Divide by 1.25: find the provider list price behind a Sume price
Sume bills provider list x 1.25, so a $1.50 Omni Flash 1080p clip of 8 seconds has a list of $1.20. Worked table for Wan 3.0, Omni, H3 and Nano Banana.
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
A 60-second Short from two Seedance 2.5 clips at 480p: $16.22
Two 30-second 9:16 Seedance 2.5 clips at 480p cost $16.12, plus $0.10 to join: $16.22. The same minute is $34.67 at 720p and $85.29 at 1080p before the join.
Cost per kept second: Omni 720p vs H3 Max 768p at 1 take in 3
Omni Flash 720p is $0.125 a second and H3 Max 768p is $0.10. Keep one take in three and a kept second costs $0.375 or $0.30 on Sume. Break-even math inside.
Where Sume documents plans, wallet and rates: which page answers what
Eight billing questions mapped to the docs page that answers each: the wallet, top-ups, list x 1.25, plan concurrency, 402 vs 429 and refunds, read 2026-10-09.
Poster motion: Seedance 2.5 at 3:4 costs 0.6% more than 9:16 at 720p
At 14 seconds, a 3:4 Seedance 2.5 clip is $0.05 dearer than 9:16 at 720p. Full 480p/720p/1080p table from the Sume price tool.
Reaction clip on Wan 3.0: 3 s is $0.1875 at 480p, 50 for $9.375
A 3-second Wan 3.0 clip costs $0.1875 at 480p, $0.375 at 720p and $0.75 at 1080p on Sume. Priced from the tool, with the 2 s floor and a request body.
1080p per-second vs per-clip at 7, 13 and 21 seconds: who accepts each
At 1080p a 7-second clip fits five Sume models, a 13-second clip four, a 21-second clip only Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5. Per-second and per-clip prices for each.
Vertical hook at the Seedance 2.5 floor: 4 s costs $5.69 at 1080p
The shortest Seedance 2.5 job, 4 seconds at 9:16, costs $1.07 at 480p, $2.31 at 720p and $5.69 at 1080p on Sume.
Cancel 16 of 20 queued Seedance 2.5 clips: what you keep
Twenty 10-second Seedance 2.5 clips reserve $115.56. Cancel the 16 still queued and $92.448 is released; the 4 running clips complete and cost $23.112.
12-second ad: Omni stops at 10 s, so H3 at 768p is $0.90
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 tops out at 10 seconds. A 12-second ad is one MiniMax H3 job at $0.90 (768p) or two 6-second Omni clips at $1.50 on Sume.
Cheapest 14-second 480p clip on Sume: three models tie at $0.875
For a 14-second clip at 480p, Wan 3.0, MiniMax H3 and MiniMax H3 Max all cost $0.875; Seedance 2 costs $2.4608 and Seedance 2.5 $3.7615. Ranked table.
One 4K 1:4 poster vs four stacked 1K squares: $0.20 vs $0.40
A single 1:4 image on Nano Banana 2.1 costs $0.20 at 4K on Sume. Four stacked 1K squares cost $0.40 and do not join. Costs for 0.5K to 4K and when to stack.
Cancel a queued Sume video job: refund rules and the 409 after start
A queued Sume job can be canceled before it starts; after that cancel returns 409 job_generation_already_started. What is held, with a 30-second example.
Free plan accepts six jobs: six 30-second Wan 3.0 clips hold $11.25
Free workspaces run 1 job and queue 5. Six 30-second Wan 3.0 480p jobs reserve $11.25; the seventh gets 429 queue_full. Pro, Startup and Scale caps shown.
30-clip storyboard agent: which Sume plan accepts all jobs at once?
If an agent submits 30 separate generation jobs, only Startup (48 accepted) and above take them all at once; Pro (24) needs two waves of 18 and 12.
Cheapest 12-second AI video at 720p-class on Sume, five models ranked
For a 12-second clip at about 720p, MiniMax H3 at 768p is cheapest on Sume at $0.90, then H3 Max $1.20, Wan 3.0 $1.50, Seedance 2.0 $4.54, Seedance 2.5 $6.93.
Cheapest 1080p Sume video model for 10, 12, 20 s: $1.875/$2.40/$5.00
Cheapest listed Sume video model at 1080p for 10, 12 or 20 seconds: Gemini Omni Flash 1.1, MiniMax H3 Max, then Wan 3.0, with arithmetic and a Python filter.
One ledger for FLUX.3 credits and Sume USD cost with Python Decimal
BFL bills FLUX.3 in credits at $0.01 each; Sume reports usage.cost in USD. A Decimal ledger puts both on one scale: $0.100 + $0.041 + $0.15 = $0.291.
FLUX.3 4K at $0.607 vs Sume's flux-2-pro at $0.0375: 1,000-image math
BFL lists FLUX.3 at $0.048 (1k) and $0.607 (4k) per image. Sume does not list FLUX.3; its flux-2-pro row is $0.0375 per image, so 1,000 images cost $37.50.
37 listing hero images at 4K: $7.40 on Nano Banana 2.1 via Sume
Cost of 37 4K hero images on Sume: Nano Banana 2.1 $7.40, GPT Image 2.5 high $8.23, Nano Banana Pro $13.88, plus Google's own 4K rate for comparison.
Ideogram 4.5 high $0.275 or seven low tries at $0.0375 on Sume?
Ideogram 4.5 on Sume costs $0.0375 low, $0.075 medium, $0.275 high per image. Seven low retries cost $0.2625, less than one high render. Eight cost $0.30.
Image Router reserves 23 cents, catalog max $7.36: wallet needed
Sume's Image Router catalog row lists an estimate of 23 cents, a 1 cent minimum and a 736 cent maximum. What that means for wallet size and sume/auto.
42 museum audio-guide stops of 380 characters: MAI vs Sume TTS bill
A 42-stop audio guide at 380 characters a stop is 15,960 characters. MAI-Voice-2.1 costs $0.35, Flash $0.24, Sume TTS $0.76. The arithmetic and the catch.
Why a 5-second Wan 3.0 480p job reserves 32 cents on Sume
Sume reserves the estimated price at submit and rounds up to a whole cent: 5 x $0.0625 = $0.3125 becomes 32 cents. Six worked examples from the catalog.
Gemini 3.8 TTS, 500 12-second reads: $2.43 priority, $0.68 batch
500 reads of 12 seconds is 150,000 audio tokens. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS costs $1.35 standard, $2.43 priority, $0.675 batch or flex in 2026. Sume TTS is $4.28.
Nano Banana 2.1, 1,000 images: Sume row vs Google's standard and batch
1,000 Nano Banana 2.1 images at 2K: $150 on Sume's row, $50.40 at Google's standard rate, $25.20 at Google's batch rate, per each page read 2026-10-09.
One 450-character ad read priced five ways: 0.45 to 2.14 cents
One 450-character, 30-second read: Gemini Flash-Lite 0.45 cents, Gemini Flash and MAI Flash 0.68, MAI 0.99, Sume TTS 2.14. With 100-read totals.
10 variants of one prompt (n=10): cost on 7 Sume models and the limit
Ten variants of one prompt cost $0.25 on Grok Image, $0.4375 on Seedream 5 Lite, $1.50 on Nano Banana 2.1 at 2K. The schema allows n=10; models may cap lower.
Shortest clip per Sume video model: 3 s of Omni 360p, about 11 cents
Each Sume video model has a minimum duration: 2 s Wan, 3 s Omni, 4 s Seedance, 5 s MiniMax. What the shortest valid clip costs per resolution on each row.
Retry a timed-out 30-second Wan job: Idempotency-Key vs paying twice
A 30-second Wan 3.0 1080p job reserves $7.50. Resubmit it without an Idempotency-Key after a timeout and you can hold $15.00; the same key does not.
402 insufficient_credits on a 30-second 1080p video: balance needed
Sume reserves the full estimate at submit. A 30-second Seedance 2.5 1080p job needs $42.65 spendable before it is accepted; four other jobs compared.
250 Nano Banana 2.1 images: Google standard vs batch vs Sume, 1K to 4K
Cost of 250 Nano Banana 2.1 images at 1K, 2K and 4K: Google standard $8.40 to $28.25, Google batch half of that, Sume $25.00 to $50.00. Python Decimal table.
GPT Image 2.5 Batch is $15 vs $30 per M output tokens; Sume has none
OpenAI lists GPT Image 2.5 output at $30 per million tokens Standard, $15 Batch. A max 1024px image is $0.21 vs $0.11 in output tokens. Sume has no batch tier.
Check Sume image prices yourself: fal list x 1.25 for five rows
Verify Sume's per-image price in one minute: fal's list for Ideogram 4.5 ($0.03, $0.06, $0.22), Recraft V4 ($0.04) and Seedream 5 Lite ($0.035) times 1.25.
A weekday 12-second Wan 3.0 ad for 22 working days: $33 or $99
One 12-second 720p Wan 3.0 clip is $1.50 on Sume. Posted every weekday for 22 days that is $33; with three takes per day, $99. Drafts at 480p change it.
45-minute video render on Sume: the 30-minute cap and a $4.50 split
Timeline 1.0 renders cost $0.10 per output minute, rounded up, with a 30-minute maximum. A 45-minute video renders as 30 + 15 minutes for $4.50.
A 20,000-character voiceover is about 22 minutes: render bill $2.30
One Sume TTS job can hold 20,000 characters, $0.95. At 15 characters per second that is 22.2 minutes, so a Timeline render reserves 23 minutes: $2.30. The math.
50,000-character voiceover: three Sume TTS requests, $2.375
Sume TTS is $0.0475 per 1,000 characters with a 20,000-character request cap ($0.95). A 50,000-character script splits into three requests for $2.375.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS for 52 weekly 3-minute intros: $2.11, then $4.21
A 3-minute intro is 4,500 audio tokens. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS output for 52 weekly episodes costs $2.11 in 2026 and $4.21 in 2027. Sume TTS compared.
1,500 AI images a month on a $60 cap: which Sume image models fit
A $60 cap for 1,500 images is $0.04 per image. On Sume, gpt-image-2.5 low, grok-image, imagen-4-fast and flux-2-pro fit; seedream-5-lite is $65.63.
Three Wan 480p drafts then one Seedance 2.5 1080p final: $24.13
A 15-second ad drafted three times on Wan 3.0 at 480p ($0.94 each) and finished once on Seedance 2.5 at 1080p ($21.32) costs $24.13 on Sume.
25-second Seedance 2.5 ad on a $10 budget: takes per resolution
A 25-second Seedance 2.5 clip costs $6.72 at 480p, $14.45 at 720p and $35.54 at 1080p on Sume. Here is how many takes $10 buys at each tier.
Video upscale at $0.009 a second: a 22-second clip costs $0.198
Sume video upscale is $0.009 per video second, up to 30 seconds of input ($0.27). A 22-second clip is $0.198; a 100-clip batch of 15 seconds is $13.50.
A $47.50 wallet: how many images each Sume image model makes
With $47.50 on Sume you get 1,919 GPT Image 2.5 low images or 237 Nano Banana 2.1 4K images. Full table of 10 image rows with the division shown.
Format run spend cap: $400 default, $500 ceiling, and what is debited
A Format run's generation_spend_cap_usd defaults to the Format's cap ($400 if unset), maxes at $500, rejects 0. billable_amount meters the cap; debited is cost.
Video frames and reference ingest: no fixed price, a hold that settles
Sume bills video frames and reference ingest by Modal container seconds x list x 1.25 plus a fee, never above the hold. What to expect on the ledger and STT.
Reserved, captured, refunded: the ledger for a 6 s Omni 720p job
A 6-second Gemini Omni Flash 720p job on Sume reserves $0.75, then captures it or refunds it. How to read GET /v1/usage for one job and the three row states.
2.1 million TTS characters a month on Sume: $99.75 in 105 requests
Sume TTS 1.0 is $0.0475 per 1,000 characters with a 20,000-character cap per request. 2.1 million characters is $99.75, or 105 full requests of $0.95 each.