Seedance 2.5 fal list vs Sume billable: 5 s $2.31 to $2.89
fal lists a 5-second 720p Seedance 2.5 clip at about $2.31 and a 30-second one at $13.87. Sume bills list x 1.25: $2.89 and $17.34. What the 25 percent covers.
Vendor and aggregator pages quote provider list prices. Sume's invoice is different, and a buyer reading both should know the gap before putting numbers into a plan. Here is the Seedance 2.5 case, using the fal page's own examples.
The two examples
fal's Seedance 2.5 page gives the rule as $0.0214 per 1,000 tokens, with tokens = (height x width x seconds x 24) / 1024, and shows examples: 5 seconds at 720p 16:9 about $2.31, and 30 seconds about $13.87 (read 2026-10-05). Sume bills the provider list multiplied by 1.25 and rounds up to the cent.
| Length | fal list | Sume billable | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 s | $2.31 | $2.89 | $0.58 |
| 10 s | $4.62 | $5.78 | $1.16 |
| 30 s | $13.87 | $17.34 | $3.47 |
What the 25 percent buys
If your volume is large and you only ever call one provider, the direct route is cheaper. If you test several models a week, the shared envelope is what you are paying for. Either way, quote with the Sume number: the usage.cost on the poll response is the billable amount.
- One wallet and one API shape across Seedance, Wan, MiniMax, Kling and Omni, with the same job and webhook envelope.
- The reserve, capture and refund path: a failed or canceled job is refunded.
- Job-level controls such as the
Idempotency-Keyheader on submit and signed webhooks, listed in Sume's contract docs.
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