Topaz is $299/year, subscription-only, and wants a real GPU. Upload a clip here and see what browser-based AI does to your footage before you pay anyone anything.
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Since September 2025 the perpetual licence is gone. New customers subscribe: $299/year for Personal, $699/year for Pro, or $59/month. If the subscription lapses you stop getting new models. That is the change that sent most people looking for an alternative — and it is why this page exists.
Topaz renders locally, so it leans hard on your graphics card — on an integrated-GPU laptop it crawls. This runs on cloud GPUs in a browser tab. Nothing to download, no hardware requirement, free credits to start. Videos up to 10 minutes, no watermark on the output.
Topaz has no length limit, works offline, and gives you 19+ specialised models to tune per clip. We cap at 10 minutes, need your file uploaded, and offer no manual controls. If you enhance video for a living, Topaz is the better tool and the $299 is justified. If you have a handful of clips, try this first.
Free credits on sign-up, then 3 credits per second ($0.01 per credit). Pay only for what you process — no subscription, and nothing to cancel. Topaz Personal is $299/year whether you use it or not.
Topaz Video Enhance AI is desktop software for Windows and macOS. This runs in a browser tab. Open the page, drop a file, close the tab if you want — processing continues on our servers.
Topaz renders locally and recommends a dedicated GPU with several GB of VRAM. Rendering here happens on our cloud GPUs, so a five-year-old laptop gets the same result as a workstation — it just takes us the time instead of you.
Videos up to 10 minutes are split into 25-second segments and processed in parallel. A 1-minute clip finishes in 2–5 minutes; a full 10-minute video in 5–8. Topaz, running locally, can take hours on the same footage.
Output files are clean. Topaz does not watermark paid output either — but its free trial does, which is worth knowing before you evaluate it.
VHS transfers, early phone recordings, low-res anime, blurry security clips. It will not colorize black-and-white video, fix faded colour, or repair damaged faces — and neither will Topaz’s upscaling models. That is a colour grader’s job.
Drop an MP4, MOV, AVI or WebM into the box above — up to 200 MB, up to 10 minutes. Use the footage you were about to buy Topaz for.
The video is split into segments and processed in parallel on cloud GPUs. No models to pick, no sliders to tune. A 1-minute clip takes 2–5 minutes.
Toggle between the original and the result. If it is good enough, you just saved $299. If it is not, you now know exactly what you are buying Topaz for — which is a better position than guessing.
The most common reason people land here. Topaz went subscription-only in September 2025, and for occasional use the maths stopped working. Try the free option on your actual footage before committing.
Topaz will technically run on integrated graphics, but slowly enough that it is not worth doing. Cloud rendering removes the hardware question entirely.
Installing desktop software, learning which of 19 models to use, and paying a yearly subscription is a lot of overhead for a single clip. Upload it here instead.
Run the same clip through both. Topaz offers a watermarked trial; this is free and unwatermarked. Judge the output side by side, then spend money — or do not.
It is desktop software from Topaz Labs that upscales and restores video using AI — turning 480p into 1080p, 1080p into 4K, cleaning up noise, deinterlacing old footage, and interpolating frames for slow motion. It renders locally on your own machine rather than in the cloud.
One thing worth knowing before you search further: the product is not called Video Enhance AI any more. Topaz renamed it to Topaz Video AI, and it is now marketed simply as Topaz Video. “Topaz Video Enhance AI” is the legacy name that stuck in everyone’s search habits — if you land on a page selling “Video Enhance AI” as a current, separately-licensed product, treat it with suspicion.
Its strength is depth. It ships 19+ specialised models — Proteus, Iris, Nyx, Artemis, Rhea, Starlight, Chronos and others — each tuned for a different failure mode (compression artefacts, interlacing, low light, motion blur), and it lets you tune them per clip. Nothing browser-based, ours included, comes close on that axis.
The Topaz Video AI video enhancer renders on your own machine; an online one renders on someone else’s. Almost everything else that separates them follows from that single fact.
Local rendering is why Topaz has no length limit, works offline and never uploads your footage — and equally why it needs a dedicated GPU and a subscription before it earns its keep. Cloud rendering is why this page needs neither, and why it caps a job at 10 minutes and cannot run without a connection.
So the useful question is not which video enhancer is better in the abstract. It is whether your footage is long, sensitive or frequent enough to justify paying for capability you then have to host yourself — or short and occasional enough that renting it by the second is simply cheaper.
The big change: perpetual licences were discontinued in September 2025. You can no longer buy Topaz once and keep it forever — new customers subscribe, and if the subscription lapses you stop getting new models and updates.
| Plan | Annual | Monthly | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | $299 / year | $59 / month | Unlimited local rendering, 25 cloud credits/mo |
| Pro | $699 / year | — | Pro-only models, more cloud credits, full commercial use |
We build this tool, so we are not a neutral party and we say so plainly. The rows where Topaz beats us are listed because a comparison we won outright would not be worth reading — and would not be true.
| Topaz Video Enhance AI | VideoEnhancer.app (this page) | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $299/yr Personal · $699/yr Pro · $59/mo | Free credits, then $0.01/credit — no subscription |
| Licence model | Subscription only (perpetual ended Sept 2025) | Pay only for what you process |
| Setup | Download and install a desktop app | Open a browser tab — nothing to install |
| Hardware needed | A dedicated GPU with several GB of VRAM | None — rendering runs on our cloud GPUs |
| Maximum video length | Unlimited | 10 minutes per job |
| Works offline | Yes — renders locally, no upload | No — your file is uploaded for processing |
| Manual control | 19+ models, tunable per clip | One model, no knobs — upload and go |
| Watermark | None on paid plans (the trial watermarks) | None |
Topaz, Topaz Labs, Topaz Video AI and Video Enhance AI are trademarks of Topaz Labs LLC. VideoEnhancer.app is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Topaz Labs. Product names are used here only to identify and compare the software described. We do not sell or distribute Topaz software.
Pricing and feature details were verified against topazlabs.com/pricing in July 2026. Topaz may have changed them since — check the source before you buy.
Enhance videos, clean audio, compress files, and more.
As of July 2026, Topaz Labs sells it on subscription only: the Personal plan is $299/year (or $59/month billed monthly), and the Pro plan is $699/year. Perpetual “buy once, own forever” licences were discontinued in September 2025, so new customers cannot buy it outright any more.
No. Topaz Labs renamed Video Enhance AI to Topaz Video AI, and it is now marketed simply as Topaz Video. “Topaz Video Enhance AI” is the legacy name — most people still search for it, but the product page you land on will say Topaz Video.
No. Topaz offers a trial that watermarks its output, but there is no free tier. We do not distribute Topaz software, and we would steer you away from “free” or cracked copies on third-party download sites — they are a well-known malware vector. If you want something genuinely free, use the tool on this page instead.
It is desktop software for Windows and macOS and it renders locally, so it leans hard on your GPU. Topaz recommends a dedicated graphics card with several GB of VRAM; on an integrated-GPU laptop it will run, but slowly. This is the main practical reason people look for an online alternative — cloud tools do the work on server GPUs, so your own hardware stops mattering.
If you enhance video regularly, need no length limit, want frame-level control over the model and its parameters, or must work offline, then yes — it is the most capable tool in this category, and nothing browser-based matches its depth. If you have a handful of clips, do not want to install software or pay $299/year, and do not need manual control, the free tool on this page will cover you.
We run FlashVSR super-resolution on cloud GPUs, in your browser, with no install and free credits to start. Topaz beats us on maximum video length (we cap at 10 minutes), offline use, and manual control across its 19+ specialised models. We beat it on cost, setup time, and hardware requirements. They are different tools for different jobs.
Three things that actually matter: it has no maximum clip length, it runs offline without uploading your footage anywhere, and it exposes 19+ models you can tune shot by shot. This page caps a job at 10 minutes, requires an upload, and gives you one model with no parameters to turn. If any of those three is a hard requirement for your work, buy Topaz — no browser-based tool is going to close that gap.
No, and this trips a lot of people up. Both are super-resolution models — they rebuild detail and strip noise. Neither grades colour. If your tape has gone orange you will get a beautifully sharp, still-orange video. Grade it first (DaVinci Resolve is free), then upscale.
No. VideoEnhancer.app is an independent product, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Topaz Labs. Topaz, Topaz Video AI and Video Enhance AI are trademarks of Topaz Labs. This page is an independent comparison; we do not sell or distribute Topaz software.