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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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Maestra
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Web platform for AI transcription, subtitling, translation and dubbing across 125+ languages, aimed at video creators and teams.
1.5M visits/mo
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Vance.ai
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All-in-one AI photo and video enhancement suite for upscaling, denoising, sharpening, colorizing, and restoring images at scale.
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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
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)
Pay As You Go: $12 (60 credits)
Lite: $23/mo (180 min)
Basic: $39/mo (360 min)
Premium: $79/mo (900 min)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free trial available
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
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
- ✦Automatic transcription with speakers and timestamps
- ✦Subtitle generation, translation and editing
- ✦AI dubbing with voice cloning and lip sync
- ✦Real-time transcription, translation and captioning
- ✦Text-to-speech voiceovers in 125+ languages
- ✦AI image and video upscaling up to high multiples
- ✦Sharpening to fix blur and out-of-focus shots
- ✦Denoising and compression artifact removal
- ✦Old photo restoration and colorization
- ✦AI background removal and passport-photo prep
- ✦Cartoon/anime stylization of photos
- ✦Offline desktop app for batch processing
- ✦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
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
- →Subtitle and translate videos for global audiences
- →Transcribe meetings, interviews and media files
- →Dub audio and video into other languages
- →Caption live events and streams
- →Upscaling product photos for e-commerce or print
- →Restoring and colorizing old family photographs
- →Cleaning up noisy or blurry photos before publishing
- →Batch processing large volumes of images offline for privacy or speed
- →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
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