The smallest AI video job on Sume: about $0.11 for 3 seconds of Omni

The smallest paid video job on the rows below is a 3-second Omni clip at 360p, which costs about $0.11 on Sume. The Wan 3.0 row accepts 2 seconds, so a 2-second 480p clip is $0.125, and the H3 pair and Kling start at 5 and 4 seconds respectively.

Prices are the provider list price times 1.25 per second, from the Video Router docs read on 2026-10-07.

The floor for each row

Wan 3.0's list rates in the docs are $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p, which is what the Sume figure starts from.

Why the floor matters

A first test of a prompt rarely needs a good picture; it needs to show whether the idea reads at all. A $0.1125 job does that, and ten of them cost about $1.13. A pattern that works well is to run drafts on the floor setting of one row, choose winners by eye, and only then pay for the resolution you will ship.

• Omni at 360p is the cheapest per second in the table, and it accepts references and edit mode.
• H3 starts at 5 seconds, so it cannot be a 3-second job.
• Resolution also changes the framing a model chooses, so confirm the winner at the final setting.

The same clip, three ways

Here is one prompt costed at its row's floor and again at a shipping setting.

Scaling the draft habit

The floor price is useful because it makes volume cheap. At $0.1125 a job, a hundred drafts cost about $11. Running that many prompts at the shipping setting would cost many times more, so the draft pass is where a team can afford to be wrong often. Keep the final pass small.

Write down the draft setting and the shipping setting for each row beside your prompts. When you promote a winner, change only the resolution and length, not the wording, so you can tell what the extra money bought.

• Draft: the cheapest setting in the table.
• Select: choose by eye, not by score.
• Ship: rerun the winners at the final setting.

Check your balance first

Sume reserves the balance when you submit, so a very low balance can refuse even a small job with 402 insufficient_credits. Keep a little headroom above the price of a draft batch, and check the returned cost on each finished job. For a batch of ten drafts at $0.1125 that is about $1.13 plus a margin.