Video upscale cost on Sume, by footage length
Video Upscale 1.0 on Sume bills per second of footage, so upscaling costs that rate times the length, from a short clip to hours of footage.
Video Upscale 1.0 on Sume bills per second of footage, from the ByteDance list price plus margin, so upscaling a clip or a long recording costs that rate times its length. Omit duration_seconds and Sume reserves from an estimate.
Worked example: Upscale a 10-second video with an API: $0.09 on Sume
Upscaling a 10-second video costs $0.09 on Sume. Video Upscale 1.0 uses the ByteDance list price of $0.0072 per second plus margin, which is $0.009 per second.
The rate card says to send duration_seconds: if you omit it Sume reserves 5 seconds, and the maximum is 30 seconds (read 2026-10-06).
How does it compare with generating at higher resolution?
Upscaling an existing clip is cheap next to regenerating it.
| Option | 10-second clip |
|---|---|
| Video Upscale 1.0 | $0.09 |
| Wan 3.0 at 1080p | $2.50 |
| Wan 3.0 at 720p | $1.25 |
What should I check?
Read the live price in GET /v1/catalog (sume/video-upscale-1.0).
- Send
duration_secondsso the reserve matches the clip. - A clip over 30 seconds must be cut first.
- Upscaling sharpens detail; it does not fix a bad take.
Every footage length in one table
This page replaces 11 posts that asked the same question with different numbers. Each row is one of them, with the answer it gave when it was published.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Upscale a 10-second video with an API: $0.09 on Sume | Sume Video Upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second after margin, so a 10-second clip costs $0.09. The maximum input is 30 seconds. |
| Upscale a 30-second video with an API: $0.27 on Sume | Sume Video Upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second after margin, so a 30-second clip costs $0.27. The maximum input is 30 seconds. |
| Upscale a 20-second video with an API: $0.18 on Sume | Sume Video Upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second after margin, so a 20-second clip costs $0.18. The maximum input is 30 seconds. |
| Upscaling 1 minute of footage on Sume costs $0.54 | Video upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second in the Sume catalog, so upscaling 1 minute of footage is $0.54. Rate read 2026-10-09. |
| Upscaling 10 minutes of footage on Sume costs $5.40 | Video upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second in the Sume catalog, so upscaling 10 minutes of footage is $5.40. Rate read 2026-10-09. |
| Upscaling 120 minutes of footage on Sume costs $64.80 | Video upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second in the Sume catalog, so upscaling 120 minutes of footage is $64.80. Rate read 2026-10-09. |
| Upscaling 30 minutes of footage on Sume costs $16.20 | Video upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second in the Sume catalog, so upscaling 30 minutes of footage is $16.20. Rate read 2026-10-09. |
| Upscaling 300 minutes of footage on Sume costs $162.00 | Video upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second in the Sume catalog, so upscaling 300 minutes of footage is $162.00. Rate read 2026-10-09. |
| Upscaling 5 minutes of footage on Sume costs $2.70 | Video upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second in the Sume catalog, so upscaling 5 minutes of footage is $2.70. Rate read 2026-10-09. |
| Upscaling 60 minutes of footage on Sume costs $32.40 | Video upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second in the Sume catalog, so upscaling 60 minutes of footage is $32.40. Rate read 2026-10-09. |
| Upscaling 600 minutes of footage on Sume costs $324.00 | Video upscale 1.0 is $0.009 per second in the Sume catalog, so upscaling 600 minutes of footage is $324.00. Rate read 2026-10-09. |
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