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Imgupscaler AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free AI image upscaler to enlarge and deblur photos up to 16K, with restoration and enhancer tools; no signup to start.
3.4M visits/mo
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Luminar Neo
✓ verifiedPaid
One-time-purchase AI photo editor for landscape, portrait and general editing, usable standalone or as a Lightroom/Photoshop plugin.
1.3M visits/mo34K saves
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BigJPG
✓ verifiedFreemium
Deep-learning image enlarger, especially strong on anime and illustrations, with a free tier and an API.
1.4M visits/mo34K saves
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Deep Dream Generator
✓ verifiedFreemium
Long-running AI art community and generator for text-to-image, video, music, and upscaling with 30+ models.
1.1M visits/mo36K saves
Pricing
Free: $0
50 credits: $3.90/mo
500 credits: $12.90/mo
1,000 credits: $16.90/mo
Perpetual Desktop License: $119.00 one-time
Perpetual Cross-device License: $159.00 one-time
Perpetual Max License: $179.00 one-time
Free: $0 (20 images/mo, 4x max)
Basic: $6 (2 months, 500 images/mo, 16x)
Standard: $12 (6 months, 1000 images/mo)
Premium: $22 (12 months, 2000 images/mo)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI upscaling up to 16K
- ✦Unblur and sharpen
- ✦Old photo restoration
- ✦Face and photo enhancer
- ✦Image-to-image and AI photo editor
- ✦No-registration free use
- ✦AI sky replacement and relighting
- ✦Generative erase, expand and object-swap tools
- ✦Portrait tools: skin smoothing, face and body enhancement
- ✦Noise reduction and AI upscaling
- ✦Focus stacking and HDR/panorama merging
- ✦Layers and masking support
- ✦Raw file support for 1,000+ cameras
- ✦Cross-device editing between mobile and desktop (higher tiers)
- ✦Deep CNN super-resolution upscaling
- ✦Noise reduction and edge smoothing
- ✦Up to 16x enlargement (paid)
- ✦API access
- ✦Desktop and mobile apps
- ✦Offline enlarging for logged-in users
- ✦Text-to-image generation with 30+ models
- ✦AI video generation
- ✦AI music generation
- ✦AI upscaler and photo-editing tools
- ✦Community gallery (trending/latest)
- ✦Energy credit system
Use cases
- →Enlarging low-resolution photos
- →Fixing blurry or soft images
- →Restoring and enhancing old photos
- →Upscaling for print or display
- →Landscape and wildlife photographers replacing skies or enhancing detail
- →Portrait and wedding photographers retouching skin and faces
- →Photographers wanting a non-subscription editor
- →E-commerce and real estate photo cleanup
- →Editing on the go and finishing on desktop
- →Enlarging anime art and illustrations
- →Upscaling photos without quality loss
- →Batch/API image enlargement
- →Preparing images for print
- →Creating AI art from prompts
- →Generating videos from images
- →Upscaling and editing images
- →Sharing work in a creator community
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