A faster, cheaper alternative to Costco photo restoration
Skip the in-store drop-off and the multi-week wait. Restore old, faded and damaged photos yourself with AI — from $1 per photo, finished in under a minute, downloaded straight to your device. Then print them anywhere you like.
From 10 credits ($1.00) per photo · 20 free credits to start · no subscription
How it works
From upload to download in three simple steps.
1. Upload
Upload a JPG, PNG or WebP up to 10 MB. The clearer the original scan, the better the result.
2. AI processes
Our AI analyses your photo and applies the appropriate model. Most jobs finish in under a minute.
3. Download
Compare before / after, then download the high-resolution result. Your originals are never used to train AI models.
Restore it yourself, in under a minute
The same kind of result you’d normally mail away for — done instantly, online.
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Restored & ColourisedWhy people look for a Costco photo restoration alternative
Retail photo counters are great for prints, but full restoration of a damaged photograph is a different job. At most large retailers it’s either unavailable, handled by mailing your original to a third-party lab, or quoted at a premium with a turnaround measured in weeks. For a single keepsake that might be fine — but for a whole box of old family photos, the cost and the wait add up quickly.
Photo Repair Lab is built for exactly that situation: lots of photos, fast, affordable, and entirely in your control.
How it compares
Speed: retail and mail-in restoration typically takes days to weeks; Photo Repair Lab finishes in under a minute. Price: retail restoration is usually a premium per-photo charge plus handling; Photo Repair Lab starts at $1 per photo. Control: instead of accepting one returned version, you can re-run with different settings — Standard, Conservative, or Comprehensive with colourisation — until it’s right, and failed jobs are refunded automatically.
The one trade-off: you do the uploading yourself. If you’d rather hand a single irreplaceable, severely-torn photo to a human specialist, that’s a fair reason to pay more. For everything else, doing it yourself is faster, cheaper and surprisingly satisfying.
You still get prints — your way
Because you download a high-resolution restored file, you can print it wherever you like — including Costco’s own print service, a local photo lab, or an online printer. You get AI restoration plus the print provider of your choice, instead of being locked into one.
Start with 20 free credits — enough to restore your first photo on us, no card required.
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Complete the project
Restoration is usually step one. Here’s what most people do next.