Sume's rate card by billing unit: job, second, minute, 1,000 chars
Sume bills per job (trim $0.02, music $0.125), per second (avatar, Fabric, Kling), per minute (STT, timeline) and per 1,000 characters (TTS $0.0475).
Sume has four billing units. Flat jobs include trim $0.02, captions $0.20 and music $0.125. Seconds cover avatar video, Fabric, H3 Max lip-sync, Kling Motion Control and video upscale. Minutes cover speech transcription and timeline renders. Text to speech is the only per-1,000-characters product, at $0.0475.
Per job
A flat price is the easiest to budget because the input size does not matter, within limits.
| Product | Price per job | Limit that keeps it flat |
|---|---|---|
| Avatar creation | $0.95 | One avatar |
| Music | $0.125 | One generation |
| Background removal | $0.0225 | One image |
| Image upscale | $0.20 | One image |
| Video captions | $0.20 | Videos up to 60 s |
| Trending videos search | $0.10 | One call |
| Video trim, filter, compose | $0.02 | 300 s sources for filter and compose |
| Audio detach, timeline audio | $0.01 | One pass |
Per second, minute and character
Several per-second products are billed per whole second, rounded up, and transcripts and timeline renders are billed per rounded-up minute. The Models overview and the pricing page give the details.
| Unit | Product | Rate | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second | Avatar video (standard, plus, max) | $0.184, $0.245, $0.55 | 4-60 s script |
| Second | Fabric 480p / 720p | $0.10 / $0.1875 | up to 300 s |
| Second | H3 Max lip-sync 480p / 768p / 1080p | $0.0625 / $0.10 / $0.20 | 5-14.8 s |
| Second | Kling 3.0 Motion Control | $0.1575 | 1-30 s |
| Second | Video upscale | $0.009 | up to 30 s |
| Minute | Speech transcription | $0.01 | up to 10 min |
| Minute | Timeline render | $0.10 | up to 30 min |
| 1,000 characters | Text to speech | $0.0475 | up to 20,000 per job |
The ones without a single rate
Image 1.0, Video 1.0 and the routers are metered per job with a band. The catalog estimate for Image 1.0 is $0.2225 and for Video 1.0 $2.3112, with a Video Router estimate of $0.50. Use the live GET /v1/catalog response for the model you pick instead of a static figure.
When comparing with another vendor's page, convert to the same unit first. A per-second price times your clip length gives a per-clip price, and a per-clip price divided by length gives per-second.
A worked comparison
Take a 30 second vertical ad. Using only published unit rates, voice of 450 characters costs $0.021375, a 30 second plus avatar video costs $7.35, one timeline minute costs $0.10, a caption job costs $0.20 and a music bed $0.125. The sum is $7.796. The avatar second dominates the bill; everything else is under a dollar together.
This is the usual shape. Per-second video-like products set the total, per-job tools add cents, and TTS is rounding error until the script is long.
- Check the catalog for any product that shows a band.
- Never mix per-minute and per-second figures without converting.
- Inputs can have windows that matter more than rate.
Sources
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