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Top waifu2x.online competitors 10 competitors in waifu2x.online's market
- Competitors listed
- 10
- Ranked on the scorecard
- 10
- waifu2x.online's rank
- #12 of 62
- With a free plan
- 4
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
These are the 10 tools closest to waifu2x.online in its own market: AI image generators that list ai image too, picked by shared categories and how close their entry price is to waifu2x.online's (the rules are below).
10 of them are ranked on the AI image generators scorecard; Krea is the highest at 93/100 (#5 of 62 in the category).
waifu2x.online itself is #12 of 62 with 82/100, so 1 competitor on this list ranks above it.
waifu2x.online's cheapest paid plan is $3.50 billed monthly (Starter). On the same billing basis, 0 of 7 competitors with a published price start lower and 7 start higher; entry plans are not like-for-like, so check the limits.
4 competitors have a free plan, and so does waifu2x.online.
waifu2x.online vs its competitors: market position
| Rank | Tool | Score | From, billed monthly | From, billed yearly | Free plan | Public API | Features verified | Data checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #12 | waifu2x.onlineThis tool | 82/100 | $3.50/mo | Not offered | Yes | – | 1 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #5 |  Krea | 93/100 | $9/mo | $5/mo | Yes | – | 6 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #17 |  LoraAI | 77/100 | $9.90/mo | Not offered | Yes | – | 2 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #18 |  Awesome-GPT4o-Image-Prompts | 74/100 | Not offered | $7.92/mo | Yes | – | 2 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #21 |  Let's Enhance | 71/100 | $12/mo | $9/mo | Yes | Yes | 1 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #23 |  Photo Studio | 67/100 | $10/mo | Not offered | No | – | 5 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #25 |  Restory.pics | 66/100 | $8.99/mo | $5.99/mo | No | Yes | 3 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #27 |  OneClickArt | 63/100 | $6.99/mo | Not offered | No | – | 2 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #40 |  DeepKolor | 54/100 | Not offered | $8.33/mo | No | – | 3 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #41 |  HummingBytes | 53/100 | $12/mo | $10/mo | No | – | 3 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #46 |  ImgEditor AI | 47/100 | Not offered | $14.92/mo | No | – | 5 of 10 | Oct 14, 2026 |
Each value links the page it was read from (hover for the check date).
– = not published by the vendor, or not verified yet.
How each competitor differs from waifu2x.online
- Krea · #5, 93/100
Web-based creative AI suite for generating, upscaling and editing images, video and 3D, with model finetuning and plugins for design and video apps.
- Score: 93/100, #5 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $9 billed monthly (Basic), $5.50 more than waifu2x.online's $3.50 (different pricing units: compare plan limits) source
- Verified features: AI assistant, Text to image, Image to image / reference images, Upscaling, Inpainting or object editing and 1 more
7 of 14 tracked details verified
Homepage captured Oct 14, 2026 - LoraAI · #17, 77/100
Platform for generating AI images and videos from a range of models and for training custom LoRA models, sold as monthly credit plans.
- Score: 77/100, #17 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $9.90 billed monthly (Basic), $6.40 more than waifu2x.online's $3.50 source
- Verified features: Upscaling, Commercial use on paid plans
3 of 14 tracked details verified
- Awesome-GPT4o-Image-Prompts · #18, 74/100
ImgEdify is a web platform for AI image and video generation and editing, with a prompt library, model choices and small image utilities.
- Score: 74/100, #18 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $7.92 per month billed annually; not compared with waifu2x.online, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Verified features: Text to image, Image to image / reference images
3 of 14 tracked details verified
- Let's Enhance · #21, 71/100
Web app that enhances, upscales and restores images with AI, sold through credit-based subscriptions and pay-as-you-go bundles.
- Score: 71/100, #21 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $12 billed monthly (Starter), $8.50 more than waifu2x.online's $3.50 source
- Verified features: Upscaling, Public API
3 of 14 tracked details verified
- Photo Studio · #23, 67/100
AI photo and video studio that creates new outfits, poses and scenes from a reference selfie, with image-to-video and upscaling tools.
- Score: 67/100, #23 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $10 billed monthly (Starter), $6.50 more than waifu2x.online's $3.50 source
- Free plan: no (waifu2x.online: yes) source
- Verified features: Text to image, Image to image / reference images, Upscaling, Commercial use on paid plans, Private generations
6 of 14 tracked details verified
- Restory.pics · #25, 66/100
Platform for AI image and video generation plus photo restoration, upscaling and virtual try-on, sold as annual credit plans.
- Score: 66/100, #25 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $8.99 billed monthly (Starter), $5.49 more than waifu2x.online's $3.50 source
- Free plan: no (waifu2x.online: yes) source
- Verified features: Text to image, Upscaling, Commercial use on paid plans, Public API
5 of 14 tracked details verified
- OneClickArt · #27, 63/100
AI portrait tool that restyles an uploaded photo to match a reference image, sold through monthly plans and credit packs.
- Score: 63/100, #27 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $6.99 billed monthly (Starter Pack), $3.49 more than waifu2x.online's $3.50 source
- Free plan: no (waifu2x.online: yes) source
- Verified features: Image to image / reference images, Upscaling
3 of 14 tracked details verified
- DeepKolor · #40, 54/100
AI design agent that generates ecommerce product photos, listing images and ad visuals from descriptions and uploaded product photos using several image models.
- Score: 54/100, #40 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $8.33 per month billed annually; not compared with waifu2x.online, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Free plan: no (waifu2x.online: yes) source
- Verified features: Text to image, Upscaling, Commercial use on paid plans
4 of 14 tracked details verified
- HummingBytes · #41, 53/100
AI product photography service that turns one product photo into listing images, lifestyle scenes and short product videos, paid for with monthly credits.
- Score: 53/100, #41 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $12 billed monthly (Starter), $8.50 more than waifu2x.online's $3.50 source
- Free plan: no (waifu2x.online: yes) source
- Verified features: AI assistant, Image to image / reference images, Commercial use on paid plans
4 of 14 tracked details verified
- ImgEditor AI · #46, 47/100
Browser-based AI image generator and editor built on the GPT Image 2 model, covering text-to-image, reference images, editing and upscaling on credit plans.
- Score: 47/100, #46 of 62 (waifu2x.online: 82/100, #12)
- Entry price: $14.92 per month billed annually; not compared with waifu2x.online, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Free plan: no (waifu2x.online: yes) source
- Verified features: Text to image, Image to image / reference images, Upscaling, Inpainting or object editing, Commercial use on paid plans
6 of 14 tracked details verified
How we picked
- Pool: tools in the same market as the tool on this page: they list its primary category, and their own primary category is one it lists too. Explicit competitor links count as well.
- Closest first, at most 10: explicit competitors, then the same primary category, then more shared categories, then the smallest gap in entry price (per month, on a log scale), then more shared platforms, then name.
- Order on the page: tools ranked on the category scorecard by their category rank, then tools that are not ranked (no scorecard, or under 60% of the weight with verified data) in closeness order.
- Prices are compared only on the same billing basis (billed monthly with billed monthly, billed annually with billed annually). A feature counts as missing only when the vendor's page states it; a feature the vendor does not mention is not listed either way.
Every value is read from the vendor's own pages (or GitHub for licences and stars) and shown with the date we checked it. A value we could not verify is shown as a dash, never estimated, and never read as a “no”. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Methodology
The scorecard behind the ranks
Every one of these AI image generators is scored by the same 7 criteria (scorecard v1). Each criterion gives 0 to 100 from the vendor's published data; the total is the weighted average. A criterion without verified data is left out and the other weights are re-normalised. A tool with under 60% of the weight covered is listed as not ranked, and so is a tool with no verified price and fewer than 2 verified features (“needs a verified price”); each score shows how many criteria it is based on. The core criteria are the same in every category; the category criteria are specific to AI image generators. Nobody gets custom weights, including our own products.
| Criterion | Weight | Type | What we measure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | 25% | Core | Price per month of the cheapest paid plan, against the prices of other AI image generators on the same billing basis (monthly-billed prices against monthly, annual-billed against annual).Log scale. Billed monthly: $6.99/month or less = 100, $29 or more = 0. Only billed annually: $5/month or less = 100, $20.83 or more = 0. Only free plans = 100. Usage-priced and one-time plans are not scored. |
| Free plan or trial | 15% | Core | Whether you can use the tool before paying: a free plan, or failing that a free trial, as shown on the vendor's pricing page.Free plan = 100. No free plan but a free trial = 60. The pricing page lists plans but shows neither = 0. No plans read = not scored. |
| Pricing transparency | 10% | Core | How much of the pricing is public: the share of plans with a published price ("contact sales" counts against), and whether there are at least 3 published tiers.80 x (plans with a public price / plans listed) + 20 x (public plans, up to 3) / 3. No plans read = not scored. |
| Verified features | 15% | Core | How many of the 10 features we track for this category the vendor's own pages verifiably show (analytics, team access, templates, ai assistant, text to image, image to image / reference images, upscaling, inpainting or object editing, commercial use on paid plans, private generations). This counts verified features only: a tool that documents less scores lower here, and only here.Linear: verified features / 5 (half the tracked list) x 100, capped at 100. No tracked feature verified = not scored. |
| API, integrations and export | 10% | Core | Whether a public API exists, how many integrations the vendor states, and whether the vendor documents a way to export your data.Average of the parts with data: public API yes = 100, no = 0; integrations on a log scale (100 or more = 100); a documented data export = 100. None verified = not scored. |
| Cost per 100 images | 15% | Category | Price per 100 images on the cheapest paid plan that states a monthly allowance limit (monthly price / allowance).Log scale: $1 per 100 images or less = 100, $20 or more = 0. Unlimited or unstated allowances = not scored. |
| Cost per user (team of 3) | 10% | Category | Monthly price per user for a team of 3, on the cheapest paid plan that is priced per seat or states room for at least 3 users.Log scale: $4 per user or less = 100, $79 or more = 0. Plans that do not state a user limit are not used. No such plan = not scored. |
Sources are vendor pricing pages, docs and changelogs, each with the date we checked it. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Full formulas: methodology.
Questions, answered from the data
Who are waifu2x.online's main competitors?
By our scorecard, the highest-ranked of its closest competitors are Krea (93/100), LoraAI (77/100) and Awesome-GPT4o-Image-Prompts (74/100).
Which waifu2x.online competitor is cheapest?
Billed monthly, OneClickArt starts lowest at $6.99 a month (Starter Pack). Entry plans differ in limits.
How does waifu2x.online rank against its competitors?
waifu2x.online is #12 of 62 ranked AI image generators with 82/100.
Which waifu2x.online competitors have a free plan?
Krea, LoraAI, Awesome-GPT4o-Image-Prompts and Let's Enhance.