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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
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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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Clideo
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Browser-based video toolkit to edit, compress, convert, resize, add subtitles and make GIFs, with a free tier and paid plans.
11M visits/mo
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Wan AI
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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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WayinVideo
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All-in-one AI video clipping and repurposing tool that turns long videos into captioned, reframed shorts for social platforms.
1.5M visits/mo
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)
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Standard: $4.99/month (1,500 credits/month, 1080p export)
Pro: $9.58/month (3,500 credits/month, 2K export)
Pro+: $69.99/month (20,000 credits/month, 4K export)
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Online video editor
- ✦Compress, resize and convert
- ✦Add subtitles and auto captions
- ✦GIF and meme maker
- ✦Video/audio translator and text-to-speech
- ✦Screen and camera recorder
- ✦Merge, cut and rotate tools
- ✦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
- ✦Auto-clips long videos into short highlight reels
- ✦Searches video/transcript content to jump to specific moments
- ✦Summarizes videos into an outline with timestamps
- ✦Generates speaker-labeled transcripts
- ✦Creates animated multilingual captions
- ✦Reframes video into 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9 automatically
- ✦Offers an API for programmatic video processing
Use cases
- →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
- →Quick browser-based video editing
- →Compressing or converting media
- →Adding subtitles and captions
- →Making GIFs and social clips
- →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
- →Repurposing podcasts or streams into short-form social clips
- →Creating subtitles for multi-language audiences
- →Quickly finding and reviewing key moments in long recordings
- →Batch-processing video content via API for content pipelines
- →Building highlight reels for gaming or event footage
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