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Pika 2.2 logo
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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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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Any Video Converter
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Video converter and AI enhancer for format conversion, upscaling, and a suite of AI photo and video editing tools.

2.1K saves
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Colourlab
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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
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unbg.video
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AI tool that removes and replaces video backgrounds without a green screen, exporting transparent or edited clips.

2.4K saves
Pricing
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)
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)

No public pricing

Free trial available

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

Core features
  • 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 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
  • Video format conversion (MP4, MKV, AVI, etc.)
  • AI video and photo enhancement/upscaling
  • Audio extraction and conversion
  • AI generation (text-to-image/video)
  • Editing: trim, merge, compress, subtitles
  • 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
Use cases
  • 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
  • Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
  • Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
  • Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
  • Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
  • Converting videos between formats
  • Enhancing and upscaling footage
  • Extracting audio from video
  • Basic AI-assisted video/photo editing
  • 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
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