What does $1 of Sume balance buy? Seconds, tracks, images, minutes
$1 buys 100 minutes of speech-to-text, 21,052 characters of voice, 8 music tracks, 16 seconds of Wan 480p video, 10 Nano Banana 2 images or 200 Soul stills.
One dollar of Sume balance buys 100 minutes of transcription, 21,052 characters of text to speech, 8 music tracks, 16 seconds of Wan 3.0 video at 480p, 10 Nano Banana 2 images at 1K, or 200 Higgsfield Soul images at 720p. It is a small unit that shows how different the SKUs are.
| Job | Sume rate | $1 buys |
|---|---|---|
| Speech-to-text | $0.01 per minute | 100 minutes |
| Text to speech | $0.0475 per 1,000 chars | 21,052 characters |
| Music track | $0.125 | 8 tracks |
| Wan 3.0 480p video | $0.0625 per second | 16 seconds |
| Nano Banana 2, 1K image | $0.10 | 10 images |
| Higgsfield Soul 720p image | $0.005 | 200 images |
| Background removal | $0.0225 | 44 images |
| Captions job | $0.20 | 5 jobs |
| Timeline render | $0.10 per output minute | 10 minutes |
Where the rates live
Every rate is on the rate card and in GET /v1/catalog, described in the API reference. Image prices by model are in the Images docs; video by model in the Video Router docs.
These are one-job rates
Real projects mix jobs: a short film is video plus voice plus music plus a render. Add each line item at its own rate; do not scale one row of this table into a whole production.
Recompute it in Python
One dollar divided by each rate. The numbers are the ones in the table above.
rates = {'stt minutes': 0.01, 'music tracks': 0.125, 'wan 480p seconds': 0.0625, 'soul images': 0.005}
for name, rate in rates.items():
print(name, round(1 / rate, 1))Sources
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