Upscaling and restoration

Topaz Astra

Name: Topaz Astra
Author: Topaz Labs

Browser-based cloud video enhancement app that runs Topaz's heavier diffusion models in two modes: Creative (Astra 1, Astra 2) for stylised enhancement of AI-generated or heavily degraded footage, and Precise (Starlight Fast 1/2, Starlight Precise 2/2.5, Proteus, Starlight Mini, Rhea, NYX, Iris) for faithful restoration.

An upscaling and restoration tool by Topaz Labs · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing high

Weights: Not released
API: Yes
Commercial use: Permitted subject to conditions

Astra 2 adds prompt-guided enhancement with creativity and sharpness sliders on a 1-5 scale. Astra 2 accepts up to 9,000 frames per job without a prompt, dropping to 450 frames (roughly 15 seconds) when a prompt is supplied.

Commercial use — Permitted subject to conditions

Commercial use tied to plan tier; Topaz Studio Pro is the tier that grants full commercial use and seat management.

Depends on your plan tier. Commercial use tied to plan tier; Topaz Studio Pro is the tier that grants full commercial use and seat management

The conditions above were extracted from the licence notes recorded during research, and each one shows the sentence it came from so you can check the reading. Read the licence before you rely on any of this. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and this site does not tell you a model is cleared for commercial use.

Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Topaz Labs's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is strong: the figures came from pages we retrieved and read. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in: video, text
What it makes: video
Maximum resolution: not established
Aspect ratios: not established
Controls: upscale-factor, denoise, face-recovery
Weights: Not released
API: Yes
Pricing: Credit subscription: Standard $19/mo or $328/yr for 400 credits/mo ($0.10 per extra credit), Plus for 1,400 credits/mo ($0.07 per extra), Pro $299/mo or $2,512/yr for 5,400 credits/mo ($0.06 per extra). Enterprise custom.
Released or updated: not established

Maximum resolution and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

Access to the largest Topaz diffusion models without local GPU requirements
Prompt-guided creative enhancement with explicit creativity/sharpness controls
Clear published frame limits for Astra 2

Weaknesses

Prompted generations are capped at roughly 15 seconds per job
Credit consumption per second of footage is not published on the pricing page
No published maximum output resolution

Best for

Cleaning up AI-generated video
Heavier restoration than a laptop GPU can handle
Short hero shots needing prompt-guided detail

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

Astra's docs state per-job frame limits but no duration in seconds, and the actual seconds depend on source frame rate, so maxDurationSeconds is null. A third-party page quotes Astra tiers as $39/$99/$299 per month for 400/1,400/5,400 credits, whereas the vendor pricing page shows Standard at $19/mo for 400 credits; the vendor figure is used.

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

Diffusion models: generation by denoising names “diffusion”

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See it from the vendor

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.