Alternatives to Clarity AI
A web-based AI upscaler for images and video, with precise and creative enhancement models. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Clarity AI
A web-based AI upscaler for images and video, with precise and creative enhancement models.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Clarity AI.
Magnific
An online AI creative platform for generating and upscaling images, video and audio, formerly Freepik.
Magnific upscales images and video up to 4K within a broader paid generation platform for teams, and requires an account on the web.
Topaz Gigapixel
A desktop AI image upscaler that enlarges photos up to 16x while recovering detail and faces.
Topaz Gigapixel is paid desktop software for Windows and macOS that upscales images up to 16x with local or cloud rendering, but does not handle video.
Let's Enhance
Online AI tool that upscales, sharpens and restores photos up to 512 megapixels.
Let's Enhance upscales photos up to 512 megapixels in the browser with batch processing and restoration, but does not upscale video.
Upscayl
Enlarges low-resolution images with AI models running on your own GPU, in a plain drag-and-drop window.
Upscayl is free AGPL-3.0 software that upscales images locally on Windows, macOS and Linux, needing a Vulkan GPU and offering no video or API.
VanceAI
A suite of AI image and video tools for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, restoring and background removal.
VanceAI upscales images and video with an API, ComfyUI node and a local desktop app, with most processing using paid credits.
Upscale.media
An online AI upscaler that enlarges images up to 8x and also upscales short videos.
Upscale.media enlarges images up to 8x and short videos without signing up, and adds Android and iOS apps, though guest input sizes are limited.
Deep-Image.ai
An online AI service for upscaling, denoising, sharpening and replacing backgrounds in images, with an API.
Deep-Image.ai offers batch upscaling with an API and Python client, but limits upscaling to four times and does not handle video.
Real-ESRGAN
Open source AI model for upscaling and restoring images and video.
Real-ESRGAN is a free BSD-licensed model for image and video upscaling that runs locally, but is mainly a command-line library without a GUI.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Clarity AI as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Imglarger
An online AI image enlarger that upscales, sharpens and extends photos in the browser.
Clarity AI upscales images and video with faithful or creative models and very large outputs, requiring an account and not listing pricing up front.
ON1 Resize AI
Photo enlargement software that upscales images up to 10x using AI and fractal-based algorithms.
Clarity AI is a web upscaler offering faithful or creative models for images and video, requires an account, and creative models can add detail absent from the original.
Topaz Video
Video enhancement software that uses AI models to upscale, stabilize, sharpen and interpolate frames in footage.
Clarity AI upscales images and video in the browser with faithful or creative models and an API, requiring an account instead of local rendering.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Krea
A browser-based suite for generating and upscaling images and video with AI, including real-time generation.
Topaz Photo
Desktop image enhancement software that uses AI models to sharpen, denoise, unblur and upscale photos.
Icons8 Smart Upscaler
An AI image upscaler from Icons8 that enlarges photos up to 8x in the browser or on a Mac.
Waifu2x-Extension-GUI
Upscales photos, GIFs and video with machine learning, and interpolates video frames.
Aiarty Image Enhancer
A desktop AI image enhancer that denoises, deblurs, sharpens and upscales photos with local processing.
