remove.bg’s website is closing: the alternatives, compared

remove.bg became part of Canva in 2021. Its FAQ says the standalone website will no longer be available from December 1, 2026, at 9:00am CET. Background removal moves to Canva, and API access moves to Leonardo.ai, also part of Canva.

• remove.bg subscriptions keep working until that day, then end on their own. Unused time on an annual plan is refunded pro rata, and a last monthly renewal on or after November 1 is not charged.
• remove.bg’s pay-as-you-go credits expire on December 1, 2026, so use them before then.
• The self-service API stops accepting requests on December 1, 2026. Enterprise API contracts continue as normal.
• The Photoshop plugin and the other integrations end on the same day.
• Accounts close too: export your credit usage report and invoices from the Account page before then.

Prices are in US dollars, as each pricing page showed them to a visitor in the United States. Plans change: follow the sources at the end of this page for today’s figures.

DreamBench doesn’t do everything remove.bg did. The others are ahead on four things.

• Trying before you pay: remove.bg previews cutouts at up to 0.25 megapixels without charge until it closes, and Photoroom lets you start without paying. DreamBench makes every cutout with a plan; only the account costs nothing.
• Many photos at once: Canva and Photoroom remove backgrounds in bulk. DreamBench takes one photo a run.
• An API: Photoroom sells one, and remove.bg’s moves to Leonardo.ai. DreamBench has no API.
• Size: remove.bg returns cutouts up to 50 megapixels. DreamBench works on photos up to 2048 pixels on the long edge.

• A cutout is the first step of a video: it opens in the composer as a reference image, and DreamBench’s video models turn it into a clip on the same plan.
• The price per cutout is plain: a cutout uses 7 credits, so Starter’s 1,100 monthly credits make about 157 cutouts, about $0.06 each, with AI video included.
• The AI background remover runs a matting model, BiRefNet, that decides which pixels belong to the subject. Hair and fine edges are kept, and nothing is redrawn.
• It works in the browser: upload a JPEG, PNG, WebP or another format your browser opens, up to 40 MB. A run that fails is refunded.
• Presets make a transparent PNG or a cutout on plain white in one step.
• After a cutout, the page finishes it in your browser without using more credits: any background color, the original photo blurred behind the subject, a soft shadow, a square or social-media frame, and PNG, JPEG or WebP.

Where DreamBench’s own cutout falls short is where any matting model does: a subject the color of its background, glass and smoke that keep what was behind them, a shadow on the floor that goes with the background, and a busy scene with no clear subject. Crop to the subject first and check the edge at full size on a dark color. When the background should be replaced rather than removed, the AI background changer draws a new scene behind the subject on Nano Banana 2; expect the subject’s edges to be redrawn slightly.

• You used remove.bg for one-off cutouts: Canva is where remove.bg sends you, and remove.bg says Canva’s Background Remover uses the same technology. Our guide shows how to remove a background in Canva.
• You edit product photos in volume or need an API: Photoroom offers batch editing and a Remove Background API.
• You relied on the remove.bg API: remove.bg’s FAQ points to Leonardo.ai’s API and its migration guide.
• Your cutouts end up in videos: DreamBench makes the cutout and the clip in one place, on one plan.

Whatever you choose, keep transparency in mind: a background removal is only useful as a PNG or WebP with a real transparent background.