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
Menu refresh, 30 dishes: a dish card and a 5-second clip each on Sume
A seasonal menu of 30 dishes with one Ideogram 4.5 dish card and one 5-second Wan 3.0 clip each: $11.85 at 480p, $21.15 at 720p, plus one $0.125 music bed.
Failed AI video job on Sume: is the reservation released?
Sume reserves the estimated cost at submit and captures it on success; failed jobs release or refund it where applicable. How to check your own account.
Sume TTS vs MAI-Voice-2.1 at 50k to 5M characters a month
At 1M characters a month Sume TTS bills $47.50, MAI-Voice-2.1 lists $22 and Flash $15. The monthly table for 50k to 5M and when the gap is worth paying.
Trim first, then caption: the 60-second note on the caption price
Sume quotes the $0.20 video-captions price for videos up to 60 seconds. Cut the episode with video trim at $0.02 first, then caption only the part you keep.
What one captioned Shorts episode costs on Sume, itemized
Add the documented Sume rates for one Shorts episode: render, trim, captions, transcript. A Python estimator refuses captions past the 60-second quote.
Estimate a folder of clips transcription cost with ffprobe
Sum each clip's seconds with ffprobe, flag anything over 600 s, and price it at $0.01 per audio minute before you submit a single Sume STT job.
Read the live STT rate from GET /v1/catalog before you price a batch
Do not hard-code $0.01 a minute. GET /v1/catalog lists sume/stt-1.0 in model_pricing with the price and unit, and the docs point there for live rates.
Transcribe 100,000 two-second voice command recordings: the bill
A two-second clip costs about $0.000333 on Sume STT, so 100,000 cost $33.33. Without duration_seconds each job in flight holds a full $0.01 instead.
Cheapest vs priciest AI video on Sume: a per-second spread of 114x
Sume's video rates run from $0.0125 per second (Grok Imagine Video 1.5) to $1.42155 (Seedance 2.5 at 1080p): the ratios, and what each size buys.
Ideogram 4.5 blended cost per image: a 70/20/10 quality mix on Sume
A 70/20/10 low, medium, high mix of Ideogram 4.5 averages $0.0688 an image on Sume, $0.0725 with the fee. Three mixes and a 1,000-image bill.
Ideogram 4.5 with n=4 on Sume: one write, four times the price
A POST /v1/images with n=4 spends one request from the write budget but bills cost_usd x n. Worst-case table for low, medium and high quality.
Q4 AI asset budget: an October ramp, November peak and December tail
A three-month plan with a November peak: images, voiceovers and 5-second clips cost about $49.79 for the quarter on Sume. The month-by-month table.
What one Ideogram 4.5 image costs in voice minutes and video seconds
One medium Ideogram 4.5 image costs as much as 1.75 minutes of Sume speech or 7.5 transcript minutes. An exchange-rate table from images to audio and video.
AI asset unit-cost sheet for client quotes: image, voice, video
A ten-row cost sheet from the Sume catalog: image, voice, transcript, cutout, music, render and video-second prices, all-in with the 5.5% fee.
Cost of one finished minute of AI video by model, with 1, 2 or 3 takes
What 60 seconds of finished AI video costs on Sume at 720p or 768p across Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0, Omni Flash and MiniMax H3, when you keep every take or 1 in 3.
gpt-image-1-mini replacement on Sume: what each image id costs
gpt-image-1-mini shuts down December 1, 2026. Compare billed Sume prices per image for budget ids and see why mini token rates don't map one to one.
Ideogram 4.5: low drafts then one high final, or high only? Break-even
At $0.0396 a low draft and $0.2901 a high final all-in, six drafts plus one final cost $0.53, 1.8 high renders. When drafting pays, with the math.
Monthly AI content budget at three sizes: starter, growth and scale
Three monthly volumes of images, voiceovers and 6-second clips priced on Sume: the starter plan is about $10, growth about $39 and scale about $146.
Monthly AI media budget calculator in Python, from live Sume prices
Build a monthly budget for images and voiceovers by reading list prices from the Sume image and TTS router catalogs, then applying list x 1.25 and the 5.5% fee.
TTS API price per 1,000 characters: Sume, MAI, Groq, Lemonfox, Unreal
A per-1,000-character table of list prices for Sume, MAI-Voice-2.1 and Flash, Groq Orpheus, Lemonfox and Unreal Speech, with cost for a 750-character short.
Seedance 2.5 vs 2.0 vs Fast vs Mini: price per clip at 720p on Sume
At 720p a 10-second clip costs $5.78 on Seedance 2.5, $3.78 on Seedance 2, $3.03 on Fast and $1.89 on Mini on Sume. Only 2.5 reaches 30 seconds.
Is ultrawide 21:9 pricier on Seedance 2.5 than 16:9 on Sume?
On Sume, Seedance 2.5 at 21:9 or 4:3 costs a cent or a few more than 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. A 30-second 720p clip is $17.42 at 21:9 against $17.34.
How much does a 30-second Seedance 2.5 clip cost on Sume?
A 30-second Seedance 2.5 clip costs $8.07 at 480p, $17.34 at 720p and $42.65 at 1080p on Sume. Prices from Sume's pricing code with the 1.25 margin.
How much does a 40-second AI video cost on Sume, by model and split?
A 40-second sequence costs $2.51 on Wan 3.0 at 480p, $5.00 at 720p and $23.12 for Seedance 2.5 at 720p. Prices for each split into legal-length jobs.
Does native audio cost extra on Wan 3.0 and Gemini Omni Flash on Sume?
On Sume, Wan 3.0 costs the same with the audio flag on or off, and Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 always includes audio. Billed prices for both, from Sume's code.
4K AI video API: which Sume models accept 4K and what a clip costs
Only Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 and MiniMax H3 accept 4K in Sume's Video Router. A 10-second Omni clip is $3.75; a 5-second H3 upscale is $1.00.
MiniMax H3 vs H3 Max: price per clip at 480p, 768p and 1080p on Sume
A 5-second clip costs 32 cents at 480p on both H3 and H3 Max on Sume; at 768p it is 38 cents on H3 and 50 on H3 Max. 1080p is H3 Max only at $1.00.
Does a reference video cost more on Seedance 2.5? Break-even at 22.5 s
Adding a reference video raises a short Seedance 2.5 quote but lowers a 30-second one. Sume's estimator prices it as 15 extra input seconds at 0.6x.
GPT Image 2.5 quality auto reserves max: avoid the price surprise
On Sume, GPT Image 2.5 with quality auto reserves max, and an omitted quality means high. At 1024x1024 xhigh and max cost $0.09366 and $0.21072 before input.
What do 50 AI image cards cost at low, medium and high quality?
Fifty Ideogram 4.5 images cost $1.875 at low, $3.75 at medium and $13.75 at high by Sume's catalog line. Read usage.cost on each result to confirm.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash 1080p and 4K price: upscales on Sume
Google says Omni 1.1 Flash renders 720p and offers 1080p and 4K as upscales. Here is what Google lists and what the Sume 10-second clip costs per tier.
Why is my Sume video quote rounded up to the cent? Compute it yourself
Sume bills list price x 1.25 and rounds each job up to a whole cent. That is why a $0.3125 Wan clip bills 32 cents. Python to reproduce any quote.
GPT Image 2.5 batch of 4 at 1920x1080: price by quality on Sume
Four GPT Image 2.5 images at 1920x1080 in one call cost 3 cents at low, 6 at medium, 20 at high, 36 at xhigh and 80 at max on Sume.
Sume text to speech price ladder: 500 to 20,000 characters
Sume TTS bills 3 cents for 500 characters, 5 for 1,000, 24 for 5,000 and 95 for 20,000, the per-job cap. Longer scripts split into 20,000-character jobs.
MAI-Voice-2.1 vs Sume text to speech: cost per 1,000 characters
Sume TTS costs 4.75 cents per 1,000 characters before the per-job round-up. A tracker lists MAI-Voice-2.1 at $0.022 and Flash at $0.015, cheaper per character.
30-second ad sound bill: voiceover, music, render, captions
A 30-second ad's audio and finishing jobs on Sume cost about 45 cents at the public rates: one voiceover, one score, one render and one caption job.
Pick a score from three Lyria takes: cost and idempotency keys
Three music takes on Sume cost three generations. Use one idempotency key per take, name the differences in the prompt, and keep the pick for the timeline.
Cost of 1,000 AI images on Sume: Soul, Flux 2 Pro, Grok, Nano Banana 2
A thousand single-image jobs cost $10 on Higgsfield Soul, $40 on Flux 2 Pro, $30 on Grok Image and $100 on Nano Banana 2, from Sume's catalog prices.
How many episodes in a YouTube Shorts season? No official number
YouTube's shows page gives no episode count for a season. Size yours by budget: assembly at $0.10 a minute and captions at $0.20 a job for 6, 8 or 12 episodes.
Cost of 100 eight-second product videos by AI model on Sume
One hundred 8-second clips cost $10 on Grok Imagine, $100 on Wan 3.0 720p and $463 on Seedance 2.5 at 720p. Full model table and plan fit.
One finished minute at three takes a shot: Veo 3.1 vs Omni Flash cost
At three takes per shot a finished minute means 180 generated seconds: $9 on Veo Lite 720p, $21.60 on Fast 1080p, $33.75 on Omni 1080p on Sume.
One finished minute of AI video with voice, music and captions: cost
Six 10-second Wan 3.0 720p clips plus voice, music, Timeline and captions come to about $7.98 a finished minute on Sume. Seedance 2.5 is about $35.
Do the Sume Agent and API video draw from one credit balance?
Yes. Generation, the Agent, Formats and the API spend one credit pool. Where to see the balance and usage, and what happens when it runs out.
Omni Flash on Sume: cost of 10, 30 and 60 seconds at every resolution
On Sume, Gemini Omni Flash costs $0.375 to $3.75 for 10 seconds, $1.125 to $11.25 for 30, and $2.25 to $22.50 for 60. Full 360p to 4K table.
Google video resolution upcharge: Standard 0%, Fast 20%, Lite 60%
Going from 720p to 1080p adds 0% on Veo 3.1 Standard, 20% on Fast, 60% on Lite and 50% on Omni Flash on Sume. 4K adds 50% to 200%. Read 2026-10-06.
GPT Image 2.5 at 2560x1440: 4x the pixels of 720p, about 2x the price
Going from 1280x720 to 2560x1440 quadruples the pixels but only about doubles the GPT Image 2.5 output price at low, medium and high. Table inside.
GPT Image 2.5 at 1536x864: high costs 3.8x medium. Is it worth it?
At 1536x864, high costs 3.9x medium on GPT Image 2.5 ($0.0105 vs $0.0404 on Sume). When to spend it, and when not.
720x1280 vertical 9:16 on GPT Image 2.5: same price as 1280x720
A 720x1280 portrait image costs the same as 1280x720 on GPT Image 2.5, because the estimator uses the pixel count and the ratio. Table by quality inside.