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
Do Omni references cost extra? Ten images bill like none
On Sume, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 bills per output second by resolution. A clip with 10 reference images and 3 clips costs the same as one with none.
Omni 4K costs 3x the 720p price and 10x 360p: the ladder on Sume
On Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 the four resolutions price at 1x, 3.33x, 5x and 10x of 360p. A table of ratios for 8-second clips on Sume.
Omni 9:16 and 16:9 cost the same: aspect ratio is not a price lever
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 prices by seconds and resolution only. A vertical and a landscape clip of the same length cost the same on Sume. Table inside.
TikTok Spark Ads have no duration limit; Timeline stops at 30 minutes
TikTok Spark Ads accept mp4 or mov with no duration restriction. Sume Timeline 1.0 renders up to 1,800 s at $0.10 a ceil minute: 15 min is $1.50, 30 min $3.00.
Timeline bills 61 s as two minutes: the 60 s cut that halves the fee
Sume Timeline charges $0.10 per output minute rounded up, so 60 s costs $0.10 and 61 s costs $0.20. How to plan 30 s shots around it.
Sume TTS price steps: 210, 421 and 631 characters per job
TTS on Sume bills 47.5 micro-dollars per character, rounded up to a cent per job, so the price jumps at 211, 422 and 632 characters. Full step table inside.
Is a 1:1 AI clip cheaper than 9:16? Only at 480p, by about 4%
On Seedance rows an 8 s 1:1 clip is a few cents cheaper at 480p ($2.06 vs $2.15 on 2.5) and equal at 720p and 1080p. Wan, Kling and MiniMax have one price.
4,750-character newsletter read aloud: MAI-Voice-2.1 vs Sume TTS cost
A 4,750-character newsletter costs 23 cents on Sume TTS in one job, against about 10.5 cents at the MAI-Voice-2.1 per-character rate listed by a tracker.
Narration cost per minute at 900 characters a minute: Flash vs Sume
At an assumed 900 characters per minute, Sume TTS runs about 4.3 cents a narrated minute; MAI-Voice-2.1 lists near 2 cents and Flash near 1.4 cents.
A 61-second audio spine reserves 2 timeline minutes, 60 s reserves 1
Timeline 1.0 reserves $0.10 per ceil(audio minute). A 60 second spine reserves $0.10, 61 seconds reserves $0.20, and 1,800 seconds is the $3.00 ceiling.
Cheapest AI video API per second: Sume models ranked by price
Cheapest per output second on Sume: Grok Imagine Video 1.5 at $0.0125, Gemini Omni 360p at $0.0375, then Wan 3.0 and MiniMax 480p at $0.0625. Ranked table.
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1: what a 10-second 4K clip costs on Sume
A 10-second 4K Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 clip costs $3.75 on Sume; at 1080p it is $1.875 and at 360p $0.375. 3 to 10 seconds, 16:9 or 9:16, audio always on.
generation_spend_cap_usd of 0, 120, 450, null or 600: which applies?
On a Format run 120 and 450 are used as given, null is the $500 platform maximum, and 0 or 600 returns a 400. Omitted means the Format's cap or $400.
H3 Max Recast: what a 30-second people swap costs at 768p and 1080p
H3 Max Recast on Sume swaps the people in a 5 to 30 s source video for 1 to 4 photos. 30 s costs $11.25 at 768p and $16.875 at 1080p.
Kling 3.0 Pro audio on vs off: price for 5, 10 and 15 second clips
Kling Video v3 Pro on Sume is $0.14 per second with audio off and $0.21 with audio on, so a 15-second clip costs $2.10 or $3.15. Sume does not list Kling 4.0.
MiniMax H3 vs H3 Max: a 5-second clip priced at each resolution
On Sume, 5 seconds of MiniMax H3 is $0.3125 at 480p and $0.375 at 768p; H3 Max is $0.3125, $0.50 and $1.00 at 480p, 768p and 1080p.
One 30-second spot, six ad placements: what the renders cost on Sume
A 16:9 master, four Timeline renders and a 6-second trim cover six placements for $0.42 on Sume, with the arithmetic and the vendor spec behind each size.
Seedance 2.5 30-second clip: price at 480p, 720p and 1080p
A full 30-second Seedance 2.5 clip in 16:9 costs $8.0603 at 480p, $17.334 at 720p and $42.6465 at 1080p through Sume.
Seedance 2.5 vs 2.0 Fast vs Mini: one 5-second 720p clip priced
Same 5-second 720p 16:9 clip on Sume: Mini $0.945, Fast $1.512, 2.0 $1.89, 2.5 $2.889.
Seedance reference video: the 60% rule and the 15-second assumption
On Sume a Seedance request with a reference video bills the output plus an assumed 15 seconds of input, then takes 60%: 5 s at 720p goes from $2.889 to $6.9336.
Sume's rate card by billing unit: job, second, minute, 1,000 chars
Sume bills per job (trim $0.02, music $0.125), per second (avatar, Fabric, Kling), per minute (STT, timeline) and per 1,000 characters (TTS $0.0475).
Wan 3.0 on Sume: a 2-second minimum clip and a 30-second max, priced
Wan 3.0 accepts 2 to 30 seconds. On Sume a 2 s clip is $0.125 at 480p and $0.50 at 1080p; 30 s at 1080p is $7.50.
31-second driver is over Kling Motion Control's 30 s limit
Kling 3.0 Motion Control accepts 1 to 30 seconds at $0.1575 per second. Trim a 31 second driver to 30 and the job costs $4.725.
Drop to 480p: Fabric saves 46.7 percent, H3 lip-sync 37.5 percent
Fabric is $0.10 at 480p against $0.1875 at 720p. H3 Max lip-sync is $0.0625 at 480p against $0.10 at 768p. Savings on 250 clips inside.
Avatar video cost at 4, 8, 15, 30 and 60 seconds on three tiers
Avatar video costs $0.74 to $11.04 on standard, $0.98 to $14.70 on plus and $2.20 to $33.00 on max across the 4 to 60 second window, no product.
Retry a Format 402 with the same Idempotency-Key after adding funds
A 402 at create means nothing ran and the key was released. Add funds, then resend with the same Idempotency-Key. A replay costs nothing.
Which Sume submit errors cost money: 402, queue_full, 429, 503
None of them charges you. 402 fails before the reserve, queue_full releases the hold, and rate_limited and 503 mean the job was never accepted.
Cheapest 1080p AI video per second on Sume, ranked, 21 s example
At 1080p Omni Flash is $0.1875 a second, H3 Max $0.20, Wan 3.0 $0.25, Seedance 2.0 $0.8505 and Seedance 2.5 $1.42155. A 21 s clip ranges from $3.94 to $29.85.
480p to 1080p price multiplier: Seedance 5.29x, Wan 4x, Omni 5x
Going from the lowest to 1080p costs 5.29 times more on Seedance 2.5, 4 times on Wan 3.0, 5 times on Gemini Omni Flash (360p) and 3.2 times on MiniMax H3 Max.
Upscale a 1280x720 thumbnail to 3840x2160: factor 3 or generate at 4K?
Factor 3 turns 1280x720 into 3840x2160 for $0.20; GPT Image 2.5 at 4K is $0.2225. For 36 thumbnails: $7.20 to upscale, $8.01 to regenerate.
Cheapest possible job per Sume video model: shortest clip, lowest tier
Smallest valid job: Omni $0.1125 (3 s, 360p), Wan 3.0 $0.125 (2 s), H3 and H3 Max $0.3125 (5 s), Seedance 2.0 $0.7031, Seedance 2.5 $1.0747.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS vs Sume TTS: break-even 284 chars a minute
Gemini bills TTS by audio seconds, Sume by characters. Sume is cheaper only below 284.2 characters per audio minute on Flash (568.4 from 2027). Read 2026-10-08.
Kling motion control: a 2.4-second driver is billed as 3 seconds
Sume prices Kling 3.0 Motion Control per whole output second, rounded up. A 2.4-second driving video bills as 3 s, which is $0.4725 at $0.1575 per second.
Most expensive single job per Sume video model: longest, top tier
The largest single job reserves $42.6465 on Seedance 2.5 (30 s, 1080p), $12.7575 on Seedance 2.0, $7.50 on Wan 3.0, $3.75 on Omni at 4K and $3.00 on H3 Max.
Sume TTS one-cent floor ends at 211 characters (vs MAI-Voice)
Sume TTS bills at least 1 cent a job; list price passes it at 211 characters. MAI-Voice-2.1 and Flash pass 1 cent at 455 and 667 characters. Read 2026-10-08.
Ten drafts and three finals a week: 30-second projects, wallet need
Weekly plan for 30-second mixed projects: ten drafts (480p, 0.5K stills) and three finals (1080p, 2K stills). Cost per tier, the week's total, the top-up.
GPT Image 2.5 quality ladder: price multiplier from low to max on Sume
At 1024x1024 on Sume, GPT Image 2.5 high costs 8.9 times low, xhigh 15.9 times and max 35.7 times. The ladder with billed prices and batch costs.
How much do six gift guide cover images cost at each quality tier?
Six Ideogram 4.5 cover options on Sume: $0.225 at low, $0.45 at medium, $1.65 at high. Which tier to use for which step.
How many AI music tracks should I generate for one ad before picking?
Each Music Router track is a flat $0.125, so three takes cost $0.375 and eight cost $1.00. Here is a take budget by how fixed your brief is.
Lip sync 30 seconds as three 10-second lines: cost by resolution
MiniMax H3 Max lip sync caps audio at 14.8 s, so a 30-second script becomes three jobs. Cost at 480p, 768p and 1080p, with ceil rounding and a split rule.
What is a Q4 video budget for a one-person shop, week by week?
Ten weekly jobs from Halloween to New Year, built from 720p Omni clips, Ideogram images, voice, music and captions, come to $9.675 on Sume.
Avatar product image adds about 5% per second on every Sume tier
Adding a product_image to a Sume avatar video raises the per-second rate by 1 cent on standard, 1.3 cents on plus, 3 cents on max. The table and a 30 s example.
GPT Image 2.5 at 4:5 lists 12-14% below 1:1 at the same quality
On Sume, GPT Image 2.5 at 4:5 (1024x1280) lists 12 to 14 percent below a 1024x1024 square at every quality tier. The five-tier table, with billed prices.
Image edit price sheet on Sume: Ideogram 4.5, GPT 2.5, cutout, upscale
What image editing costs on Sume, October 2026: Ideogram 4.5 $0.0375 to $0.275, GPT Image 2.5 by quality, RMBG $0.0225, Upscale $0.20, and chained pipelines.
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming intro rate runs to year end: budget plan
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming is $0.54 an hour through year end. How to budget transcription hours against Sume STT at $0.60 an hour (one cent a minute).
What does one hour of AI narration cost on Sume, MAI and ElevenLabs?
One hour of finished narration is about 45,000 characters: $2.16 on Sume in three jobs, against $0.99 on MAI-Voice-2.1. Rates read 2026-10-07.
How much does a holiday catering promo reel with six dishes cost?
Six dish photos animated 5 seconds each, a voice, music and price captions: $4.235 for a 30-second catering reel on Sume at 720p, or $1.14 for the drafts.
Test six ad hooks with 4-second avatar clips on standard: cost
Six 4-second hook clips on Sume's standard avatar tier cost $4.42 without a product image, $4.66 with one. The 4-second floor and how to run the test.