# Proteus Natural

### Model Overview

**Proteus Natural** is an update to the popular Proteus model, designed to eliminate over sharpening and over enhancement that can occasionally occur during upscaling. This next generation refinement delivers a more natural, softer output while preserving texture and source character.

Proteus Natural reduces sharpening halos, aliasing, and background distortion, producing clean, stable upscales across a wide range of video sources and supporting both local and cloud workflows.

### Key Capabilities

**Second generation refinement of Proteus**

* Designed for a more natural, restrained enhancement compared to the original Proteus model.

**Cleaner results with fewer artifacts**

* Reduces halos, aliasing, and facial distortion, especially in small details and background faces.

**Stable, conservative upscaling for real-world footage**

* Avoids over sharpening or texture exaggeration and integrates well into multi-step enhancement workflows

### Pricing

| Duration | 720p | 1080p | 4K  |
| -------- | ---- | ----- | --- |
| **1s**   | 2    | 2     | 2   |
| **5s**   | 2    | 2     | 4   |
| **10s**  | 2    | 2     | 6   |
| **1m**   | 4    | 10    | 34  |
| **5m**   | 18   | 42    | 162 |
| **10m**  | 36   | 82    | 324 |

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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/](<https://api.topazlabs.com/video/&#xA;&#xA;>)
  * `model` — `"pnat-1"`

**Model-Specific Parameters**

* No parameters

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Proteus Natural only uses a `2.0` upscale factor.
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### Examples

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