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.
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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.
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.
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.