Real-ESRGAN

Real-ESRGAN — wavespeed-ai/real-esrgan

Real-ESRGAN is an image upscaling and enhancement model that improves resolution and perceived detail while keeping the original content intact. Upload a low-resolution or slightly blurry image and the model produces a sharper, higher-quality result suitable for publishing, sharing, or downstream generation workflows. It’s commonly used as a final polish step for portraits, product photos, and AI-generated images.

Key capabilities

• Image upscaling (super-resolution) from a single input image
• Enhances perceived sharpness and fine details
• Reduces common low-res artifacts and compression noise
• Works well for portraits, objects, and general photography
• Simple “upload → enhance” workflow

Use cases

• Upscale AI-generated images before posting or printing
• Improve clarity of portraits and faces (light enhancement)
• Enhance product photos for e-commerce listings
• Reduce compression artifacts in web images
• Preprocess inputs for other models that benefit from higher-res images

Pricing

Inputs

• image (required): the image to upscale/enhance

Tips

• Start with already well-exposed images for best results
• If the source is extremely blurry, expect improvement but not full recovery of lost detail
• For stylized images, run a small batch and pick the most natural-looking output