AnimeSharp API — Anime & Illustration Upscaling

AnimeSharp specializes in anime and illustration super-resolution—an image upscaling api tuned for line art rather than camera noise.

Listed price: $0.0068 / request · Confirm live rates on interactive pricing.

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Overview

AnimeSharp specializes in anime and illustration super-resolution—an image upscaling api tuned for line art rather than camera noise. Creator platforms and game pipelines use it to ship crisp assets without desktop ESRGAN installs. Generic photo upscalers smear cel shading. AnimeSharp keeps edges sharp for characters, UI art, and manga panels. Combine with RMBG-2.0 when you need transparent stickers from upscaled art. About $0.0068 per request—enable as a paid “HD export” feature in consumer apps. Batch overnight for catalog migrations. Fan art marketplaces, VTuber asset prep, mobile drawing apps, and print posters. Optional SAM masks for layered PSD-like exports. Upscaling endpoint with model=AnimeSharp. Start at /pricing/AnimeSharp. AnimeSharp is the illustration/anime upscaler sibling of Real-ESRGAN—keep line art sharp instead of photoreal texture guesses. Anime and illustration assets need different priors than photos. AnimeSharp preserves line art that Real-ESRGAN may soften. Use it in sticker pipelines, manga cleanup, and game sprite prep. Keep a style classifier so photoreal uploads never hit AnimeSharp by mistake. Offer before/after previews in your admin tool so artists trust the automation. This is a narrow but high-converting long-tail API page: creators search for anime upscalers specifically. Separate anime uploads via a lightweight classifier. Keep artist opt-in for batch cleanup. Creators care about line stability more than PSNR—collect subjective ratings in your admin tool.

Quick start

Base URL: https://www.keyoapi.xyz/v1

Endpoint: POST /v1/images/upscaling

Model: model=AnimeSharp

curl https://www.keyoapi.xyz/v1/images/upscaling \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F model=AnimeSharp \
  -F image=@./photo.png

Auth uses the same Bearer API key as chat. Full notes: Keyo docs.

FAQ

Why not always use Real-ESRGAN?

Anime/illustration edges differ from photographic textures. AnimeSharp preserves line art better for that domain.

4x only?

The model family is known for strong 4x anime sharpening; check docs for available scale options on KeyoAPI.

Price?

~$0.0068 per request—/pricing/AnimeSharp.

Related models

Real-ESRGAN API RMBG-2.0 API SAM 3 API

Guide for AnimeSharp. Try/buy: /pricing/AnimeSharp · Catalog: /pricing.