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The Remove.bg API alternative that keeps your code

Remove.bg stops accepting requests at 9:00 CET on the 1st December 2026, and background removal moves to Leonardo.ai. Photoroom's API takes the same parameters. Simply change the endpoint URL and your key, and your migration is complete.
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One line of code being changed to switch from Remove.bg to Photoroom

One line of code to switch

Photoroom's Remove Background API takes the same argument names as remove.bg and returns the same response format. Point your existing call at a new endpoint, swap the key, and your integration keeps working. Your image_file, crop, bg_color, format, and size parameters carry across unchanged.

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What happens to your integration on 1 December

On 1 December 2026, remove.bg’s background removal moves to Leonardo.ai. That means a new account, a new API key, a new endpoint, and changes to parameters and responses.

Photoroom keeps your remove.bg parameters and response format. Change the endpoint and key, and your calls keep running.

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Test free before you switch

A sandbox key gives you up to 1,000 test calls a month (100 a day) on your own images. Results are watermarked, so it’s for testing, not production.

Only pay for cutouts that pass

If a background isn’t removed accurately, send us the image and the API call, and we’ll credit the image back. This applies to monthly Remove Background API plans of 250 images or more.

More than a cutout

A cutout is the first step. The same integration also stages products in generated scenes, adds realistic shadows, creates on-model shots with Virtual Model, resizes to marketplace specs, and upscales. Teams moving off a single-purpose endpoint often retire two or three other services at the same time.

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What it costs at your volume

Background removal starts at $20 a month for 1,000 images ($0.02 each). That’s the plan that replaces your remove.bg endpoint.

Plus is $100 a month ($0.10 each) and adds AI Backgrounds, Shadows, Ghost Mannequin, Product Staging and more. Past 100,000 images a year, Enterprise pricing is annual with volume discounts.

Before December 1, 2026

How to migrate from Remove.bg to Photoroom

1

Swap the endpoint

Create a Photoroom API key and point a test environment at the new endpoint. Run your existing calls unchanged.

2

Check your hardest images

Compare the output on your own hardest images: fine hair, transparent products, fur, and anything with a complex edge.

3

Cut over and keep a fallback

Cut over, and keep the old path in place until you've watched a full cycle run clean. Download anything you still need from your Remove.bg account.

One image editing API to access multiple solutions

Connect to a single API and unlock best-in-class tools for every stage of product visual production: from cutout to product staging to ghost mannequin.

Photoroom MCP

Connect Photoroom to Claude with our MCP and unlock professional product listing tools. The MCP contains one tool to access our entire set of features.

Background Removal

The AI background removal API detects complex edges, handles transparency, and delivers clean cutouts at scale - ideal for product catalogs and marketplace listings.

Virtual Model

Place apparel and accessories on AI-generated models that match your brand aesthetic. On-model imagery via the Virtual Model API: no casting, no studio, no production timelines.

Flat Lay

Generate consistent, editorial-quality flat lay product photography at enterprise scale. Maintain visual identity across thousands of SKUs through the Flat Lay API.

Ghost Mannequin

Produce ghost mannequin apparel shots with perfect shape retention through an AI-powered Ghost Mannequin API endpoint. Scale invisible mannequin photography without a studio.

Product Staging

Place your product into realistic lifestyle scenes - held, worn, or displayed - with the natural lighting and composition of a high-end photoshoot.

Edit With AI

Describe any change in plain language and our AI makes it - swap colors, remove or add objects, restage the scene, or shift the camera angle.

Product Beautifier

Enhance low-quality product and food images automatically with the Beautifier API. No retouchers, no studios. Our AI restores detail, corrects color, and improves overall quality at scale.

Add Shadows

Add realistic shadows to the main subject of your image, with complete control over the softness, intensity and position of the shadow.

Generate Backgrounds

Dynamically create new backgrounds with our first-class generative AI, perfectly matching the subject of the original picture.

Relighting

Fix badly lit photos automatically. Our AI rebalances over- and under-exposed images, with modes that keep product colors accurate or optimize for portraits.

Text Removal

Remove watermarks, labels, and real-world signage from your images automatically - choose what goes and what stays.

Expand

Resize any image to any format without cropping. Our AI generates the extra background to match the original, filling every empty pixel seamlessly.

Uncrop

Recover subjects clipped by the frame. Our AI reconstructs the missing parts from the visible portion, automatically.

Ironing

Make every garment look freshly pressed. Our AI smooths creases and wrinkles out of clothing photos automatically - no steamer, no reshoot.

Create Any Image

Generate images from a text description alone - no source photo needed. Describe the scene, pick a format, and get original content back.

Uncertainty Score

Know when a cutout needs a second look. Every response returns a confidence score from 0 to 1, so you can auto-flag ambiguous images for review at scale.

Perspective Correction

Straighten angled shots of flat, rectangular products - cards, books, games - into clean, straight-on views. No generative AI, so hallucinations are impossible by design.

Positioning

Control exactly where the subject sits in the result - scaling, alignment, padding, and margins - so every image in a catalog comes out consistently framed.

Smart Cropping

Reframe images around the subject automatically - prompt it to focus on a specific element, or crop faces out for marketplace compliance.

Upscale

Turn small, low-res images into sharp ones at 4× the size - with a fast mode for volume and a slow mode for maximum quality.

Switching, in numbers

Speed, throughput and price for the background removal call you’re replacing. All three apply from the first image, with no setup beyond a new endpoint and key.
~450 ms

per image vs ~600 ms for remove.bg, in our benchmark

60

images a minute by default, higher on Enterprise

$0.02

per image on the background removal plan

Photoroom API

How Photoroom compares to Remove.bg

We ran the same product photos through each background removal API. See the cutouts side by side: which kept fine edges, and which left the background behind.

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Exclusive to Enterprise plans

When background removal is one step of many

Visual agents, video and a contractual quality guarantee for enterprise catalogs that need more than a cutout.
Enterprise
Custom models, dedicated capacity, custom endpoints, and SLA-backed uptime. SOC 2 Type 2.
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Visual QA
Even the best AI models get it wrong, so Visual QA scores every output for fidelity, catches the misses, and corrects the details before they reach your customers.
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Enterprise Guarantee
Pay only for the outputs that pass. Set your product-fidelity criteria upfront. Every output is checked against your brief by our proprietary fidelity model. Anything that misses is credited back or regenerated for you.
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Video Generator
The Image to Video API turns static product photography into short-form video automatically. Submit a product image and receive a polished video with natural camera motion, animation, or configured effects.
Start building

Switch before 1 December

Get an API key and test on your own images today. On a remove.bg enterprise contract? Leonardo.ai is asking enterprise customers to contact their account manager. Talk to us first and we’ll plan the move with you.

Frequently asked questions

Will my existing remove.bg code work with Photoroom?

What happens to my remove.bg account?

Does Photoroom offer a money-back guarantee on its background removal API?

What images are supported in the Photoroom API?

What is the latency to return the processed image with Photoroom API? Is there a rate limit?

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