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A free remove.bg alternative that runs on your own device
Our background remover downloads a segmentation model to your browser the first time you use it, then runs it on your machine. The photo itself is never uploaded, there is no account, no credits, and the result comes back at your image's full resolution.
That last part is the sharpest difference. remove.bg's free preview is capped at up to 0.25 megapixels — roughly a 500 by 500 image. Full resolution, up to 50 megapixels, costs a credit per image. Ours is full resolution for nothing.
And here is the part that costs us: their cutout is better at the edge. Ours segments at a fixed 1024 by 1024 internally and scales the mask back up, so hair, fur and anything semi-transparent comes back rough. If the cutout is going in front of a client, that matters more than the price.
Competitor details were read from their own public pages on 2026-07-31. Prices and free-tier limits change often — check theirs before you decide.
| What matters | BrowseryTools | remove.bg |
|---|---|---|
| Where the image is processed | On your device. The model files are downloaded from a CDN on first use and cached by your browser; after that the photo itself never leaves the machine.Edge: BrowseryTools | Uploaded and processed on their servers. Their privacy policy states that images are uploaded securely, processed, provided for download, and then deleted shortly after, and that server logs are stored for a maximum of three months. |
| Resolution you get for free | Your image's own resolution, at no cost. The mask is computed small and scaled up, so the output is full-size even though the edge detail is not.Edge: BrowseryTools | The free preview is capped at up to 0.25 megapixels. Full resolution, stated as up to 50 megapixels, costs credits — one image requires one credit, or a quarter credit for a preview via the API. |
| Edge quality on hair and fine detail | This is where we lose. Segmentation runs at a fixed 1024 by 1024 internally and the mask is scaled back up to your image's real dimensions, so wispy hair, fur, chain-link, netting, motion blur and semi-transparent things like glass or a veil come back rough or partly eaten. Feeding it a bigger photo does not buy a more detailed edge — the model never sees those extra pixels. | Their own marketing foregrounds handling feathery hair without a jagged result, and their paid output ceiling is 50 megapixels rather than an upscaled 1024-pixel mask.Edge: remove.bg |
| Cost | Free, with no credits, no account and no per-image charge.Edge: BrowseryTools | A credit system. One-time packs run from 3 credits for $3 up to 8,000 credits for $1,699, and monthly subscriptions start at 40 credits for $9 a month, with cheaper per-credit rates at volume. The API's first 50 calls each month are free. (Prices read from their pricing page on the date shown above.) |
| What you get back | A transparent PNG and nothing else. There is no background replacement — no solid colour, no new backdrop, no drop shadow, no re-crop. You will need a second tool to composite the cutout onto something. | PNG, JPG, WebP and ZIP output. Alpha is supported in PNG, WebP and ZIP but not JPG, and the ZIP option returns a colour JPG plus a separate grayscale alpha matte for compositing.Edge: remove.bg |
| Volume and automation | One image at a time on the page's main thread. The per-image progress bar does not actually move — it sits at zero until an image finishes — and there is no cancel. A batch of large photos will make the tab unresponsive. | An API, and bulk editing they describe as processing up to 500 images per minute.Edge: remove.bg |
| Where you can run it | A web page, in a browser, by hand. | A Photoshop extension, desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux, an Android app, and a Figma integration.Edge: remove.bg |
Where remove.bg is genuinely better
- Edge quality, which is the entire job. Our model segments at a fixed 1024 by 1024 and the mask is upscaled to fit your photo, so a strand of hair that is two pixels wide in the real image is a fraction of a pixel in the mask and simply disappears. This is architectural, not a tuning problem — sending us a 24-megapixel photo does not help, because the model never sees those pixels. remove.bg's paid pipeline works up to 50 megapixels.
- Alpha as a first-class output. Their ZIP option hands back a colour image plus a separate grayscale alpha matte, which is what you want if the cutout is going into a compositing step rather than straight onto a white page. We return one flattened transparent PNG and nothing else.
- Output formats. PNG, JPG and WebP, at up to 50 megapixels for the formats that support it. We emit PNG only.
- Bulk. They describe processing up to 500 images per minute. Ours does one at a time, on the main thread, with a progress bar that sits at zero and no way to cancel — a folder of photos is genuinely painful.
- It lives where the work happens: a Photoshop extension, desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux, an Android app, and a Figma integration. We are a tab you have to keep open.
- An API for automation, with the first 50 calls a month free. We have no API at all.
Where our tools fall short
- Fine detail is where this loses to a paid service. Segmentation runs at a fixed 1024 by 1024 internally and the resulting mask is scaled back up to your image's real dimensions, so wispy hair, fur, chain-link, netting, motion blur and semi-transparent things like glass or a veil come back rough or partly eaten. Feeding it a bigger photo does not buy a more detailed edge.
- The output is a transparent PNG and nothing else. There is no background replacement: no solid colour, no new backdrop, no drop shadow, no re-cropping. You will need a second tool to composite the cutout onto something.
- The first run downloads the model from a CDN, so the tool needs a connection the first time and the download is noticeable on a slow link. The files land in the ordinary browser HTTP cache rather than durable storage, so clearing site data means downloading them again.
- Everything runs on the page's main thread and the per-image progress bar does not actually move — it sits at zero until an image finishes. A batch of large photos will make the tab unresponsive with no useful indication of progress, and there is no cancel.
Which one should you use?
Use ours when you want a full-resolution cutout for free and the subject has a clean silhouette: a product on a table, a car, a shoe, a person in a coat photographed against a plain wall. You will get your image back at its own size instead of a 0.25-megapixel preview, and the photo never leaves your machine.
Pay remove.bg when the subject has hair, fur, netting, glass, or motion blur, or when the cutout is client work. Our edge on those subjects is visibly rough and no amount of resolution on your end will fix it, because the model does not see it.
Also pay them if there is a folder of images rather than one image. Ours will process them one at a time, on the main thread, with a progress bar that does not move.
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Frequently asked questions
Is there a free alternative to remove.bg that gives full-resolution output?
Yes. Our background remover returns your image at its own resolution at no cost, where remove.bg's free preview is capped at up to 0.25 megapixels and full resolution costs a credit per image. The trade-off is edge quality — ours segments at a fixed 1024 by 1024 and upscales the mask, so fine detail suffers.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The segmentation model is downloaded to your browser on first use and runs on your device from then on. The photo itself is never sent anywhere. Note that the model download is a real network request the first time — your content is not uploaded, but the tool is not offline-only.
Why does hair look rough in your output?
Because segmentation runs at a fixed 1024 by 1024 internally and the mask is scaled up to your image's real size. A hair strand that is a couple of pixels wide in the original is sub-pixel in the mask, so it gets eaten. Sending a larger photo does not help. For hair, fur, netting or anything semi-transparent, a paid service will do better.
Can I replace the background with a colour or another image?
No. You get a transparent PNG and nothing else — no solid colour, no backdrop, no drop shadow, no re-crop. You will need a second tool to composite.
Can I process a batch of images?
Technically yes, practically no. Everything runs on the page's main thread, the per-image progress bar sits at zero until each image finishes, and there is no cancel button. A batch of large photos will lock the tab.
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