Best image upscalers, photo and video upscalers with AI

We have selected for you the best image and video upscalers with artificial intelligence, available now for free. All services are tested and working for summer 2025 with users from Russia. And we've also added a little bonus for readers at the end.

1. Upscayl - free image upscaling on your local computer

Free and open source AI Image Upscaler App. Allows you to enhance photos (upscale) using advanced artificial intelligence models. Works on Linux, macOS and Windows. You can download versions for these operating systems at this page. There are 4 AI zoom models pre-installed, but the developer page has a link to custom models, there are a couple dozen of them.

It's very easy to use, select the image, choose the final folder and click on the Upscayl button.

Pros:

• Free and fast.
• Batch upscale pictures.
• Multi-platform.
• It is possible to choose the variant of work - on the resources of the processor or the video card.

Minuses:

• Only works on a computer.

2. Improve photo quality online with UPSCALES AI

It's a popular service to get a quick improve photo quality. Upscales Ai has an extension for the Edge browser in the store Microsoftas well as applications for Android and iOS. The service has now moved to the following address betterimage.aiso don't be frightened if you type UPSCALES.AI in the address bar, it was designed that way. No registration is required to enlarge the AI image.

You just drag and drop your photo and wait for the page to reload. I guess, the best upscaler if you need to quickly enlarge several photos. The results of AI for image resolution upscaling are not bad, as you can see in the video, but it only upscales by 2x (although no one prevents you from doing it again), there are 5 free upscales available per day with a maximum original resolution of 3000px.

Pros:

• Simple interface, does not require registration.
• Good quality magnification.

Minuses:

• Few free daily attempts.
  

3. free FVC neural network for upscale photos

Also powered by artificial intelligence, no registration required, it's very simple. Go to neural network for upscale photos free-videoconverter.netDrag and drop a photo or picture, choose how many times to enlarge it, and save the result.

Pros:

• Upscale the photo to 8s.
• Good quality upscale.
• Absolutely free.

Minuses:

• When trying to download a high-quality FullHD image weighing 3.5 MB - refused to work.

There is no information on the site about restrictions on the daily number of photo upscaling operations. We tried feeding it 20 pictures in a row, the service works, but the processing time started to grow noticeably. But the upscale quality is good.

4. Image enlargement with the help of the AI service RECRAFT.AI

This service provides a lot of cool features for designers. Generative AI for image creation, works with vector files, makes mocaps for products. Image upscaling is also present, of course.

Sign up, it's absolutely free, create a new Raster Image project, drag the image you want to enlarge to the desktop and click the Upscale button at the top of the toolbar. You can do almost anything with the resulting image - vectorize, remove backgrounds, add elements or text right in the workspace.

But there is another interesting feature there - "creative upscale pictures". It allows you to increase the resolution of a photo with an emphasis on certain details. For such a feature, the service wants a paid subscription of $20. For the professional designers and artists that Recraft.AI is aimed at, it's probably not cheap. To see what they mean by "creative image upscaling," check out the video.

Benefits:

• Free for all.
• Lots of extra features for the designer.

Minuses:

• He wants money for goodies, but not much.

5. Image Upscaler with Leonardo.AI Neural Network

Leonardo.ai uses advanced neural network algorithms to increase image resolution while preserving detail and realism. Upscale in Leonardo is especially useful for preparing photos for high quality printing. Upscaling a photo online is easy. Log in to your account, select the Uscale function, upload your photo and click the button. Just don't forget to move the Creativity Strength slider to the leftmost position, otherwise the neural network will start to fantasize and change the details of the photo.

Pros:

• Good quality.

Minuses:

• Few free generations (30 credits per iteration).

6. Free video upscaler HDCONVERT.COM

It is still difficult to make a long video upscale for free with AI. A relatively inexpensive and free upscale video for the first 5 seconds is available on the service hdconvert.com. Go to the site, upload your video, click on "Enhance Video" and get the result. No need to register, uploaded videos are deleted after 24 hours. The premium plan of this video upscaler on AI, which costs $6 per month, promises upscaling to 4K and 8K with no file size limit.

Pros:

• Really works on a paid tariff (to be honest, we didn't check the quality, sorry for the money).
• Lots of settings - codec selection, b/w video coloring, etc.

Minuses:

• Asking for money.

7. AI editor Fabula AI

For upskel, you can also use the Russian Fabula AI service, which allows you to increase image quality directly in the browser and works for free even without registration.

Positive:

• The service is completely free.
• Support for popular formats: PNG, JPEG, WebP.
• AI-based upscale: the neural network completes pixels and improves detail.
• The ability to continue working with the image in the editor, if you need a fine manual refinement.

Minuses:

• It does not work with very heavy files — the size limit is up to 50 MB.
• If you need to make more than 10 upscales, you will have to subscribe — the rates start from 1390 ₽.

Bonus - a stack of free images generated by the neural network

Lastly, we would like to introduce you to a new service LUMMI.AI.. This is a site with free images created with artificial intelligence. No royalties or license fees. Anticipate your skepticism - why do you need a stock with other people's images generated by AI? After all, they can be taken for free on the same Midjourney or Leonardo?

1. First of all, the legal situation around AI pictures is not yet settled. It is not at all certain that, having taken and used images from neuronics in your work, you will not face claims from the authors or some Midjourney in the future. The pictures are published here with the permission of the authors.
2. Secondly, it is rather tedious to search for interesting pictures in that garbage with millions of images made by schoolchildren and bored office workers on neural network sites. On LUMMI.AI quality pictures from professional graphic designers are posted, everything is cataloged by tags, by authors.

Conclusion

Image upscaling is the process of increasing the resolution of an image to improve its quality and detail. The best upscalers use artificial intelligence to predict and add details missing in the original image.

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