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Background removal is becoming a commodity but at the same time being top quality is an essential block of building quality software. We built photoroom and removing background is free, no subscription needed https://www.photoroom.com/background-remover You can see that we are 2x remove.bg in accuracy https://www.velebit.ai/blog/background-removal/

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Accuracy is awesome. Tried with a complex thing: A photo of my son sitting on a tree. While others (pixian.ai) remove his legs and let a tree branch there instead, photoroom removed everything from the photo except the person.

I gave it a shot, but it loads forever after I dragged an image in. Up investigation, it sends a POST request (with the image likely) but got HTTP 423.

Bonjour Matthieu, photoroom is offering precisely the type of pricing we're looking to disrupt ;)

Photoroom users: feel free to use https://pixian.ai/comparisons to compare the results.

(We haven't done a comparison with them so genuinely don't know if they're better or worse)

I also agree it is becoming a commodity, I even made an open source tool few years ago to remove the background from images and videos https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover

Hi Matthieu, I would love to try your API, but I don't want to have to go through the "sign in with Google to get free credits" maze. I have a lightroom account and I want to pay straight up, with my existing account, and leave Google and free credits out of it. How can I do that?

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