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
How long a Sume top-up lasts at 10 AI videos a week on Pro
At 10 fifteen-second Wan 3.0 clips a week, usage runs about $81 a month, so a Pro plan draws about $41 a month from top-ups. A $500 top-up lasts about a year.
MiniMax H3 Max reference-to-video: what the reserve leaves out
Sume bills H3 Max reference-to-video by output seconds at list x 1.25; the provider's reference-token overage is not reserved. What to check before a big batch.
Budget for 10 AI videos a week: 15-second Wan 3.0 clips, 3 resolutions
Ten 15-second Wan 3.0 clips a week cost $9.40 at 480p, $18.80 at 720p and $37.50 at 1080p on Sume. Per-clip, per-month and per-plan numbers.
Pro, Startup or Scale: the monthly usage where each Sume plan wins
Startup beats Pro above $120 of monthly usage, Scale beats Startup above $420. The arithmetic, a table, and what concurrency changes.
Q4 budget for 10 AI videos a week: 13 weeks of Wan 3.0 on Sume
Thirteen weeks of ten 15-second Wan 3.0 clips cost $244.40 at 720p on Sume, which is the Pro plan's cost for the quarter. 480p and 1080p, by plan.
Seconds of video per dollar: Veo 3.1 Lite 20, Omni Flash on Sume 8
One dollar buys 20 seconds of Veo 3.1 Lite at 720p, 10 of Fast, 2.5 of Standard, and 8 of Omni Flash at 720p on Sume. Full table to 4K. Read 2026-10-06.
10,000-character TTS script: one 48-cent job or three chunks?
A 10,000-character script costs 48 cents on Sume TTS as one job. Splitting into three adds at most a cent or two of rounding, so chunk only for a reason.
Upgrading Sume Pro to Scale mid-month: what happens to unused usage
An upgrade starts a new billing cycle now and grants the new plan's full included usage. Unused usage from the old plan is superseded, not added.
Which Sume credits are spent first: included usage, top-ups, grants
Sume spends plan-included usage first, then top-up credits, then grants and signup credit, each by expiry date. Why the order matters for your balance.
Yearly budget for 10 ten-second AI videos a week, ten models
Ten 10-second videos a week cost $1.30 a week on Grok Imagine and $57.80 on Seedance 2.5 at 720p on Sume. Per-clip, weekly and 52-week totals by model.
One prompt, three ratios: a 1:1, 16:9 and 9:16 set priced by model
All 19 Sume image models list 1:1, 16:9 and 9:16. A three-image set costs $0.075 on Qwen Image, $0.137 on GPT Image 2.5 high, $0.56 on Nano Banana Pro.
15-second AI video via API: price on nine Sume model settings
A 15-second AI video via API runs from $0.19 on Grok Imagine to $21.32 on Seedance 2.5 at 1080p. One job each, priced from Sume's per-second rates.
30-second AI video ad: Magnific credits vs Sume dollars, three models
A 30-second AI video ad costs $1.78 to $13.20 in Magnific credits and $4.20 to $17.33 on Sume, depending on model. Three models, priced from both pages.
GPT Image 2.5 with 16 references costs 5 times a text-only call
Each reference adds an estimated input-token charge on GPT Image 2.5 via Sume: 0 refs $0.0659, 1 ref $0.0835, 16 refs $0.347 at high 1024x1024.
GPT Image 2.5 at 16:9 costs 54 to 56% of a square at the same quality
At 1280x720 GPT Image 2.5 bills $0.004 to $0.142 across five qualities on Sume, about 54 to 56 percent of the 1024x1024 price. Full table.
Manus agent calling paid Sume tools: cap spend per call
A Manus agent with a Sume API key can start paid generation. Tell it to send max_spend_usd, dry_run and an idempotency_key on every paid call. Why each matters.
One script, three lengths: 60, 180 and 600 s billed at 10, 30, 100c
A 60-second Reel, a 180-second Short and a 600-second TikTok each fit their platform's page. Sume Timeline bills them at $0.10, $0.30 and $1.00.
Cost of 100 four-second AI clips: Magnific credits vs Sume wallet
One hundred 4-second clips cost $52.80 to $176 in Magnific credits and $100 to $231 on Sume, by model. Seedance 2.5 uses 73% of a Premium year of credits.
First-frame stills for 500 SKUs: five image models priced
Generating 500 product first frames costs $32.95 on gpt-image-2.5 high, up to $131.95 on gpt-image-2. A per-model price grid from Sume prices, read 2026-10-05.
Pinterest 6 vs 15 second product video: price for 100 SKUs at 720p
Pinterest recommends 6-15 s video. At 720p on Sume, 100 SKUs cost $75.00 vs $187.50 on Wan 3.0, or $226.80 vs $567.00 on Seedance 2. Full grid inside.
10-SKU AI video ad pilot before Black Friday: priced line by line
A 10-product video ad test costs $22.74 on Sume: image edit, 5 s Seedance 2 clip, $0.20 captions and a $0.10 Timeline end card, plus $3.78 for two retakes.
A 480p proof wall for 100 SKUs: when it beats going straight to 720p
Proofing 100 SKUs at 480p costs $43.94 on Seedance 2-mini or $87.89 on Seedance 2, against $189.00 for 720p finals. It pays only if enough SKUs get dropped.
Annual vs monthly video tool plans: months before the year wins
Zebracat, Predis, Biteable and Submagic quote lower annual prices. The break-even is 6 to 9 months of use, and a prepaid wallet has no term at all.
Do Sume wallet credits expire? 365 days per top-up lot
Each Sume top-up becomes its own credit lot with a 365-day expiry. How to size a top-up so nothing lapses, and how that differs from monthly credits.
Faceless channel, 16 videos a month: the Sume wallet budget
Four 5-minute faceless videos a week cost about $5.29 each on Sume, so $85 a month. How to size top-ups and a retry reserve against 365-day credit lots.
Kling 3.0 720p or 1080p: the same price per second on Sume
Sume bills kling-3 by the second and audio setting only, so 1080p costs the same as 720p: $0.14 a second audio off, $0.21 on. A 10 s clip is $1.40 or $2.10.
Kling 3.0 audio is on by default and adds 50% to the price
On Sume, kling-3 treats a missing generate_audio as true: $0.21 a second, not $0.14. A 10 s clip is $2.10, or $1.40 with generate_audio false.
Solo creator can't top up Sume? The team-wallet-only error
Sume top-ups are bought from a team wallet. If you see stripe_topup_team_only on a personal account, here is what the message means and the two ways out.
Cheapest image edit models on Sume: price per billed image
Six Sume image ids that take references cost under $0.06 billed per image. A ranked table from the catalog list prices, with caveats on n and quality.
Nano Banana 2 thumbnail tier: Google 0.5K to 4K vs Sume billed
Google's 2026 Nano Banana 2 per-image prices from 0.5K to 4K next to what Sume bills, to pick a thumbnail tier by cost rather than habit.
Seedance 2.5 at 1080p costs 2.5x the 720p price, not 2.25x
Going from 720p to 1080p on a 10-second Seedance 2.5 clip raises the Sume price from $5.78 to $14.22: pixels grow 2.25x, and the 1080p rate is higher too.
Seedance 2.5 aspect ratio price: 9:16, 1:1 and 21:9 vs 16:9
On Sume, a 10-second 720p Seedance 2.5 clip is $5.78 at 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1, and $5.81 at 21:9, because price follows pixels. See the table and the 1080p row.
Seedance 2.5 reference video: 15 assumed input seconds at 60%
A reference video makes Sume's Seedance 2.5 estimate add 15 assumed input seconds, then take 60 percent: a 10 s 720p clip goes from $5.78 to $8.67.
Text-to-speech cost per spoken minute: Sume, ElevenLabs v4 and MAI
Convert per-character TTS prices to dollars per finished minute, assuming 900 characters of script. Sume is $0.0428 a minute; vendor list prices compared.
A monthly AI video budget calculator in Python using Sume rates
Plan a month of 480p drafts, 720p posts and audio clips: $97.70 on Sume. A short Python calculator with per-second rates and captions you can edit.
A daily 10-second news short for 30 days: what it costs on Sume
A 10-second Wan 3.0 clip at 720p, captions and a music bed cost $1.575 a day on Sume, or $47.25 over 30 days. A 480p version costs $28.50.
AI API pricing units decoded: credits, tokens, characters, hours
Five vendors, five units. Convert Runway credits, Google tokens, ElevenLabs and MAI characters and per-hour rates into dollars, with a Python helper.
Estimate a Sume video request first: rate x seconds x 1.25
Per-second models bill list price times 1.25 times seconds. A small Python estimator, three 10-second examples and how reserve and usage.cost relate.
Reconcile Black Friday video spend per SKU from the run usage receipt
Each finished Format run has a usage object with billable, debited, held and refunded amounts. Sum them per SKU from your own ledger, not the wallet total.
Runway Gen-4 Turbo at 5 credits a second vs Sume 480p video rows
Runway Gen-4 Turbo costs 5 credits ($0.05) per second. Sume's 480p rows for Wan 3.0, MiniMax H3 and H3 Max are $0.0625/s. Ten-second costs compared.
Veo 3.1 audio doubles Runway credits; Omni Flash on Sume does not
On Runway, Veo 3.1 is 20 credits a second silent and 40 with audio; Omni Flash is 10. Dollar costs next to Sume's Omni Flash 1.1 rates.
Speech-to-text price per hour: Scribe, MAI Streaming, Sume
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 is $0.22 per hour, Realtime $0.39, Microsoft MAI streaming $0.54 and Sume STT $0.60. Costs for 1, 10 and 100 hours of audio.
Stocking-stuffer gift videos: a bigger spend cap for the hero SKU only
In one bulk queue every item can carry its own generation_spend_cap_usd. Give the hero gift a higher ceiling and cheap stocking stuffers a low one.
Avatar video cost per minute on Sume: Standard, Plus and Max tiers
Avatar 1.0 video is $0.184 to $0.58 per second on Sume; a minute is $11.04 to $34.80. Tier table, product-image surcharge and the $0.95 creation fee.
Sume media tool prices: background removal, upscale, timeline
Remove background $0.0225 per image, image upscale $0.20, video upscale $0.009 a second, timeline $0.10 an output minute. Batch costs at 10 to 1,000.
Veo 3.1 Lite, Fast, Standard at 1080p for 8 s, and Sume rows
Google lists Veo 3.1 at 1080p for $0.08, $0.12 and $0.40 a second (Lite, Fast, Standard): $0.64, $0.96, $3.20 for 8 s. Sume's 1080p rows: $1.50 to $2.00.
Pick the cheapest Sume video model for an 8-second 16:9 clip
A Python picker reads the live Sume video catalog, drops models that cannot do your length, aspect or resolution, and ranks the rest by per-second price.
Tavus Starter or Growth? The break-even is about 1,014 live minutes
Tavus Starter is $59 for 100 minutes plus $0.37 per extra; Growth is $397 for 1,250 plus $0.32. Growth is cheaper from about 1,014 minutes a month. Math inside.