Video
Video enhancement & upscaling
Upscale to HD/4K, smooth motion, denoise and restore footage.
What it is
Video enhancement APIs take existing footage and improve it: enlarging resolution (upscaling), adding in-between frames for smoother motion, reducing noise and compression blocks, and restoring old or low-quality material. Image upscaling lives under Image editing; this field is for moving pictures.
How pricing works
Billed per second, per frame, per megapixel or by credits, and almost always rising with output resolution and frame rate. We normalise to one minute of input video at the provider's entry tier (roughly 720p to 1080p output at standard frame rate); 4K or 60 fps outputs often cost 2-4x more.
We compare everything in one unit: USD per minute of input video.
Typical uses
- Restoring archive and legacy footage
- Upscaling AI-generated video to 1080p or 4K
- Smoothing slow-motion and 24 to 60 fps conversion
- Cleaning user-uploaded phone video
What to compare
- Detail fidelity without invented artefacts
- Temporal consistency (no flicker between frames)
- Max output resolution
- Processing speed relative to real time
Watch out for
- Generative upscalers can hallucinate details such as faces or text; compare against the original.
- Costs scale with output resolution and frame rate, so read the per-tier rates.
- Processing can take several times the clip length.
All 2 APIs, cheapest first
Free to browseTick 2 to 4 APIs to compare them side by side.
| API | $ / video min | Operations | Max output resolution | Max upscale | Quality | Price data | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Topaz Video Upscale (on fal) fal.ai | $1.20 | upscale, frame-interpolation, denoise | 4k | — | 90 | Verified Oct 6, 2026 · aging | |
| Runway Video Upscaling Runway | $10.08 | upscale | 4k | — | – | Verified Oct 6, 2026 |