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
YouTube ad length by format, and what each costs to render in Timeline
Bumper 6 s, non-skippable 15 to 60 s, Shorts under 60 s, skippable with no max. Google's lengths mapped to Sume Timeline billable minutes and cost.
8-second 720p Seedance price ladder: mini, fast, 2.0 and 2.5 on Sume
One 8-second 720p clip costs about $1.51 on seedance-2-mini and $4.62 on seedance-2.5. The token formula behind each Sume price, with the 1.25 margin shown.
Seedance reference video: 15 assumed seconds, 0.6x, real cost
Sending a reference video to Seedance on Sume prices as 8 s plus 15 assumed input seconds at 0.6x. For 8 s at 720p that is $5.22 on seedance-2 against $3.02.
Wan 3.0 price per second: Alibaba list vs Sume x1.25 for 10 s and 30 s
Alibaba lists Wan 3.0 at $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 per second. Sume bills list x1.25, so a 10-second 720p clip is $1.25 and a 30-second 1080p clip is $7.50.
Is image-to-video cheaper than text-to-video? Same rate
On Omni Flash 1.1, image-to-video bills the same per second as text-to-video. A 5-second 720p clip is $0.625 either way; the still adds $0.075 on Ideogram 4.5.
Retouch budget: 40 photos, three revision rounds on Ideogram 4.5
A client retouch job of 40 photos with three revision rounds costs $9 at medium, $14 with a high final, and $33 at high throughout on Sume Ideogram 4.5.
Splitting a 30-second Wan 3.0 job adds cents from per-job rounding
Wan 3.0 bills linearly per second, but Sume rounds each job up to the cent. A 30 s clip as six 5 s jobs costs $3.78 at 720p instead of $3.75. Full split table.
Cost of one finished 60-second ad: four Wan clips, voice, music
A finished 60-second ad built from four 15-second Wan 3.0 clips at 720p costs $7.9678 on Sume with voice, a music bed, one render and captions.
Seedance 2.5 30-second 720p price by aspect ratio: token counts
On Sume 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 all cost $17.34 for 30 s at 720p, while 21:9 costs $17.42 and 4:3 $17.45. Frame sizes, token counts and the formula.
What Sume's 1.25 margin adds per 100 clips on Omni and Wan
Sume bills provider list times 1.25 on video-router models. 100 Omni 720p clips of 8 s carry $20 of margin; 100 Wan 1080p clips of 30 s carry $150.
Wan 3.0 bumper prices: 2 to 6 seconds at 480p, 720p, 1080p
A 2-second Wan 3.0 bumper costs $0.125 at 480p and $0.50 at 1080p on Sume. A 6-second one costs $0.375 to $1.50.
30-second Wan hero plus two 15-second cutdowns: trim, not regenerate
One 30-second Wan 3.0 clip at 720p is $3.75. Two 15-second cutdowns by video trim add $0.04; regenerating them as 15-second clips costs $3.75 more.
Ten-episode micro-drama on Wan 3.0: 30 s episodes, cost by tier
Ten 30-second Wan 3.0 episodes cost $18.80 at 480p, $37.50 at 720p and $75.00 at 1080p on Sume. Table, rounding check and a draft-then-final plan.
Price per kept AI clip when 1 in 3 is rejected: Wan 720p
A 15-second Wan 3.0 clip at 720p is $1.875 on Sume. If you keep one clip in three, the real price per kept clip is $5.625. The keep rate is a budget input.
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 on Runway: 3.4 to 30 credits vs Sume
Runway prices Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 at 3.4 credits a second at 360p up to 30 at 4K, at $0.01 a credit. Sume's per-second rates at the same ends.
Seedance 2.5 on Runway at 20 to 68 credits a second vs Sume tokens
Runway prices seedance2_5 at 20 to 68 credits a second plus input fees, or $0.20 to $0.68. Sume bills Seedance 2.5 per 1,000 video tokens instead.
Runway hailuo3 at 10-15 credits vs h3_max at 5-8, and Sume's H3 ids
Runway lists hailuo3 at 10 to 15 credits a second and h3_max at 5 to 8. Sume has minimax-h3 and minimax-h3-max at $0.0625 to $0.20 a second.
Runway Gen-4 Turbo at 5 credits a second: Sume's closest rates
Runway lists gen4_turbo at 5 credits a second, $0.05 at $0.01 a credit. Gen-4 Turbo is not on Sume; its cheapest video seconds start at $0.0375.
ElevenLabs v4 voice cost vs a 30-second avatar clip: under 1%
ElevenLabs v4 lists $0.08 per 1,000 characters. A 30-second script is about 450 characters, or 3.6 cents, against $7.35 for a plus-tier Sume avatar clip.
GPT Image 2.5 high: 1920x1080 costs less than 1024x1024
On fal, GPT Image 2.5 Flare high is $0.0396 at 1920x1080 and $0.05268 at 1024x1024. Why the bigger frame is cheaper and how to plan around it.
Budget for 500 AI video clips a month: plan fee and slots
500 ten-second 768p clips are $500 of usage. That is $500 on Pro, $480 on Startup and $400 on Scale, with 125, 63 and 25 waves of concurrency.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS context caching vs Sume transcripts
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS prices cached input at $0.125 per million tokens until 2026-12-31. Sume sends the full transcript on each job. When caching matters.
MiniMax H3 Max API price: Sume 1.25x vs the fal list
H3 Max costs $0.0625 to $0.20 per second on Sume (list x 1.25). Per-clip and per-100-clip math against fal's listed $0.05 per second.
HeyGen bills 2K at 3x its 768p rate: price a resolution bump on Sume
HeyGen bills 2K at 3x its 768p rate. On Sume, read pricing_skus and supported_resolutions from /v1/videos/models and show an estimate before a 2K toggle.
Nano Banana 2.1 prices: Google's 1K and 4K list vs Sume's cost
Google launched Nano Banana 2.1 on Oct 6 at $0.0336 per 1K image and $0.0756 at 4K. Here is how to read what Sume bills for google/nano-banana-2.1.
Sume Pro, Startup or Scale: real cost per 10-second clip
A 10-second 768p clip is $1.00 of usage. Plan fees turn that into $1.00, $0.86 or $0.50 per clip if you use the full included amount. Break-evens inside.
Sume yearly vs monthly plan price: the 10, 12.5 and 15 percent math
Yearly stickers are $432, $1,260 and $4,080 against $480, $1,440 and $4,800 monthly: 10, 12.5 and 15 percent off, or $36, $105 and $340 a month.
Ideogram 4.5 costs the same at 1K and 2K: pick 2K by default
Ideogram 4.5 is priced by quality tier, not size: $0.03, $0.06 or $0.22 list. On Sume you choose resolution 1K or 2K, so the size is a free choice.
Kling motion control: Standard 9 credits, Pro 12, Sume runs Standard
Kling lists 9 credits a second for Standard and 12 for Professional Motion Control. Sume runs the Standard queue at $0.1575 a second, in dollars.
Cost of 10, 100 and 1,000 five-second AI clips on Sume
A five-second clip bills 3.75 to 37.5 cents per second on Sume, so $0.19 to $1.88. The budget table for 10, 100 and 1,000 clips on Wan 3.0, H3, H3 Max and Omni.
15-second vertical Seedance ad: 12 prices vs TikTok's 540x960
A 15 s 9:16 Seedance clip costs $1.32 to $21.33 on Sume across four models and three tiers. Only 720p and 1080p clear TikTok's 540x960 minimum.
GPT Image 2.5 image_size auto: priced as 8,294,400 pixels
Sume's docs say image_size auto on GPT Image 2.5 reserves the upper bound of output tokens. Estimate: $0.2224 at high vs $0.0659 at 1024x1024. Send a size.
Media tool prices for 10, 100 and 1,000 files on Sume
Cutouts $0.0225, image upscales $0.20, video upscale $0.009 a second, trims $0.02, transcripts $0.01 a minute: totals for 10, 100 and 1,000 files on Sume.
Transcribing 10, 100 and 1,000 hours: AssemblyAI, Scribe, Sume
Speech-to-text list prices per hour, read 2026-10-07 (AssemblyAI, ElevenLabs, Speechmatics, Cartesia, Gladia) beside Sume at $0.60, for 10 to 1,000 hours.
10-second TikTok hook clip: ten Sume models and their price
For a 10 s vertical hook the price runs from $0.13 on Grok to $5.78 on Seedance 2.5 at 720p. Table of ten models with limits and caveats.
Re-roll cost by AI video job size: 10 s Omni vs 26 s Wan
One bad take costs a whole job again. At 720p that is $1.25 for a 10 s Omni clip, $3.25 for a 26 s Wan clip and $15.02 for a 26 s Seedance 2.5 clip.
Shorts time-limit option: Timeline render cost at 15 to 180 s
YouTube is testing a Shorts time-limit option. Timeline bills per output minute rounded up, so 60 s costs $0.10 and 61 s costs $0.20.
Cost per kept 8-second clip if you keep 1 in 1 to 1 in 4, by model
Billing is per attempt, not per keeper. Price one kept 8 s clip when you discard 0 to 3 takes first, across six Sume video models. Rates read 2026-10-07.
One 30-second AI ad every day for 30 days: what the month costs
A 30-second ad daily for 30 days is 900 seconds. At Sume's catalog rates that is $56.25 on Wan 480p, $112.50 on Wan 720p, or $189 on Kling 3 with audio.
A 60-second AI video: five stitching routes priced on Sume
Sixty seconds is two Wan 3.0 jobs ($7.50 at 720p), four Kling 3 jobs ($8.40 silent), or six Omni jobs ($7.50). Costs include a $0.10 Timeline render.
H3 at 480p is only 17% cheaper than 768p, so draft on Wan instead
MiniMax H3 bills $0.0625 a second at 480p and $0.075 at 768p on Sume. Drafting there saves 17 percent; a Wan 480p draft costs the same rate.
Higgsfield Soul price per image: an account estimate, what Sume bills
Higgsfield publishes no public USD tariff for Soul 2. Sume prices it from an account estimate: $0.004 list at 720p, $0.006 at 1080p, billed $0.005 and $0.0075.
Muting a Wan 3.0 clip saves nothing; Kling 3 audio off does
Wan 3.0 has no audio price line on Sume, so generate_audio false changes no cost. Kling 3 charges $0.14 off, $0.21 on a second.
Grok Imagine Video on Sume: the cents-per-job ladder, 4 to 15 seconds
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 bills $0.0125 per second, rounded up to the cent per job. Every length from 4 to 15 seconds, and why a 5-second clip costs 7 cents.
Batch of 10 product Shorts: cost table on Sume
Ten five-still product Shorts cost $4.675 on Sume, or $6.675 with captions. What scales and what a preflight saves.
Amazon affiliate Short: sales needed to pay back the video
How many sales cover a $0.4675 product Short? A table with assumed commission rates, since Amazon's real rate depends on category.
AI video with sound: what audio adds per second on Sume
Native audio is a switch on some video models and always on in others. See the per-second price with and without it for Kling 3 Pro, Omni Flash and H3 Max.
Check your predicted cost against usage.cost when a Sume video ends
Compare your own price prediction with the usage.cost on a completed Sume job and flag drift. A 20-line Python check, tested on three sample polls.