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
Haiku 5.5 with US-only inference: 1.1x on both price tiers
Anthropic's pricing page applies the 1.1x US-only multiplier to Haiku 5.5's over-100k prices too. A worked agent-loop table and where Sume's own cap sits.
Does aspect ratio change Seedance 2.5 price? Barely: under 1%
On Sume, Seedance 2.5 bills video tokens from output pixels, so 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 cost the same and 21:9 about 0.7% more. Per-ratio table at 5 s.
Seedance 2.5 with a reference video: costs more under 22.5 s
A reference video bills at 0.6x but adds 15 assumed seconds on Sume, so Seedance 2.5 clips under 22.5 s cost more and 30 s clips cost less. Worked table.
Veo 3.1 audio is always on at Google; Sume's Veo rows let you mute
Google's Veo 3.1 page says audio is always on. Sume's Veo rows take an optional audio flag that defaults to on, and the muted rate is lower. Rates and caveats.
WAND-Vega on Sume: price ladder from Lite to Pro 1.5
Sume's Tencent-only WAND-Vega rows bill from $0.072 to $1.35 per second. Full ladder for Lite, Pro 1.0 and Pro 1.5 across 720p to 4K, text-to-video, 4 to 15 s.
Omni Flash 1.1 reference-image fee: Runway adds 1 credit, Sume none
Runway adds 1 credit per reference image on Gemini Omni Flash 1.1; Sume bills output seconds only. 8-second examples show which is cheaper at each resolution.
Does a 60 fps Timeline render cost more than 24 fps on Sume?
No: Timeline render bills $0.10 per output minute, rounded up, and output.fps only picks 24, 25, 30 or 60. What changes is judder, not price. Read 2026-10-10.
Do reference images raise the price of a Sume image edit?
On most Sume image rows an edit costs the same as a text prompt. On GPT Image 2 each input image adds $0.013, and on GPT Image 2.5 input tokens are metered.
Billable vs debited on a Sume run: why the wallet moved more
On a Sume run, billable_amount_usd_micros is generation only; debited_usd_micros is the real wallet deduction and includes the LLM turn. Read both.
Veo 3.1 on Sume: the audio-on rate equals Gemini API's 720p list
Sume's Veo audio-on list rates are $0.40, $0.10 and $0.05 per second, the same as Gemini API's 720p lines; then Sume bills times 1.25. What you pay and why.
Voiceover or video: which is the bigger cost in a 15-second ad?
A 250-character voiceover is $0.012 on Sume TTS. A 15-second clip is $1.88 on Wan 3.0 at 720p. Where the money goes in a short ad, with the arithmetic shown.
Luma Ray3.2 video-to-video costs 4.8x text-to-video at 540p
Luma's API lists a 5-second 540p video-to-video job at $0.72 and text-to-video at $0.15. The full table, and what a Gemini Omni edit costs on Sume.
Runway Gen-4 Turbo 5 credits vs Gen-4.5 12: a 10-second clip costs
Runway's API lists Gen-4 Turbo at 5 credits a second and Gen-4.5 at 12, with credits at $0.01. What 10 seconds cost, next to the Sume rates.
Runway API Veo 3.1: 40 credits a second with audio, 20 without
Runway's API prices Veo 3.1 at 20 credits a second silent and 40 with audio, at $0.01 a credit. An 8-second example, and what audio costs on Sume.
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 price ladder: 4K is 10x the 360p rate
Omni Flash is $0.03 to $0.30 per second on fal; Sume bills list x 1.25. Price of the 8-second default, a 10-second max clip and a minute at each resolution.
Ideogram 4.5 price by quality: fal list vs Sume, per 1,000 images
Ideogram 4.5 is $0.03, $0.06 or $0.22 per image on fal by quality, size-independent. Sume bills list x 1.25: $0.0375, $0.075, $0.275. Per-1,000 table.
Seedance 2.5 with a reference video: 1.5x a plain 10 s clip
Sume prices a Seedance 2.5 job with a reference video at 60% of output plus an assumed 15 s of input. 5 s clips cost 2.4x; 30 s clips cost less. Table at 720p.
Wan 3.0 price per second: 1080p costs 4x the 480p rate
Wan 3.0 is $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p on fal. Sume bills list x 1.25. Per-clip prices at 5, 15 and 30 seconds.
Check a Sume video price yourself: fal list x 1.25, three examples
How to verify a Sume video price from the vendor page: take the fal rate, multiply by 1.25. Worked for Wan 3.0, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 and Seedance 2.5.
Luma Ray3.2 HDR is 2x the SDR price, HDR plus EXR is 3x
Luma's API prices HDR at twice SDR and HDR plus 16-bit EXR at three times. A 5-second 1080p example, and what Sume's MP4 pipeline does and does not keep.
What 25% adds to a fal bill: 100, 1,000 and 10,000 seconds of Wan 3.0
Sume bills provider list x 1.25. On Wan 3.0 at 720p that is $12.50 vs $10.00 for 100 seconds and $1,250 vs $1,000 for 10,000. What the gap is, sized.
Seedance 2.5 price calculator: the token formula in Python
Seedance 2.5 bills video tokens, not seconds. Width x height x seconds x 24 / 1024, then the per-1,000 rate. A 20-line Python calculator, checked against fal.
38-second ad: stills, clips, voice, music, render, cost per second
One 38-second ad from 6 stills, five 8-second Wan clips, a 640-character voiceover, a music bed and a render costs $5.8554, or $0.1541 per finished second.
Wan 3.0 720p plus Video Upscale vs native 1080p: 8, 12, 30 seconds
Wan 3.0 at 720p plus Sume Video Upscale at $0.009/s costs 53.6% of native 1080p at 12 s: $1.608 vs $3.00. The table covers 8, 12 and 30 seconds.
Shortest valid clip on each Sume video model and what it costs
The minimum duration differs by model: Wan 3.0 starts at 2 s, Omni Flash at 3 s, Seedance at 4 s, MiniMax H3 at 5 s. Cost of one minimum clip at two sizes each.
Nano Banana Pro costs 1.25x the 2.1 at 2K on Sume, 4x at Google 1K
Google lists Pro at $0.134 and 2.1 at $0.0336 for 1K (about 4x). Sume bills Pro $0.1875 and 2.1 $0.15 at 2K, only 1.25x. The ratio at each size.
Paying for seconds you cut: generate 30 s, keep 12, on Sume video
Sume bills the seconds you generate, not the seconds you keep. Asking Wan 3.0 for 30 s and using 12 costs $3.75 for 12 s of use, $0.3125 per kept second.
Ray 3.2 extend bills one 5-second block whatever duration you send
Ray 3.2 single-keyframe extend is $0.15, $0.30 or $1.20 per call at 540p, 720p, 1080p, even if duration is set. Chain math and Sume's per-clip equivalents.
7-second 720p AI video clip: Luma lists 5 or 10 seconds, Sume bills 7
A 7-second 720p clip: $0.56 on MiniMax, $0.63 on LTX Fast, $0.525 on Sume H3. Luma's page lists only 5 and 10 second totals ($0.30, $0.90).
LTX-2.5 Pro costs 30-33% more than Fast at every resolution
On LTX's price page Pro is $0.12-$0.39 per second against Fast at $0.09-$0.30. That is +30 to +33% at each tier; per-minute math and the nearest Sume rows.
Vidu Q4 Preview 4K costs 8.7x the 540p price: 78 credits vs 9
Vidu's table runs 9 to 78 credits per second, 540p to 4K. The two published USD points ($0.045, $0.39) imply half a cent per credit. Plus Sume's 4K row.
Vidu 500 RMB top-up: 16,000 credits is 1,777 seconds of Q4 at 540p
Vidu's smallest API package is 500 RMB for 16,000 credits. How many Q4 Preview seconds that buys at each resolution, and the flat 32 credits per RMB.
FLUX.3 Image costs 4.1 to 60.7 credits: what 1,000 credits buys
BFL prices FLUX.3 Image at 4.1, 4.8, 10 or 60.7 credits (1 credit = $0.01). 1,000 credits is 243, 208, 100 or 16 images. Sume does not list FLUX.3.
Nano Banana 2.1 4K is 3,780 tokens, 3.4x the 1K cost: Google vs Sume
Google prices Nano Banana 2.1 by image tokens: 1,120 at 1K, 1,680 at 2K, 3,780 at 4K. Sume bills a flat tier price instead. Both price ladders, side by side.
Is Nano Banana 2.1 free in the Gemini API? The price table says no
Google's pricing page shows no free-tier price for Nano Banana 2.1 image output: only paid rates, $0.0336 per 1K image. Sume bills per image from a wallet.
Nano Banana 2.1 for 37 images: Google's price vs Sume at 1K, 2K, 4K
A 37-image set on Nano Banana 2.1 costs $1.24 to $4.18 at Google's list and $3.70 to $7.40 on Sume. Per-tier arithmetic and what the gap buys you.
A full queue on each Sume plan: reserved dollars for 10-second jobs
If every accepted job holds its estimate, a full Scale queue of 120 ten-second Seedance 2.5 jobs at 1080p reserves $1,705.86. Free, Pro and Startup too.
100-clip batch on a Pro workspace: 24 accepted jobs, 18-job waves
On Pro a workspace holds 4 processing plus 20 queued jobs, so a 100-clip batch needs waves. Wave arithmetic for 100 six-second Wan clips costing $75.00.
Keeper rate math: 24 eight-second Seedance 2.5 clips at 25% to 80%
At a 40% keeper rate, 24 Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p cost $277.34, not $110.94. Direct takes vs 480p drafts plus one 720p final, and the break-even.
Storyboard: 12 rough and 3 hero frames on three Sume image models
A 15-frame storyboard with 12 rough frames and 3 hero 4K frames costs $0.9645 on GPT Image 2.5, $1.50 on Nano Banana 2.1 and $3.375 on Nano Banana Pro.
Does 9:16 cost more than 16:9 on Seedance 2.5? Same price, tested
On Sume, Seedance 2.5 costs $17.33 for 30 s at 720p in 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1. 21:9 is $17.42 and 3:4 is $17.44, so a vertical Short pays no aspect premium.
How many 480p drafts cost one 1080p render? Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5
A 9-second Wan 3.0 clip is 4 drafts to 1 final at 1080p; Seedance 2.5 is 5.29 drafts per 1080p. The break-even table, priced from Sume rates.
Thousand-clip batch: the cents a frame ratio adds on Seedance 2.5
On Sume, 4:3 costs 1.7% less than 16:9 at 480p but 0.6% more at 720p and 1080p for a 10-second Seedance 2.5 clip. 3:4 mirrors it against 9:16.
A 1,850-character narration in Sume TTS: price, and what 3 takes add
A 1,850-character script costs $0.0879 in Sume TTS at $0.0475 per 1,000 characters; three takes cost $0.2636. Table by length, and how characters count.
9-second vertical story ad on Seedance 2.5, and the marginal second
A 9-second 9:16 Seedance 2.5 clip costs $2.42 at 480p, $5.20 at 720p and $12.79 at 1080p on Sume.
Reconcile a 9-clip batch: poll usage.cost versus /v1/usage debited_usd
If 7 of 9 Seedance 2.5 clips complete at $3.4668 each, the poll sum and the ledger should both read $24.2676. How to compare them and why they differ.
Nano Banana 2.1 edit vs generate on Sume: same price per image by tier
Do reference images change the Nano Banana 2.1 price on Sume? The estimator reads tier and image count only: $0.075 to $0.20 per image, edit or not.
Four-week video budget: Omni hooks, H3 b-roll, two Recast swaps
A four-week plan with 3 Omni hooks and 2 H3 b-roll clips a week plus two 15-second Recast swaps totals $29.25 on Sume. Every line is priced.