UPSAMPLER

The Best Alternative to ESRGAN Upscaling

While ESRGAN (Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks) offers powerful upscaling capabilities and impressive detail enhancement, Upsampler.com provides a more accessible, reliable, and feature-rich experience. Go beyond raw algorithms with intuitive controls, creative options, and a full suite of tools designed for both stunning results and ease of use.

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Beyond ESRGAN: Creative Enhancement with Smart Upscale

Achieve and surpass the detail generation ESRGAN is known for, but with greater creative control and consistency. Smart Upscale not only increases resolution but artfully regenerates your image, excelling with complex scenes, textures, and faces, offering a refined alternative to raw ESRGAN outputs.

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Asian woman creatively enhanced with Upsampler's Smart Upscale, an ESRGAN alternative before enhancement and upscaling
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Asian woman creatively enhanced with Upsampler's Smart Upscale, an ESRGAN alternative after enhancement and upscaling

Intelligently Add New Details with Dynamic Upscale

While ESRGAN mostly preserves the image, Dynamic Upscale offers a more controlled approach to creatively enhancing images. It increases resolution while intelligently generating new, context-aware details, breathing fresh life into your images while preserving the original composition with greater predictability.

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Scenic villa with new details added by Dynamic Upscale, an advanced ESRGAN alternative before enhancement and upscaling
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Scenic villa with new details added by Dynamic Upscale, an advanced ESRGAN alternative after enhancement and upscaling

Reliable, High-Fidelity Upscaling with Precise Upscale

For times when you need clean, faithful enlargement without the potential artifacts or stylistic interpretations, our Precise Upscale delivers. It sharpens and enlarges images while meticulously preserving original content, a dependable choice alongside our more creative tools.

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Japanese cityscape faithfully upscaled with Precise Upscale by Upsampler.com before enhancement and upscaling
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Japanese cityscape faithfully upscaled with Precise Upscale by Upsampler.com after enhancement and upscaling

Generate Entirely New Images with World-Leading AI Models

Upsampler takes you far beyond the scope of ESRGAN's upscaling. We integrate advanced AI models like Imagen by Google, GPT-4o by OpenAI, Flux 1.1 Pro, Recraft V3, and Ideogram, empowering you to generate completely new visuals from text prompts.

Full Creative Control with Generative Fill

Fix imperfections, add or remove elements, and regenerate specific image parts with precision, seamlessly integrating with your upscaling workflow.

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Image transformation using Upsampler's Generative Fill, an advanced feature compared to ESRGAN before enhancement and upscaling
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Image transformation using Upsampler's Generative Fill, an advanced feature compared to ESRGAN after enhancement and upscaling
FeatureESRGANUpsampler.com
PricingFree (requires user's own hardware)Subscriptions from $15/month; one-time credits start at $10 (never expire)
Ease of Use⚠️ Difficult (requires command-line & setup)✅ Very Easy (web-based UI)
Hardware Requirement✅ High (requires local GPU)❌ None (runs in the cloud)
Faithful Upscaling✅ Yes (its primary function)✅ Yes, with Precise Upscale
Creative Upscaling❌ No✅ Yes, with Smart & Dynamic Upscale
Image Generation❌ No✅ Yes, with multiple integrated models
Generative Fill / Inpainting❌ No✅ Yes
Public API❌ No (must build your own)✅ Yes

Why Choose Upsampler Over ESRGAN for AI Upscaling

ESRGAN (Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network) pioneered AI-based image upscaling and remains influential in computer vision research. However, using raw ESRGAN requires technical expertise: installing Python dependencies, configuring CUDA environments, running command-line scripts, and managing model weights. For professional photographers, designers, and content creators, this technical barrier is prohibitive. Upsampler provides ESRGAN-quality results through an intuitive web interface with no coding, no hardware requirements, no setup hassles. Beyond accessibility, Upsampler offers creative upscaling modes ESRGAN lacks: Smart Upscale adds intelligent detail reconstruction ideal for portraits and complex scenes, Dynamic Upscale enhances textures and micro-details perfect for product photography and artistic work, and Precise Upscale delivers faithful enlargement when accuracy matters. The platform integrates additional professional tools including image generation, generative fill, restoration, and batch processing. This creates a complete image enhancement workflow impossible with standalone ESRGAN. Whether you're a social media manager needing quick upscales, a print shop requiring consistent quality, or a photographer building portfolio pieces, Upsampler delivers professional AI upscaling without ESRGAN's technical complexity.

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Upscale Images Online with AI

Increase the resolution of your images to incredible levels and add new details. Unlike traditional upscaling technology, Upsampler can completely reimagine images, adding as much detail as you desire. Additionally, you do not need to download anything since it works online, regardless of your operating system and hardware.

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