SeedVR2
Best free open model for upscaling photos and video locally.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Top quality free upscaling, technical users
- On your PC
- Some setup
- Works on
- Windows, Linux, Mac
- License
- Apache-2.0
What’s good
- Near paid quality on photos and video, for free
- Keeps video frames steady, little flicker
- Built into ComfyUI since version 0.28.0
Downsides
- Needs ComfyUI, a node-based app with a learning curve
- Slow on cards under 12 GB; needs low-memory settings
- Makers call it a research prototype; results vary
The details.
- Version
- SeedVR2 3B and 7BReleased 2025-06
- Open source
- Yes, Apache-2.0
- Made by
- ByteDance Seed
- Website
- huggingface.co
Should you use it?
It is #6 of 10. Good for top quality free upscaling, technical users; for most people, Topaz Gigapixel is the better start.
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Some setup: download a model inside an app.
Use ComfyUI (built in), or the ComfyUI-SeedVR2 node by numz.
- You need
- NVIDIA card with 8 GB using small GGUF files; 24 GB for full quality
- Setup
- Some setupDownload a model inside an app
- Laptop, 8 GBToo small
- PC, 16 GB+Too small
- Mac, 16 GBToo small
- Mac, 32 GBToo small
- Mac, 64 GB+Too small
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns