Stanislav Khromov

This plugin enables upscaling of thumbnails for small media attachments. The default behaviour of WordPress is to not upscale small images, which means 
you are never guaranteed a certain size for a thumbnail format. This plugin corrects that and upscales small images to the specified thumbnail dimensions. 
This is beneficial in grid layouts where images of different sizes can make the grid malfunction.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnail-upscale/screenshots/" rel="ugc">Check screenshots for an example!</a>
Important: Your thumbnails format must have the crop setting enabled to be processed by this plugin.
Usage
After you have enabled Thumbnail Upscale plugin, all your future uploaded images will be upscaled. 
For existing images, install and run <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-regenerate-thumbnails/" rel="ugc">Force Regenerate Thumbnails</a> 
This will upscale your existing media images!
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>PHP 5.2 or higher strongly recommended</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
None. The plugin has no translateable strings.

Thumbnail Upscale

Whaaaaat? You don't use this plugin? It's good.

It’s still relevant god damn it

Enables upscaling of thumbnails for small media attachments

thaikolja

Thumbnails Cleaner helps you keep your WordPress installation tidy by removing and regenerating thumbnails.
You can control all functions through the plugins’ main page found under “Tools”. You can:
<ul>
<li>Analyze your uploads directory, giving you an overview how many original files and thumbnails there are.</li>
<li>Clean thumbnails which means deleting them while keeping the original files.</li>
<li>Restore thumbnails to start out with a clean uploads directory. This function requires the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/" rel="ugc">Regenerate Thumbnails</a>.</li>
<li>Create backups of your uploads directory to keep your files safe in the unlikely event that there is a problem.</li>
<li>Restore backups in case you have lost a file that was not supposed to be deleted.</li>
</ul>
Please see the <a href="https://www.koljanolte.com/wordpress/plugins/thumbnail-cleaner/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">official website</a> for a full 
documentation.

Thumbnail Cleaner

Cleans up your WordPress installation by removing and regenerating thumbnails.

Thumbnail Upscale vs Thumbnail Cleaner