# 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.

- Category: Image, video and PDF tools · by Canva Austria GmbH (formerly Kaleido AI, part of Canva)
- Website: https://www.remove.bg/
- Live data: no
- Checked on the official pages: 2026-10-23

## API

- API unclear. Do not scrape the site; use it by hand or through its downloads.

## Data and license

- License: remove.bg Terms of Service (https://www.remove.bg/tos); covers Results from the free service are for private use only; commercial use needs a subscription or pay-as-you-go credits
- Commercial use with conditions
- Credit: not stated
- Embedding unclear
- Quote (commercial): "This means that all results from the Services may only be used privately." (https://www.remove.bg/tos)
- Quote (commercial_conditions): "Use for (direct or indirect) commercial purposes is excluded, unless the User is also using a subscription plan" (https://www.remove.bg/tos)
- Quote (output_ownership): "You own your Output, however owning your Output doesn't automatically mean you can use every part of it for any purpose" (https://www.remove.bg/tos)
- Quote (no_scraping): "use any form of data mining, extraction, or scraping on the Service" (https://www.remove.bg/tos)
- Quote (operator): "operates the following brands, services, and websites: Kaleido (kaleido.ai); Remove.bg" (https://www.remove.bg/tos)
- Quote (api_price): "Your first 50 API calls per month are on us" (https://www.remove.bg/api)
- Quote (limits): "You can process up to 500 images per minute through the API, depending on the input image resolution in megapixels." (https://www.remove.bg/api)
- Quote (api_future): "Starting December 1, 2026, background removal moves to Leonardo.Ai, also part of Canva." (https://www.remove.bg/api)
- Quote (retention): "then delete them shortly after" (https://www.remove.bg/privacy)
- Quote (training): "train our algorithms, models and AI products and services using machine learning" (https://www.remove.bg/privacy)
- Quote (training_optout): "Choose if you do NOT want us to use this image for quality improvements." (https://www.remove.bg/privacy)

## Rules for an agent

- 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

Human page: https://agentgid.com/resources/remove-bg/
Source: AgentGid (agentgid.com). Facts are quoted from the site's own pages; check the license page before you ship.