FixPhotoQuality vs Upscale.media

What their pricing page actually said

After signup, Upscale.media offered 3 credits and 3 downloads per month. Without signup, one image per day. A yearly subscription was shown at $69.99. One-time packs were 60 credits for $7.99, 125 for $11.99, 500 for $29.99, and 1,200 for $54.99, valid for one year. Unused monthly credits expire. The page says they do not offer refunds, citing the cost of AI. Bulk use needs an account.

FixPhotoQuality’s free tool is three repairs a day with no account: 2×, denoise, and unblur. Free plan is the same three once you sign in, still $0, still no card. Pro is $12 a month for 120 credits, 4×, face restore, and a batch of 12. Studio is $29 for 500 credits, 8×, and a batch of 40. Credits do not roll over. Figures on this page were taken from public pages on 2026-10-26. Where a price was not in the server HTML, the cell says so.

Those are different shapes of “free.” One image a day, or three credits a month after an account, is a thinner trial than three repairs a day. A yearly $69.99 bundle is a different purchase from a month you can cancel. Cancelling FixPhotoQuality does not refund the month. We say that in the same table as the price, not as a surprise in a second product.

Ads, watermarks, and the homepage

The Upscale.media homepage HTML included AdSense. It also had four H1 elements, and the word watermark appeared 31 times. Sampled /product pages had no JSON-LD and no hreflang, while the homepage carried WebApplication, Product, AggregateRating, FAQPage, and Organization. The sitemap listed 399 URLs.

Free pages on FixPhotoQuality show ads. Pro and Studio are ad-free. The preview is not watermarked. The free and guest downloads are capped at 3,200 px on the long edge instead, and Pro and Studio download the full file. Each tool page has one H1 and carries SoftwareApplication, FAQPage, HowTo, and BreadcrumbList. There is no star rating, because there is no review corpus to average. Inventing one would make the schema louder and the page less true.

A large sitemap is a real advantage if you are hunting a format URL. It is not the same advantage as a page that states the byte cap, the pixel cap, and the deletion window next to the upload button. Ours deletes uploads and results 24 hours after the job is created. Their retention window was not a prominent statement on the pages we crawled.

Failure, cancellation, and the file

Both products decline to refund the purchase: they say so because of the cost of AI, and we say so because a month of credits is not a returnable object. The difference we will actually claim is the job. A FixPhotoQuality job that errors returns its credit. A finished repair you dislike does not. Their pages, in the crawl, talked about unused monthly credits expiring, not about a failed prediction.

Advanced features on their side push toward a separate PixelBin console. We do not have a second console. We do publish a keyed API at /docs/api, metered to the plan. If your work is a bulk pipeline with a contract and an API key, this tool is the wrong tool and their ecosystem may be the right one. If your work is a scan, a phone crop, or a print, the slider and the limits table are the product.

Use the same file in both places if you are deciding. Do not treat either output as the original. Download what you intend to keep. On this site that decision has a 24-hour clock, and the clock is not a setting.

What to do with one file

Upload the same crop here and, if you want, there. Look at a diagonal and a flat wall. Ignore the sitemap count while you look. A 399-URL catalog does not repair a cheek. Afterward, decide with the table: ads and a yearly pack and a one-image-a-day anonymous cap, or three guest repairs, a capped free download, and a credit back when the job fails. Both of us decline to refund the purchase. Only one of those sentences should be news, and it should not be news by the time you reach the button.

If your work really is bulk and a separate console, PixelBin may be the product their advanced features already point at. We will not grow a second console to win that buyer. The tool, the limits, and a 24-hour deletion are the product we will defend.

What to keep beside the slider

A yearly bundle and a pack shop are a different purchase from a month. $69.99 and the four pack prices were in their HTML. $12 and $29 are in ours. Ads were on their homepage. They are not on ours. Four H1s were on their homepage. Tool pages here have one. Watermark was a word they repeated. Our preview does not carry a mark. The free download is smaller instead. Both refund policies are a no. The failed-job policy is the clause they did not lead with and we do: the credit returns. If you need their catalog of versus pages, stay there. If you need one photograph judged today, the tool is the shorter path.