Juan Lopez retweeted
Plans on the pricing of Sume API:
1. We're keeping 0% markup.
We've checked our prices against the foundation model providers more than 20 times. If you find any model where our price is different from what the foundation model company charges, tell me and we'll fix it.
2. "Is this business model actually sustainable?"
Yes. Even at 0% markup we're not losing money, so keeping it is not a problem. Because of the competition, video model prices will converge to 0% markup anyway. We're just doing it first.
Our plan is to bring in users by providing models, and later offer a separate SaaS product subscription that covers marketing workflows. So markup on video models stays at 0%.
3. "Kie AI is cheaper on some models?"
If you look at Kie AI, they act like they're giving big discounts on cheap models, but they put a pretty big markup on frontier models like Seedance. My guess is they heavily discount some low-usage models to look cheap, bring users in with that branding, then make their net profit from the markup on Seedance and others. We hate that kind of trick and care about transparency, so it's 0% markup on everything. No tricks.
As you know, other providers play games. The "most accessible" pricing only gets you that price if you subscribe annually to credits that expire every month. And Higgsfield looks cheap with their discount events, but when you buy top-up credits, they take a huge markup.
We learned trust is the most important thing in business. As an early startup, we're promising 0% markup to earn that trust. In return, just recommend us to your friends!
1. We're keeping 0% markup.
We've checked our prices against the foundation model providers more than 20 times. If you find any model where our price is different from what the foundation model company charges, tell me and we'll fix it.
2. "Is this business model actually sustainable?"
Yes. Even at 0% markup we're not losing money, so keeping it is not a problem. Because of the competition, video model prices will converge to 0% markup anyway. We're just doing it first.
Our plan is to bring in users by providing models, and later offer a separate SaaS product subscription that covers marketing workflows. So markup on video models stays at 0%.
3. "Kie AI is cheaper on some models?"
If you look at Kie AI, they act like they're giving big discounts on cheap models, but they put a pretty big markup on frontier models like Seedance. My guess is they heavily discount some low-usage models to look cheap, bring users in with that branding, then make their net profit from the markup on Seedance and others. We hate that kind of trick and care about transparency, so it's 0% markup on everything. No tricks.
As you know, other providers play games. The "most accessible" pricing only gets you that price if you subscribe annually to credits that expire every month. And Higgsfield looks cheap with their discount events, but when you buy top-up credits, they take a huge markup.
We learned trust is the most important thing in business. As an early startup, we're promising 0% markup to earn that trust. In return, just recommend us to your friends!
Introducing the Sume API docs!
Get charged by only what the foundation model companies charge.
Pricing: sume.com/api
Developer docs: sume.com/docs
Pricing highlights (USD):
> Seedance 2.5 (720p): $0.2312/sec
> Seedance 2.0 (720p): $0.1538/sec
> Nano Banana Pro (4K): $0.24/image
> Nano Banana 2.1 (1K): $0.0336/image
> Ideogram 4.5 (2K, high): $0.10/image
> MiniMax H3 Max (1080p): $0.10/sec
> Seedream 5.0 Pro (1K): $0.045/image
The API routing layer should be commoditized.
More to come at Sume’s application layer!
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Juan Lopez retweeted
oh.. did i mention that it's completely free?
Introducing HyperFrames Studio
a video editor built for agents, from scratch
Describe it, your agent builds, then you both work on the same timeline
Draw or comment on a frame, and it makes the edit
100s of inspirations & templates
Download ↓
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Juan Lopez retweeted
Would anyone like to review or test remote gateway viewing? Get it really clean and nice before release?
Please send your agents and your brains to this PR: github.com/NousResearch/h…
Please send your agents and your brains to this PR: github.com/NousResearch/h…
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