Vizard credits are one minute each: what a Sume caption job costs

On Vizard's pricing page one credit equals one minute of video, and the Free plan includes 60 credits. Sume does not meter by source minute for captions: each caption job is a fixed $0.20 for a video up to 60 seconds, so a one-minute clip costs the same $0.20 either way.

Different units, different jobs

A Vizard credit pays for the whole repurposing flow on a source video, not only captions. A Sume caption job covers one thing: take a finished clip at a public HTTPS URL and burn captions into it.

That makes the comparison only fair for the caption step. If you already have the clip, the Sume job is the closer match.

How the arithmetic works

Twenty 45-second clips cost 20 caption jobs on Sume, which is $4.00. On Vizard the same twenty clips total 15 minutes of video, so 15 credits against the Free allowance of 60.

The cheaper option depends on whether you need Vizard's clip selection as well. If you only need captions on clips you have already cut, paying per job avoids buying minutes of source video.

What a Sume caption job needs

The video_url must be a fetchable public HTTPS URL. Speech is transcribed unless you pass cues or segments, and a silent clip fails with caption_no_speech. To restyle without a second transcription, send source_caption_id; the restyle is still billed as a render.

Burned-in captions cannot be switched off by the viewer, which is the trade for them looking the same on every platform.

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/video-captions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: clip-001-captions" \
  -d '{"video_url":"https://media.sume.com/artifacts/example/clean.mp4","style":"slam"}'