Wan 3.0 price per second: 1080p costs 4x the 480p rate

fal lists Wan 3.0 at $0.05 per second at 480p, $0.10 at 720p and $0.20 at 1080p (read 2026-10-09). Sume bills provider list x 1.25, so the same tiers are $0.0625, $0.125 and $0.25 per second. The 1080p tier is exactly four times the 480p tier on both.

What does one Wan 3.0 clip cost?

Is the price linear in resolution?

No. The ladder is 1x, 2x, 4x for 480p, 720p, 1080p, while the pixel counts are roughly 1x, 2.2x and 4.8x if you use 864 x 496, 1280 x 720 and 1920 x 1080. Wan is priced as a flat per-second table, so 1080p is the cheapest tier per pixel and 720p is only slightly cheaper per pixel than 480p. fal prices Seedance 2.5 by tokens computed from pixels, a different shape.

What length can I request?

Wan 3.0 accepts 2 to 30 seconds on Sume. A 30-second 1080p job is $7.50 in one request; the Video Router docs list the limits per model.

When is 1080p worth 4x?

• Draft at 480p ($0.0625 per second), finish only the clips you keep at 1080p: a 10-second keeper costs $0.625 as a draft and $2.50 as a final.
• If the destination is a phone feed, test whether 720p ($1.25 for 10 seconds) is enough before paying for 1080p.
• Price a rejected take at the draft rate, not the final rate, when you plan retakes.

What does 100 seconds cost at each tier?

A hundred seconds of finished video is $6.25 at 480p, $12.50 at 720p and $25.00 at 1080p on Sume. On fal's list the same seconds are $5.00, $10.00 and $20.00 (read 2026-10-09), so the Sume amount is list x 1.25 at every tier.

Because the rate is flat per second, there is no extra charge for a longer single job: one 30-second clip costs the same as three 10-second clips at the same tier.

• Use the longer single job when the shot must be continuous.
• Use several short jobs when you want to pick the best of each segment.