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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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HitPaw Photo Restoration
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AI video editor (HitPaw Edimakor) with text-to-video, avatars, translation, subtitles and face swap for creators.
991K visits/mo4.1K saves
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Camtasia online
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Screen recording and editing suite (Camtasia, Snagit, Audiate) with AI tools for noise removal, avatars, and scripting.
871K visits/mo
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Wondershare Filmora ES
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AI-enhanced video editing software for creators, marketers, and freelancers wanting fast, prompt-driven video production.
631K 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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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
- ✦AI text-to-video and script-to-video
- ✦AI avatars and talking-photo videos
- ✦Video translation and dubbing (400+ voices)
- ✦Auto subtitles and speech-to-text
- ✦Face swap and background remover
- ✦1000+ effects, filters, transitions and templates
- ✦Screen recording and multitrack video editing (Camtasia)
- ✦Screenshot capture and annotation with AI redaction (Snagit)
- ✦Text-based video editing driven by transcripts (Audiate)
- ✦AI background noise removal and background blur/removal
- ✦AI script and voice generation for video content
- ✦AI transcription of audio to text
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video AI generation
- ✦AI object and background removal from video
- ✦Auto captioning and AI voice-to-text/text-to-speech
- ✦AI video translator and script-based editing
- ✦Large stock library of templates, effects, and audio
- ✦Cross-platform editing on desktop, mobile, and tablet
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
- →Editing videos for social media
- →Generating videos from text or scripts
- →Translating and dubbing content
- →Creating marketing and explainer videos
- →Corporate trainers producing instructional videos
- →Educators creating course and tutorial content
- →Marketing and product teams making demo and how-to videos
- →Support and documentation teams creating visual guides
- →Editing YouTube or TikTok videos with AI-assisted tools
- →Producing marketing or product videos quickly
- →Generating video content directly from a script or image
- →Adding automatic subtitles and translations to videos
- →Creating social media content for Instagram Reels and Shorts
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