Remove Background

Three honest ways to cut out a background

Background removal is the most aggressively paywalled tool on the web — typically three free cutouts, low-resolution previews, then a subscription. The economics force that: every cutout costs the provider GPU time. This page removes the economics. The AI model (a compact portrait-matting network, about 7MB) downloads to your browser once, gets cached, and runs locally. Unlimited cutouts, full resolution, and your photos never touch a server.

We're also honest about what each mode is for, because no single technique wins everywhere:

• AI cutout — a matting model tuned for people and portraits. It produces soft, hair-aware edges and is the right choice for profile photos, team pages and selfies. It is not a general object segmenter, and we'd rather tell you that than pretend.
• Color removal — click the background to erase everything of that colour, with a tolerance slider and a contiguous option. For product shots, logos and scans on flat backdrops this is often cleaner than any AI.
• Erase brush — manual erase and restore at any brush size, for fixing edges or cutting out anything the other two modes can't.

Once the subject is isolated, keep the background transparent (PNG), drop in a solid colour, or blur the original behind the cutout for an instant portrait-mode look. Edge feathering smooths the boundary so the cutout sits naturally on whatever you place it over.

Common questions