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The models behind Sume's video, image, speech, and music endpoints: ids, clip lengths, resolutions, aspect ratios, audio, references, and migration.

Start with: What AI models does Sume support? Every model id, by API surface

Video edit prompt: say what stays, then what changes (Omni Flash)

A prompt pattern for Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 video edit on Sume: one change per pass, an explicit keep clause, and what the video_url route fixes for you.

Which Sume image models are text-to-image only, with no photo edits

Five Sume image models reject reference images: Higgsfield Soul, Imagen 4 Fast, Imagen 4 Ultra, Recraft V4 and Qwen Image Max. Prices, ratios and edit options.

Do low, medium and high mean the same on every Sume image model?

No. On Sume only ChatGPT Image 2, 2.5 and Ideogram 4.5 accept low, medium and high, and the tiers change price in different ways. Defaults and the tier ladders.

Does GPT Image 1 still work on October 7, 2026? 16 days left

OpenAI's deprecations page lists the GPT Image 1 shutdown for 2026-10-23, 16 days after 2026-10-07. What still works, what Sume serves and what to move to.

Fix extra fingers in an AI image: a masked GPT Image 2.5 edit

Fix a bad hand in an AI image with a mask_url edit on openai/gpt-image-2.5: mask only the hand, keep the rest, and budget about $0.0835 per try at high.

OpenAI names Flare or Sunburst to replace gpt-image-1: which to pin?

OpenAI's deprecations page lists gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or -flare for gpt-image-1. Sume serves both at one price, so the choice is quality. A script to A/B.

Remove an object from a photo without a mask: Ideogram 4.5 prompt edit

Remove a bin, cable or stray person from a photo with no mask: send it to ideogram/ideogram-v4.5 and name the object. $0.0375 to $0.275 per image on Sume.

Square 1:1 ad video: which Sume models accept it, and 4:5

Seedance, Kling, Wan and MiniMax accept 1:1 on Sume; Gemini Omni takes only 16:9 and 9:16. No video model lists 4:5, so Feed needs a crop. Table and steps.

Gemini Omni video edit on Sume: video_url price by output second

Edit a clip with gemini-omni-flash-1.1 by sending video_url and a prompt. Sume bills $0.125 per second at 720p default, so a 6-second edit is $0.75.

Minimum clip length by Sume video model: 2, 3, 4 or 5 seconds

Wan 3.0 starts at 2 s, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 at 3 s, Seedance and Genjutsu at 4 s, MiniMax H3 and Recast at 5 s. Full min and max table for a Sora port.

Seedance pixel sizes by ratio on Sume: 864x496 at 480p, 1920x1080

Sume prices Seedance by video tokens counted from fixed pixel sizes per ratio and resolution. The size table, and why 480p 16:9 is 864x496 and not 854x480.

Silent clips after Sora: which Sume models take generate_audio false

Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 rejects generate_audio false; Kling 3 prices audio on at $0.21 a second against $0.14 off; recast and motion transfer keep source sound.

Wan 3.0 document-to-video claim vs what Sume accepts as reference

Alibaba says Wan 3.0 reads PDFs, slides and docs. Sume's catalog lists image, video and audio references for it, not documents. Read the field before you plan.

Two reference images, one clip: Omni's cat-and-yarn pattern on Sume

Google's docs show two images, a cat and yarn, producing one video. Here is the Sume request with IMAGE_REF tokens and what changes with a brand product.

MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming 2.5% WER: what the test audio mix is

The 2.5% word error rate comes from a chunked-streaming index: 50% AA-AgentTalk, 25% VoxPopuli, 25% Earnings22. Here is how that maps to a recorded call.

A 60-second Seedance 2.5 piece: two 30 s jobs and one last frame

Together lists multi-round extension for Seedance 2.5; Sume documents none. Build 60 s as two 30 s jobs and a last-frame handoff: $34.68 at 720p, $7.50 on Wan.

Music Router image_url: public HTTPS only, and null to clear it

Sume music image_url must be a public HTTPS image, and null clears it on a reused request object. When a mood still helps and when the prompt does more.

MAI-Voice 50.3% of 4,000 listeners: how to quote the Turing claim

Microsoft said 50.3% of 4,000 listeners rated MAI-Voice as equally or more human-like than human recordings. What it covers, and a cheap test.

Native 4K or 2K image edits: pixel ceilings by model

How many pixels each model reaches: Flux 3 Image near 16.8 MP, GPT Image 2.5 capped at 8,294,400 on Sume, Ideogram 4.5 at 2K. What Sume serves.

Music Router prompt limit: 5,000 characters, and what to put in them

Sume Music Router prompts run 1 to 5,000 characters, with no duration field or negative prompt; length goes in the text. A brief budget and a checker.

MiniMax H3 or H3 Max after Sora: native 768p vs latent 1080p prices

On Sume, H3 renders native 480p or 768p and bills 2K/4K upscales; H3 Max adds 1080p as a latent refinement of 768p. 10-second prices side by side.

Three characters, three dances: Omni IMAGE_REF and VIDEO_REF tokens

Google's Omni 1.1 demo swaps three dancers for a dog, an octopus and a bear. Here is the same request on Sume, with the 0-based reference tokens in order.

MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming 0.13 s to final: when the clock starts

The 0.13 second figure is measured from end of speech found by a VAD, and partials arrive in about 100 ms. Why neither number is the wait for a file transcript.

Does Wan 3.0 do 4K? Claim check against vendor pages and Sume

Alibaba lists 480p, 720p and 1080p for Wan 3.0, Morphic says no 4K, and Sume rejects 4k for wan-3.0. Where 4K exists on Sume and at what clip length.

Wan 3.0 same-face test: eight 480p takes for $3.04 before 1080p

Alibaba says Wan 3.0 avoids same-face AI people. Test that claim on Sume with eight 6-second 480p takes at $0.38 each, then render only the best at 1080p.

gemini-2.5-flash-image: Google pages give Oct 2, 2026 and Mar 15, 2027

Google's pricing page says gemini-2.5-flash-image shuts down Oct 2, 2026; its deprecations page says Mar 15, 2027. How to plan around two dates.

gemini-3.1-flash-image is deprecated: move to Nano Banana 2.1

Google deprecated gemini-3.1-flash-image on Oct 6 with no shutdown date and named gemini-nano-banana-2.1 as the replacement. What to change, and what Sume does.

Three Gemini TTS preview ids shut down Nov 17: what replaces them

gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview and both 2.5 TTS previews are listed for shutdown on Nov 17, 2026. Google names two replacements; here is the price per 10 seconds.

Google image model dates on Oct 7, 2026: Nano Banana and Imagen ids

One table of Google's image model release and shutdown dates on Oct 7, 2026, with the replacement Google names for each Nano Banana, preview and Imagen 4 id.

Nano Banana 2.1 has no 512px size in Google's guide; Sume lists 512

Google's guide says 512px is unsupported on Nano Banana 2.1, yet Sume's catalog enum for it starts at 512. How to test what a call returns.

Nano Banana 2.1 references: 10 objects, 4 characters vs Pro 6, 5, 3

Google splits Nano Banana 2.1 references into 10 objects and 4 characters, and Pro into 6 objects, 5 characters and 3 style images. How Sume's flat list maps.

60-second Short: four Kling 3 clips $12.60 or six Omni clips $7.50

Kling 3 caps at 15 seconds and Omni at 10. Filling 60 seconds on Sume costs $12.60 with Kling 3 sound at four clips, or $7.50 with six Omni 720p clips.

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS in the Live API? No, per Google's model page

Google's model page marks the Live API unsupported for Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS. For live voice use Gemini 3.8 Live; Sume TTS is for async audio jobs.

Where can you use Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS today? API, Notebook, Vids

Google lists Gemini 3.8 TTS in the Gemini API, AI Studio, Gemini Notebook and Google Vids now; the Enterprise API is coming soon. What Sume offers instead.

HappyHorse 1.1 on Cloudflare: 2,500-character prompt limit

Cloudflare's HappyHorse 1.1 text-to-video page caps the prompt at 2,500 characters and clips at 3 to 15 seconds. HappyHorse is not in the Sume catalog.

MAI-Voice-2.1 has three style lists: emotion, role and expressive

MAI-Voice-2.1 styles come in three vocabularies: 19 emotions, 6 roles and 11 expressive tags. Which voices use the expressive set, and how Sume differs.

MAI-Voice-2.1 whispering and shouting: the 19 voices that list both

Only 19 MAI-Voice-2.1 voices list whispering and shouting by our count. English-UK and Korean voices do not. Sume has no whisper switch.

MAI-Voice-2.1 has 97 voices: en-US has 7, es-ES and en-AU have 1 each

Microsoft's MAI-Voice-2.1 doc lists 97 prebuilt voices over 28 locales. We counted per locale: some have seven choices, others only one.

Gemini voice remixing is 'coming soon': what Sume TTS can change today

Google says Gemini voice remixing for timbre, pitch, pace and accent is coming soon. Sume TTS today has speed, volume and an emotion string only.

MiniMax H3 outputs 24 fps and 32 kHz stereo: what Sume's H3 adds

MiniMax's H3 open-source post lists 24 fps video and 32 kHz stereo audio, 4 to 15 s clips and 768p by default. Sume's minimax-h3 takes 5 to 15 s.

Qwen Image 2.1 sizes (2752x1536, 2400x1792) vs Sume Qwen ratios

The Qwen-Image-2.1 card lists 2048x2048, 2400x1792 and 2752x1536. Sume qwen-image takes 13 aspect_ratio values instead of pixels. How they line up.

gemini-omni-flash-preview: Oct 22 shutdown on the table, not Sep 30

Google's release note says gemini-omni-flash-preview is deprecated on Sept 30, 2026, but its deprecations table now lists Oct 22. What to pin and what to test.

A bad 30 s Seedance 2.5 take costs $17.33; a 10 s shot costs $5.78

Seedance 2.5 on Sume is about $0.578 a second at 720p 9:16. One rejected 30-second take burns $17.33; a 10-second shot burns $5.78.

Google image model shutdown dates, Oct 7 2026: Imagen 4 to 2.5 Flash

Google's deprecations table lists Imagen 4 as shut down Aug 17, 2026 and gemini-2.5-flash-image as shutting down March 15, 2027. Newer ids have no date yet.

Which Sume video models take an audio_url reference, which do not

Sume video rows list supported_input_references per model. The docs show seedance-2 with audio_url, H3 Max with audio, and Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 without it.

Imagen 4 shut down Aug 17: Nano Banana 2.1 is the named replacement

Google lists gemini-nano-banana-2.1 as the Imagen 4 replacement. Imagen rows on Sume take no reference photos, while Nano Banana 2.1 takes up to 10.

MAI-Voice-2.1 neutral-only voices: Hungarian, Romanian, en-IN

Several MAI-Voice-2.1 voices list only a neutral style: five Hungarian, four Romanian and both en-IN voices. Check the style list before you cast an ad.

30 seconds of ad video: Omni $3.85, Kling 3 $6.40, Seedance 480p $8.10

Thirty seconds on Sume at list: Omni 720p in three clips plus a render $3.85, Kling 3 with sound $6.40, Seedance 2.5 at 480p $8.10 in one job.