What an AI video budget buys on Sume: seconds and length by model

Every video model on Sume has its own per-second rate at each resolution, so the same budget buys very different lengths: the cheapest and the dearest row differ several times over. The table gives the seconds a budget buys, and the longest clip under a per-clip ceiling, for every case these posts priced.

Worked example: What $10 buys in 720p AI video seconds on Sume, by model

With $10 you can generate about 133 seconds of MiniMax H3 at 768p, or about 17 seconds of Seedance 2.5. The spread between the cheapest and the dearest Sume video row at this tier is 7.8 to 1.

Seconds per budget

Rates are the Sume price per output second (provider list times 1.25) at a 10-second clip, read 2026-10-09. Seconds are the budget divided by the rate, rounded down. This ignores each model's minimum and maximum clip length, which the next table shows.

Reading it

Seconds are not shots. A 5-second shot on MiniMax H3 costs $0.38, so the same $10 covers 26 such shots; each clip price is rounded up to a whole cent.

Sume reserves the full clip price when you submit and answers 402 insufficient_credits if the balance cannot cover it, so a budget this size is also the largest single job you can start.

Every budget in one table

This page replaces 40 posts that asked the same question with different numbers. Each row is one of them, with the answer it gave when it was published.