Vidu Q4 Preview: $0.014 or $0.045 a second? Two releases disagree
One Vidu Q4 Preview release says launch pricing starts at $0.014 a second; another says $0.045 at 540p up to $0.39 at 4K. Compare with Sume's per-second rates.
Two press releases for the same Vidu Q4 Preview launch print different starting prices. The PR Newswire release says launch pricing starts at $0.014 a second. The GlobeNewswire release says $0.045 a second at 540p, rising to $0.39 a second at 4K. We could not reconcile the two from the pages we read, so plan on the higher range until Vidu's pricing page confirms the lower one.
The numbers next to Sume's
Sume's rates are provider list times 1.25, and every row's pricing_skus in GET /v1/videos/models is the billable figure. The examples below come from list values in the repo catalog. Clip totals round up to the cent per job.
| Model | Rate per second | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vidu Q4 Preview, lowest quoted | $0.014 | PR Newswire launch release |
| Vidu Q4 Preview, 540p | $0.045 | GlobeNewswire launch release |
| Vidu Q4 Preview, 4K | $0.39 | GlobeNewswire launch release |
| grok-imagine-video-1.5 on Sume | $0.0125 (image-to-video only) | Sume catalog |
| wan-3.0 on Sume, 480p / 720p / 1080p | $0.0625 / $0.125 / $0.25 | Sume catalog |
| gemini-omni-flash-1.1 on Sume, 360p / 720p / 1080p / 4K | $0.0375 / $0.125 / $0.1875 / $0.375 | Sume catalog |
Check what you will actually pay
Do not budget from a headline rate. Price one real clip: pick a resolution, a duration and a mode, then multiply.
Steps:
- Take your clip length and resolution, for example 10 s at 720p.
- Multiply by the per-second rate: 10 x $0.125 is $1.25 on Wan 3.0 or Omni.
- Add the cents rounding on Sume: the total is rounded up per job.
- Compare against the quote Vidu's own console gives for the same settings.
Why launch headlines mislead
A per-second headline is a floor, not a quote. It usually refers to the cheapest resolution, the cheapest mode, and sometimes a promotional window. The same model at its top resolution can cost many times the floor: in the GlobeNewswire figures, 4K at $0.39 is more than eight times the 540p rate of $0.045.
So compute the cost of the clip you actually plan to ship. A 10 second 1080p clip on Wan 3.0 on Sume is $2.50. The same clip at 480p is $0.63 after rounding to the cent. Put those next to Vidu's console quote, not next to a launch headline.
Also watch for the units. Vidu bills per second of output and Sume bills per second for the rows named here, but the Seedance rows on Sume are priced per video token, so a per-second comparison needs the row's catalog value. Read pricing_skus from GET /v1/videos/models and keep the figure with your estimate.
What Sume does not do
Sume does not resell Vidu and has no Vidu Q4 row, so none of the Vidu figures above are Sume prices. Sume also does not match the $0.014 figure: its cheapest video row in the catalog is Grok Imagine Video 1.5 at $0.0125 a second, and that row only does image-to-video at 480p and 720p for 4 to 15 seconds.
Vidu's release itself says final pricing and feature availability may vary by plan and region.
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