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
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.