Sume Timeline render cost by video length

Rendering a video with Sume's Timeline tool is billed per output minute, rounded up to the next whole minute, with a 30-minute maximum. The render cost follows the video's length; the table gives it for every length these posts priced.

Worked example: Render a 1-minute video with the Timeline API: $0.10

Rendering a 1-minute video on Sume's Timeline costs $0.10: the public rate is $0.10 per ceil(output minute). A 1-minute output bills 1 minute.

Source: the Timeline docs, read 2026-10-06. The reserve is ceil(audio.duration_seconds / 60) minutes, and the job uses no AI model, so the cost does not depend on resolution.

What else is on the bill?

Timeline audio and compose steps are fixed per job:

What should I know?

Keep a 61-second cut at 60 seconds if you can.

• Renders past 12 segments chunk automatically with render.strategy: auto.
• strategy: single above 12 slots returns render_strategy_unsafe.
• Billing rounds the output minute up: 61 seconds bills 2 minutes.

Every video length in one table

This page replaces 13 posts that asked the same question with different numbers. Each row is one of them, with the answer it gave when it was published.