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Remove background

The subject, on transparency. Runs on your credits in the console.

This one runs on your credits. The subject, on transparency. Runs on your credits in the console.

Sign in and get 500 free credits every month — enough for many files — then drop the file in the workbench and run remove background there.

Pick a file below to see exactly what it would cost.

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Runs on your credits in the console — 500 free a month, about 2 per megabyte here.

How to remove background

  1. Sign in — 500 free credits a month.
  2. Drop the photo in the workbench.
  3. Run Remove background and download the PNG.

What happens to your file

A segmentation model finds the subject of a photograph — a person, a product, a pet — and everything else becomes transparent. Edges are feathered a pixel or two so hair and fur do not look cut with scissors.

Flat art and logos on a single colour are refused in subject mode rather than shredded; the colour mode keys that background out exactly, and the console offers it.

This runs a model, which costs real compute; it is priced per image and runs against your own credits, of which the first 500 each month are free.

Questions

Why do I need to sign in?

Model inference is the one thing we cannot hand out anonymously without it being abused. Signing in gives you 500 free credits a month, which is a lot of cut-outs.

What does it cost?

Two credits per megabyte of input, minimum two. A phone photo is usually 4–8 credits.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "image.remove-background",
    "options": {
      "mode": "subject"
    }
  }'

The same operation, image.remove-background — The background turned transparent. mode "subject" finds a photograph’s subject with U²-Net; mode "color" keys out a flat background colour exactly, for logos, posters and diagrams. Flat art is refused by the subject mode rather than shredded, and told which mode works. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.