Topaz Labs makes the AI enhancement software professionals actually rely on: Photo AI and Video AI, desktop applications that upscale, denoise, sharpen, and restore footage with quality that holds up on client work.

Photo AI combines Topaz's celebrated Gigapixel upscaling, DeNoise, and Sharpen engines into one pipeline that autodetects what an image needs: recover faces, remove noise from high-ISO shots, sharpen misfocus, and enlarge up to 6x while generating believable detail. Video AI does the same for footage, upscaling SD and HD to 4K or 8K, deinterlacing archives, stabilizing shake, smoothing motion with frame interpolation up to 16x slow motion, and restoring old family tapes, running locally on your GPU with professional codecs like ProRes.

Everything processes on-device: no upload queues, no privacy questions, and batch pipelines for volume work.

Who is it for?

Photographers rescuing high-ISO and legacy images, videographers upscaling archives and drone footage, and restoration hobbyists digitizing family media, anyone whose pixels must survive professional scrutiny.

How much does Topaz Labs cost?

One-time purchases: Photo AI around $199 and Video AI around $299, each including a year of updates with optional upgrade renewals afterward. Free trials export with watermarks.

Our verdict

Topaz remains the quality benchmark for enhancement, and local processing is a genuine advantage for pros. GPU demands are real, especially for Video AI, but the results justify the hardware.