The best AI upscaler for images and video
Making an image bigger or a clip sharper: which AI upscaler stays true, which is cheap, and which keeps video steady.
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Bigger is not the same as better
An upscaler that stays true enlarges what is there. One that does not invents detail, which looks sharp until you compare it with the original. For print and product photos you want the first kind.
Finished work for print or a big screen: Topaz
Topaz enlarges up to 4x and stays faithful to the original: bigger, not different. It is billed per megapixel of output, so the price rises with the target size. If the detail is not in the source, it will not add it.
A sharper clip without flicker: SeedVR2
Upscaling video frame by frame makes the frames disagree with each other, which shows as flicker. SeedVR2 makes a clip sharper with frames that agree, and it is priced by what you use. Kandinsky 6 has a video upscaler that keeps frames steady too.
A quick, cheap clean-up
For an image that only needs to look better on a screen, the fast upscaler is cheap enough to use casually, with no prompt and no settings. Bria makes an image bigger at a price you can predict.
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