Veo 3.1 Lite $0.05/s vs an Omni Flash 360p draft: what each buys

Google lists Veo 3.1 Lite at $0.05 per second at 720p, while Gemini Omni Flash is listed at about $0.10 per second at 720p. Google's build post describes Omni's 360p as a draft mode at one-third the cost of 720p, which is roughly $0.033 per second at Google's list price. On Sume, Omni is the only one of the two in the catalog, billed at list x 1.25.

Prices come from the Gemini API pricing page, Google's Omni 1.1 Flash build post and the Veo docs, read on 2026-10-03. Google can change them, so recheck before budgeting.

Published numbers

Veo's Lite tier is listed at 720p and 1080p only, at $0.05 and $0.08 per second. Omni's price is token-based: 5,792 tokens per second of 720p video, about $0.10 per second. The one-third figure for 360p is Google's description of relative cost, not a separate published price.

What the cheap rows do not give you

Veo 3.1 Lite and a 360p draft are not equal. Veo Lite is a final-quality tier at its listed resolutions; the Omni draft is meant for trying prompts before an upscale-quality render. Native audio, edit mode and reference clips are Omni features Google documents; for Lite, check the Veo docs for what it accepts.

Run Omni drafts on Sume

On Sume at list x 1.25, an 8 second 720p Omni clip is 8 x 0.125 = $1.00. Use 360p for prompt tests, then rerun the best at 720p. The 360p Sume rate is in the live catalog; read it there rather than assuming one third.

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/video-router/generate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: omni-draft-cost-001" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gemini-omni-flash-1.1",
    "prompt": "A red kite rises over a beach at sunset, wide shot, gentle waves.",
    "resolution": "360p",
    "duration": 8,
    "aspect_ratio": "16:9",
    "mode": "async"
  }'

Decide

Pick by features first, price second. See the Video Router docs for which model ids Sume carries.