Upsampler AI Video Generator: Free Tool, Models & Pricing

Upsampler's AI video generator turns a text prompt or a still image into a short clip. You can use it in two ways, and most of the confusion about whether it is free comes from mixing them up.

The free tool is enough for a few seconds of motion for a post or a quick test. For longer clips, sound, higher resolution or a specific model such as Kling or Veo, you need credits. All prices, model names and limits on this page come from upsampler.com and were checked on 12 October 2026.

The official service is upsampler.com. Its terms of service say the company, Upsampler, a Delaware limited liability company, operates https://upsampler.com. Other sites use the same name and show up for the same searches:

• upsampler.online calls its page an "access guide". It says it "cannot promise free generation or access without an account". Its buttons send you to a separate image service, Supavisual, which the same site says requires sign-in for AI jobs and has no video generation or video upscaling.
• upsampler.co offers a free generator under the Upsampler name. Its own FAQ says the embedded generator runs the open-source Wan 2.1 model on Hugging Face Spaces. Wan 2.1 is not in upsampler.com's current model list.
• Directory listings such as Groupify describe Upsampler mainly as an image upscaler and give no current video prices.

Neither upsampler.online nor upsampler.co links to upsampler.com. Before you upload images or pay, check that the address bar reads upsampler.com. Upsampler's terms also require users to be at least 18, and that includes the free tools.

1. 1Open the free video generator. You don't need an account.
2. 2Pick a model. LTX 2.5 is selected by default. The alternatives are LTX 2.3, Wan 2.2 14B and Wan 2.2 5B.
3. 3For image to video, upload a PNG, JPG or WEBP. Leave the field empty for text to video. The image field only appears when the chosen model can use an image.
4. 4Write the prompt, then set the aspect ratio and a duration between 2 and 5 seconds.
5. 5Generate the clip and download the MP4.

Upsampler's own prompt advice is to name the subject, say what it does and how the camera moves, and keep to one main action per clip. A 5-second clip that tries to show several unrelated events tends to come out muddled.

All 18 video models on Upsampler's comparison page accept a start image, so any of them can animate a photo or illustration. 13 of them also take an end frame, which lets you generate a transition between two stills: MiniMax H3, MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, Kling 2.5 Pro, Veo 3.1, Seedance 1.5 Pro, Seedance 2, Seedance 2.5, LTX 2.3 Fast, LTX 2.3 Pro, LTX 2.5 Fast, P-Video, P-Video Draft and Wan 2.2.

Grok Imagine Video, Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Runway Gen 4.5, Seedance 1 Pro and LTX 2 Distilled take a start image only.

Details that change your results:

• MiniMax H3 Max Turbo is the default model in the Upsampler app. It renders at 768P, runs 5 to 15 seconds and has no audio track.
• LTX 2.5 Fast outputs landscape or portrait only. A square or odd-shaped image is center-cropped to whichever of the two fits better.
• Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is described as an image-to-video model, so start it from a still.
• If you don't have a source image, you can make one with an image model on the same credit balance, then animate it.

Video generation is charged per second of output. The table lists all 21 priced entries on Upsampler's pricing page. There are 18 models, but Veo 3.1, Seedance 1.5 Pro and Wan 2.2 each come in two versions. The cost columns are simple arithmetic: credits per second × 5 seconds × the price of a credit on Starter (4 cents) or Pro (1.5 cents).

Upsampler shows the exact cost before every job, and not every model offers exactly 5 seconds.

Pro's 1,000 monthly credits buy roughly 2,500 seconds of Wan 2.2 5B, 333 seconds of LTX 2.5 Fast, 250 seconds of MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, 142 of Kling 2.5 Pro, 66 of Veo 3.1 with audio or 58 of Seedance 2, before retries.

To keep costs down, Upsampler suggests working out motion and composition on a draft model such as P-Video Draft, then paying for a full render only once you know what you want.

Every plan gets the same tools and models, full API access and a commercial license. Plan credits renew on your billing date and don't roll over. Credits you buy separately, as a one-time purchase or through auto-refill, never expire. Prices are listed in US dollars only.

The four paid upscalers are charged per megapixel of output, per second:

A 1080p frame is about 2.07 MP, so a 10-second 1080p result is about 20.7 MP-seconds. That works out to roughly 2 credits on RTX VSR, 4 on GAN, 10 on FlashVSR and 52 on SeedVR 2.

Treat these as estimates, because Upsampler's own example prices a 5-second 1080p FlashVSR job at 6 credits. Only RTX VSR and GAN list an 8.3 MP ceiling, which matches a 3840×2160 (4K) frame.

For smoother motion, Upsampler also has a free frame interpolation tool that converts footage to 60fps.

• It makes clips, not finished videos. Upsampler's five paid tools are image generation, image upscaling, image editing, video generation and video upscaling. It doesn't list a voiceover, video caption or multi-scene timeline tool, so a narrated, captioned Short or Reel still needs an editor. Another option is a script-to-video tool such as FluxNote's AI video generator, which builds the scenes, voiceover and captions from a script.
• Some models are silent. MiniMax H3, MiniMax H3 Max Turbo and Wan 2.2 produce no audio, and Upsampler lists no audio for Kling 2.5 Pro, Runway Gen 4.5 or Seedance 1 Pro. Choose Veo 3.1, a Seedance model with audio, LTX or Grok Imagine when the clip needs sound.
• The free allowance has no published number. "Many free generations each day" isn't a figure you can plan a deadline around.
• Upsampler's own pages disagree on small details. The homepage and comparison page count 18 video models, while the model index lists 21 entries because it counts audio and silent versions separately. The comparison page header also still names Sora (closed by OpenAI on 26 April 2026), Hailuo and Hunyuan, which aren't among its current model cards. Use the pricing page and each model's card when you decide.