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Video AI by Topaz Labs
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Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.
3.0M visits/mo7.0K saves
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VidHex
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Desktop and cloud AI suite for enhancing, upscaling, and restoring video, for casual users and creators fixing low-quality footage.
62K visits/mo
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Colourlab
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AI color-grading software for editors and colorists that auto-balances, matches shots, and runs locally in Resolve, Premiere, and more.
67K visits/mo6.9K saves
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unbg.video
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AI tool that removes and replaces video backgrounds without a green screen, exporting transparent or edited clips.
2.4K saves
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Pixlr
✓ verifiedFreemium
Established browser-based photo and design editor with AI image, video, and audio generation tools.
10M visits/mo
Pricing
Topaz Image Web: $12/mo (introductory, up to 32MP, unlimited cloud rendering)
Astra Standard: $19/mo (introductory, 400 credits/month, 4K video output)
Topaz Studio: $34/mo billed annually (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Studio: $69/mo (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Photo: $39/mo (photo restoration and enhancement models)
Topaz Gigapixel: $29/mo (image upscaling models)
Individual 1 Month: $31.92 discounted from $39.90 (100 cloud AI credits)
Individual 1 Year: $79.92 discounted from $99.90 (1,350 cloud AI credits)
Individual Perpetual: $239.92 discounted from $299.90 (5,000 cloud AI credits)
Team 5 Computers: $319.92 discounted from $399.90/year (5,000 credits)
Team 10 Computers: $479.92 discounted from $599.90/year (10,000 credits)
Team 20 Computers: $799.92 discounted from $999.90/year (20,000 credits)
No public pricing
Free trial available
6,000 Credits: $6 one-time (approx. 4 min of standard processing)
20,000 Credits: $18 one-time (approx. 13 min 20 sec of standard processing)
60,000 Credits: $48 one-time (approx. 40 min of standard processing)
140,000 Credits: $98 one-time (approx. 1 hr 33 min of standard processing)
270,000 Credits: $180 one-time (approx. 3 hr of standard processing)
Free trial available
Free: $0
Plus: $2.49/month, or $1.99/month billed yearly
Premium: $9.99/month, or $7.99/month billed yearly
Ultra: From $24.99/month, or from $19.99/month billed yearly
Ultra Max: $49.99/month, or $39.99/month billed yearly
Core features
- ✦AI image and video upscaling up to 4K/32MP
- ✦Denoising and sharpening models
- ✦Photo restoration and dust/scratch removal
- ✦Face enhancement and recovery
- ✦Background removal and colorization
- ✦Cloud rendering with concurrency limits
- ✦Bundled multi-app Studio subscription
- ✦Upscales video resolution up to 4K/8K
- ✦Restores damaged or degraded footage, fixing scratches and compression loss
- ✦Colorizes black-and-white video automatically
- ✦Increases frame rate through AI frame interpolation
- ✦Reduces video noise and brightens dark footage
- ✦Enhances facial detail and stabilizes shaky video
- ✦Offers online, no-download tools alongside the desktop app
- ✦AI shot matching across sequences
- ✦One-click auto color balance
- ✦AI auto white balance
- ✦Match a look from any reference image
- ✦Local, on-device processing
- ✦Plugin/standalone for Resolve, Premiere, Nuke, Flame, Baselight
- ✦Film and grain emulation (Pro)
- ✦AI subject detection across people, products, and moving objects
- ✦Background removal without requiring a green screen
- ✦Background replacement with color, image, or video
- ✦Transparent export formats including WebM and ProRes 4444
- ✦Standard and Pro processing modes for different footage difficulty
- ✦Free trial credits for new accounts
- ✦Browser-based photo editor (Pixlr Express and Editor)
- ✦AI text-to-image and text-to-video generation
- ✦Generative fill, expand, and object removal
- ✦AI face swap for photos and video
- ✦AI background remover and photo collage maker
- ✦Text-to-speech and speech-to-text audio tools
Use cases
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Casual users polishing personal travel or family videos
- →Content creators improving vlogs, reels, or tutorials
- →E-commerce sellers upgrading promotional video quality
- →Restoring old family or archival footage
- →Balancing and matching entire timelines
- →Fast cinematic grading for editors
- →High-end finishing and VFX color
- →Creating and sharing looks
- →Removing backgrounds from creator or social media video clips
- →Producing transparent product demo videos for compositing
- →Replacing backgrounds in tutorials without studio equipment
- →Creating ad and marketing videos with custom backgrounds
- →Editing and enhancing photos without installing software
- →Generating marketing images or short video clips from prompts
- →Removing objects or backgrounds from photos
- →Creating photo collages or swapping faces for fun content
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