Video model by budget: seconds you get for $5, $20 and $100

At the cheapest end, $100 buys 8000 seconds on grok-imagine-video-1.5; at Seedance 2.5 1080p it buys 70. Pick the model by what you need to show, then the resolution by where it will be seen. The table is seconds, not clips; divide by your clip length.

Seconds per budget

Per-second rates come from a 10-second request at the setting shown, Sume price including the 1.25 multiplier.

Limits the table hides

• grok-imagine-video-1.5 is image-to-video only (it needs a first frame), tops out at 720p and runs 4 to 15 seconds, so its row is not a text-prompt price.
• gemini-omni-flash-1.1 stops at 10 seconds per clip and always includes audio.
• seedance-2-mini stops at 15 seconds per clip.
• Models listed at 30 seconds (seedance-2.5, wan-3.0) let you buy long takes in one job.
• higgsfield-genjutsu and h3-max-recast need a source video, so they are not on the text-only list.

A simple rule

Spend most of the budget on drafts at the bottom of the table and a small slice on finals at the top. In a 90/10 split of a $100 balance, the $10 for finals buys about 7 seconds at seedance-2.5 1080p, so choose the final setting before you plan the draft count.

Turning seconds into clips

At 6 seconds a clip, $20 on wan-3.0 at 720p is 26 clips, and on kling-3 with sound it is 15. Pick the clip length first; every row of the table scales linearly with it.

Sume reserves the full price at submit, so the number in the table is also the amount that must be free in the balance when you send the request. If it is not, the call fails with 402 insufficient_credits before any provider work starts.