A Topaz Video AI Alternative for People Who Upscale Ten Seconds, Not Ten Hours
Blog post from Atlas Cloud
Topaz Video AI shifted from perpetual licenses to subscriptions in October 2025, with its Personal plan priced at $299 annually or $59 monthly as of September 2026, while retaining strengths for demanding restoration work such as 4K and 8K upscaling, frame interpolation, stabilization, HDR conversion, and long-form processing on capable hardware. For smaller or occasional projects, Atlas Cloud offers a free browser-based WebGPU upscaler that processes short clips locally without an account, uploads, watermarks, or subscription, but is limited to 2x enlargement, 12-second clips, and outputs up to 640 pixels. Its hosted video-upscaling service provides an intermediate option for clips up to 53 seconds at 1080p or 23 seconds at 2K, charging per second of input while preserving the original frame rate. The comparison concludes that Topaz remains suited to professionals and users needing high-resolution, feature-rich restoration, whereas browser and pay-per-use tools may better fit short social, gaming, or phone videos.
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