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PhotoZoom Pro vs Real-ESRGAN: catalog facts
PhotoZoom Pro	Real-ESRGAN
Paid Commercial software sold through the BenVista store.	Free Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause license.
macOS	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Enlargements up to a million by a million pixels Reduces JPEG artifacts and noise while resizing	Dedicated model variants tuned for anime versus photo content BSD-licensed and widely reused inside other tools and GUIs
Paid software with no free tier described Focused on resizing rather than general photo editing	Core project is a command-line library rather than a polished GUI app No repository update reflected since mid-2024
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: BSD-3-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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