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VideoUpscaler.net logo
VideoUpscaler.net
✓ verifiedFreemium

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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Video AI by Topaz Labs logo
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
unbg.video logo
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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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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UniFab
✓ verifiedFreemium

Desktop AI video/audio enhancer offering upscaling, denoising, colorizing, and face enhancement with optional cloud credits.

196K visits/mo14K saves
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)
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

Free trial available

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • AI video upscaling up to 16K
  • AI denoising and face enhancement
  • Black-and-white video colorization
  • Audio upmixing to surround sound (EAC3/DTS)
  • Support for 1,000+ video format conversions
  • Optional cloud processing via FabCloud credits for GPU-less machines
Use cases
  • 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
  • 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
  • Improving low-resolution video quality
  • Blurring faces and plates for privacy
  • Restoring and colorizing old photos and footage
  • Removing watermarks and unwanted objects
  • Video editors restoring old or low-quality footage
  • Creators upscaling videos for higher-resolution delivery
  • Users converting videos between formats without a GPU
  • Hobbyists colorizing black-and-white home movies
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