Imagen vs Topaz Labs Comparison 2026
Both cover photo editing. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Your own editing style applied by the photo
Rescue footage and stills that fell short
At a glance
- Imagen starts cheaper, at $7.
- Only Imagen has a free tier.
Side by side
Imagen | Topaz Labs | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $7 | From $12 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Usage-based | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on (they differ) |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Imagen
Your own editing style applied by the photo
Imagen trains a personal profile on a few thousand of a photographer's own edited images and then applies it to new shoots, priced per photo rather than per month. Culling, cropping and retouching are add-ons on the same meter. Paying by the photo suits an uneven year better than a subscription does, and the first thousand edits cost nothing.
Our note
Against Aftershoot the split is billing rather than quality: this charges per photo and that charges per year. Work out your annual volume and the answer falls out, and remember the beta-priced extras here are not permanent.
Topaz Labs
Rescue footage and stills that fell short
Topaz Labs makes the upscaling and cleanup models people reach for when the source is the problem: a soft photo, an old clip, footage shot at the wrong resolution for the delivery. The apps run locally rather than in a queue, which matters when the file is large and the deadline is not. They are sold separately or as one subscription covering all of them, so a photographer who only needs the image side is not paying for the video models.
Our note
Add up the single apps you would actually open before taking the bundle, since two apps is still cheaper than Studio. If the work is for a client or a company, the page is explicit that Pro is the tier that carries the commercial rights.
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