Models/Collections/Best Upscaling
Capability · Upscale8 ModelsUpdated Aug 2026

Best Upscaling

Models selected for increasing image resolution while preserving fine detail and reducing artefacts. Useful for improving visual clarity, preparing assets for print, or enhancing low-resolution sources.

The picks.High-quality resolution enhancement

IMG → IMGUPSCALE

Topaz Labs Wonder 3.5

Generative image upscaling with stronger detail, cleaner noise handling, and better precision on structured graphics

$0.0428/1 MP output
Run
IMG → IMGUPSCALE

Common questions

Yes — Clarity, CCSR, Stable Diffusion Latent Upscaler, SwinIR and 1 more run on Runware's own optimized compute (the platform's open-weight tier, billed on compute time). Check each model page for license terms before self-hosting.

Topaz Labs Wonder 3.5, released August 2026 per the live catalog. Membership updates automatically as the catalog publishes new models to this collection.

Production notes

Every price on this page is the model's published rate from the live Runware catalog, using the cheapest listed configuration unless stated otherwise. Prices vary with resolution, duration, quality tier, or token volume, so check the pricing table on each model page before estimating unit economics.

The Runware catalog does not publish per-model latency figures, so this page does not quote end-to-end timings. Where a model's own description commits to speed (for example sub-second generation or realtime streaming), that claim is repeated here. For anything else, benchmark the exact models in the Playground with your own payload sizes before committing to an SLA.

Models are addressed by versioned AIR identifiers, so a workflow pinned to specific model versions keeps producing the same behaviour as new versions ship. Adopt upgrades deliberately by re-running your evaluation set against the new version before switching production traffic.

About this collection

Models selected for increasing image resolution while preserving fine detail and reducing artefacts. Useful for improving visual clarity, preparing assets for print, or enhancing low-resolution sources.

Membership comes directly from the Runware catalog: the 8 models on this page are the live catalog's own membership for the "Best Upscaling" collection. Names, descriptions, pricing, capability chips, samples, and guides are all read live from the catalog — nothing here is hand-curated.

Model guides.Learn how to use the stack

Topaz Labs Wonder 3.5

Controlling detail with enhancement strength

How to control how much detail Topaz Wonder 3.5 rebuilds with settings.enhancementStrength: what low, medium, and high change, and when to dial it down for faces or up for texture.

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Topaz Labs Wonder 3.5

Adding film grain

How to add film grain to a Wonder 3.5 upscale with settings.grain: the silver, gaussian, and grey grain models and the strength, density, and size controls.

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Topaz Labs Wonder 3.5

Restoring old and degraded photos

How to restore old and degraded photos with Topaz Wonder 3.5: faded scans, over-compressed uploads, noisy low-light shots, and tiny legacy files rebuilt as they upscale.

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Topaz Labs Wonder 3.5

Upscaling text and structured graphics

How to sharpen text, charts, tables, and packaging with Topaz Wonder 3.5, recovering legible type and clean structured graphics from soft or compressed sources.

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Topaz Labs Wonder 3.5

Upscaling images with Wonder 3.5

How to upscale images with Topaz Wonder 3.5: the request shape, choosing an upscale factor, the input and output size limits, and what generative upscaling recovers.

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