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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
✓ verifiedPaid
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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UpscaleMy.Video
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Cloud video enhancer that upscales blurry footage to 1080p using AI models tuned by content type.
12K saves
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Vmake
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI UGC video studio that turns product photos into shoppable social videos with avatar hosts, enhancement, and watermark removal.
2.4M visits/mo5.6K saves
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Vidu
✓ verifiedFreemium
Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.
3.3M visits/mo50K 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)
Per video: $4.99/video (after a free sample)
Free trial available
Free: $0/month (limited feature access, watermark included)
No public pricing
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
- ✦AI-based video upscaling to 1080p
- ✦Content-type-specific enhancement models (ads, vlogs, gaming, CCTV, anime, etc.)
- ✦Cloud processing with no software installation
- ✦Fast turnaround, typically under 10 minutes
- ✦Support for major video formats up to 2GB
- ✦Free sample before paid full-video processing
- ✦AI UGC and avatar video generation from product images
- ✦Video and image watermark/background removal
- ✦Video upscaling and noise reduction
- ✦Viral-style creative video templates
- ✦Multi-language video translation and dubbing
- ✦Auto captions and attention-grabbing hook generator
- ✦Text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation
- ✦Multi-reference consistency using up to 7 images
- ✦First and last frame transition control
- ✦Anime art-to-video animation
- ✦Unlimited free generation in off-peak mode
- ✦AI sound effect and AI image generation tools
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
- →Creators improving low-resolution personal or archival videos
- →Marketers enhancing promotional video footage
- →Streamers upscaling gaming or sports clips
- →Users restoring old family or vlog recordings
- →E-commerce sellers creating UGC-style product ads
- →Local business owners repurposing footage for social
- →Affiliate marketers producing shoppable videos
- →Social media managers scaling short-form content
- →Marketers producing branded video ads with consistent characters
- →Anime creators animating static art
- →Creators reusing saved characters/props across multiple videos
- →Users wanting fast, low-cost video generation via off-peak mode
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