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How Sume bills API work: plans and one wallet, what one run cost, estimates before you run, avatar video rates, failed jobs, and 402 errors.

Start with: How Sume pricing works: plans, one wallet, published model rates

Creatify Boreal price per second vs Sume's reserve ledger

Creatify prices Boreal at a cent per second of finished video. Sume shows each model's supported durations, reserves credits at admit and logs it in /v1/usage.

ElevenLabs API pricing: USD, not credits, and Sume's wallet

ElevenLabs says API usage is billed in US dollars, not credits: TTS is $0.08 per 1,000 characters, $0.04 Flash/Turbo. Sume also bills a USD balance.

ElevenLabs cost per extra minute: $0.36 to $0.17 by plan

ElevenLabs lists an extra minute at about $0.36 on Free, $0.20 Starter, $0.18 Creator and $0.17 Pro. Sume's TTS is billed per 1,000 characters, not minutes.

gpt-image-2.5 batch pricing: $4 image input, $15 output per 1M

OpenAI's batch rate for gpt-image-2.5 is $4.00 image input and $15.00 output per 1M tokens. Sume's docs describe a per-image reserve, not a batch tier.

gpt-realtime-translate pricing: $0.034 per minute, and STT plus TTS

OpenAI lists gpt-realtime-translate at $0.034 per minute. Sume has no live translate line; STT 1.0 and TTS 1.0 are separate rates you add up yourself.

Is Runway free? 125 one-time credits, and Sume's Free plan

Runway has a $0 Free plan with 125 one-time credits; Standard is $15 per month. Sume's Free plan covers image generation with no card and 1 concurrent job.

Kling 3.0 4K on Luma: 147 credits per second, audio on or off

Luma lists Kling 3.0 at 2160p for 147 credits per second with or without audio; at 1080p it is 40 without and 49 with. Sume has a generate_audio field.

MiniMax H3 Max on Luma: credits per second in dollars

Luma lists MiniMax H3 Max at 18, 28 and 56 credits per second. Here is that in dollars by plan, and the per-second dollar rate Sume bills instead.

Veo 3.1 on Luma with audio: 280 credits per second, double 140

Luma lists Veo 3.1 at 140 credits per second without audio and 280 with, at 720p and 1080p. Google lists dollars per second. Sume has a generate_audio field.

Replicate cost estimate before running vs Sume dry_run preview

Replicate lists cost estimates on each model's page. On Sume, send dry_run=true on a paid MCP tool to preview admission and cost without submitting the job.

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

Replicate's pricing page shows a one-week 30% banner on Wan 3.0. A Sume video job reserves at provider list times 1.25 and reports usage.cost.

Runway autobilling: how it works, and Sume's manual top-up

Runway autobilling checks hourly, recharges below a threshold, at least 1,000 credits ($10), and stops after three failed charges. Sume top-ups are manual.

Do Runway credits roll over? Max plan: one month

Runway's pricing page says Max credits roll over for 1 month. Sume's plan descriptions list no monthly credit allotment, so there is no plan roll-over.

Runway model router cost: billed at the model it picks

Runway bills a router generation at the rate of the model the router selects and reports model and cost. Sume's sume/auto echoes its id and reports usage.cost.

Suno free plan: 50 credits a day, no downloads. Sume's Free plan

Suno Free gives 50 credits per day with no monthly song downloads or commercial rights. Sume's Free plan has no credit allotment and covers image generation.

Synthesia auto top-up vs Sume: manual dashboard top-ups

Synthesia now offers automatic credit top-ups. Sume top-ups are a manual Stripe-backed dashboard action; a low balance fails at submit, not mid-job.

Video render priced per minute: 61 seconds bills two minutes

Sume Timeline bills per ceil(output minute), so a 61-second render counts as 2 minutes. A worked rounding table for 59, 60 and 61 seconds.

Render cost estimate before export: Timeline plan is unbilled

POST /v1/timeline-1.0/plan returns billable_minutes and an estimated cost without creating a job or reserving credits. What it cannot predict.

Arcads MCP out of credits vs Sume 402 insufficient_credits

Arcads says generation fails without credits. Sume answers 402 insufficient_credits before provider work, and an MCP agent can preview cost with dry_run first.

Workers AI paid models 20/min, 50 with prepaid vs Sume plans

Cloudflare lifts paid Workers AI models from 20 to 50 requests per minute with prepaid credits. On Sume, top-ups do not raise concurrency; the plan does.

ElevenLabs v4 3x credits on Creator+ until Oct 12 vs a USD wallet

ElevenLabs shows Eleven v4 with 3x credits on Creator+ until October 12. Sume has no credit multiplier: TTS is a USD price per transcript character.

Gemini Omni Flash edit billed per input second vs Sume reserve

Runway bills Gemini Omni Flash video-to-video at 11 credits per input second, capped at 10 seconds. Sume reserves an edit from an 8s hint, not a probe.

Grok Imagine video price per second: xAI $0.05 and Sume's rate

xAI lists Imagine video from $0.05 per second. On Sume, grok-imagine-video-1.5 carries a list rate in code and bills at list x 1.25. The per-second math.

Grok TTS at $15 per million characters vs Sume per-character TTS

xAI lists text to speech at $15.00 per 1M characters, or $0.015 per 1,000. Sume TTS also bills per transcript character, with a USD estimate before you run.

Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 price per hour vs Sume STT per minute

xAI lists STT at $0.10 per hour batch and Voice Transcribe 2.0 since Sep 17. Sume STT bills per audio minute, reserving 1 minute by default, max 10 minutes.

Hedra Character 3 price per second vs Sume Avatar Video 720p

Hedra Character 3 lists 2.5, 5 and 6.25 cents per second at 540p, 720p and 1080p. Sume Avatar Video is 720p with standard, plus and max quality tiers.

HeyGen Business: $149 plus $20 per extra seat; Sume's team workspace

HeyGen Business is $149 a month with extra seats at $20 each. Sume's Startup plan lists a shared team workspace and one wallet, with no per-seat price listed.

Ideogram API 402 Payment Required, and Sume image billing

Ideogram tool endpoints can return 402 for insufficient credits or quota. Sume image billing is all-or-nothing: failed generations are not billed.

Ideogram dry_run price quote vs Sume image pricing lines

Ideogram's dry_run=true returns a PriceQuote without generating. Sume's images API has no dry_run; read endpoint pricing lines from the catalog first.

Luma Agents usage: Pro 4x, Ultra 15x, and Sume Agent by plan

Luma lists 4x Luma Agents usage on Pro and 15x on Ultra. Sume gates Sume Agent by plan (limited on Free, full on Pro) and draws it from one credit balance.

Luma Plus, Pro, Ultra credits per month vs a USD wallet

Luma Plus is $30 for 10,000 credits, Pro $90 for 40,000 and Ultra $300 for 150,000. See the implied price per credit and how a USD balance works.

OpenRouter image pricing: billable and unit vs Sume pricing

OpenRouter image pricing lines carry billable, unit and cost_usd. Sume's endpoints response shows lines with the same fields in its docs example.

Pika parallel generations: 2 on Free, 8 on Creator; Sume by plan

Pika lists 2 parallel video generations on Free and Starter and 8 on Creator. Sume sets concurrency by plan and returns 429 queue_full when the queue is full.

Runway gemini_image3_pro: 20 credits at 1K/2K, 40 at 4K

Runway's gemini_image3_pro costs 20 credits per 1K or 2K image and 40 per 4K, or $0.20 and $0.40. Compared with Sume's nano-banana-pro.

Runway grok_imagine_image_2 reference image cost, per request

On Runway, grok_imagine_image_2 costs outputCount × perImage plus 1 credit per reference, charged once per request. Worked example, and Sume's Grok image price.

Runway Hailuo 3 2K: 15 credits a second, and Sume's H3 rate

Runway API lists hailuo3 at 15 credits per second at 2K plus 2 per reference image. Sume's minimax-h3 2K rate, the 5 to 15 second range, and list x 1.25.

Runway ProRes and PNG sequence: 5 credits per second extra

Runway adds 5 credits per second for ProRes and png_sequence, 20 for 10-bit or HDR, on Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0. A 10-second example and Sume's video pricing.

Sync Labs concurrent jobs per plan vs Sume plan-only concurrency

Sync Labs allows 1, 3 or 6 jobs at a time on Hobbyist, Creator and Growth and 429s past that. Sume queues jobs, and only the plan sets processing concurrency.

Sync Labs max video length by plan vs Sume avatar video limit

Sync Labs caps video at 1, 5 or 10 minutes on its lower plans. A Sume avatar video job covers 4 to 60 seconds; split longer scripts into several jobs.

Sync Labs pricing per second, and a Sume dry_run cost preview

Sync Labs bills per second on top of a $5, $19 or $49 plan, and lists sync-3 at $0.107 to $0.133 per second. On Sume, preview a paid call with dry_run first.

BFL auto top-up ($5 threshold) vs Sume dashboard top-ups

BFL can recharge credits automatically below a threshold of at least $5. Sume top-ups are manual dashboard actions, and concurrency is set by plan only.

Managed Agents budget_reached vs Sume generation_spend_cap_usd

A Managed Agents session budget caps spend at list rates and pauses with budget_reached. Sume's generation_spend_cap_usd is a separate required cap.

Creatify Ad Clone credits: 12 per 5 seconds of output

Creatify bills Ad Clone at 12 credits per 5 seconds of output. Sume Avatar Video uses a named quality tier instead, with previews before a full render.

Creatify Aurora 2k credits per second: 2.8, audio up to 14.375 s

Creatify Aurora 2.0 bills 0.4 to 2.8 credits per second by resolution, and 2k only works for audio up to 14.375 s. Sume Avatar Video renders at 720p.

FLUX API: 1 credit = $0.01 at BFL, dollars in Sume usage.cost

BFL prices FLUX in credits at $0.01 each. Sume reports the billed USD amount in usage.cost and exposes GET /v1/balance and GET /v1/usage, so no conversion.

Higgsfield API cashback until Sept 30: how Sume bills a job

Higgsfield's API cashback returned $1 per $1 of API spend until Sept 30, 23:59 UTC. Sume docs list no such promo: list × 1.25 from a USD balance.

Ideogram /v2/account/usage line items vs Sume /v1/usage

Ideogram usage returns billed line items in time buckets for org admins. Sume reads USD balance with GET /v1/balance and ledger rows with GET /v1/usage.

Inworld TTS-2 Flash price: $15 per 1M characters, and Sume's count

Inworld lists TTS-2 Flash at $15 per 1M characters on On-Demand, less on paid plans. How characters are counted on Sume TTS 1.0, and its limits per request.

LTX API pricing SKUs vs Sume's pricing_skus catalog field

An LTX SKU joins endpoint, model, resolution and output type, read from /pricing. Sume lists pricing_skus per video model in its catalog, at list x 1.25.

Shared credits per seat vs one Sume workspace balance and keys

Runway Team adds 6,900 credits per seat to a shared pool. Sume uses one workspace USD balance and workspace-scoped API keys; concurrency follows the plan.

Sync free trial limits vs how Sume surfaces lip sync cost

Sync's free trial gives 3 lip sync generations a month, 20 seconds each. Sume lists no trial cap here: paid jobs need funds, and dry_run previews cost first.

X API Post with a URL costs $0.20 vs $0.015: plan a 100-item batch

X charges $0.015 per Post and $0.20 per Post containing a URL since Apr 20, 2026. A 100-item batch is $1.50 plain or $20.00 with links. Plan around it.

AI video upscale cost: $0.009 per second, 30-second duration field

Sume's video upscale is $0.009 per video second: 5 seconds is $0.045, 30 is $0.27. Omit duration_seconds and 5 seconds are reserved; the field maxes at 30.

Amazon Polly price per 1M characters, and a 5,000-character script

Polly lists Standard at $4, Neural at $16, Generative at $30 and Long-form at $100 per 1M characters. A 5,000-character script next to Sume TTS 1.0.

AI avatar cost: $0.95 once to create, then per second of video

Sume charges $0.95 to create an avatar, then $0.184 to $0.58 per second of avatar video by tier. A 30-second clip costs $5.52 to $17.40 plus the one-time $0.95.

Cheapest AI video API model on Sume: 5-second clips ranked

Grok Imagine 1.5 is the cheapest 5-second clip on Sume at 480p, then Gemini Omni Flash at 360p and Wan 3.0. Ten models ranked by reserved amount.

Captioning 100 short videos: Sume's $20 per-job price vs minute packs

Sume's caption job is a flat $0.20 for a video up to 60 seconds, so 100 videos cost $20 at any length under a minute. Submagic's minute packs give $3 to $17.

Creatomate credits per video minute vs Sume's flat Timeline rate

Creatomate lists about 14 credits for a 720p, 25 fps minute and 1 credit per image. Sume's Timeline charges $0.10 per output minute with no resolution tier.

Deepgram Aura-2 TTS price: $0.030 per 1,000 characters, and a script

Deepgram lists Aura-2 at $0.030 and Aura-1 at $0.0150 per 1,000 characters pay as you go. The cost of a 5,000-character script beside Sume TTS 1.0.

Deepgram Nova-3 at $0.0043 a minute: an hour of audio, and Sume STT

Deepgram lists Nova-3 pre-recorded at $0.0043 per minute monolingual and $0.0052 multilingual. One hour of audio next to Sume STT 1.0's per-minute rate.

ElevenLabs v4 at $0.022 per 1k characters to Oct 12 vs Sume TTS

ElevenLabs lists v4 at $0.022 per 1,000 characters through October 12, then $0.08. Sume's TTS is $0.0475 per 1,000 characters; costs for 1M characters.

JSON2Video 4K costs 4x the credits; Sume Timeline sizes and rate

JSON2Video charges 1 credit per second, 4 for 4K. Sume's Timeline bills $0.10 per output minute and takes edges from 256 to 2160, so no 3840-pixel width.

Microsoft MAI-Voice-2.1 costs $22 per 1M characters; Flash is $15

Microsoft lists MAI-Voice-2.1 at $22 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash at $15 per 1M characters. A 5,000-character script costs this much, next to Sume TTS 1.0.

OpenAI gpt-transcribe $0.0045 per minute vs Sume's STT rate

OpenAI lists gpt-transcribe at $0.0045 per minute, Whisper at $0.006, gpt-live-transcribe at $0.017. Sume STT is $0.01 per audio minute, 10 minutes a request.

OpenAI tts-1 at $15 per 1M characters vs Sume's rate for 1,000 scripts

OpenAI lists tts-1 at $15 and tts-1-hd at $30 per 1M characters. Sume's TTS is $0.0475 per 1,000 characters: 1,000 scripts of 500 characters cost $23.75.

Photoroom Remove Background $0.02 per image vs Sume's rate

Photoroom's API lists Remove Background at $0.02 per image and Image Editing at $0.10. Sume's background removal is a per-image rate; costs for 100 to 10,000.

Runway Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 credits per second vs Sume's rates

Runway lists gemini_omni_flash_1.1 at 3.4, 10, 15 and 30 credits per second from 360p to 4K. Sume's gemini-omni-flash-1.1 is list x 1.25: $0.0375 to $0.375.

Runway's Gemini Omni Flash at 10 credits a second vs Sume's rates

Runway lists gemini_omni_flash at 10 credits per second. Sume's gemini-omni-flash-1.1 prices by resolution from 360p to 4K, at list x 1.25.

Runway Gen-4.5 is 12 credits a second; the same money on Sume

Runway lists gen4.5 at a flat 12 credits per second, $0.60 for 5 seconds. Sume has no Gen-4.5; here is each model's 5-second 720p price beside it.

Runway Grok Imagine 1.5 credits per second vs Sume's rate

Runway bills Grok Imagine 1.5 at 10, 16 or 29 credits per second by resolution, plus 1 per reference. Sume's grok-imagine-video-1.5 is one flat per-second rate.

Runway h3_max at 5 and 8 credits a second vs Sume's H3 Max

Runway lists h3_max at 5 credits per second for 480p and 8 for 768p. Sume's minimax-h3-max bills 480p, 768p and 1080p per second at list x 1.25. Side by side.

Runway image credits in dollars, and the Sume per-image rate

Runway prices images from 1 credit (muse_image) to 41 (gpt_image_2) at $0.01 a credit. Where Sume lists the same model, its per-image estimate sits beside it.

Runway multi_shot_video at 13 credits per second vs Sume clips

Runway prices multi_shot_video at 13 credits per second at 720p, 17 at 1080p. On Sume you generate clips and join them with Timeline; costs for 15 seconds.

Runway Seedance 2 at 40 credits per second vs Sume at 1080p

Runway lists seedance2 at 36 credits per second for 480p and 720p, 40 at 1080p and 150 at 4K. Sume's seedance-2 reserves list x 1.25 and tops out at 1080p.

Runway Seedance 2 at 36 credits a second vs Sume's Seedance rates

Runway lists seedance2 at 36 credits per second and seedance2_fast at 29 for 480p and 720p. Sume's seedance-2 and seedance-2-fast price by resolution.

Runway Seedance 2 Mini 64-credit minimum vs Sume's mini reserve

Runway bills seedance2_mini at 16 credits per second with a 64-credit minimum. Sume's seedance-2-mini reserves list x 1.25 by the second; 4, 5 and 10 s costs.

Runway Veo 3.1 audio is 40 credits a second, 20 without; Sume's toggle

Runway bills Veo 3.1 at 40 credits per second with audio and 20 without. On Sume, kling-3 has a generate_audio toggle with two list rates.

Runway wan3 at 5, 10 and 20 credits a second vs Sume Wan 3.0

Runway lists wan3 at 5, 10 and 20 credits per second for 480p, 720p and 1080p. Sume's wan-3.0 bills list x 1.25; here are both for 5 and 10 seconds.

Shotstack $0.30 per minute vs Sume's $0.10 Timeline render rate

Shotstack pay-as-you-go renders cost $0.30 per minute, billed by the second. Sume's Timeline is $0.10 per output minute, rounded up. Costs for three lengths.

Sora 2 vs Sora 2 Pro tiers: Sume's four Seedance prices

Sora split speed (sora-2) from quality (sora-2-pro) before the API ended. Sume has four Seedance tiers; each one's 5-second 720p and 1080p price.

Submagic API caption minutes at $0.10 to $0.23 vs Sume's $0.20 job

Submagic's API credit packs run $0.10 to $0.23 per minute. Sume charges a fixed $0.20 per standalone caption job for videos up to 60 seconds.

Suno v6-mini is for everyone; Sume charges $0.125 per music track

Suno says v6-mini is open to every plan, with v6 and v6-wild for Pro and Premier. Sume has no plans for music: each generation is a fixed $0.125.

Vidu off-peak mode: 48 hours for half price, and Sume's cheap tiers

Vidu's off-peak mode generates within 48 hours at half price. Sume has no Vidu model and no off-peak flag; the cheap path is a low-resolution tier.

Anam custom avatar slots per plan vs Sume avatar handles

Anam limits active custom avatars by plan, from 1 on Free to 10 on Professional. Sume's avatar docs describe a handle per avatar and one avatar per video.

Anam per-second billing and spend cap vs Sume reserve at submit

Anam bills live sessions by the second against a spend cap. Sume reserves the estimated USD at submit, captures it on success and refunds it on failure.

Anam session limit per plan vs Sume's 4-60 second window

Anam caps one live session by plan, from 3 minutes on Free to 2 hours on Growth. Sume limits each avatar request to a 4-60 second estimated script.

AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime $0.45/hr vs Sume STT per minute

AssemblyAI says Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime is $0.45/hr, unchanged from 3.5 Pro. Per-minute math next to Sume STT at $0.01 per audio minute.

Cartesia Sonic 3.6 heteronyms: read, bass, live, and Sume pricing

Sonic 3.6 improves English heteronyms like read, bass and live in context. When context is enough, when to use a dictionary id, and Sume's TTS rate.

FLUX 3 API price per image: 768sq to 4k, and pricing on Sume

BFL lists FLUX 3 Image at $0.041 (768sq), $0.048 (1k), $0.100 (2k) and $0.607 (4k) per image. Sume prices come from GET /v1/images/models.

Krea 2 API pricing: references and moodboards vs Sume pricing

Krea 2 Medium costs $0.030 to $0.040 and Large $0.060 to $0.070 per generation, rising with style references and moodboards. Sume shows pricing per endpoint.

LTX-2 license: the $10 million annual revenue threshold

The LTX-2 Community License lets anyone use it for any purpose except entities with annual revenues of at least $10,000,000, who need a paid commercial license.

Luma Agents failed generation refunds vs Sume's not-billed rule

Luma refunds content_moderated, generation_failed and output_not_found, and budget_exhausted may be partly charged. Sume bills failed images at zero.

Luma Provisioned Throughput: 8-unit minimum vs Sume concurrency

Luma Provisioned Throughput sells RPM in units with an 8-unit minimum, from $2,100 to $3,800 per unit per month. Sume concurrency is set by plan only.

Luma uni-1 pricing: +$0.0030 per reference vs Sume pricing lines

Luma uni-1 costs $0.0404 per text image, and each extra reference adds $0.0030, up to $0.0674 at nine. On Sume, read the endpoint pricing line.

MAI-Transcribe-2 $0.10 per hour through Dec 31, 2026 vs Sume STT

Microsoft prices the MAI-Transcribe-2 preview at $0.10 per hour through December 31, 2026. Sume STT bills $0.01 per audio minute; here is the per-hour math.

MiniMax H3 license: written authorization above 20M USD revenue

MiniMax H3 license IV.1 requires separate prior written authorization above 20 million USD in yearly revenue. The text and Sume billing.

Muse Voice Transcribe $3 per 1,000 minutes vs Sume STT rate

Meta prices Muse Voice Transcribe at $3.00 per 1000 minutes ($0.18/hour). Sume STT is $0.01 per audio minute, $10 per 1,000. Per-minute and hourly math.

Pika API Club vs Sume: $10 membership or list × 1.25

Pika API Club charges $10 a month plus usage. Sume's video docs bill each call at provider list × 1.25 and report the amount in usage.cost. How to compare.

Suno Pro's 20 downloads a month: what 20 Sume tracks cost

Suno caps downloads by plan: 7 trial, 20 Pro, 60 Premier. Sume lists a fixed $0.125 per accepted music generation, so 20 tracks come to $2.50.

What does extracting audio from a video cost by API?

Sume audio detach is $0.01 per job with no provider inference. Timeline audio is also $0.01 flat. Confirm the rate in GET /v1/catalog.

Gemini tiers unlock by spend and days. Sume limits follow the plan

Gemini upgrades a project after spend and elapsed days. Sume sets request and concurrency limits by plan, and a prepaid top-up does not raise concurrency.

Check credits from a script: sume balance and sume usage get

Read the workspace balance and recent usage rows from the Sume CLI or GET /v1/balance and /v1/usage before a paid batch, with the 402 case handled.

Where did the Sume Credits page go? Billing & subscription

The dashboard surface once called Credits is now Billing & subscription: plan status, balance and manual top-ups. What the API can read and what it cannot.

ElevenLabs Music API price: $0.15 per minute, per track

ElevenLabs lists Music at $0.15 per minute generated. Convert it to a per-track budget, and see why Sume's flat per-generation price is not per minute.

ElevenLabs Scribe v2 pricing: $0.22/hour plus add-ons

ElevenLabs lists Scribe v2 at $0.22 per hour, plus $0.070 for entity detection and $0.050 for keyterm prompting. Sum your hours, then compare per-minute STT.

ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime pricing vs Sume STT jobs

ElevenLabs lists Scribe v2 Realtime at $0.39 per hour against $0.22 for Scribe v2. Sume STT is an async job priced per minute, not a live stream.

ElevenLabs TTS concurrency limit vs Sume's queued jobs

ElevenLabs added per-product concurrency limits for TTS, music and dubbing on enterprise keys. Sume applies one workspace limit and queues extra jobs.

ElevenLabs v4 price: 72% off to Oct 12, and a 5,000-character script

ElevenLabs lists v4 at $0.022 per 1K characters until Oct 12, then $0.08. A 5,000-character script by tier, next to Sume TTS 1.0's per-character rate.

Firecrawl crawl credits per page, and how Sume meters crawl_site

Firecrawl charges 1 credit per crawled page plus 4 more in JSON mode. Sume's crawl_site is listed as an unbilled utility in a bounded rollout.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS price: audio-time vs per-character

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS Standard costs $0.00225 per 10 s of audio until Dec 31, 2026, then $0.0045. Sume bills TTS per character. How to compare.

Genjutsu 1080p: Sume serves it at 480p or 720p only

Higgsfield lists Genjutsu output up to 1080p. On Sume, Genjutsu Motion Transfer accepts 480p (default) or 720p, and any other value is rejected.

MiniMax H3 Max price per second: promo ends Sept 30, Sume bills list

fal lists MiniMax H3 Max at a 50% promo through September 30. Sume's rate is the standard list times 1.25, with 5 s and 15 s clip totals by resolution.

OpenAI TTS pricing per 1,000 characters, and a 5,000-character script

OpenAI lists tts-1 at $15 and tts-1-hd at $30 per 1M characters. Converted to per 1,000 and a 5,000-character script, next to Sume TTS 1.0's rate.

Whisper API cost per minute, and what an hour costs

OpenAI lists Whisper at $0.006 per minute and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe at $0.003. Here is the per-hour math next to Sume STT 1.0's per-minute rate.

Text to speech failed request: charged? Sume dry_run and cap

A TTS job that fails on Sume's duration limit captures no credit. Use dry_run to preview cost and max_spend_usd to cap it before a paid request.

Prime Big Deal Days product videos: cap the spend per run

Prime Big Deal Days runs October 6-7. Queue the product videos as a Format bulk run, with a generation spend cap per item and a small concurrency window.

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live pricing and Sume's async STT job

Google lists Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live at about $0.009 per minute for streaming audio. Sume's STT is an upload-and-poll job priced per audio minute.

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe pricing per minute and the Sume STT rate

Google lists Gemini 3.5 Transcribe at about $0.005 per minute. Sume STT is billed per audio minute and reserves 1 minute when you send no duration.

GPT-Live 1 pricing per second vs Sume's per-job audio billing

GPT-Live 1 voice sessions cost $0.05 per minute billed per second. Sume bills TTS per character and STT per audio minute, each reserved at submit.

Seedance 2.5 80-credit minimum per generation vs Sume's reserve

Runway lists Seedance 2.5 with an 80 credit minimum per generation. Sume reserves provider list x 1.25 at submit; here is a 4-second clip by resolution.

Seedance 2.5 reference video cost: per input second vs Sume

Runway bills Seedance 2.5 reference video per input second. Sume reserves one provider list x 1.25 amount per job; check supported_input_references.

Magnific video upscaler per-frame price vs Sume per-second

Runway bills its Magnific video upscaler per output frame; Sume's video upscale is priced per input second, with a 5 second default reserve and a 30 second cap.

Magnific precision upscaler credits per image vs Sume

Runway lists the Magnific precision upscaler at 25 credits per image, 150 above 4096px. Sume's image upscale is one per-job rate with a reserved output size.

GPT Image 2.5 reference image cost: Runway credit vs Sume tokens

Runway charges 1 credit per GPT Image 2.5 reference image, once per request. Sume prices reference images as input image tokens inside the endpoint price.

Runway product_ugc recipe price vs Sume avatar video rate

Runway's product_ugc recipe starts at 192 credits for 4 seconds at 720p. Sume's avatar video with a product is a per-second rate by quality tier.

Lyria 3 Clip Preview 30-second price vs Sume Music fixed price

Google lists Lyria 3 Clip Preview (30s) at a per-song price. Sume Music charges one fixed price per accepted generation, whatever length the prompt asks for.

MiniMax H3 regeneration to 2K re-bills the original inputs

MiniMax bills a 768P-to-2K H3 regeneration per output second and bills the original task's inputs again. Sume reserves list x 1.25 on submit.

MiniMax H3 Max input video: billed per second, by resolution

MiniMax bills H3 Max input video by duration, at a rate set by output resolution. Sume lists video references for H3 Max and reserves list x 1.25.

MiniMax H3 Max reference images: 2 free, then per image

MiniMax includes the first 2 images free on H3 Max (5 on H3) and charges per extra image. On Sume, check the catalog for accepted reference types.

Eleven v4 TTS on Runway: 2.2 credits per 1,000 chars, then 5

Runway prices eleven_v4 at 2.2 credits per 1,000 characters until October 12, 2026 PT, then 5. Check a long script's cost on Sume before submit.

Do API price changes affect jobs already submitted? Sume

On Sume, the estimate is reserved when the request is accepted, then captured on success or refunded on failure. Here is how to read it in Usage.

HeyGen API concurrency limit: 1.5x burst vs Sume queued jobs

HeyGen Enterprise burst adds up to 50 slots billed at 1.5x. Sume queues jobs above plan concurrency and returns 429 only when the queue is full.

HeyGen voice clone API: 20+ minutes, paid slot, no Sume clone

HeyGen's professional voice clone needs 1-10 recordings totaling 20+ minutes and a paid slot. Sume's TTS tool selects voices and has no clone upload.

Hedra API pricing: estimate endpoint vs Sume dry_run

Hedra says you can price the exact request with an estimate endpoint. Sume's hosted MCP has dry_run and max_spend_usd gates that preview cost before a job.

OmniHuman 1.5 price: $0.12/s BytePlus, $0.16/s fal

BytePlus lists OmniHuman 1.5 at 0.12 USD per second; fal shows 0.16 per second. Sume does not offer OmniHuman, but has two still-plus-audio routes.

Descript jump cut smoothing cost vs Sume flat edit rates

Descript prices smoothing at 0.5 AI credits per second of audio and 1.0 per second of video. Sume's edit steps are flat per job or per output minute.

Unlimited AI video generator subscription: does one exist?

An unlimited AI video plan still limits something. Sume has no unlimited or lifetime plan: paid plans include some usage, then bill per clip.

Text to speech API pricing: per-character rates explained

Text to speech API pricing is a rate per character of input text. Sume's TTS API rate, what counts, worked costs, and how you pay for it.

Speech to text API pricing: cost per minute and per hour

Speech to text API pricing is a rate per minute of audio. Sume's STT rate, what it includes, what an hour costs, and the per-request limits.

AI music generator cost: what one track costs to make

An AI music generator API costs a flat price per generated track on Sume, not per minute. The rate, what changes it, and budgets for takes.

AI dubbing rate per minute: a step-by-step cost breakdown

An AI dub's rate per minute is the sum of its steps: transcribe, translate, speak, render. Sume's per-step prices and a worked 1- and 10-minute dub.

Cost to make an audiobook with AI narration

The cost to make an audiobook with AI is the book's characters times the TTS rate, plus small joining jobs. Worked budgets by manuscript size.

Text to speech commercial use: what the terms allow

Whether you can use text to speech audio commercially is set by the tool's terms and plan. What Sume's terms say, and what to check for a cloned voice.

Affordable AI avatar solutions for small businesses

An affordable AI avatar setup for a small business: pay per second of video, reuse one avatar, render short clips on the standard tier. What it costs.

HeyGen Creator vs Pro: credits, 4K export and price

HeyGen Creator is $29/mo with 600 credits and 1080p export; Pro is $49/mo with 1,000 credits, 4K export and larger tiers. Rollover and watermark rules.

Argil pricing: plans, API credits per minute, and the API

Argil sells plans by monthly credits, and its API spends them: 160 credits per minute of video plus 20 per minute of voice. Plans, credit rules, API calls.

Synthesia AI dubbing costs: minutes per plan and lip sync

Synthesia AI dubbing costs plan credits: up to 48 minutes a month on Starter ($29) and 140 on Creator ($89), and lip sync uses twice the credits.

How much does closed captioning cost? Per clip and per minute

Automated captions on Sume cost $0.20 per job for a video up to 60 seconds. What a 10-minute video costs, and open vs closed captions.

AI image generator for commercial use: what the terms allow

Commercial use of AI images is set by each tool's terms and plan, not the model. On Sume, paid plans include it and Sume claims no ownership of outputs.

Is AI image generator free? What a free plan covers

Some AI image generators have a free plan, but images still have a price. What Sume's Free plan includes, what each image costs, and what's paid.

AI video generator refund policy: what you can get back

Two refunds: money back on a plan, which Sume's terms rule out except where law requires, and failed jobs, whose hold returns to your balance automatically.

How to cancel an AI subscription and what happens next

Cancel from the tool's billing page, after stopping anything that spends. On Sume: Billing & subscription in the dashboard, which uses Stripe's portal.

What are AI credit overages? Billed later or refused

AI credit overages are usage past a plan's included credits, billed later or blocked until you buy more. Sume refuses the job with a 402 until funds are added.

Do API keys cost money? The key is free, the calls are not

An API key is a credential; the calls it makes are what cost money. On Sume, you create keys in the dashboard, and each billed call draws on your balance.

AI video generator for enterprise: terms, billing, limits

Buying an AI video generator for an enterprise means a signed order form, invoice or PO billing and higher limits. What Sume's Enterprise tier lists.

Is HeyGen free? What the Free plan includes

Yes, with limits: HeyGen's Free plan is $0 with no credit card, up to 3 videos a month, each up to 1 minute. Paid plans start at $29 a month.

Is Synthesia free? What the $0 Basic plan gives you

Partly: Synthesia's Basic plan is $0 with no credit card and 1,200 credits a month, up to 10 minutes of video. Downloads are listed on Starter.

Is Kling AI free? Free plan, credits and the API

Kling's app has a free Basic plan with no monthly credits, listed for personal non-commercial use. Paid plans add credits; the API is paid.

Is the Replicate API free? Free runs, credit and tokens

Only briefly: Replicate lets you run select models free, then asks you to set up billing and buy prepaid credit. The API token itself costs nothing.

Is fal.ai free? Credits, keys and what you pay for

fal's docs list no standing free tier: you buy prepaid credits and pay per output. A key costs nothing, and server errors are never billed.

Seedance 2.0 API price: which is lowest, by resolution

The lowest-priced Seedance 2.0 API depends on resolution: at list prices for a 5-second clip, fal is lowest at 720p and Runway at 1080p. Dated table.

4K AI image: generate at 4K or upscale a 1K image? The cost

Nano Banana can render at a 4K tier on Sume. Image Upscale 1.0 enlarges an existing image. What each costs per image and what each needs as input.

Why an AI image costs list × 1.25 on Sume: worked examples

Sume's image catalog prices a model at its list price times 1.25, rounded up to a cent. Worked examples for five models and where the number shows.

Am I charged when an AI image generation fails or is canceled?

On Sume's image API a completed image is billed in full and a failed or canceled one is not. How the reserve, capture and refund work, and what a 402 means.

AI video API cost calculator: price a clip from pricing_skus

Build a video cost calculator from Sume's pricing_skus: per-second, per-resolution and per-token rates, a short Python function, and worked examples.

API spend limit: can you set a monthly budget on Sume?

Sume's docs describe no monthly spend limit. The controls they do describe are the wallet balance, a per-run spend cap, and plan concurrency.

ElevenLabs music commercial use: credit required, download caps

ElevenLabs says Music v2.5 tracks can be used commercially with an ElevenMusic credit and caps lossless downloads by plan. What that means on Sume.

FLUX 3 pricing per second vs how Sume prices video

BFL prices FLUX 3 Video per second: $0.40 at QHD and $0.80 at UHD. Sume video models are priced per SKU from the catalog. How to compare them.

Gemini API video generation cost: about $0.10 a second

Google's Gemini API prices Omni Flash video at $17.50 per million output tokens, about $0.10 per second at 720p, on the paid tier. Sume's per-second rates too.

GPT Image 2.5 auto quality: why the reserve is the max price

quality auto on GPT Image 2.5 reserves the max amount on Sume, not the amount you end up paying. How reserve differs from charge, and how to size a batch.

GPT Image 2.5 xhigh vs max: what the extra tier costs per image

At 1024x1024, max output costs about 2.25 times xhigh before Sume pricing. The per-image and per-100-image numbers, and a small test to decide if max earns it.

GPT Image 2.5 API price: token rates and per-image estimates

GPT Image 2.5 is priced in tokens: $30 per million output image tokens. See the per-image reserve on Sume at 1024, 1920x1088 and 4K for each quality level.

How much does a 5-second AI video cost?

A 5-second AI video costs from cents to a dollar or two on Sume, depending on the model and resolution. The reserved price on every listed video model.

How much does it cost to try an AI video API?

Trying an AI video API costs from about a dime a clip on Sume. The shortest, lowest-resolution test clip for five models, and the balance a test needs.

How to top up AI API credits and check your balance

To top up Sume API credits, buy them in the dashboard's Billing & subscription page; the API only reads your balance. The steps and the balance fields.

Ideogram 4.0 price per image: what Sume charges today

Sume lists no Ideogram 4.0. The Ideogram V3 it does list costs $0.075 per image at every quality, so four images cost $0.30. Here is how to read the live price.

Is Gemini Omni Flash free? Vids, YouTube Create and the API

Gemini Omni Flash is free inside Google Vids and paid in the Gemini API; YouTube Create in five countries lists no price. Where each applies, and Sume's price.

Kling motion control credits per second: 3.0 and 2.6

Kling charges 9 or 12 credits per second for 3.0 Motion Control and 5 or 8 for 2.6. Rounding rules, and Sume's per-second dollar rate for the same job.

Lyria 3.5 pricing: what a song costs on Google and on Sume

Google lists Lyria 3.5 at $0.08 per song on the paid tier. Sume lists its own per-generation music price. Both rate cards, side by side.

MiniMax H3 pricing per second on Sume, by resolution

What a MiniMax H3 or H3 Max clip costs on Sume: a per-second rate by resolution, reserved on submit. Rates for 480p, 768p, 1080p and 2K, with 10-second totals.

MiniMax H3 reference images: what you pay past the fifth

MiniMax H3 reference-to-video on Sume includes the first five reference images; each one after that adds a charge. Worked totals for 6 to 9 images.

Nano Banana 2 pricing per image on Sume, by resolution tier

What one Nano Banana 2 image costs on Sume at 512, 1K, 2K and 4K, how the price scales with n, and where Google publishes its own per-image rates.

Nano Banana 3 API key and cost: what you can buy today

No Nano Banana 3 price exists on the Google pages read. What Google lists for Nano Banana 2 Lite, and how to read the cost of Sume's Nano Banana models.

AI avatar video preview before render: what you pay when

Sume's docs publish no price for an avatar video preview. The render is billed per second by tier, and the tier is chosen at generate-video, after you approve.

Seedance 2.5 free: what is actually free on Sume, and the smallest job

Sume's docs describe no free Seedance 2.5 allowance: jobs reserve from a USD balance. What is unbilled, and what the smallest seedance-2.5 request costs.

Seedance 2.5 1080p: request it and what it costs

Seedance 2.5 offers 480p, 720p and 1080p on Sume. Set resolution to 1080p, see the reserved cost at 5, 10 and 15 seconds, and the vendor's output notes.

Seedance 2.5 price per second: 480p, 720p and 1080p

What a Seedance 2.5 clip costs on Sume at 480p, 720p and 1080p for 5, 10 and 30 seconds, from the pricing code. Cost scales close to linearly with seconds.

Wan 3.0 pricing: what a clip costs per second at 480p, 720p and 1080p

Wan 3.0 is priced per output second by resolution. fal lists $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 a second; Sume bills that list price × 1.25. Costs for 2 to 30 s clips.

HeyGen API pricing: how pay-as-you-go credits work

HeyGen's API is pay-as-you-go: USD credits bought apart from any plan, priced per minute by avatar engine and charged by actual seconds generated.

Synthesia API pricing: which plan, and how credits work

Synthesia's API comes with a subscription on the Creator plan and up. API video is paid in plan credits: 75 credits per minute of API usage.

Sora 2 API pricing: per-second rates and the shutdown

OpenAI priced the Sora 2 API per second: $0.10 for Sora 2, $0.30–$0.70 for Sora 2 Pro. The API shut down on September 24, 2026. What a clip costs now.

Runway API pricing: credits per second by video model

Runway's API sells credits at $0.01 each and bills video per second: 12 credits a second on Gen-4.5, 5 on Gen-4 Turbo. Rates, minimums and add-ons.

Runway credits per video: what one clip costs

A Runway video costs its length times the model's credits per second: Gen-4.5 uses 60 credits for 5 seconds. What each plan's credits buy, dated.

How do AI credits work? Price, tokens and expiry

AI credits are prepaid units a vendor sells at a set price and spends per generation. What a credit is worth, how it differs from tokens, when it expires.

Pay as you go AI video generator: API or subscription?

A pay-as-you-go AI video generator bills each clip by its length, with no monthly allowance to use up or lose. How that compares with credit plans.

AI video production cost: a line-item breakdown

AI video production cost is the clips plus voiceover, music, captions and assembly. A 30-second video on Sume, line by line, at each published rate.

Creatify pricing: app plans, API plans and credits

Creatify pricing: app plans from Free to $99/month, separate API plans at $99 and $299/month, and 5 credits per 30 seconds of URL to Video.

Is MCP free? The protocol is; some server tools are paid

MCP itself is a free, open-source standard. Charges come from the servers you connect: a hosted server's owner decides which of its tools bill.

Seedance tokens: how video tokens turn into dollars

A Seedance token measures output size: width × height × seconds × 24 ÷ 1,024. How tokens become seconds and dollars, with per-model rates.

AI video generator for commercial use: what the terms allow

Commercial use of AI video is set by each tool's terms and plan, not the model. What Sume, HeyGen, Synthesia, Kling, Higgsfield and Argil allow.

Stripe metered billing for AI video: bill each job's cost

Stripe metered billing sums meter events into each customer's invoice. Send one event per finished AI video job, valued at what the job cost.

AI image generator API cost: price per image, model by model

Each image model on Sume has a price per image: flat rates from $0.025 to $0.09375, while tiers and quality move the rest. Failed images cost nothing.

How much does AI video generation cost per second via API?

AI video APIs bill per second of output: $0.0125 to $1.43 on Sume, $0.042 to $1.50 on Kling and Runway. Dated rates, retries and budgets.

Why are AI videos so expensive? What drives the cost

On Sume, AI video is billed by output length at a rate that rises with resolution, and discarded takes are billed too. Why it adds up, how to cut it.

Free AI video API calls on Sume: unbilled checks, flat fees

Which Sume API calls are unbilled, which routes need no API key, and which paid calls charge one flat amount per call instead of a metered rate.

What is the Sume agent fee? The default 5.5%, explained

The Sume agent fee is charged on top of a request's model amount, 5.5% by default. Where the API reports it, and how to read the fee line.

Estimate AI video generation cost before running a Sume job

See what an AI video will cost on Sume before paying: published rates, GET /v1/catalog estimates, unbilled plan checks, MCP dry runs, and spend caps.

AI avatar video API pricing: cost per second and per minute

Sume bills AI avatar video per second by quality tier, with separate rates when you send a product image. Per-minute costs for standard, plus, and max.

Do failed AI video generations cost credits? Reserve, capture, refund

No. Sume reserves a job's estimated USD cost at submit, captures usage only on completion, and releases or refunds the hold if the job fails or is canceled.

Insufficient credits error 402 on the Sume API: add funds and retry

A Sume 402 insufficient_credits means the balance cannot cover the request's estimated cost, so nothing ran. Check GET /v1/balance, add funds, then retry.

AI video generation cost per video: what one Sume API run cost

To see what one Sume run or video job cost, call GET /v1/usage with run_id or job_id and read debited_usd: the wallet deduction, agent turns included.

How Sume pricing works: plans, one wallet, published model rates

Sume plans set access and concurrency. Usage draws from one prepaid wallet at each model's published USD rate, for generation, the Agent, Formats, and the API.