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Image, video and PDF tools · by Canva Austria GmbH (formerly Kaleido AI, part of Canva)

remove.bg

An AI service that cuts the background out of a photo in a few seconds, on the web and through a paid REST API.

One API call turns a messy product or portrait shot into a clean cutout, which is why so many shop and design tools wire it in.

Commercial: conditions

Open remove.bg ↗ agent.md

For your project

Official API
API unclear First 50 API calls per month free; up to 500 images per minute depending on input resolution; HTTP 429 when exceeded. From 1 December 2026 background removal moves to Leonardo.Ai.
“Your first 50 API calls per month are on us” remove.bg/api
Formats
PNG, JPG, WEBP, ZIP, JSON
Data download
No bulk download found
License
remove.bg Terms of Service Results from the free service are for private use only; commercial use needs a subscription or pay-as-you-go credits
Commercial use
Commercial use with conditions
“This means that all results from the Services may only be used privately.” remove.bg/tos
Credit
Not stated
Embedding
Embedding unclear
Using the website
Free tier

Read on remove.bg's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms · API docs. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand.

  • Official REST API: POST an image_file or image_url to https://api.remove.bg/v1.0/removebg with header X-Api-Key (50 free calls a month, then paid credits); official open-source CLI (github.com/remove-bg/remove-bg-cli) and Ruby gem, npm/PyPI clients are third-party; no self-hosted version; the API moves to Leonardo.Ai on 1 Dec 2026, so plan for migration; uploads may be used for model training.
  • Free-tier results are for private use only; commercial use needs a subscription or pay-as-you-go credits
  • Keep the API key server-side and handle HTTP 429 with the Retry-After header
  • The API moves to Leonardo.Ai from 1 December 2026; check the docs before building on it

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/remove-bg/agent.md before using remove.bg.

What you can build

  • A product-photo pipeline for a small online shop that cuts out new item photos on upload (paid credits for commercial use)
  • A profile-picture tool that removes the background and places the person on a brand color
  • A CLI batch job that cleans a folder of images before a catalog print

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