remove.bg API & Tools

Background-removal REST API plus Photoshop, desktop, Zapier and Make integrations

Tier A · StrongAI ToolServiceToolremove.bg

remove.bg is a hosted background-removal service; this page is its integration hub, linking the developer API, the Photoshop extension, the Windows/Mac/Linux desktop app, the Android app, and the Zapier and Make automation connectors. The API is a single POST endpoint (api.remove.bg/v1.0/removebg) that takes image_file or image_url plus a subject type hint (person, product, car, animal, graphic, transportation) and returns a cut-out as PNG up to 10 MP, or JPG/WebP/ZIP up to 50 MP. Official clients exist for Ruby and a CLI; Node.js, Python, PHP and Java clients are community-maintained. It is for designers and product teams who need clean transparent product or portrait cut-outs at volume without training their own matting model.

Install

curl -H 'X-Api-Key: $REMOVE_BG_KEY' -F 'image_file=@in.jpg' -F 'size=auto' -f https://api.remove.bg/v1.0/removebg -o out.png

For an agent

Reach for this when a build step needs transparent product or person cut-outs and quality matters more than cost — the hair and fur matting is still the reference standard. Call it server-side only: the X-Api-Key header must never ship to the browser, and every request burns a paid credit, so cache results by image hash and use size=preview while iterating. If you are batching hundreds of assets, budget first (about $0.20-0.27 an image) or swap in a self-hosted matting model; also respect the 429 Retry-After header, since throughput drops to roughly 10 images/minute at 50 MP.

Why it is here. It is the default background-removal API that design and e-commerce pipelines are benchmarked against, and its subject-type hints still beat generic segmentation on hair and transparent product edges.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: Proprietary / all rights reserved
Pricing: Freemium, Subscription, Usage-based / credits, Free but account required
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Not applicable
Distribution: Public HTTP API, Hosted SaaS product, Web app / online tool, Desktop application, Mobile application, Browser extension
Platform: Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, Android
Content type: Images / textures / backgrounds
Agent readiness: Public API without auth, Login required, Structured documentation, Agent access behind payment
Accessibility: Not applicable
Maturity: Actively maintained
Pricing detail: First 50 API calls per month free (preview resolution only). Subscriptions from about $9/month for 40 credits and $39/month for 200 credits; roughly $0.20-0.27 per full-resolution image. 1 credit = 1 image; the 50MP size costs 1 credit.

Helps you build

Uploading Media Integrations API Keys

Notable for

single-endpoint REST API with subject-type hints
50 MP output via JPG/WebP/ZIP, 10 MP via PNG
Photoshop extension plus desktop and Android apps
Zapier and Make connectors for no-code pipelines
credit pricing that gets expensive at batch scale

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://www.remove.bg/tools-api, https://www.remove.bg/api (endpoint, params, formats, SDKs, free tier, rate limits); https://www.remove.bg/pricing returned only nav chrome so the price figures come from a web search of third-party 2026 pricing pages and are approximate.

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