# philz1337x/clarity-upscaler

Clarity AI | AI Image Upscaler & Enhancer - free and open-source Magnific Alternative

Repository: https://github.com/philz1337x/clarity-upscaler
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/clarity-upscaler
Homepage: https://ClarityAI.co
Language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ai, ai-art, image-upscale, image-upscaler, image-upscaling, image2image, img2img, stable-diffusion, stable-diffusion-webui, upscale, upscaler, upscalerimage
Last push: 2025-03-06T05:43:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 30/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 10, release rhythm 35, longevity 64
- inputs: {"age_days": 901, "days_push": 545, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5115, forks 536 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:10.797648+00:00)

## What it is
Clarity AI is a free and open-source AI image upscaler and enhancer built on Stable Diffusion, positioned as an alternative to Magnific. It is packaged as a cog implementation and can also be used via ComfyUI, A1111, a hosted app, or a paid API.

## Use cases
- upscale low-resolution images with AI
- enhance and sharpen blurry photos
- upscale anime images
- increase image resolution up to 13k
- creative img2img upscaling with custom checkpoints and LoRAs
- run an open-source Magnific alternative locally

## When to choose
- you want a free, self-hostable AI upscaler based on Stable Diffusion
- you already use ComfyUI or A1111 and want an upscaling node/extension
- you need very high output resolutions or multi-step upscaling
- you want to run upscaling on Replicate via cog

## When to avoid
- you need Flux model upscaling, which is closed-source and app/API only
- you want a simple one-click tool without setting up cog or GPU infrastructure
- you need a permissively licensed project for commercial embedding (AGPL-3.0)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, machine-learning, stable-diffusion
- domain: image-processing, artificial-intelligence, media
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: image-upscaler, img2img, magnific-alternative, cog, comfyui, replicate, docker, gpu

## Member repositories
- philz1337x/clarity-upscaler (main) score 30

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:10.797648+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:02:07.836412+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/philz1337x/clarity-upscaler (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:10.797648+00:00, sha eaee5aa40ce0)
  - homepage: https://ClarityAI.co (fetched 2026-08-29T08:56:49.915054+00:00, sha 02dcb8962fe9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.