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AI Video by Media.io logo
AI Video by Media.io
✓ verifiedFreemium

Media.io offers free online AI tools for generating and editing video, images, and audio, plus viral content workflows.

5.4M visits/mo6.5K saves
VidHex logo
VidHex
✓ verifiedFreemium

Desktop and cloud AI suite for enhancing, upscaling, and restoring video, for casual users and creators fixing low-quality footage.

62K visits/mo
Colourlab logo
Colourlab
✓ verifiedFree trial

AI color-grading software for editors and colorists that auto-balances, matches shots, and runs locally in Resolve, Premiere, and more.

67K visits/mo6.9K saves
unbg.video logo
unbg.video
✓ verifiedPaid

AI tool that removes and replaces video backgrounds without a green screen, exporting transparent or edited clips.

2.4K saves
Video AI by Topaz Labs logo
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
Pricing

No public pricing

Individual 1 Month: $31.92 discounted from $39.90 (100 cloud AI credits)
Individual 1 Year: $79.92 discounted from $99.90 (1,350 cloud AI credits)
Individual Perpetual: $239.92 discounted from $299.90 (5,000 cloud AI credits)
Team 5 Computers: $319.92 discounted from $399.90/year (5,000 credits)
Team 10 Computers: $479.92 discounted from $599.90/year (10,000 credits)
Team 20 Computers: $799.92 discounted from $999.90/year (20,000 credits)

No public pricing

Free trial available

6,000 Credits: $6 one-time (approx. 4 min of standard processing)
20,000 Credits: $18 one-time (approx. 13 min 20 sec of standard processing)
60,000 Credits: $48 one-time (approx. 40 min of standard processing)
140,000 Credits: $98 one-time (approx. 1 hr 33 min of standard processing)
270,000 Credits: $180 one-time (approx. 3 hr of standard processing)

Free trial available

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)
Core features
  • AI video generation (text and image to video)
  • AI image creation and enhancement
  • AI audio tools
  • AI ad and story video generators
  • Viral content studio
  • Video enhancer and effects
  • Upscales video resolution up to 4K/8K
  • Restores damaged or degraded footage, fixing scratches and compression loss
  • Colorizes black-and-white video automatically
  • Increases frame rate through AI frame interpolation
  • Reduces video noise and brightens dark footage
  • Enhances facial detail and stabilizes shaky video
  • Offers online, no-download tools alongside the desktop app
  • AI shot matching across sequences
  • One-click auto color balance
  • AI auto white balance
  • Match a look from any reference image
  • Local, on-device processing
  • Plugin/standalone for Resolve, Premiere, Nuke, Flame, Baselight
  • Film and grain emulation (Pro)
  • AI subject detection across people, products, and moving objects
  • Background removal without requiring a green screen
  • Background replacement with color, image, or video
  • Transparent export formats including WebM and ProRes 4444
  • Standard and Pro processing modes for different footage difficulty
  • Free trial credits for new accounts
  • 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
Use cases
  • Creating social and marketing videos
  • Generating AI images
  • Editing and enhancing media
  • Casual users polishing personal travel or family videos
  • Content creators improving vlogs, reels, or tutorials
  • E-commerce sellers upgrading promotional video quality
  • Restoring old family or archival footage
  • Balancing and matching entire timelines
  • Fast cinematic grading for editors
  • High-end finishing and VFX color
  • Creating and sharing looks
  • Removing backgrounds from creator or social media video clips
  • Producing transparent product demo videos for compositing
  • Replacing backgrounds in tutorials without studio equipment
  • Creating ad and marketing videos with custom backgrounds
  • Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
  • Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
  • Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
  • Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
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