Core concepts

This page is the job and admission map — catalog, jobs, artifacts, usage. For a product map of Agents, Formats, Models, and clients, see Sume basics.

Sume generation workflows are built from a small set of public objects: catalog items, media inputs, jobs, artifacts, usage entries, and dashboard resources.

Platform domains

Domain / URLRole
www.sume.com/dashboardDashboard home and operator surfaces.
www.sume.com/dashboard/api-keysAPI key management.
www.sume.com/dashboard/jobsJob inspection.
www.sume.com/dashboard/usageUsage and balance summary.
www.sume.com/dashboard/subscriptionBilling & subscription / credit top-ups.
www.sume.com/playgroundAvatar playground.
api.sume.comPublic Developer API (/v1) and OpenAPI (/reference/json).
media.sume.comFirst-party generated media artifacts.

Catalog

GET /v1/catalog is the best starting point for programmatic discovery. It lists available capabilities, model ids, endpoint paths, runtime readiness, and pricing metadata.

Jobs

Generation requests create durable jobs. A job tracks request metadata, status, public provider model, result, public error, events, and webhook delivery state.

Supported statuses:

Generation lifecycle

If a client disconnects or times out locally, keep the job id and recover with the jobs API instead of submitting duplicate paid work.

Artifacts

Completed jobs can include public artifacts under https://media.sume.com. Sume-owned artifact URLs are the public contract. Raw provider URLs are not.

Media inputs

Launch generation requests accept public HTTPS media URLs in schema-defined fields such as input.image_url, product_image, scene.image_url, and video_url (face-swap / captions). You do not need a separate asset upload step for normal integrations. Generated outputs are returned as Sume-hosted artifacts under media.sume.com. See Media inputs.

Usage

Provider-backed generation can reserve estimated USD-denominated usage, capture actual cost on success, and refund on failure or cancellation before capture. Use /v1/balance and /v1/usage to inspect current balance and ledger entries.

Dashboard

The dashboard mirrors the API surfaces for humans: