Best AI Image Upscalers in 2026

1. Topaz Labs — best for professional photo and video upscaling

Topaz Labs makes the professional standard for AI upscaling and restoration. Its Gigapixel app enlarges images up to 16x while reconstructing realistic detail, Photo handles denoising, sharpening, and face recovery, and Video upscales and stabilizes footage. As of October 2025 it is subscription-only: Gigapixel from $149/year (also $29/month), Photo $199/year, Video $299/year, and the all-apps Topaz Studio bundle $399/year. Desktop apps allow unlimited local rendering, so heavy batches are not metered per image, and the tools integrate as a Photoshop plugin and alongside Lightroom Classic. It is aimed at photographers preparing large prints, video editors restoring archival footage, and AI artists enlarging generated work. The honest caveat: Topaz dropped perpetual one-time licenses on October 3, 2025, so what used to be a single purchase is now a recurring cost, there is no clearly advertised free tier, and the full Studio bundle runs $399/year and up.

2. Magnific AI — best for upscaling AI-generated art

Magnific AI is a generative upscaler: instead of interpolating existing pixels, it uses latent diffusion to invent plausible new detail — skin texture, fabric, foliage — as it enlarges an image up to 16x, toward 16K. Creative and Precision modes plus sliders for Creativity, HDR, Resemblance, and Fractality control how far the model reinvents the picture, which makes it the strongest option for pushing soft Midjourney, Flux, or Stable Diffusion output to print resolution. After Freepik acquired it, upscaling is bundled into unified platform plans on a credit system, starting around $5.75/month on the annual Essential tier (~96K credits), then ~$14.50/month (Premium), ~$25.50/month (Premium+, which adds Topaz upscaler access), up to ~$161/month (Pro). It is built for AI artists and designers. The caveat: because it hallucinates detail, Magnific can alter faces, text, and fine features, so output is not a faithful reproduction of the original, and there is no free tier.

3. Remini — best for one-tap old-photo restoration

Remini is a mobile-first AI photo and video enhancer from Bending Spoons that upscales, unblurs, denoises, and rebuilds facial detail in a single tap — no editing skill required. Its Old Photos Restorer and Face Enhancer are genuinely useful for reviving faded, scratched, or blurry family prints that generic filters leave untouched, and it runs on iOS, Android, and the web. There is a free ad-supported tier that watermarks exports; reported web pricing is $6.99/week for the Personal plan and $9.99/week for Business, with monthly and yearly billing also offered. It suits casual users who want a fast fix for one photo rather than a full editing suite. The caveat: the same aggressive face model that makes portraits pop often over-smooths skin into a waxy look, with no slider to dial it back, and the weekly billing compounds to roughly $30/month for a single-purpose tool.

4. Krea — best free way to upscale

Krea is a real-time creative canvas that collects 150+ models — including Topaz and Magnific — so you can upscale and enhance images alongside generation without separate subscriptions to each. For upscaling specifically, that means access to two of the best models on this list from inside one workflow. The free tier gives 100 compute units a day; paid plans are Basic at $9/month (5,000 compute units, commercial license), Pro at $35/month (20,000 units, all video models), and Max at $70/month (60,000 units, unlimited LoRA training), with annual billing cutting up to 40% off. It fits creators who work across image and video and want the upscalers bundled with everything else. The caveat: compute-unit budgets are consumed quickly by upscaling and video jobs, so the free tier’s 100 daily units and even the Basic pool will not stretch far on heavy, high-resolution work.

5. getimg.ai — best for high-resolution upscaling in a model suite

getimg.ai is an AI image suite that aggregates more than 40 models — FLUX, Stable Diffusion, GPT Image, and others — behind one interface, with an AI editor and upscaling up to 4K–16K depending on tier. Upscaling is one part of a broader workspace rather than the whole product, but the ceiling is high and commercial rights are included on every paid plan. It retired its free tier in early 2026 and is now paid-only: Entry is about $8/month billed annually (3,000 credits, up to 4K upscale), Core about $25/month (15,000 credits, up to 8K), Plus about $55/month (35,000 credits, up to 16K), and Ultra about $150/month (100,000 credits). It suits creators who want editing, generation, and high-resolution upscaling in one place. The caveat: there is no free tier or trial, credits reset monthly with no rollover, and the developer API is billed separately from these subscriptions.

How we picked

All five tools were selected because they genuinely upscale, enhance, or restore existing images rather than generate new ones from a text prompt — the distinct task this list covers. We ranked by output quality, fit for the narrow enhancement job, and verified price: dedicated upscalers and restorers (Topaz Labs, Magnific, Remini) rank above the broader creative suites (Krea, getimg.ai), where upscaling is one feature among many. Pricing was verified on July 8 2026 against each product’s official pricing page; no tool paid or provided incentives to appear in this list.