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A2E AI
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All-in-one AI video toolkit (image-to-video, face/head swap, lip-sync, avatars, voice clone) with a free tier and API for creators.
6.7M visits/mo148K 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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Streamrun
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Cloud relay adding disconnect failover, multistreaming, and vertical reframing between a creator's encoder and platforms like Twitch.
12K visits/mo
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Winxvideo
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Multimedia software suite for GPU-accelerated DVD ripping, AI video/image upscaling, and iPhone data transfer.
1.4K saves
Pricing
Free: $0 (30 credits/day)
Pro: $14.90/mo (1,800 credits/mo)
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)
Streamrun Go: $25/mo (up to 2 destinations, 14-day trial)
Streamrun Pro: from $0.39/hour (pay-as-you-go, unlimited destinations)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Image-to-video generation
- ✦Face swap and head swap
- ✦Talking-photo lip-sync
- ✦AI avatars
- ✦Voice cloning
- ✦Access to many models (Kling, Wan, Veo, Seedance)
- ✦Developer API
- ✦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
- ✦Auto-reconnect failover to keep a stream live through disconnects
- ✦Simultaneous multistreaming to several platforms from one source
- ✦Automatic dual-format output (horizontal plus vertical)
- ✦AI-based background noise cancellation
- ✦Visual workflow editor and REST API access (Pro)
- ✦Mid-stream device switching without interrupting the broadcast
- ✦DVD ripping and 1:1 backup, including 99-title discs
- ✦GPU-accelerated video conversion and compression
- ✦AI video upscaling to 4K/8K/10K
- ✦AI video stabilization and denoising
- ✦Frame-rate interpolation up to 480fps
- ✦iPhone/iPad photo, music, and video transfer
- ✦Mac versions for DVD ripping and HD video conversion
Use cases
- →Turn a photo into a talking video
- →Create AI avatar videos
- →Clone a voice for narration
- →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
- →IRL streamers needing stable connections while mobile
- →Creators simultaneously broadcasting to Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and Kick
- →Productions building custom routing/overlay workflows via API
- →Streamers wanting a mobile-optimized vertical feed without a second encoder
- →Backing up a home DVD collection to a hard drive or NAS
- →Upscaling and restoring old or AI-generated videos and photos
- →Shrinking large 4K/8K video files for sharing online
- →Transferring iPhone media to a computer without iTunes
- →Stabilizing shaky phone or drone footage
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