Bigjpg
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveNeural upscaler for anime art and photos — up to 16x enlargement with noise cleanup, web to API
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $6 once
- Billing
- One-time purchase
Free: 20 images a month, 4x, 5MB on a shared server. Paid plans are prepaid bundles for a fixed period rather than a monthly charge: Basic $6 for 2 months (500 images/month), Standard $12 for 6 months (1,000), Premium $22 for 12 months (2,000), all with 16x, 50MB uploads, batch mode and API access.
Use tool ↗About Bigjpg
Bigjpg enlarges images with convolutional networks tuned separately for anime-style illustration and for photographs, reducing noise and artifacts as it scales. The free plan allows 20 images a month at up to 5MB and 4x on a shared server, and offline (queued) enlarging is available on every plan. Paid bundles - $6 for two months, $12 for six, $22 for twelve - raise the quota to 500-2,000 images a month and unlock 16x, 50MB uploads, parallel and batch jobs and API access. Clients cover the web, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android; processing defaults to servers in mainland China, with a US option in settings.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing table: Free 20 images/month, 5MB, 4x, shared server, offline enlarging; Basic $6 USD for 2 months (500/month), Standard $12 for 6 months (1,000), Premium $22 for 12 months (2,000), all 16x, 50MB, parallel and batch (15 October 2026)bigjpg.com ↗
- Same page: Windows, Mac, iOS and Android apps; API (image upload and enlarge endpoints) for paid members; default server in mainland China with a US option; free uploads deleted within 24 hours, premium within 72 (15 October 2026)bigjpg.com ↗
Is Bigjpg legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Sep 23, 2016 (10 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Jan 9, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
Pros & cons of Bigjpg
For anime and illustration upscaling it remains a reference tool, and the prepaid bundles are cheap - $22 covers a year. It shows its age against diffusion-based upscalers on photographic detail, and the free plan's 5MB and 4x caps rule it out for print-size work.
Pros
- Distinct anime-tuned models keep lines and flat colors clean
- Very low cost: $22 buys twelve months of paid limits
- Clients on every major platform plus an API
- Free tier is enough to evaluate output quality
Cons
- Interpolates rather than reinvents detail - soft results on complex photos
- Free uploads auto-delete after 24 hours (72 hours on paid)
- Anonymous operator; processing defaults to mainland-China servers
Best for
- Anime and illustration upscales where line integrity matters
- Budget users wanting a year of upscaling for the price of one month elsewhere
- Developers calling a simple upscaling API
Not for
- Photorealistic enhancement where generative upscalers now do better
- Privacy-sensitive work if China-hosted processing is a concern
Watch out: Prices are per multi-month bundle, not per month — $6 covers two months, and image quotas reset monthly within the bundle.
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