How far does $5 go on Sume? Images, speech, transcripts, music, video
A $5 test budget buys 63 medium Ideogram 4.5 images, 111 minutes of speech or 473 transcript minutes on Sume, all-in. The count for each asset type.

Before committing to a plan you may want to know what a small test buys. This table divides $5 by the all-in catalog price (list × 1.25, plus the 5.5% fee) for seven common assets. Each row is alone: $5 spent on one thing, not a split.
Sume prices every job at the vendor list price × 1.25, then adds a 5.5% fee on that result, so $1.00 of list becomes $1.31875 (how the formula works). The tables below show both the catalog price (list × 1.25) and the all-in figure with the fee.
$5, one asset at a time
| Asset | What $5 buys |
|---|---|
| Ideogram 4.5 images (medium) | 63 |
| Ideogram 4.5 images (high) | 17 |
| Minutes of speech (900 chars) | 111 |
| Transcript minutes | 473 |
| Music tracks (Lyria 3.5) | 37 |
| Seconds of Grok Imagine Video 1.5 | 379 |
| Seconds of Wan 3.0 at 720p | 37 |
A realistic test split
A better first test is a mix: ten medium images ($0.79), two minutes of speech ($0.09), a transcript of a five-minute clip ($0.05) and one 5-second Grok clip ($0.07) come to $1.00. That is enough to feel how the jobs return, what a retry costs and how the usage rows read.
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