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AVCLabs
✓ verifiedFreemium
Suite of AI tools for upscaling, enhancing, blurring, and editing video and photos, aimed at creators and restorers.
183K visits/mo3.7K saves
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VideoUpscaler.net
✓ verifiedFreemium
Credit-based AI suite for upscaling video plus generating images and music, for users wanting one subscription for multiple media types.
788 saves
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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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UpscaleMy.Video
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Cloud video enhancer that upscales blurry footage to 1080p using AI models tuned by content type.
12K saves
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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
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Basic: $14.9/mo or $7.45/mo discounted (3600 credits/year)
Pro: $49.9/mo or $24.95/mo discounted (14400 credits/year)
Free: $0/mo (10 credits/month, with watermark)
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)
Per video: $4.99/video (after a free sample)
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)
Core features
- ✦Video upscaling to HD/4K/8K
- ✦Facial detail restoration
- ✦Automatic face, object and license plate blurring
- ✦Watermark and object removal
- ✦Image colorization and denoising
- ✦Video stabilization
- ✦AVCLabs Media MCP server for AI agents
- ✦Upscales video to 720p, 1080p, 2K, or 4K
- ✦Supports Basic and Pro processing tiers for text-heavy videos
- ✦Generates AI images and AI music alongside video upscaling
- ✦Allows trimming a video clip before processing
- ✦Offers parallel task processing on paid plans
- ✦Provides commercial usage rights on paid tiers
- ✦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-based video upscaling to 1080p
- ✦Content-type-specific enhancement models (ads, vlogs, gaming, CCTV, anime, etc.)
- ✦Cloud processing with no software installation
- ✦Fast turnaround, typically under 10 minutes
- ✦Support for major video formats up to 2GB
- ✦Free sample before paid full-video 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
Use cases
- →Improving low-resolution video quality
- →Blurring faces and plates for privacy
- →Restoring and colorizing old photos and footage
- →Removing watermarks and unwanted objects
- →Creators upscaling footage for higher-quality reposting
- →Users wanting combined video, image, and music generation in one tool
- →Studios remastering older animation or film libraries
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Creators improving low-resolution personal or archival videos
- →Marketers enhancing promotional video footage
- →Streamers upscaling gaming or sports clips
- →Users restoring old family or vlog recordings
- →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
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