AI image upscaler
Editorial picks for "best ai upscaler".
6 tools

Magnific
Image Generation · Magnific proprietary + Stable Diffusion / Flux finetunes
8.4
Generative AI upscaler and enhancer that hallucinates believable detail into low-res or AI-generated images.
Paid· Premium: €16 · Premium+: €36 · Pro: €230image-upscalingimage-enhancement

Topaz Video AI
Video · Proprietary (Proteus, Iris, Nyx, Starlight Precise, +20 models)
8.2
Desktop AI video enhancer for upscaling, denoising, stabilization, and frame interpolation up to 8K/120fps.
Paid· Topaz Studio: $69/mo · Topaz Studio Pro: $79/mo · Topaz Image Web: $12/mo · Image Web Pro: $35/mo · Astra Standard: $19/movideo-upscalingdenoising

Genmo
Video · Mochi 1
8.0
Open-source text-to-video model (Mochi 1) with a hosted playground for turning prompts into short clips.
Freemium· Free: $0/month · Lite: Loading... · Standard: Loading...text-to-videogenerative-video

ComfyUI
Image Generation · Model-agnostic; runs Stable Diffusion, SDXL, SD3, Flux, HunyuanVideo, LTX-Video, Wan, Mochi and most open-weight diffusion checkpoints
Professional Control of Visual AI
Freemium· STANDARD: $20/month · CREATOR: $35/month · PRO: $100/month · TEAM: $700/monthStable Diffusion and Flux image generationControlNet-guided composition

Stable Diffusion Web UI (AUTOMATIC1111)
Image Generation · Stable Diffusion 1.x / 2.x / SDXL and community fine-tunes (Safetensors checkpoints)
The de facto local Stable Diffusion power-user UI.
Free· Free / open-source (AGPL-3.0). You provide your own compute (local GPU, rented cloud GPU, or a Colab instance).Local text-to-image generationInpainting and outpainting existing images

Upscayl
Image Generation · Real-ESRGAN and related ncnn-Vulkan super-resolution models (plus custom user models)
Free and open-source AI image upscaler for desktop
Freemium· Free Trial: $0 · Pro Plan: $24.99 · Business: — · Custom: CustomRestoring old family photo scansEnlarging low-res product photography for print