22-second Wan 3.0 clip: 720p plus video upscale or 1080p?

A 22-second Wan 3.0 clip costs $2.75 at 720p and $5.50 at 1080p on Sume. Rendering at 720p and sending it through Sume's Video Upscale adds $0.198, for $2.948 in total, which is $2.552 less than rendering at 1080p. That is a price comparison only: an upscaled clip and a native 1080p clip are different files, and you should look at both before switching.

Price table

Wan 3.0 accepts 2 to 30 seconds on Sume. Video Upscale is billed on input seconds and accepts up to 30 seconds of input, so a 22-second clip fits.

Where the saving stops

The upscale adds $0.009 per input second, against a $0.125 per-second gap between the 720p and 1080p tiers. The saving per second is $0.116, and it scales linearly with duration. At the 30-second input cap the same comparison is $4.02 against $7.50.

The saving disappears if you reroll more. Each rejected 720p draft costs 22 x 0.125 = $2.75. If you would have needed two takes to land a clean 1080p anyway, the native route costs $11.00 and the draft route, upscaling only the winner, costs $5.698.

How to decide

Upscaling is a good fit for clips you will reject often, because the cheap tier absorbs the rerolls. Native 1080p is the safer choice when the model's own fine detail matters, such as text on a product or a face in close-up. Compare one clip both ways, then multiply.

The Video generation page documents per-model duration and resolution limits, and the public catalog shows the Video Upscale price. Run GET /v1/videos/models before you submit to confirm the limits for the model you pin.

• Fixed budget, few rerolls: compare one clip both ways first.
• Many rerolls: draft at 720p, upscale the keeper.
• Input to Video Upscale is capped at 30 seconds.

Reproduce the numbers

Every Sume price on this page comes from the public catalog at https://api.sume.com/v1/catalog, which needs no API key. Fetch it, find the row for the job or model named in the table, and multiply by your own seconds, characters or image count. Sume bills the list price shown in that row, so the catalog figure is the one that applies to your balance.

All figures on this page are Sume's own, as of 2026-10-09. Prices and limits can change, so re-read the catalog and the linked docs before a large run, and keep the arithmetic in a spreadsheet so you can update it in a minute.