Video enhancement API for real estate video

Enhancement at listing scale needs an API, not an app

Topaz Video AI is excellent quality, but it runs on one workstation, one video at a time, under a per-seat license — it cannot enhance every new listing automatically inside your product. Broad media platforms like Cloudinary treat upscaling as one feature among many, and consumer apps aren't built to batch. If you operate a portal or build proptech software, you need an API that enhances footage on upload, in your own backend.

Scale is the whole point. A brokerage or listing portal handles thousands of videos a month, shot by hundreds of agents on whatever phone they happen to own — inconsistent lighting, shaky handheld pans, compressed exports. You cannot ask each agent to run a desktop upscaler, and you cannot route that volume through one machine. An API enhances every upload automatically, the moment it arrives, with no seats to license and no human queue to clear. Enhancement becomes a step in your pipeline instead of a manual chore.

Upscale to 4K, in your own pipeline

Set resolution to 1080p or 4k on the job and BetterVideo upscales with Real-ESRGAN, sharpens, and restores detail in one pass. Submit by URL or pre-signed direct upload to move large 4K drone files, poll or receive a signed webhook for async batches, and pay per second with credits that never expire — which matters when listing volume is seasonal. No GPUs to run, no models to host.

Because it is webhook-driven and idempotent, it fits a real pipeline: fan out a morning's uploads, get callbacks as each finishes, and retry safely without double-charging. A free sandbox key mirrors the live lifecycle, so you can build and test the whole integration — submit, poll, download — before you spend anything, then flip one key to go live.

Sharper listings, without inheriting privacy risk

Video quality is not cosmetic in real estate — it shapes first impressions and, on many portals, eligibility for premium placement. Upscaling soft phone footage to clean 1080p or 4K, restoring detail in interiors, and steadying grainy drone passes makes a listing read as professional rather than amateur, which is exactly what an agent is paying your product to deliver at scale.

The catch is that better footage should not come at the cost of your clients' data. A property walk-through is a tour of someone's home; a drone pass can catch neighbours and passers-by. Running that through a tool that may train on it, or keep it indefinitely, is a liability you inherit on your customers' behalf.

Consistency is the other quiet win. When enhancement is a platform guarantee rather than a per-agent skill, every listing reads as credible next to professionally shot inventory, regardless of which phone captured it. That protects your brand and your agents' listings at the same time — quality stops being left to chance.

Privacy still matters in real estate

Walkthrough and drone footage captures interiors, neighbours, and sometimes occupants. On February 23, 2026, 61 data protection authorities published a joint statement on AI-generated imagery, raising concern about AI handling of realistic video of identifiable people without consent. You don't want a vendor training its models on your clients' property footage, or keeping it indefinitely.

BetterVideo is never trained on, never sold, and auto-deleted by default. See pricing, the API docs, and our data-privacy approach. Building for regulated verticals too? See the legal API. For high-volume pricing, talk to sales.

One API call — curl, Python & Node

Submit a video by URL, then poll GET /v1/jobs/{id} until done (or receive a signed webhook), and fetch a time-limited download link:

curl -X POST https://api.bettervideo.io/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"video_url":"https://.../clip.mp4","resolution":"4k"}'

import requests
r = requests.post("https://api.bettervideo.io/v1/jobs",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"},
    json={"video_url": "https://.../clip.mp4", "resolution": "4k"})
job = r.json()  # poll GET /v1/jobs/{job['id']} until status == "done"

const res = await fetch("https://api.bettervideo.io/v1/jobs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ video_url: "https://.../clip.mp4", resolution: "4k" })
});
const job = await res.json();

Privacy is the default, not an upgrade

• Never trained on. Pre-trained, fixed-weight models — your frames are enhanced and returned, never used to train AI.
• Never sold or shared. No third parties, no data brokers, no "anonymized" resale.
• Auto-deleted. Files self-delete (default 30 days), or delete any job instantly with one call.
• Proof on the Secure tier. Every deletion can return a signed deletion certificate, with a full audit log.