Comparisons
Sume compared with other video and generative-media platforms. Each post uses the vendor's own pages, read on the date the post states.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite vs Sume: clip cost by length
xAI's direct per-second price for Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite next to Sume's grok-imagine-video-1.5 at 480p and 720p, for one clip and a hundred, by length.
Vidu Q4 Preview vs Sume: clip cost by length and resolution
Vidu Q4 Preview's launch starting rate per second next to the Sume model priced for the same clip, for one clip and for a dozen, at 480p, 720p and 1080p.
MAI-Voice-2.1 vs Sume TTS: narration cost by character count
Microsoft's per-million-character list price for MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash next to Sume TTS 1.0 jobs, for every narration length priced.
Omni Flash 1.1 vs Wan 3.0 per second: which is cheaper at each tier?
At 720p Omni Flash 1.1 and Wan 3.0 both cost $0.125 a second on Sume. At 1080p Omni is $0.1875 against $0.25. Tier-by-tier table, list x 1.25.
H3 Max vs Seedance 2.5 for 1080p clips with sound
Both give 1080p with sound on Sume. H3 Max runs 5-15 s at a 1080p list of $0.16/s ($0.20/s billed); Seedance 2.5 runs 4-30 s. Read 2026-10-13.
HelixWorld 768x512 at 24 fps vs a 720p API video: what differs
HelixWorld outputs 768x512 at 24 fps with stereo sound on one GPU. A Sume Omni clip is 16:9 or 9:16 at 360p to 4K. Compare size, ratio, length and delivery.
Kling 3 vs Gemini Omni Flash for a 1080p clip: limits compared
Both reach 1080p on Sume. Kling 3 runs 4-15 s and is 1080p only; Omni runs 3-10 s, tops out at 4K, and takes references and edits. Read 2026-10-13.
Microsoft-Decision-1 vs Clef: which gate sits in front of Sume?
Decision-1 reads text or JSON; Clef also takes images and has a 65,536-token window. Neither replaces Sume's dry_run, spend cap, or 402.
Qwen Image 2.1 Pro vs Turbo: price, steps and rate limits
Turbo is 8 steps at $0.016 per image; Pro is $0.04 with a 20 RPM cap. Both are on Alibaba Model Studio; Sume lists neither yet.
Qwen Image 2.1 Turbo vs FLUX.2 pro vs Seedream 5 Lite: price per image
Vendor list prices are $0.016 (Qwen Turbo, Singapore), $0.03 (FLUX.2 pro) and $0.035 (Seedream 5.0 Lite). Sume lists the last two.
Real-time world model or video API? A 24 fps session vs a job
HelixWorld runs interactively at 24 fps on one GPU. Sume video is an async job you poll or receive by webhook. How to choose, and what each costs.
Seedance 2.5 vs Gemini Omni Flash: length, size and inputs
Seedance 2.5 on Sume runs 4-30 s up to 1080p; Omni Flash 1.1 runs 3-10 s up to 4K and adds edits. Pick by length first. Read 2026-10-13.
Seedream 5.0 Lite vs 4.5 vs 4.0 on Sume: prices and ratios
Sume bills Seedream 5.0 Lite $0.04375, Seedream 4.5 $0.05 and Seedream 4.0 $0.0325 per image. All take 10 references; only 4.0 lists auto.
Does Runway roll over unused credits? Only Max, for one month
Runway's pricing page lists credit rollover on Max only (9,500 credits, $76 a month billed annually). How that compares with Sume plan credits, which expire.
HeyGen credit rollover: one cycle monthly, until renewal annual
HeyGen's pricing page says monthly plans roll unused credits over one cycle and annual plans keep them until renewal. Compared with Sume plan credits.
Topview 180-second avatar videos vs Sume 60-second jobs: cost
Topview lists a 180 s avatar cap on every plan; Sume jobs run 4 to 60 s. Three chained Standard jobs for a 180 s script cost $33.12 without a product image.
Fliki Free has no commercial use: the first plan that does, and Sume
Fliki's Free plan carries a watermark and no commercial use; Standard adds it. Here is where commercial rights start on Fliki and on Sume's plan ladder.
Longest video per plan: Fliki, Vidnoz, Kapwing vs Sume's 30-minute cap
Fliki goes 5, 15 and 40 minutes by plan, Vidnoz 3 then 60, Kapwing 4 then 120. Sume Timeline renders up to 1,800 seconds per job. The numbers side by side.
Magnific credits last a year with no monthly reset: Sume top-ups too?
Magnific says plan credits are valid for 1 year with no monthly resets. Sume top-up credits carry a 365-day expiry. How the two compare, with plan prices.
Lovart credits reset monthly, top-ups last 366 days: Sume's wallet?
Lovart's FAQ: plan credits reset each billing cycle, no rollover; top-ups last 366 days. Sume top-ups last 365 days; its plans carry no credits.
Bannerbear refunds an unrendered part; Sume cancels only before start
Bannerbear says cancelling an animation refunds the part not yet rendered. Sume cancels only before generation starts, then returns 409. How the money differs.
Creatify Starter runs 1 generation at a time; Sume queues up to 6
Creatify Starter allows 1 generation at a time, Pro up to 5. Sume Free runs 1 and queues 5; Pro runs 4 and queues 20. The same 12 jobs counted on each.
Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar is enterprise-only; what Sume offers for clips
Google's Live Avatar in Gemini 3.8 Live is a real-time persona for Gemini Enterprise in 97 languages. Sume's Avatar 1.0 renders English clips. How they differ.
Merchant Center Product Studio video vs the Sume video API
Product Studio saves 720p, caps images at 32 MB and works in six countries. When a Sume video API request fits better, read from Google's page and Sume docs.
HeyGen enterprise writes rise to 30/s; how Sume limits submits
HeyGen raised enterprise limits: writes 30 per second, polling 1,500 per minute. Sume publishes no per-second number; it uses plan queues and rate headers.
HeyGen instant voice clone audio in Sume? Only Sume-hosted audio
HeyGen's new instant voice clone can output TTS audio, but Sume's talking-still routes take only Sume-hosted audio up to 10 MB. What it blocks and what works.
OpusClip API alternative: what Sume can cut and what it cannot
Sume has no highlight-finding API like OpusClip's. It trims, captions and assembles clips you pick; the source must be on media.sume.com first.
Runway fails a redirected media URL; Sume follows up to five hops
Runway's API fails a media URL that answers 3XX. Sume follows up to 5 redirects if every hop is public HTTPS. Compare both URL rule sets before you port.
Same video model, different limits: OpenRouter vs Sume rows
Ten video models are on both OpenRouter and Sume; eight differ in duration or resolution. Veo, Kling, Seedance, Hailuo, Grok side by side, read 2026-10-11.
Stability's Stable Image edit tools, matched to Sume image routes
Which of Stability's Stable Image edit, upscale and control tools have a Sume route: mask edits, background removal and upscale yes, outpaint and sketch no.
Submagic caps video at 2, 5 or 30 min; Sume prices up to 60 seconds
Submagic allows 2, 5 or 30 minute videos by plan. Sume's $0.20 caption job is priced for videos up to 60 seconds. Which one fits which video length.
Synthesia Syren writes video as code: what Sume has instead
Syren is Synthesia's prompt-to-video agent in early access. Sume has no equivalent; it has a script-to-avatar API and a timeline. The gap, mapped.
Syren mixes the first 24 audio tracks; Sume's timeline takes 20 parts
Syren mixes only the first 24 audio tracks in an export. Sume's timeline takes one spine in up to 20 gapless parts plus one bed. What fits where.
Syren can't use your own avatar or cloned voice; Sume has a handle
Synthesia says own avatars and cloned voices need its regular editor, not Syren. Sume builds an avatar from a photo; voice cloning is app-only.
Syren's 3-minute cap and 30-second avatar scenes vs Sume's 60 s
Syren runs up to 3 minutes but avatar scenes over 30 s can time out; Sume takes 4-60 s per avatar job. How to plan a 3-minute presenter video.
WaveSpeed levels come from one top-up; Sume concurrency is plan-only
WaveSpeed sets Bronze to Ultra by a single top-up amount. On Sume a top-up never raises concurrency; the plan does (1, 4, 8, 20). What that means for budgets.
Is AI video 'Full HD' native or upscaled? Kandinsky 6.0 vs Sume rows
Kandinsky 6.0 renders 864x480 and adds Full HD with a plug-in. Sume's H3 Max 1080p is a latent refinement from 768p. What that means for price and detail.
Is Kandinsky 6.0 Video on Sume? No: query the catalog by need
Sume lists no Kandinsky 6.0 id. Map each Kandinsky feature to a Sume request field, then filter GET /v1/videos/models for sound and a 5 s duration.
Kandinsky 6.0 lip-syncs in one pass; on Sume a talking face is Fabric
Kandinsky 6.0 Video makes speech and lip-sync inside the clip. Sume's docs send on-camera speech to Fabric or H3 Max Lip Sync with your audio, not a video id.
Kandinsky 6.0 Pro: 292 s a clip on an H100, 100 clips take 8.1 hours
Kandinsky's published timing is 292 seconds per 5-second Pro HD clip on an H100. That is 8.1 hours for 100 clips, set against hosted per-clip prices on Sume.
Is Kandinsky 6.0 Video on Sume? No, and the closest audio ids
Kandinsky 6.0 Video is open weights with no hosted API, and Sume lists no Kandinsky id. These Sume ids give 5-second clips with sound and a first frame.
Kandinsky 6.0 image-to-audio-video vs a first frame on Sume
Kandinsky 6.0 animates a still with synced audio. On Sume, frame_images starts a clip from your image, and some ids also take an audio reference. What fits.
Kandinsky 6.0 Video or a hosted API: a 5-second clip with sound
Kandinsky 6.0 Video is MIT open weights for 5 s clips with synced audio. Sume does not list it; two Sume ids make sound natively. Prices and limits.
Kandinsky 6.0 stops at 5 s: a 30 s ad as one job or six clips
Kandinsky 6.0 Video makes 5 s clips. A 30 s ad on Sume is one Wan 3.0 job at $3.75 or six clips stitched for $0.17 in assembly fees. What each route costs you.
Kandinsky 6.0 Lite takes 406 s on an RTX 5090: local or hosted?
The Kandinsky repo times one 5 s Full HD clip per GPU: 406 s for Lite on an RTX 5090. Clips per hour by card, and when a hosted Sume job is simpler.
Prism 2K audio-video needs 4+ 80 GB GPUs; Sume ids at 2K and 4K
Tencent Hunyuan's Prism does native 2K video-audio but wants four or more 80 GB GPUs. Which hosted Sume ids reach 2K or 4K, and what a 10-second clip costs.
Prism 2K video-audio needs 4+ GPUs: the hosted route up to 4K
Tencent Hunyuan's Prism makes 2K video with audio but needs a single 80 GB GPU at 720p and 4+ GPUs above. What Sume lists for 1080p and 4K sound clips instead.
Prism audio tags vs Sume generate_audio and audio references
Prism's README describes music, sfx and speech tags. Sume gives a generate_audio flag and audio references on some ids. Which ids, and the limits.