Remove Image Background — Free, Full Resolution

Remove image background without losing resolution

The cutout keeps the pixel size of your upload, up to 25 megapixels. A 12-megapixel phone photo of 4032 × 3024 comes back at 4032 × 3024. Anything larger is scaled down to 25 megapixels with its proportions kept, so an 8000 × 6000 photo (48 megapixels) comes back at about 5770 × 4330. The download button shows the exact size before you click.

Uploads can be JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 25 MB and 12,000 pixels on a side. ClearBG reads the type from the file itself, not its name, turns phone photos the right way up and keeps the colour profile of the original in the result.

• Transparent PNG: the default download, with the background fully cut away.
• JPG on a colour: pick white, black or any colour in the tool and the download is a JPG on that background, much smaller than a PNG of the same size.
• Preview: up to 1000 pixels on the long side, free for every image, so you can check the edges before you spend anything.

What it gets right, and what to check

ClearBG runs BiRefNet, an open-source segmentation model (MIT license), with an extra step that works out the true colour of edge pixels, so hair and fur don't keep a rim of the old background. This is how it did on test photos from Wikimedia Commons, next to remove.bg's free preview:

• On par with remove.bg: long hair, a wine glass and a pair of sneakers. A girl hugging a dog came out nearly as well; remove.bg kept a few more flyaway hairs.
• Clean, with no remove.bg result to compare: a group photo, a bicycle and a leather bag.
• Glass doesn't turn see-through: the wine glass and the sky inside it stayed solid on both services.
• Thin things beside the subject can go missing: in a stage photo it kept only half of a microphone stand and cut away a piano stool, and part of a potted plant's leaves was lost.
• A cat on snow had a white rim in the first test, where remove.bg had none; the edge-colour step above was added for it.

The free preview is the same cutout at a smaller size, so check thin parts and glass there before you spend a credit.

Remove backgrounds from many images at once

Sign in, add credits, then select or drop up to 50 images in one go. ClearBG works on 4 at a time, shows each result as it finishes, and builds one ZIP of the full-resolution PNGs in your browser. Each finished image uses 1 credit; a failed one uses none.

• 500 product photos: $25 with the 1,000-credit pack ($0.025 an image, and the other 500 credits never expire), or $9 with the Starter plan, which gives 500 credits a month.
• More than 50: start the next batch when one is done, or send them through the background removal API at up to 500 requests a minute per key.
• Finished images stay on your account page for 24 hours. Tick them there to download a ZIP again; an image you already paid for costs nothing more.

Free background removers compared

What each tool gives you for free, from their own pages on November 9, 2026. remove.bg is left out: its standalone website closes on December 1, 2026 (details).

What happens to your photo

Your image goes from your browser to our file storage at Cloudflare. A GPU server at Modal Labs in the United States reads it through a link that expires after 10 minutes, removes the background in memory and writes the result back; it keeps no copy. Nobody at ClearBG looks at your images, and we never use them to train AI models.

• On the website, the upload, the result and the preview are deleted 24 hours after upload. Until then they are listed under Your recent images, so you can sign in or pay and come back for them.
• Through the API, the original is deleted as soon as the GPU has read it, and the result as soon as it has been sent to you.
• What stays is a record without the image (size, options, timings, credits used) for your usage history and billing questions. The privacy policy has the details.

A background removal API that speaks remove.bg

If your code calls remove.bg's API, change the host from api.remove.bg to api.clearbg.org and use a ClearBG key. The path /v1.0/removebg, the form fields and the X-Api-Key header stay the same. 50 preview calls a month are free; a full-resolution image costs 1 credit, $0.05 to $0.01 depending on the pack.

curl -H 'X-Api-Key: YOUR_CLEARBG_KEY' \
  -F 'image_file=@photo.jpg' \
  -F 'size=auto' \
  -f https://api.clearbg.org/v1.0/removebg -o no-bg.png