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Cutout Pro logo
Cutout Pro
✓ verifiedFreemium

All-in-one AI suite for photo editing, background removal, upscaling, and image/video generation, aimed at e-commerce and creators.

9.9M visits/mo
Pika 2.2 logo
Pika 2.2
✓ verifiedFreemium

A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.

2.2M visits/mo
Digen AI logo
Digen AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI video platform that turns text and images into videos with lip-sync, bundling many models plus upscaling and editing tools.

4.6M 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
Imgupscaler AI logo
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
Pricing

No public pricing

Basic: $0/month (80 monthly video credits, 480p only, watermark on Turbo/Pro credits)
Standard: $8/month billed yearly (700 monthly video credits, all resolutions)
Pro: $28/month billed yearly (2300 monthly video credits, faster generation)
Fancy: $76/month billed yearly (6000 monthly video credits, fastest generation)

No public pricing

Perpetual Desktop License: $119.00 one-time
Perpetual Cross-device License: $159.00 one-time
Perpetual Max License: $179.00 one-time
Free: $0
50 credits: $3.90/mo
500 credits: $12.90/mo
1,000 credits: $16.90/mo
Core features
  • Automatic background removal for photos and video
  • AI photo enhancement and upscaling
  • Face cutout and portrait/headshot generation
  • Text-to-image and image-to-video model access
  • E-commerce tools: product staging, virtual try-on, posters
  • Developer API plus desktop, mobile, and Shopify apps
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
  • Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
  • Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
  • Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
  • Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
  • Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video
  • Lip-sync and talking avatar videos
  • Access to multiple AI video models
  • Video and image upscaling
  • Watermark removal and FPS boost
  • Text-to-speech and sound effects
  • 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)
  • 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
Use cases
  • Prep product photos for online stores
  • Batch-remove backgrounds from images or clips
  • Generate marketing posters and social visuals
  • Create professional headshots from selfies
  • Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
  • Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
  • Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
  • Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
  • Generating short marketing or social videos
  • Creating talking avatar clips
  • Enhancing and upscaling existing videos
  • 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 low-resolution photos
  • Fixing blurry or soft images
  • Restoring and enhancing old photos
  • Upscaling for print or display
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