Pricing
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.