100 draft clips at 5 seconds: Omni 360p $19, Wan 480p $32, Grok $7

A cheap draft round is how most teams spend video credits well: generate many small clips, pick ten, and only pay full price for those. The draft tier you pick matters less than whether its look matches the final model, so the routes below keep the draft and the final in the same model family where Sume allows.

All rows are Sume billed rates (list x 1.25, rounded up per job), 5 seconds each, 100 drafts and 10 finals.

Four draft routes

Which route is honest

Only the first route is a true draft: the same prompt on the same model, at 360p, then the same prompt at 1080p. The motion and framing will be close, though not identical, because Sume models do not accept a seed, so you cannot pin a draft to its final. Treat the draft as a screening tool for the prompt, not a preview of the exact take.

Wan 3.0 and H3 at 480p cost 13 cents more per draft, but they are the right drafts when the final will run on that same model. Grok Imagine drafts are the cheapest, yet they start from a still and do not carry sound, so use them to test a first frame, not a script.

Same prompt, two tiers

Change only resolution. Keep the prompt and the aspect ratio fixed so you compare like with like.

# draft
{"model":"gemini-omni-flash-1.1","prompt":"Product turntable, soft studio light","duration":5,"resolution":"360p","aspect_ratio":"9:16"}
# final
{"model":"gemini-omni-flash-1.1","prompt":"Product turntable, soft studio light","duration":5,"resolution":"1080p","aspect_ratio":"9:16"}