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
Timeline render pricing: why 61 seconds costs twice what 60 does
Sume Timeline 1.0 charges $0.10 per ceil output minute, reserved from audio.duration_seconds. Price ladder from 30 s to 1800 s and a free plan call.
Does gpt-image-2.5 cost more at 4K? Prices from 1024 to 3840x2160
gpt-image-2.5 price by pixel size on Sume: 1024x1024, 1536x1024, 2048x2048 and 3840x2160 at medium and high, plus the custom-size rules from the docs.
One 30-second Wan 3.0 clip a day for a month: what to keep funded
A 30-day posting calendar at one 30-second Wan 3.0 clip per day: the monthly bill at 480p, 720p and 1080p, plus the cost with a 480p test before every post.
Wan 3.0 per finished minute with 1, 2 or 3 480p drafts per 30 s
A finished minute is two 30-second blocks. Cost per minute on Sume with one to three 480p drafts per block and a 720p or 1080p final, plus the timeline render.
Does Seedance aspect ratio change the price? 21:9 vs 9:16 on Sume
Aspect ratio barely moves Seedance prices on Sume: 9:16, 16:9 and 1:1 cost the same and 21:9 or 4:3 add under a percent. The 720p table and the pixel sizes.
Sonix Core, Advanced, Pro: the real hourly rate vs Sume
Sonix plans work out to $5.00, $2.50 and $2.00 an hour once you use every hour. Sume's transcript line is $0.60 an hour. When does a plan beat pay as you go?
Voice API cost gap up to 213x: what drives it, how to price yours
Krisp's newsletter reports a voice API cost gap of up to 213x across OpenAI, Gemini and Qwen. Why list TTS prices differ far less, and how to normalise yours.
Qwen-Audio 3.1 price cuts: rebuild your voice bill with three numbers
Qwen-Audio 3.1 cut prices about 70% for TTS, 85% for Realtime and up to 95% for ASR. How to recompute your bill, and where Sume TTS and STT sit.
Nano Banana 2.1: Google vs Sume price for one 1K image
Google lists $0.0336 for a 1K Nano Banana 2.1 image; Sume bills about $0.10. Why the numbers differ, and which one your invoice uses.
Captioning a 3-minute Short: Sume prices 60 s, so plan 3 jobs
Sume's captions price is $0.20 per job for videos up to 60 seconds. A 180-second Short is three 60-second parts, $0.60 plus trim. What the docs leave out.
Cartesia Startup and Scale vs Sume TTS: break-even in characters
Sume TTS costs $0.0475 per 1,000 characters. Cartesia's Startup plan breaks even near 1.03 million characters a month, Scale near 6.29 million. Math inside.
How Sume bills an image batch: list price times 1.25, worked out
Sume's image bill is the provider list price times 1.25, times n. Worked batches for Seedream, Nano Banana 2.1, Qwen and Ideogram 4.5, plus how to check it.
Transcribe 100 ten-minute clips: Scribe v2, gpt-transcribe, MAI, Sume
1,000 minutes of audio costs about $3.67 on Scribe v2 list, $4.50 on gpt-transcribe, $9 on MAI intro pricing, and $10 on Sume STT. The sums and the caveats.
Timeline render of 61 seconds bills 2 minutes: trim 1 s, pay half
Sume's timeline render is $0.10 per started output minute: a 61-second video costs $0.20, a 60-second one $0.10. Table from 6 s to 10 min, with the arithmetic.
Real estate listing voice-overs: 25 homes at 700 characters
25 listing narrations of 700 characters cost $0.385 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $0.263 on Flash, and $1.00 on Sume TTS as 25 jobs. See the batched figure.
30-second video ad on Sume: one clip or two joined, priced
One 30 s Seedance 2.5 clip is $17.33 at 720p; two joined 15 s Seedance 2 Fast clips are $9.17 with the $0.10 Timeline join. Wan 3.0 30 s is $3.75.
Cost of 200 five-second clips a month: hosted Sume ids vs a rented GPU
At Sume prices, 200 five-second clips cost $75 to $200 a month depending on id and resolution. The same sum for a rented GPU, with the break-even hours.
One minute of AI video: Runway Gen-4.5, Luma Ray3.2, Wan 3.0, Seedance
One minute of AI video costs $3.60 to $85.29 depending on the model: Runway $7.20, Luma Ray3.2 $3.60 to $14.40, Wan 3.0 $7.50 on Sume. Arithmetic inside.
Game NPC barks: 800 lines at 60 characters, voice cost
800 NPC lines of 60 characters are 48,000 characters: $0.72 on MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, $1.056 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $8.00 on Sume as 800 jobs.
GPT Image 2.5 for packaging text: default high, xhigh and max prices
GPT Image 2.5 on Sume defaults to quality high. At 1024x1024 the provider output is $0.09366 at xhigh and $0.21072 at max, about $0.117 and $0.263 billed.
Luma Ray 3.2 HDR costs 2x SDR and EXR 3x: 5 s at 720p and 1080p
Luma lists a 5 s Ray 3.2 clip at $0.30 SDR, $0.60 HDR and $0.90 HDR plus EXR at 720p; $1.20, $2.40 and $3.60 at 1080p. Sume does not list Luma.
minimax-h3 vs minimax-h3-max on Sume: price per clip at 768p and 1080p
At 768p, minimax-h3-max costs $0.10 a second on Sume against $0.075 for minimax-h3. 1080p exists only on Max. Per-clip prices for 5, 10 and 15 seconds.
Omni Flash forecast: 200, 500 or 2,000 eight-second clips a month
A monthly forecast for gemini-omni-flash-1.1 on Sume: 200, 500 or 2,000 eight-second clips cost $60 to $6,000 depending on resolution. Four-column table.
Nano Banana 2.1 4K is 3.4x the 1K price at Google, 2x on Sume
Google bills 1,120 tokens at 1K and 3,780 at 4K for Nano Banana 2.1, a 3.375x gap. Sume's tiers go $0.10 to $0.20, 2x. Why the ratio differs.
A news app's Listen button: 5,000 backlog articles, voice cost
Voicing a backlog of 5,000 articles at 4,000 characters is 20 million characters: $440.00 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $300.00 on Flash, $950.00 on Sume TTS.
Omni Flash resolution ladder on Sume: 0.3x, 1x, 1.5x, 3x of 720p
On Sume, Omni Flash 1.1 costs 0.3x at 360p, 1.5x at 1080p and 3x at 4K compared with its 720p rate of $0.125 a second. Per-clip prices at 8 and 10 seconds.
A 2,000-word blog post read aloud: MAI-Voice vs Sume TTS cost
A 2,000-word post is about 12,000 characters: $0.264 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $0.18 on Flash, $0.57 on Sume TTS in one request. Arithmetic shown.
Wallet reserve for a full queue of Seedance 2.5 clips, by plan
Sume reserves the estimate at submit. A full queue of 5 s Seedance 2.5 720p clips ($2.889 each) reserves $17.33 on Free and $346.68 on Scale.
Audio edition of a weekly newsletter: 52 issues, TTS year cost
A 1,500-word issue is about 9,000 characters. A year of 52 audio editions costs $10.296 on MAI-Voice-2.1 and $22.36 on Sume TTS, per-job rounding included.
Bulk run spend cap: worst-case ceiling for 100 holiday items
generation_spend_cap_usd is per item, so 100 items at a $4 cap can spend up to $400. The platform maximum is $500 per item; 0 is rejected.
Compliance training narration: 30 modules at 8,000 characters
30 training modules of 8,000 characters are 240,000 characters: $5.28 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $3.60 on Flash, $11.40 on Sume TTS as 30 jobs.
What do 10,000 Haiku 5.5 agent turns cost? 8k vs 120k prompts
Worked token math from Anthropic's Haiku 5.5 price page: 10,000 turns of 8k tokens cost $10.50, while 10,000 turns of 120k tokens cost $625.
Museum audio guide: 40 stops at 600 characters, voice cost
A 40-stop audio guide at 600 characters a stop is 24,000 characters: $0.528 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $0.36 on Flash, $1.20 on Sume as 40 jobs.
Omni references on Sume: billed per output second; Google adds input
Google lists $1.50 per 1M input and $17.50 per 1M output tokens for Omni. Sume bills the provider list x 1.25 per output second. Reference limits compared.
On-hold phone messages: 12 prompts of 300 characters, cost
Twelve on-hold prompts of 300 characters are 3,600 characters: $0.079 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $0.054 on Flash, and $0.24 on Sume as 12 jobs.
Output tokens in a 3 to 10 second Omni clip: 17,376 to 57,920
Gemini Omni Flash bills 5,792 output tokens per 720p second. A 3 s clip is 17,376 tokens and a 10 s clip 57,920. Dollars at Google and on Sume, per length.
Can an API caller raise a Sume schedule's spend cap? No
A run request can lower generation_spend_cap_usd below the schedule cap but never above it. The six cases, including null and 0, in one table.
Draft at Seedance 2 Mini 480p, finish at 2.5: cost per 100 SKUs
A 4 s Seedance 2 Mini 480p 9:16 draft is $0.35154; a 4 s Seedance 2.5 720p final is $2.3112. For 100 SKUs that is $35.15 of drafts and $231.12 of finals.
Agent fans out 30 renders on a Pro plan: 24 accepted, 6 queue_full
Pro accepts 24 paid generation jobs at once (4 processing plus 20 queued). The 25th gets 429 queue_full. Retry policy for 402 and 429 in an agent loop.
A weekly bedtime story: 52 narrations at 5,000 characters
A 5,000-character story each week for a year is 260,000 characters: $5.72 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $3.90 on Flash, $12.48 on Sume as 52 jobs.
1080p premium by row: Recast +50%, H3 Max +100%, H3 has no 1080p
Moving up to 1080p adds 50% to H3 Max Recast and 100% to MiniMax H3 Max on Sume, while MiniMax H3 stops at 768p. Per-second and per-10-second figures.
Does 9:16 cost less than 16:9 for a 30 s Seedance 2.5 clip?
No: 9:16 and 16:9 cost the same on Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0 at every resolution. Only 1:1 at 480p is cheaper, by 36 cents on 30 s.
No seed on Omni Flash: budget five takes per shot instead
Sume video models do not accept seed, so a Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 retry is a new draw. Price 3, 5 or 8 takes for 12 shots of 6 s at 720p.
One finished minute: two 30 s Seedance 2.5 shots plus Timeline
A 60-second video from two 30 s Seedance 2.5 shots plus one Timeline render costs $16.24 at 480p, $34.78 at 720p and $85.40 at 1080p.
Retake budget for a 500-prompt re-render: 15, 25 or 35 percent extra
Budget 500 prompts as 575, 625 or 675 renders. At 8 seconds and 720p that is $375.00 to $1,512.50 on Sume with one retake in four. Table by model.
Seedance 2.5: nine prices for 10, 20 and 30 second clips
Seedance 2.5 on Sume at 10, 20 and 30 s across 480p, 720p and 1080p: from $2.69 to $42.65 per clip, with the arithmetic behind the spread.
Timeline 60 vs 61 seconds: the minute boundary that doubles the bill
Sume Timeline bills $0.10 per ceil(output minute). A 60-second ad costs $0.10; a 61-second ad costs $0.20. Table of boundaries from 30 to 1,800 seconds.
Wan 3.0 for 500 prompts: 480p, 720p or 1080p costs 1x, 2x or 4x
On Sume, a 500-prompt Wan 3.0 library costs $250.00 at 480p, $500.00 at 720p and $1,000.00 at 1080p for 8-second clips. Resolution sets the bill.