Forge AI runs Topaz Proteus, Artemis HQ and Nyx and SeedVR 3B and 7B for video, plus Topaz Image and Clarity for stills, all on your own provider key at roughly $0.05 to $0.15 per second of video and $0.02 to $0.05 per image. Upscaling is a node like any other, so it can sit at the end of a graph and run on every render automatically.
Most video models render fastest and cheapest at 480p or 720p. Rendering the whole ad at 1080p multiplies the cost of every second you end up cutting, including the takes you throw away.
Generating low and upscaling only the clips that survive the cut is usually the cheaper path to a 1080p ad, and it is the reason the upscaler is a node rather than a menu item.
Proteus at $0.10/sec: general purpose, the safe default for talking head footage.
Artemis HQ at $0.15/sec: clean source, most detail recovery.
Nyx at $0.12/sec: noisy or compressed source.
SeedVR 3B and 7B at $0.06/sec: cheapest video path on fal.
Topaz through Kie at $0.05/sec: cheapest of all, if that is the key you already hold.
Clarity at $0.02 and Topaz Image at $0.05 per image, for stills.
About $3.00 on Proteus at $0.10 a second, or about $1.80 on SeedVR at $0.06 a second. You pay the provider directly at those rates.
Yes. The upscale node takes any video or image you upload, not only Studio outputs.
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