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123RF
✓ verifiedPaid

Royalty-free stock photo, video, and audio library paired with an AI suite for generating, upscaling, and editing images.

5.9M visits/mo
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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
AI Video by Media.io logo
AI Video by Media.io
✓ verifiedFreemium

Media.io offers free online AI tools for generating and editing video, images, and audio, plus viral content workflows.

5.4M visits/mo6.5K saves
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Recraft
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI image and vector generation platform for designers and teams needing art-directed illustrations, photorealistic images, and an API.

1.7M visits/mo9.2K saves

Online design platform with an AI generator that turns text prompts or documents into infographics, brochures, and other visuals.

1.5M visits/mo3.0K saves
Pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

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)

No public pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • 293M+ royalty-free stock assets
  • Photos, vectors, video, audio, and fonts
  • AI image generator and upscaler
  • Generative fill and background tools
  • Search by image
  • Commercially safe licensing
  • 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
  • AI video generation (text and image to video)
  • AI image creation and enhancement
  • AI audio tools
  • AI ad and story video generators
  • Viral content studio
  • Video enhancer and effects
  • Multiple generation models (V2 through V4.1) with strong prompt fidelity
  • Vector and raster image generation and editing
  • Background removal, inpainting, and outpainting
  • Batch and asynchronous processing via API
  • Community gallery on the free tier vs. private images on paid plans
  • Top-up credits for usage beyond monthly plan limits
  • AI infographic generation from prompts, text or uploaded files
  • 12,000+ editable infographic templates across timeline, process, comparison and statistical formats
  • Built-in data visualization and chart editing
  • AI-generated custom icons and images
  • Brand Kit for one-click brand styling
  • Smart accessibility checks (alt text, contrast, WCAG)
  • Export to PDF, PNG, PowerPoint and HTML
  • One of many Venngage makers (posters, brochures, reports, timelines) under a single Venngage account and pricing plan
Use cases
  • Licensing stock media for marketing and design
  • Generating and editing images with AI
  • Sourcing commercially safe visuals in one place
  • Upscaling or extending existing images
  • Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
  • Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
  • Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
  • Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
  • Creating social and marketing videos
  • Generating AI images
  • Editing and enhancing media
  • Designers generating on-brand illustrations and product imagery
  • Marketing teams producing campaign visuals at scale
  • Developers embedding image generation into apps via the API
  • Turning a report into a shareable infographic
  • Generating a comparison or statistics chart from data
  • Creating a brand-consistent brochure or flyer
  • Building a timeline or roadmap visual for a presentation
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