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VidHex
✓ verifiedFreemium
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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Video AI by Topaz Labs
✓ verifiedPaid
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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Vance.ai
✓ verifiedFree trial
All-in-one AI photo and video enhancement suite for upscaling, denoising, sharpening, colorizing, and restoring images at scale.
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Video Compress
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free-tier browser video compressor supporting 40+ formats with credit-based limits on file size and monthly usage.
1.4M visits/mo1.1K saves
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Kapwing
✓ verifiedFreemium
Browser-based video editor with AI tools for creating, editing, subtitling, and repurposing content.
5.6M visits/mo
Pricing
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)
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
Free trial available
Free: $0/mo (30 credits/month, up to 1GB per file)
Basic: $9/mo (750 credits/month, up to 10GB per file)
Pro: $29/mo (5000 credits/month)
Premium: $59/mo (7500 credits/month)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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 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 image and video upscaling up to high multiples
- ✦Sharpening to fix blur and out-of-focus shots
- ✦Denoising and compression artifact removal
- ✦Old photo restoration and colorization
- ✦AI background removal and passport-photo prep
- ✦Cartoon/anime stylization of photos
- ✦Offline desktop app for batch processing
- ✦Target file-size or advanced bitrate compression settings
- ✦Support for 40+ video formats
- ✦Cloud-based processing with no software install
- ✦Automatic file deletion after processing
- ✦Companion tools: crop, trim, video-to-MP3, video-to-text
- ✦Credit-based monthly usage tiers
- ✦Browser-based video editor
- ✦AI video generation from prompts
- ✦Auto subtitles and transcription
- ✦Dubbing and translation into 40+ languages
- ✦Repurpose long video into social clips
- ✦Text-to-speech and audio cleanup
Use cases
- →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
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Upscaling product photos for e-commerce or print
- →Restoring and colorizing old family photographs
- →Cleaning up noisy or blurry photos before publishing
- →Batch processing large volumes of images offline for privacy or speed
- →Shrinking video files to fit email attachment limits
- →Compressing videos to meet Discord's upload size limit
- →Reducing storage costs for large video libraries
- →Preparing 4K footage for faster social media uploads
- →Editing videos without desktop software
- →Creating social-media clips
- →Adding captions and translations
- →Generating videos from text prompts
- →Team and marketing content creation
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