Tavus per-minute video price vs Sume avatar per second

Tavus lists video generation overage at $1.00 per minute on Starter and $0.90 on Growth. Sume's avatar video costs $0.184 per second at Standard quality with no product, which is $11.04 per minute. That is about eleven times the Starter overage rate per minute, so the two products clearly aim at different jobs.

Rates side by side

Tavus prices are monthly plans with an included allowance. Sume rates are the per-second list on the API pricing page.

Reading it

The first row is easy to misread: Starter works out to $5.90 per minute inside the allowance, and only the overage rate is $1.00. Even so, Tavus is cheaper per minute at every tier shown.

Sume's avatar request window is 4 to 60 seconds, so a single clip costs between $0.74 and $11.04 at Standard. The model is a short scene that you stitch, not a long recording.

• A 15-second Plus clip costs $3.675.
• A 60-second Max clip costs $33.00.
• Adding a product reference raises the rate, for example Standard from $0.184 to $0.194 per second.

A 10-minute month

Ten minutes of avatar footage costs $59 on the Tavus Starter plan, which includes exactly ten minutes. The same ten minutes on Sume is $110.40 at Standard, $147.00 at Plus and $330.00 at Max, with no product reference. Sume has no monthly minimum, so a month with only two minutes costs $22.08 to $66.00 instead of a full plan.

What the extra cost buys is a request-per-clip API with a photo avatar, scripted speech and aspect ratios chosen per request. Decide on the job, not on the number: if you need a live conversation, the per-second clip price is the wrong comparison.

Limits

These are different products. Tavus offers real-time conversational video; Sume's avatar endpoint generates clips from a script. Compare features before comparing price. The tables show the model amount. A workspace Agent Fee line can be added on top, so treat the job's own usage cost as the truth and check the live catalog before you budget; limits and rows change.