Pricing
How Sume bills API work: plans and one wallet, what one run cost, estimates before you run, avatar video rates, failed jobs, and 402 errors.
Start with How Sume pricing works: plans, one wallet, published model rates
Price a 20-prompt video regression suite: 360p, 3 seconds on Sume
A 20-prompt golden set rendered at 360p and 3 seconds on Gemini Omni costs $2.40 per run on Sume. The arithmetic, a Python cost check and the request body.
Price a 12-script ad library: MAI-Voice-2.1, Flash and Sume TTS
Twelve ad scripts from 90 to 1,200 characters cost $0.35 on Sume, $0.1386 on MAI-Voice-2.1 and $0.0945 on Flash. The per-job rounding is where they differ.
Audio description for 200 videos at 400 characters: TTS cost
Voicing a 400-character description track for each of 200 videos is 80,000 characters: $1.20 on MAI Flash, $1.76 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $3.80 on Sume TTS.
Eight low-quality edits cost less than one high GPT Image 2.5 edit
On Sume, a GPT Image 2.5 edit with one reference costs $0.0094 at low and $0.0835 at high, so eight low edits cost $0.075, less than one high edit.
gpt-image-1 low, medium, high on GPT Image 2.5: Sume prices
Moving from gpt-image-1 to GPT Image 2.5 keeps low, medium and high and adds xhigh and max. Sume's price per tier at 1024x1024 and what omitting quality bills.
GPT Image 2.5 at 2560x1440 costs 5% more than 1024x1024 at high
GPT Image 2.5 at 2560x1440 and high quality quotes $0.0691 on Sume, 4.9% above a 1024 square, at 3.5 times the pixels. Tier table.
GPT Image 2.5 4K at low costs less than 1024 at medium on Sume
A 3840x2160 GPT Image 2.5 image at low quality quotes $0.0140 on Sume, below the $0.0165 for 1024x1024 at medium. Quality tier, not pixels, drives the price.
GPT Image 2.5 on Sume: each reference adds about 27% to the quote
Each reference image adds about 27% of the output price to a GPT Image 2.5 call on Sume: $0.0165 at medium rises to $0.0209 with one and $0.0868 with 16.
GPT Image 2.5 with no image_size quotes 3.4x the 1024 price: set one
If you omit image_size on GPT Image 2.5, Sume quotes the upper bound: $0.2225 at high against $0.0659 for 1024x1024, 3.4x. Set the size as pixels. Tier table.
GPT Image 2.5 sizes 1024x1024, 1536x1024, 1024x1536: Sume price
OpenAI's three recommended GPT Image 2.5 sizes do not cost the same on Sume: 1536x1024 high is $0.0515 against $0.0659 square. Prices by tier and size.
GPT Image 2 medium costs 4x GPT Image 2.5 medium; low is the same
On Sume, GPT Image 2 costs $0.0664 at medium and $0.2639 at high, about 4x GPT Image 2.5. At low the two are within 3%. Tier table at 1024x1024.
Museum audio guide: 80 stops in three languages, TTS cost
An 80-stop audio guide at 700 characters per stop in three languages is 168,000 characters: $2.52 on MAI Flash, $3.70 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $7.98 on Sume.
Nightly voice-agent test calls: 200 utterances, a month of TTS
A nightly regression run of 200 utterances at 100 characters is 600,000 characters a month: $9.00 on MAI Flash, $13.20 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $28.50 on Sume.
One-minute AI avatar test: Griffin Turing call vs a 60 s Sume clip
Tavus tested Griffin-Lite in one-minute calls. Here is how a 60-second Sume avatar clip differs as a test, and what it costs at standard, plus and max.
Plan Sume STT requests and cost for any recording length
Sume STT takes 10 minutes per request at $0.01 a minute. A Python planner counts requests and the bill for a podcast, a webinar and 500 hours.
Revoice 20 of 120 training videos: pay for changed scripts only
Re-voicing only the 20 changed training scripts of 1,800 characters is 36,000 characters, $1.71 on Sume. A full 120-video redo is $10.26. MAI prices compared.
Seedance 2.5 price by hand: video tokens and Sume's 1.25 margin
Work out any Seedance 2.5 clip price yourself: width x height x seconds x 24 / 1024 tokens, the per-token rate, then Sume's 1.25. Checked against 10 s and 30 s.
Seedance 2.5 reference video: price flips at 22.5 seconds on Sume
A reference video makes a Seedance 2.5 clip dearer under 22.5 seconds and cheaper above it on Sume. A 30 s 720p job falls from $17.33 to $15.60.
Split a long script into Sume TTS requests and price it
Sume TTS takes 20,000 characters per request at $0.0475 per 1,000. A Python splitter cuts at sentence ends and prices each request: 99,000 characters is $4.70.
Ten Seedance 2.5 shots at once: the balance to hold before submit
Ten 6-second Seedance 2.5 shots reserve about $34.67 at 720p, $16.12 at 480p and $85.29 at 1080p at submit. What a 402 means and which plans accept ten jobs.
Transcribe 500 thirty-second ad clips: MAI Streaming hours vs Sume
Five hundred 30-second ad clips are 15,000 seconds of audio: $2.25 on MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, $2.50 on Sume STT. Short files suit one job each.
Cut out, upscale or regenerate: which fix costs less on Sume
RMBG is $0.0225 per image, image upscale $0.20, video upscale $0.009 per input second. Regenerating costs $0.0074 to $0.275 per image. When each fix wins.
Daily 45-second news brief: a year of TTS on MAI Flash vs Sume
A 45-second brief of about 700 characters every day is 255,500 characters a year: $3.83 on MAI Flash, $5.62 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $12.14 on Sume TTS.
Is Sume really fal list x 1.25? Four fal pages checked
Wan 3.0, Kling v3 Pro, MiniMax H3 Max and Ideogram 4.5 on fal, read 2026-10-05, set against Sume's per-second and per-image rates. The ratio is 1.25.
One hour of avatar video: 60 one-minute jobs cost by tier
One hour of Sume avatar video at 60 one-minute jobs costs $662.40 standard, $882.00 plus or $1,980.00 max, before avatar creation and product options.
Sume plan fee plus usage: the monthly bill for 20 to 300 videos
Pro $40, Startup $120, Scale $400, usage billed per call on top. A Python estimate for 20, 100 and 300 short videos, and the plan-fee share.
Weekly newsletter audio edition: a year of TTS at 6,000 characters
Reading a 6,000-character newsletter aloud every week is 312,000 characters a year: $4.68 on MAI Flash, $6.86 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $14.82 on Sume TTS.
Cost per finished minute of AI video at 1080p, with retakes included
A finished minute is six 10-second clips plus the retakes you discard. At Sume's Omni 1080p rate that is $11.28 with no retakes and $16.92 at one in two.
Cent rounding on 100 clips: Omni 1080p at list x 1.25 on Sume
Sume bills list x 1.25 rounded up to the cent. At Omni 1080p that adds $0.50 on 100 ten-second clips ($188.00 vs $187.50) and $0.75 on 100 three-second clips.
Sume Pro vs Startup vs Scale for a 100-clip batch: rounds and queue
For 100 equal clips, usage costs $188.00 on any plan. Plan fee only changes rounds (25, 13 or 5) and how many submit waves fit the accepted-job limit.
Largest single AI video job each Sume model allows, by price
The most one Sume video job can reserve ranges from $1.13 on H3 to $42.65 on Seedance 2.5 at 30 seconds and 1080p. Eleven rows.
Sume timeline bills whole minutes: a 61-second Reel costs twice a 60
Timeline 1.0 charges $0.10 per output minute, rounded up. A 60 s Reel bills one minute, a 61 s Reel two, and a 181 s Reel four. Cut to the edge of the minute.
MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash '60% cheaper': what the claim compares to
Microsoft says Flash is ~60% cheaper than comparable models. Against its own MAI-Voice-2.1 the gap is 31.8%. Here is the math and the Sume per-character rate.
Twelve-episode Shorts season: render cost at 60 to 180 seconds
A 12-episode Shorts season costs $1.20 at 60 seconds, $2.40 at 90 or 120 and $3.60 at 150 or 180 on Sume's $0.10-per-minute render rate, rounded per episode.
Seedance reference video: 0.6x rate, but 15 s of input assumed
Seedance reference video bills at 0.6x the token price, but the estimator counts 15 extra input seconds: a 5 s clip with a reference costs 2.4x one without.
/v1/videos 402 insufficient_credits: reserve is list x 1.25
Sume reserves provider list x 1.25 when you submit a video. 402 insufficient_credits means the workspace balance is below that hold; 8 s Omni at 720p is $1.00.
Check price before submit: fal pricing endpoint vs Sume video models
fal prices by endpoint_id at GET /v1/models/pricing. Sume lists pricing_skus in GET /v1/videos/models, for example 0.0154 per 1000 video tokens on seedance-2.
OpenAI MCP has no per-call fee, but Sume generation still bills
OpenAI charges only tokens for MCP tool calls. A Sume generate_video or generate_image call still reserves wallet funds, so use dry_run and max_spend_usd.
One TTS plus lip-sync clip: Sonic voice and H3 Max at 768p
A 5 second talking clip on Sume costs $0.51 before the platform fee: $0.01 for the Sonic voice and $0.50 for H3 Max at 768p. A 14.8 second clip is $1.51.
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 on Runway: 3.4 credits at 480p vs Sume's 360p
Runway lists Omni Flash 1.1 at 3.4, 10, 15 and 30 credits per second, plus references. Sume bills $0.0375, $0.125, $0.1875 and $0.375 per second.
Runway Gen-4 Turbo at 5 credits a second vs Sume drafts, then a final
Runway lists Gen-4 Turbo at 5 credits per second, $0.05 at $0.01 per credit. Sume's Omni 360p draft row is $0.0375 per second.
Runway Seedance 2.5: 20 credits plus input at 480p; what input adds
Runway lists Seedance 2.5 at 20, 30 and 68 credits per second plus input at 480p, 720p and 1080p. Sume bills tokens; a reference video adds 15 assumed seconds.
Runway Seedance 2 Fast at 29 credits a second vs Sume token math
Runway charges 29 credits ($0.29) per second for Seedance 2 Fast. Sume bills tokens: 10 s at 720p 16:9 is 216,000 tokens, about $3.02 vs $2.90.
Suno free vs Pro: 50 credits a day, 20 downloads, commercial rights
Suno Free: 50 credits a day, no commercial rights. Pro: $8 a month, 2,500 credits, 20 downloads. Premier: $24, 10,000 credits, 60 downloads. Read 2026-10-05.
FLUX 3 Image 4K is 60.7 BFL credits, not 607: the math
One 4K FLUX 3 Image costs $0.607, which is 60.7 BFL credits at $0.01 each. 2K is 10 credits. Sume bills in dollars via usage.cost; FLUX 3 is not in its catalog.
Seedream failed generations: free on that route, free on Sume too
OpenRouter's Seedream 5.0 Flash page says failed generations are not charged. Sume's Image API docs say failed or cancelled generations get no charge either.
Station announcements: 50 messages at 160 characters, Flash vs Sume
Fifty pre-recorded announcements of 160 characters are 8,000 characters: 12 cents on MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, 18 cents on MAI-Voice-2.1 and 38 cents on Sume.
Twelve 750-character match recaps a weekend: a year of TTS cost
Twelve recaps of 750 characters every weekend for 52 weeks is 468,000 characters: $7.02 on MAI Flash, $10.30 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $22.23 on Sume TTS.