AI Background Remover: Transparent PNG, White Background

Remove the background from photos automatically. This Actor cuts out the main object, such as a product, animal, car, person or food, with the IS-Net segmentation model and gives you a transparent PNG/WebP, the object on a white or custom color background, or a black and white mask.

• ✅ Transparent, solid color or mask output
• ✅ PNG, WebP or JPG, with adjustable quality
• ✅ Crop to the object with optional padding, and optional maximum size
• ✅ Keeps the original resolution (up to 50 megapixels), applies EXIF rotation, keeps existing transparency
• ✅ Batch processing: paste hundreds of image URLs; one broken link never stops the others and is not charged
• ✅ Private: images are processed inside the Actor and stored only in your own Apify storage. No third-party API, no API key, no subscription

What can you use it for?

• E-commerce: white-background product photos for Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify or Zalando listings
• Marketing: cut-outs for banners, thumbnails, social posts and ads
• Catalogs and marketplaces: clean, consistent images for car dealers, real estate, food delivery and second-hand listings
• Design: masks and transparent layers for Photoshop, Figma or Canva
• Automation: call it from Make, Zapier, n8n or your own code via the Apify API, for example after every product upload

How to use it

1. Paste direct image links into Image URLs.
2. Choose the Result (transparent, solid color or mask) and the Output format.
3. Optionally turn on Crop to the object and set a Max width/height.
4. Click Start. Each result has a download link in the outputUrl field, and the files are also in the run's key-value store.

Input example

{
    "imageUrls": [
        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danielgatis/rembg/main/examples/animal-1.jpg",
        "https://example.com/products/shoe.jpg"
    ],
    "output": "color",
    "backgroundColor": "#ffffff",
    "format": "jpg",
    "cropToObject": true,
    "cropPaddingPercent": 5
}

Output example

Real output for the first image with the default settings (transparent PNG):

{
    "imageUrl": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danielgatis/rembg/main/examples/animal-1.jpg",
    "outputUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<store-id>/records/animal-1-no-bg.png?signature=<signature>",
    "fileName": "animal-1-no-bg.png",
    "output": "transparent",
    "format": "png",
    "width": 1000,
    "height": 667,
    "originalWidth": 1000,
    "originalHeight": 667,
    "foregroundPercent": 24.5,
    "objectBox": [65, 156, 918, 580],
    "cropped": false,
    "bytes": 1028152,
    "seconds": 1.05,
    "model": "IS-Net general-use (DIS)"
}

foregroundPercent is the share of the image covered by the object, and objectBox is its bounding box [left, top, right, bottom] in the original image, useful to check results automatically (for example, a very small value usually means no clear main object). The outputUrl is a signed link that works without logging in. A run summary with the status of every image is saved as OUTPUT in the key-value store.

Pricing

You pay per processed image, at any size up to 50 megapixels. Images that fail to download or are not images are not charged. Set a run spending limit to cap the cost of a run.

Paid Apify plans pay less: 10% off on Starter, 20% on Scale and 30% on Business and higher plans.

Speed and limits

• The first images of a run take about 1.5 seconds each, plus a few seconds to start the run. In longer runs Apify limits the CPU to the run's share of memory, so with the default 2 GB each further image takes about 10 to 15 seconds (1 to 12 megapixels).
• More memory means more CPU: with 4 GB a long run of 4 megapixel photos was about 1.8 times as fast in our test. The price per image is the same.
• Input images up to 50 megapixels and 50 MB.
• GIFs and multi-page TIFFs: the first frame is used.

Tips for the best results

• Works best on photos with one clear main object. Busy scenes with many objects are harder.
• Fine hair and fur get soft edges, which look natural on most backgrounds. Glass and very thin objects (wires, chair legs) can lose parts.
• For marketplace photos, use Solid color background with #ffffff, Crop to the object and 5-10 % padding.

FAQ

Can I upload files instead of URLs? Use any public or signed link, for example from Google Drive (direct download link), Dropbox (?dl=1), S3, or an Apify key-value store.

What about the license? The IS-Net (DIS) model is published under the Apache-2.0 license, which allows commercial use. You need the rights to the images you process.

Does it work for people? Yes, portraits work well. Please only process photos you have the right to use.

More tools from Tidelane Data

• AI Image Upscaler: upscale images 2x, 3x or 4x with Real-ESRGAN
• Image Converter & Compressor: WebP, AVIF, JPG and PNG, resize and compress
• Bulk Image Downloader: all images from web pages, also as one ZIP

All our tools: apify.com/tidelane

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