VanceAI
Credit-based AI suite to upscale, restore and enhance photos and video
Overview
VanceAI is a Hong Kong-founded suite of AI tools to upscale, sharpen, denoise, restore, colourise and edit photos, plus video upscaling, HDR, colourising and subtitles, on the web, desktop (VanceAI for PC, up to 40x) and API. 10 free credits; web plans from $15 a month billed annually; desktop from $39.90 a month.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 1 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 10 free credits
- No watermarks, no card
- 260 credits a month incl. 30% bonus
- Image and video tools
- Rollover up to 5x
- 650 credits a month incl. bonus
- Image and video tools
- 1,300 credits a month incl. bonus
- 2,600 credits a month incl. bonus
- Unlimited local processing
- Upscaling up to 40x
- Licence for 1 PC
- Bonus web credits
What you can produce with VanceAI
- AI image upscaling, sharpening and denoising
- Photo restoration and colourisation
- Background and object removal
- Video upscaling, HDR, colourising and subtitles
- Desktop app with unlimited local processing
- API, ComfyUI node and agent skill
VanceAI is a broad, mature photo-enhancement suite that has sensibly expanded into video, and its credit plans with rollover and a separate unlimited desktop option give flexible ways to pay. Prices have risen and API access is billed separately from web credits, so check which product you actually need. Good for photographers and sellers who process images regularly; occasional users can start on the free credits.
What we found
VanceAI is a suite of AI tools for improving photos and, increasingly, video. On the image side it upscales, sharpens, denoises, restores old photos, colourises black-and-white pictures, removes backgrounds and objects, and generates or edits images, with upscaling of two, four or eight times online and up to 40 times in its desktop software. Since 2026 it has added video tools — an upscaler, SDR-to-HDR conversion, colourising, denoising, frame smoothing, subtitle generation and an "Autopilot" mode — with a video translator listed as coming soon. It offers a web app, VanceAI for PC for unlimited local processing, a free lightweight VanceAI Lite and Cloud client, an API sold separately from web credits, a ComfyUI node and an agent skill. Paid uploads are capped at 34 megapixels and 10MB.
VanceAI was founded in July 2020 by deep-learning researchers in Hong Kong, has offices in Hong Kong and Japan, and says it has reached 9.8 million lifetime users and has been profitable since 2022, its own figures. Its Japanese store is run by a Tokyo seller of record.
Web plans run on credits shared between image and video work, and every monthly allocation now includes 30 per cent bonus credits. New users can try it with ten free credits and no card. Starter costs $20 a month, or $15 billed annually, for 260 credits; Popular $40, or $30, for 650; Creator $60, or $45, for 1,300; and Studio $100, or $75, for 2,600. Unused credits roll over up to five times the monthly amount, and pay-as-you-go packs cost from $40 for 200 credits valid for a year. Most image jobs cost a few credits each, rising to ten for 4K output. VanceAI for PC costs $39.90 a month, $99.90 a year or $129.90 for a lifetime licence. Web plans can be refunded within seven days if less than 10 per cent of credits are used.
Trustpilot rates VanceAI 4.2 from 1,339 reviews. It suits photographers, e-commerce sellers and creators who want quick, credit-based image and video enhancement.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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