business is listed for it. On Sume you would be outside the stated price window, so treat it as a custom job and test one file before you plan a batch.

How to decide

Count your median video length and your monthly volume. If most of your videos run under a minute and you generate them programmatically, a per-job price is simple. If you caption long videos by hand in an editor, a plan with a long maximum is the safer purchase. Either way, ask each vendor for one file's real result before you commit to a month.