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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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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
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VideoUpscaler.net
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Credit-based AI suite for upscaling video plus generating images and music, for users wanting one subscription for multiple media types.
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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)
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
No public pricing
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)
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
- ✦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
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- ✦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
- ✦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
- →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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- →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
- →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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