AI Image Upscaler

The pitch is narrow and honest: drag an image in, get a bigger and cleaner one out, in the browser. What separates Upscale.media from the crop of single-purpose upscalers is the breadth of the surrounding toolkit. Nine companion tools — Sharpen, Retouch, Enhance Face, Face Restoration, Deblur, Dehaze, Remove Motion Blur, Restore Image, Colourise Image — mean a blurry, hazy, twenty-year-old scan with washed-out faces can be fixed in one place instead of three. Background removal via Erase.bg and bulk presets through the Pixelbin console close the loop for catalogue work; you can build a preset that upscales and strips backgrounds, then run it across a whole folder. Strengths: the free tier is genuine (3 credits and 3 downloads a month, plus one guest upscale per day with no sign-up), scale options go up to 8x, and resolution headroom at 1x is unusually generous — 20,000 x 20,000 px when logged in. Short video upscaling for MP4, MOV and WebM clips under a minute is a differentiator most browser rivals skip entirely. On 2026-05-01 the vendor doubled credits on every plan at the same price, which materially improves the value of both the yearly subscription tiers and the one-time packs. Weaknesses: the resolution ceiling collapses as you push scale — 8x tops out at 2,500 x 2,500 px logged in, so you are not going to produce a 20,000 px poster at 8x. Video stops at one minute. Credits are valid for one year from purchase and are non-refundable, and unused monthly subscription credits expire at the end of each billing cycle — both of which punish lumpy usage on the subscription path. There is no offline mode and no per-image model selection, so photographers who want to choose a model per shot, or who need to work without a network, are better served by Topaz Gigapixel. Where it fits: ecommerce sellers fixing product photos, bloggers resizing thumbnails and headers, real estate agents polishing listing images, and ops teams chaining upscale with background removal across a batch. Where it doesn't: anyone who needs unlimited free upscaling, video editors working with clips longer than a minute, or teams requiring refund guarantees — the vendor states plainly that it does not offer refunds.