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Sume compared with other video and generative-media platforms. Each post uses the vendor's own pages, read on the date the post states.

Gemini Omni Flash on Runway is 720p only; Sume sells 360p to 4K

Runway's Omni Flash model outputs 720p at 10 credits a second. Sume offers four resolutions of the same Google model. Which to use for drafts and finals?

Price per second, 720p and 1080p: Vidu Q4, Omni, Wan 3.0, Seedance 2.5

One table of the new video models at 720p and 1080p: fal list rates read Oct 9, 2026 beside what Sume bills (list x 1.25). Vidu Q4 is not in Sume's catalog.

HappyHorse 1.1 lists 9 aspect ratios; Omni on Sume lists 2

HappyHorse 1.1 reference-to-video offers nine ratios, from 9:21 to 21:9. Gemini Omni Flash offers 16:9 and 9:16. How to check a Sume model's ratios first.

Omni Flash 1.1 vs Wan 3.0: a 10-second clip at 1080p, $1.875 vs $2.50

On Sume a 10-second clip is $1.25 at 720p on both gemini-omni-flash-1.1 and wan-3.0, and $1.875 vs $2.50 at 1080p. Omni caps at 10 s and always adds audio.

Veo 3.1 Fast vs Omni Flash: both $0.10 a second at 720p

Google lists Veo 3.1 Fast and Gemini Omni Flash near $0.10 a second at 720p. Sume lists Omni only, at $0.125. Here is the 8-second math and what differs.

3-second clip: Wan 3.0 $0.375 vs Seedance 2.5 at its 4 s floor

Wan 3.0 accepts 2 to 30 seconds on Sume, so a 3-second 720p clip is $0.375. Seedance 2.5 starts at 4 seconds, so its shortest 720p clip is $2.3112.

Seedance 2.5 vs MiniMax H3 for a 9-second clip: $0.68 to $12.79

A 9-second clip costs $0.5625 to $0.675 on MiniMax H3, up to $1.80 on H3 Max at 1080p, and $2.42 to $12.79 on Seedance 2.5. Resolution grid on Sume.

Runway Gen-4.5 vs Luma Ray3.2: price of a 5 and 10 second clip

Runway lists Gen-4.5 at 12 credits a second ($0.12). Luma lists Ray3.2 per block: $0.30 for 5 s at 720p and $0.90 for 10 s. Here is the full grid.

Runway lists Wan 3 and Seedance 2: 10-second price vs Sume

Runway's API sells wan3 at 10 credits a second at 720p and seedance2 at 36. Here is the 10-second price at each resolution next to Sume's list rows.

Switching Fabric to H3 Max Lip Sync: 6 s, 12 s and 20 s clips compared

Fabric and H3 Max Lip Sync share a body on Sume, so switching is a URL change. At 6 s H3 768p is $0.60 vs Fabric 720p $1.125; at 20 s H3 Max is not eligible.

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 at 56 cents vs H3 at 80 cents, 10 seconds of 768P

MiniMax's page lists Hailuo 2.3 under Legacy Models: $0.56 for a 10-second 768P clip, $0.32 for Fast. H3 is $0.80. Sume lists H3 only.

Veo 3.1 Fast vs Gemini Omni Flash: 10 seconds at 720p, $1.00 vs $1.01

Google's price page puts a 10-second 720p clip at $1.00 on Veo 3.1 Fast and about $1.01 on Gemini Omni Flash. Lite, Standard and Sume rows too.

Nine prices for one 5-second 720p AI video, from 25 cents to $2.00

A 5-second 720p clip on Luma Ray 3.2, LTX-2.5, MiniMax H3, Runway Gen-4.5, Veo 3.1 and Sume rows, with each vendor's own arithmetic. Cheapest to dearest.

One provider behind Hy Image 3.5 Preview vs Sume's one image endpoint

OpenRouter forwards Hy Image 3.5 Preview to one provider, Tencent Cloud. Sume's image API serves every model from one endpoint. What each means for routing.

Luma Ray 3.2 reframe vs LTX reframe: 60-second 1080p, $21.60 vs $12.00

Reframing a 60-second clip to 1080p costs $21.60 on Luma's page (36 cents a second) and $12.00 on LTX's (20 cents). Lower tiers and Sume's $0.02 crop too.

MAI-Voice-2.1 voice cloning is gated; how Sume TTS picks a voice

MAI-Voice-2.1 clones a voice from a 5 to 60 second clip but needs gated access. Sume TTS selects voices by avatar or voice id and has no reference-audio field.

FLUX.3 Image vs Seedream 5 Lite: price per image at 1K, 2K, 4K

BFL lists FLUX.3 Image at $0.048 (1k), $0.100 (2k) and $0.607 (4k). Sume lists Seedream 5 Lite at $0.04375 and no FLUX.3. Full grid and 1,000-image totals.

Runway image API: Seedream 5 Lite at $0.04 vs Sume's $0.04375

Runway's API lists seedream5_lite at 4 credits ($0.04) and muse_image at 1. Sume lists Seedream 5 Lite at $0.04375 plus cheaper draft rows. 500-image totals.

2K image price check: FLUX.3 $0.100, GPT 2.5 $0.0556, Banana $0.15

A 2K image costs $0.100 on BFL's FLUX.3, $0.055625 on Sume's GPT Image 2.5 medium, and $0.15 on Sume's Nano Banana 2.1. 100 images: $10.00, $5.56, $15.00.

Sume TTS is a job, not a stream: cost and fit for a voice agent reply

A 45-second spoken reply is about 675 characters: $0.0320625 on Sume TTS, $0.010125 on MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. Sume returns a finished file, not a live stream.

A 10-second spokesperson clip: Avatar 1.0 $3.40 first, Fabric $1.875

One 10-second spokesperson clip is $0.95 + 10 x $0.245 = $3.40 on Avatar 1.0 at plus, or 10 x $0.1875 = $1.875 on Fabric 720p. At 20 clips: $49.95 vs $37.50.

MAI-Transcribe-2 at $0.54 vs Sume STT at $0.60 an hour: the 6-cent gap

MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming is $0.54 an audio hour through 2026; Sume STT is $0.60 an hour. At 1,000 hours the gap is $60. They suit different jobs.

MAI-Voice-2.1 lists 23 languages; how Sume TTS sets its language

Microsoft lists 23 languages and 26 locales for MAI-Voice-2.1. Sume TTS takes one language field, defaults to English and asks you to confirm a voice mismatch.

Nano Banana 2.1 vs GPT Image 2.5: 4.04x at 1K, 0.9x at 4K

On Sume, Nano Banana 2.1 costs $0.10 at 1K and $0.20 at 4K; GPT Image 2.5 costs $0.02475 low and $0.2225 high. The ratio flips between 2K and 4K.

Sora API removed, no replacement listed: pick a Sume video id

OpenAI removed the Videos API on 2026-09-24 and lists no replacement. Pick a Sume video model by duration cap and the price of an 8-second 720p clip.

YouTube AI label: three auto-detection signals and Sume outputs

YouTube may label video automatically for its GenAI tools, C2PA metadata or internal detection. Sume docs do not mention C2PA, so here is what to check.

A 60-second video from six 10-second clips: H3, Wan 3.0, Seedance

Six 10-second clips make a minute: $4.50 on MiniMax H3, $7.50 on Wan 3.0, $22.68 on Seedance 2 and $34.668 on Seedance 2.5, before retries.

Square pottery clips at 12 s: Wan 3.0 $1.50 vs Seedance 2.5 $6.93

A 12-second 1:1 clip costs $1.50 on Wan 3.0 at 720p and $6.93 on Seedance 2.5 at 720p on Sume, a 4.6x gap.

Forty 2K thumbnails: Nano Banana 2.1 $6.00 or Nano Banana Pro $7.50

Forty 2K images cost $6.00 on Nano Banana 2.1 and $7.50 on Pro. The 40-image bill at 0.5K, 1K, 2K and 4K, and when Pro is worth the gap.

Cheapest AI video API per second: eight listed prices, sorted

The lowest per-second prices on fal, Runway, Google, Replicate and Sume, read 2026-10-09, from $0.025 to $0.09, with which ones Sume actually lists.

Runway API vs Sume: six video models, price ratio per second

Runway bills credits at $0.01. Six of its API models have a Sume id. Sume's price is 0.75x to 1.93x Runway's per second; the table gives each ratio.

Seedance 2.5 for 30 seconds: Runway $9.00 at 720p, Sume $17.334

Runway lists seedance2_5 at 30 credits a second ($0.30) at 720p; Sume's seedance-2.5 is $0.5778. A 30-second clip is $9.00 against $17.334, or $8.06 at 480p.

Replicate FLUX 1.1 Pro vs Sume flux-2-pro: a 250-image refresh

Replicate lists FLUX 1.1 Pro at $0.04 per image. Sume's flux-2-pro is $0.0375. For 250 images that is $10.00 against $9.375; FLUX Schnell is $0.003.

Sora API replacement: four async video APIs and their job shapes

OpenAI's Videos API shut down 2026-09-24 with no replacement listed. OpenRouter, Luma, Runway and Sume all use submit-poll-download; here is each shape.

4K AI video for 10 seconds: Veo 3.1 Fast $3.00, Omni on Sume $3.75

Ten seconds of 4K output: Veo 3.1 Fast lists $0.30 per second and Standard $0.60 on Google; Sume lists Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 at $0.375. Veo Lite has no 4K.

Kling 3 Pro text-to-video is $0.14/s on fal; four Sume ids cost less

Sume lists no Kling text-to-video, only Kling 3.0 Motion Control at $0.1575. Four Sume text-to-video ids cost $0.075 to $0.125 per second against fal's $0.14.

Pika plans: every tier costs 1.11 cents a credit, 0.89 on annual

Starter, Creator and Fancy price credits identically on pika.art: $10 for 900, $35 for 3,150, $95 for 8,550. What that means against Sume's per-second pricing.

12,000 Recraft V4 images: fal list $480 vs Sume $600, the $120 gap

Recraft V4 is $0.04 per image on fal and $0.05 on Sume. For 12,000 images that is $480 versus $600. What the 25% covers, and when to call fal directly.

MAI-Voice-2.1 emotion control vs Sume TTS emotion, speed and volume

MAI-Voice-2.1 lists emotion control. Sume TTS takes generation_config: emotion (1-64 chars), speed 0.6-1.5, volume 0.5-2. A three-take test costs 3 cents.

Runway wan3_prime is 40% above wan3; Sume lists one Wan 3.0 row

Runway lists wan3 at 10 credits a second and wan3_prime at 14. Sume lists wan-3.0 at $0.125 per second at 720p. A 10-second clip: $1.00, $1.40 and $1.25.

Luma Ray3.2 allows 16 keyframes; Sume offers first and last frame

Luma lists up to 16 keyframes per clip on its Ray3.2 API. Sume does not list Luma; its video models take a first and a last frame through frame_images.

Wan 3 on Runway Dev vs Sume: a 30-second 1080p clip is $6.00 vs $7.50

Runway Dev lists wan3 at 5, 10 and 20 credits per second ($0.01 each). Sume lists wan-3.0 at $0.0625, $0.125 and $0.25. The 30-second totals.

Three OpenAI image ids end Dec 1: replacements and 1,000-image cost

gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest shut down 2026-12-01. OpenAI names gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or -flare; Sume's rates for 1,000 images.

Runway hailuo3 for 15 seconds: $1.50 vs Sume minimax-h3 at $1.125

Runway lists hailuo3 (768P) at 10 credits a second. Sume's minimax-h3 at 768p is $0.075. A 15-second clip, the model's maximum on Sume, is $1.50 against $1.125.

Veo 3.1 Fast vs Gemini Omni Flash 1.1: 8 s at 720p is about $0.80

Google prices Veo 3.1 Fast at $0.10 per 720p second and Omni Flash 1.1 at about $0.10. Sume lists only Omni, at $0.125. The 8-second totals on three sellers.

Seedance 2.5 test clip: 4 s at 480p is $1.07 on Sume, $0.80 on Runway

The shortest Seedance 2.5 clip is 4 seconds. At 480p that is $1.07 on Sume and an 80-credit ($0.80) minimum on Runway Dev. Tiers at 720p and 1080p too.

Ten 5-second video drafts: Runway $2.50, Veo Lite $2.50, Sume $1.875

Runway gen4_turbo at $0.05/s and Veo 3.1 Lite 720p at $0.05/s both cost $2.50 for ten 5-second drafts. Sume's Omni Flash 360p is $1.875; Wan 480p is $3.125.

MAI-Voice-2.1 zero-shot voice prompting vs a Sume voice id or avatar

MAI-Voice-2.1 lists zero-shot voice prompting. Sume TTS takes a voice id or an avatar's voice, not a sample clip. What each request can and cannot express.