# Gaia 2 (Animation)

### Model Overview

**Gaia 2** is a 2x upscaling model designed specifically for animation and frame-based sources. Unlike traditional video enhancement models that blend frames for temporal smoothness, Gaia 2 processes each frame independently to preserve the intended look of hand-crafted animation and avoid interpolation artifacts.

It is best suited for increasing the resolution of clean sources such as stop motion, traditional animation, and motion graphics, with secondary use on high-quality live action plates where frame independence is required.

### Key Capabilities

* Improved fidelity, quality, and speed compared to original Gaia model
* Frame-by-frame processing preserves original source intent without temporal blending
* Supports high-resolution image sequences, including EXR, for integration into VFX and animation workflows

### Pricing

| Frames Per Credit — 1080p | Frames Per Credit — 4k |
| ------------------------- | ---------------------- |
| 300                       | 100                    |

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Gaia 2 is priced at roughly half the price of Gaia CG / HQ for shorter videos.\
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The above credit costs are all estimates calculated at 30fps. For more accurate pricing, we recommend checking out our [Credit Calculator](https://developer.topazlabs.com/credit-calculator).
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### Getting Started

**Endpoint**

* <https://api.topazlabs.com/video/>
  * `model` — `ganim-1`

**Model-Specific Parameters**

* No parameters

### Examples

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