Node reference

Image Upscaler

Add Node → Tools → Image Upscaler

The simplest node in the app: connect an image, press the button, and you get a bigger, sharper version back. No prompt, no other inputs — just the image.

What’s on the node

The Image Upscaler node with an image connected, showing Target Megapixels and the Creativity slider

Area What goes in it
Model The picker, and nothing else to choose alongside it.
Target Megapixels How big the result should be. This is what drives the price, and it climbs in steps — see below.
Creativity How much detail the model is allowed to invent as it enlarges.
I One only: the image to enlarge.

There’s no prompt handle here — the node has nothing to read a prompt for. More on handles in How nodes connect.

Which model should you use?

Model Max size Price range What it’s good at
Pro Clarity AI Crystal Upscaler 1500 MP $0.05–24.00 The default, and the right general choice: enlarges while keeping the result faithful to the original. Goes far bigger than the others.
Good Clarity AI Creative Upscaler 64 MP $0.05–1.60 For when you want the model to invent extra detail as it enlarges — texture, sharpness, small elements that weren’t quite there.
Creative Clarity Upscaler 64 MP $0.12–1.92 A simpler option that scales the price straight with the size. Handy for a quick, cheap enlargement.

Prices are indicative and set by the providers, who revise them: see wavespeed.ai or runware.ai for current rates.

Price follows the size you ask for, and it climbs in steps rather than smoothly — so it’s worth knowing where the steps are. Both Clarity AI models start at five cents up to four megapixels. Creative then doubles roughly every step and tops out at $1.60. Crystal is cheap for a long stretch — twenty cents at 16 MP, $1.60 at 100 — but jumps to $6.40 past 100 MP and to $24 past 400, so nudging the slider over a threshold can cost four times as much for a barely bigger file. Rates are WaveSpeed’s.

The Creativity slider

At zero, you get a faithful enlargement — just bigger, nothing invented. Push the slider up and the model starts adding detail that wasn’t in the original image. Which one you want depends on the image: sometimes that’s exactly what you’re after, sometimes it’s not.

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