AI upscaling uses artificial intelligence to increase image resolution and add detail that wasn't in the original image. AI image upscaling generates new pixel information, resulting in sharper, clearer images than traditional upscaling. Enhancement goes further by adding detail, improving colors, reducing noise, and fixing compression artifacts.

Krea offers free AI image upscaling, so you can try the magic of AI without spending a cent. You can upscale and enhance several images per day at no charge, enough to experiment with different parameters.

Upscaling takes from a few seconds to a minute, depending on how the level of upscaling you requested, the model used, and our overall server load.

AI-powered upscaling is perfect for:

Businesses E-commerce polishing product photos for online stores
Graphic designers who need high-definition visuals for print and digital media
Photographers looking to improve resolution of their images
Anyone looking to increase the resolution of their images or restore photos with AI

AI upscaling can significantly improve moderately blurry or compressed images by reconstructing details and reducing artifacts. However, it cannot recover information that was never captured—extremely blurry, heavily pixelated, or motion-blurred images have fundamental limits. The AI makes intelligent guesses about missing details, which works well for minor quality issues but cannot perform magic on severely degraded sources. When there's a blurry face, for example, the AI will do its best to fill in the space with a realistic face, but there's no guarantee it will look like the person in the original photograph. The best results come from images that are small but relatively sharp.

Yes, you can queue multiple requests, whether that's for different images, or multiple enhancement requests of the same image, if you want to try alternative versions with different models or settings.

Yes! Users of any of our paid plans get commercial rights to use Krea outputs, so you can use them as you wish as long as you have the rights to use the original image commercially. (Images enhanced by free are not licensed for commercial use.) Remember that other legal restrictions around AI use may apply in your jurisdiction, including personality rights, copyright, disclosure of AI user, and and other considerations.