Artguru Review: Pricing & Features 2026

Artguru is an AI photo enhancer that upscales images to 4K or 8K, restores old photos and sharpens video and PDFs. Monthly costs $9.99 for 1,000 credits.

Quick answer: Artguru is a one-click AI enhancer for photos, video and documents. It sharpens and denoises images, upscales to 4K or 8K, repairs scratched old photos, colorizes, removes backgrounds and upgrades video to 1080p or 4K. The free trial gives 2 watermarked tries a day. Paid access is $9.99 a month for 1,000 credits or $39.99 a year for 4,000 credits. Prices checked on artguru.ai/price on November 11, 2026.

What Artguru does

• Photo enhancer: removes noise, recovers detail and enhances every face in a group shot, with 4K output.
• 8K upscaler: enlarges images for posters, banners and print, in Standard or Advanced quality.
• Old photo restorer: removes scratches, creases and spots, with a Deep Repair mode for badly damaged prints.
• Video enhancer: sharpens frames, cleans compression noise and upscales clips to 1080p or 4K.
• PDF and extras: sharpens scanned text and charts, plus colorize, unblur and background removal. An Open API covers the same photo models.

Artguru Pricing (2026)

Plan	Price	Credits	What you get
Free trial	$0	2 free trials a day	Watermarked downloads, limited features, personal use only, files kept 24 hours
Monthly	$9.99 / month	1,000 credits, reset monthly	No watermark, batch processing, commercial use, cancel anytime
Annual	$39.99 / year	4,000 credits for the year	Same features, credits valid for 12 months
Credit add-on	$10	1,000 credits	Subscribers only; credits expire with the billing cycle

What a credit buys

Task	Credits	Cost
Photo enhance or upscale, Standard 4K	1 per image	$0.01
Standard 8K upscale	10 per image	$0.10
Advanced 8K or Deep Repair restore	20 per image	$0.20
Video enhance 1080p	10 per second	$0.10 / sec
Video enhance 4K	40 per second	$0.40 / sec
Background removal or colorize	1 per image	$0.01

Our take on value: the annual plan is the better deal only if you work in bursts, since 4,000 credits must last 12 months while the monthly plan gives 1,000 every month. Photo work is cheap at 1 credit per 4K image. Video is where credits vanish: a 30-second clip in 4K costs 1,200 credits, more than a full month on the monthly plan.

For more free upscaling options, see our free AI upscaler roundup. If restoring family photos is the main job, read our guide to AI photo restoration, and compare Lupa AI for print-size upscales.

Who Artguru is for

Online sellers cleaning up product shots in batches, families restoring old prints, and creators who need a sharper image or short clip without learning an editor. Pros who need layer control should stick with a full photo editor.

Limitations

• Free tier is a demo: 2 tries a day with watermarks and personal use only.
• Video is expensive in credits: 4K costs 40 credits per second.
• Credits expire: monthly credits reset each cycle and add-ons do not roll over.
• Short storage on free: free-trial files are kept for 24 hours.

Artguru is an easy, low-cost pick for fixing and upscaling photos, and the per-image credit costs are fair for product shots and restorations.

Use the free trial to test quality, then choose monthly for steady work. Budget carefully before using it for 4K video.