# Starlight

### Model Family Overview

Advanced diffusion based video enhancement models delivering high quality restoration of difficult archival footage and enhancement of modern GenAI video.

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Generative models improve video by intelligently adding detail and texture while preserving artistic intent.
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### Key Features

**Restore and elevate challenging video sources**

* Recover detail, stability, and texture from degraded archival footage and low quality sources, scaling results cleanly to 4K and beyond.

**Enhance GenAI video while preserving creative intent**

* Predictive, diffusion-based enhancement improves clarity, consistency, and realism without altering the original visual style or structure.

**Natural detail and facial realism**

* Refines face detail and skin tones while reducing synthetic or “plastic” artifacts common in generative video outputs.

**Flexible processing: cloud or local**

* Starlight Mini and Starlight Sharp are specialized variants optimized for high-quality local rendering.

### Pricing

| Model                                                                              | Frames Per Credit — 1080p | Frames Per Credit — 4k |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | ---------------------- |
| [`Starlight Precise 1`](/video-models/starlight/starlight-precise-1-deprecated.md) | 10                        | \~6                    |
| [`Starlight Precise 2`](/video-models/starlight/starlight-precise-2-deprecated.md) | \~26                      | \~12                   |
| [`Starlight Precise 2.5`](/video-models/starlight/starlight-precise-2.5.md)        | \~26                      | \~12                   |
| [`Starlight HQ`](/video-models/starlight/starlight-hq.md)                          | \~26                      | \~12                   |
| [`Starlight Mini`](/video-models/starlight/starlight-mini.md)                      | \~26                      | \~12                   |
| [`Starlight Sharp`](/video-models/starlight/starlight-sharp.md)                    | \~26                      | \~12                   |
| [`Starlight Fast 1`](/video-models/starlight/starlight-fast-1-deprecated.md)       | \~52                      | \~24                   |
| [`Starlight Fast 2`](/video-models/starlight/starlight-fast-2.md)                  | \~52                      | \~24                   |

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The above pricing is for our "Quality" models. "Fast" models are priced at 50% of the "Quality" models.\
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For more accurate estimates we recommend checking out our [Credit Calculator](https://developer.topazlabs.com/credit/calculator).
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### Models

#### "Quality" Models

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th align="center"></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="image">Cover image</th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><code>Starlight Precise 1</code></td><td><a href="/files/tMHN6SSQDy54ougVwdU7">/files/tMHN6SSQDy54ougVwdU7</a></td><td><a href="/pages/NudnxBPiZa0kJFpSKXBI">/pages/NudnxBPiZa0kJFpSKXBI</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><code>Starlight Precise 2</code></td><td><a href="/files/aBXrkarP9NCESPBgaDQG">/files/aBXrkarP9NCESPBgaDQG</a></td><td><a href="/pages/aL31hOSUmaDJyjy6MMLU">/pages/aL31hOSUmaDJyjy6MMLU</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><code>Starlight HQ</code></td><td><a href="/files/n6qzyAColEs7cM0GqDnk">/files/n6qzyAColEs7cM0GqDnk</a></td><td><a href="/pages/L0rbDpkCO85wqV0xG96q">/pages/L0rbDpkCO85wqV0xG96q</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><code>Starlight Mini</code></td><td><a href="/files/JsSLXdjHwBRtQLcciUGP">/files/JsSLXdjHwBRtQLcciUGP</a></td><td><a href="/pages/p6XbRO3Xuv2zktU7q6X9">/pages/p6XbRO3Xuv2zktU7q6X9</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><code>Starlight Sharp</code></td><td><a href="/files/5Aolw92pIhZuz5dow2mz">/files/5Aolw92pIhZuz5dow2mz</a></td><td><a href="/pages/16zkswHnIFJ3E7RftDty">/pages/16zkswHnIFJ3E7RftDty</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

#### "Fast" Models

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th align="center"></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="image">Cover image</th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><code>Starlight Fast 1</code></td><td><a href="/files/TVrG25BOq0Pc2N6ZYVcO">/files/TVrG25BOq0Pc2N6ZYVcO</a></td><td><a href="/pages/9GClaqGsMc9NIkizhT3K">/pages/9GClaqGsMc9NIkizhT3K</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><code>Starlight Fast 2</code></td><td><a href="/files/eP7nHtzTtTTxOPIwXvp5">/files/eP7nHtzTtTTxOPIwXvp5</a></td><td><a href="/pages/T9fXClXyo1deZmDKBkoP">/pages/T9fXClXyo1deZmDKBkoP</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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