Remove the background from an image
Drop a photo into the tool below and it comes back with the background gone, as a real transparent PNG you can download. The free pass runs on your own device — the picture is never part of a request, and there is no account to make first.
Free — unlimited, full resolution, no account, no subscription.
Remove a background
Drop an image here
or
You can also paste from the clipboard with Ctrl/⌘ + V.
JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF. Up to about 4000 × 4000 pixels.What it does, exactly
A segmentation model decides pixel by pixel what is subject and what is background, then writes a PNG with a genuine alpha channel where the background used to be. The result is the resolution you put in. No watermark, no downscaled preview, and no step where you are asked to pay to see the result at full size.
What it is good at
People, pets, products, furniture, plants and food — anything with a subject the eye separates from its surroundings without having to think. Flyaway hair, fur against a busy background and chain-link fences are where every model gets approximate, including this one. If that is the image you have, the optional server pass runs a larger model that usually does better on exactly those edges.
Where the picture goes
On the free pass, nowhere. The file is read with the browser's own file API, the model runs in the tab, and the result is drawn on a canvas on your machine — open the network tab while you use it and you will see the page and the model file come down and nothing go up. The paid server pass is the one exception on this site: it does send the image, to our server and on to our model provider, fal.ai; it never runs unless you press it; and fal holds the image and the result for up to an hour, set to be deleted after that.
Questions people ask
Do I need an account?
Not for this. The free in-browser cut-out works with no sign-up at all. An account exists only for the optional paid server pass, because the Lumen it spends have to belong to somebody.
Why is the first image slow?
The first run downloads the segmentation model, about 45 MB. Your browser keeps it afterwards, so every image you do after that starts straight away.
Can I use the result commercially?
Yes. The cut-out is your image and we claim nothing in it — and on the free pass we never see it. The model is the open-source Open Remove Background Model, under the Apache-2.0 licence.
Other ways in
The longer answers
The guides go further than a tool page sensibly can.