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Wan AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Alibaba's Wan AI platform for generating video and images from text or reference images, part of the Tongyi generative AI family.
3.1M visits/mo49K saves
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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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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
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Kapwing
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Browser-based video editor with AI tools for creating, editing, subtitling, and repurposing content.
5.6M visits/mo
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Movavi
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User-friendly photo and video editing suite with AI features.
2.4M visits/mo
Pricing
No public 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)
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
Video Suite: NT$690
Video Suite Plus: NT$2,190
Video Suite + Photo Editor: NT$2,490
Core features
- ✦Text-to-video generation
- ✦Image-to-video generation
- ✦Text-to-image and image editing
- ✦Open-source model releases for developers
- ✦Part of Alibaba's broader Tongyi AI ecosystem
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Video editing
- ✦Photo editing
- ✦Media conversion
- ✦Screen recording
- ✦AI-powered tools (motion tracking, background removal, auto subtitles)
- ✦Extensive library of effects, transitions, titles, and overlays
Use cases
- →Content creators generating short AI video clips
- →Developers building on open-source Wan model weights
- →Marketers producing quick visual content
- →Researchers experimenting with video diffusion models
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →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
- →Editing videos without desktop software
- →Creating social-media clips
- →Adding captions and translations
- →Generating videos from text prompts
- →Team and marketing content creation
- →Creating vlogs
- →Making travel videos
- →Saving family memories
- →Leveling up your vlog
- →Wowing your viewers
- →Earning more followers
- →Creating videos they’ll love
- →Commercial purposes in a business environment
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