Vidu voice clone $1.50 and audio $0.05 vs Sume avatar and music

Vidu charges $1.50 to clone a voice and $0.05 for text-to-audio under 5 seconds, going by its pricing page read on 2026-10-05, while Sume charges $0.95 to create a reusable avatar and $0.125 per Music 1.0 generation. None of these pairs is a like-for-like swap: a cloned voice, a reusable avatar, a sound clip and a music track are different products. This post lays the fees side by side so you know which line item to budget when you compare the two platforms.

The fees

Vidu's page lists voice clone at $1.50 per voice and text-to-audio at $0.05 for clips under 5 seconds. On Sume, avatar creation is a flat $0.95 per avatar and Music 1.0 is a flat $0.125 per accepted generation, per the music docs and the pricing page. The table lists them next to what each one produces.

Why they do not line up

A voice clone and an avatar are both reusable identities, but one is a voice and the other is a presenter you can put in avatar videos. Sume's avatar videos are then billed per second, from $0.184 at standard quality to $0.55 at max, so the creation fee is a small part of any real use. Vidu's clone is billed once and then used in whatever speech product it supports.

The audio items are different in kind. Vidu's $0.05 buys under 5 seconds of generated audio. Sume's $0.125 buys a Music 1.0 track, which the docs describe as full-length structured songs of up to a few minutes, and the price does not change with prompt length. Per second of audio, the Sume track is far cheaper, and it is a different thing.

What each fee is worth at scale

If you create 20 voices on Vidu, that is $30. If you create 20 avatars on Sume, that is $19. Ten generated tracks on Sume are $1.25, and the same $1.25 buys 25 short Vidu sound clips. The per-generation numbers favour the product that matches the job, so start from the job and work out how many of each item you will need in a month, then multiply. A common mistake is to compare a creation fee on one side with a per-use fee on the other and conclude one platform is several times cheaper.

• Need a branded presenter that appears on screen: Sume avatar creation, $0.95 once.
• Need a custom voice for narration: compare Vidu's $1.50 with the voices available in Sume's TTS, and check that the voice you want exists on each side.
• Need a music bed for a video: Sume Music 1.0 at $0.125.

A one-time versus per-use view

Creation fees look big only when you create many identities. The recurring cost is in use. A 60-second avatar video on Sume at standard quality is $11.04, which is about twelve times the $0.95 creation fee, and at max it is $33. A spoken line of 500 characters on Sume TTS is $0.02375.

So a team that reuses one avatar or one voice across hundreds of videos should barely notice either creation fee, and a team that makes one-off characters for each video should count it as part of every video's cost.

How to use this

Use the fee table to avoid surprises, not to pick a vendor, and keep a running list of the one-time fees you have already paid so that you do not budget them twice. Pick the vendor whose product does the job, then budget the creation fee once and the per-generation cost many times. Prices on both sides can change, so verify both pages on the day you commit: Vidu pricing and Sume pricing.