Veo 3.1 tiers vs Seedance 2.5: price per second of video
Google lists Veo 3.1 at $0.40 (Standard), $0.10-$0.12 (Fast) and $0.05-$0.08 (Lite) per second; Seedance 2.5 on fal is about $0.46 at 720p. Sume x 1.25: $0.58.
Google lists Veo 3.1 at $0.40 per second for Standard (720p and 1080p), $0.10 to $0.12 for Fast and $0.05 to $0.08 for Lite, so Standard is about the same as Seedance 2.5 at fal list (about $0.46 per second at 720p) and Fast and Lite are far cheaper. Seedance 2.5 on Sume is $0.578 per second at 720p after the x 1.25 margin. Both vendor pages were read on 2026-10-03.
The per-second table
Google's pricing page lists Veo 3.1 Standard at $0.60 for 4K, Fast at $0.30 for 4K and says all tiers include audio by default. For Seedance 2.5, fal bills by video token and its page also quotes rough per-second figures (about $0.2205 at 480p, $0.4730 at 720p, $1.164 at 1080p); the table below uses the token formula for 1280x720 and 1920x1080 at the rates in Sume's rate card.
| Model | 720p | 1080p |
|---|---|---|
| Veo 3.1 Standard (Google) | $0.40 | $0.40 |
| Veo 3.1 Fast (Google) | $0.10 | $0.12 |
| Veo 3.1 Lite (Google) | $0.05 | $0.08 |
| Seedance 2.5 (fal, token formula) | $0.4622 | $1.1372 |
| Seedance 2.5 on Sume (x 1.25) | $0.5778 | $1.4215 |
What the comparison leaves out
Seedance 2.5 reaches 30 seconds in one clip; Sume's catalog does not list a Veo id, so on Sume the realistic comparison is among its own rows (Seedance family, Wan). For a minute of finished video across vendors see Veo 3.1 vs the Sume catalog per minute. Resolution tiers matter more than the headline: 1080p Seedance is about 2.5 times its 720p price (ladder).
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