Replicate Wan 3.0 30% off this week: what Sume bills

Replicate's pricing page carries a banner reading "Wan 3.0 is 30% off this week". That is a Replicate promotion on Replicate's own bill. On Sume, wan-3.0 video jobs are billed from the workspace USD balance, reserved on submit at provider list × 1.25, and the docs do not describe passing a vendor's temporary discount through.

Sources: Replicate's pricing page and Sume's Video generation docs, both read 2026-10-01.

What does the Replicate page actually say?

Only the banner text is in the page I read: "Wan 3.0 is 30% off this week". The page does not give a Wan 3.0 price in that text, and it says some models are billed by hardware and time while others are billed by input and output. I am not quoting a discounted figure because the page does not state one.

What does a Sume Wan 3.0 job bill?

The Sume video docs state billing in one line: workspace USD balance, reserved on submit at provider list × 1.25, and usage.cost is the Sume billable amount. Generation admission adds that paid generation uses public Sume USD estimates, reserved when the request is accepted and captured on successful completion.

How do I know the number before I submit?

Do not infer it from a vendor banner. The same promotion pattern is covered in the MiniMax H3 Max promo post. For a Sume job, preview admission first (the MCP dry_run gate previews cost without submitting), then read usage.cost after the job finishes.

Should I wait for the discount to end?

That depends on where you run Wan 3.0. If your jobs go through Sume, a Replicate banner does not change the reserve rule above. For model differences rather than price, see Wan 3.0 on Sume.