About BGNinja
Full resolution. No watermark. Actually free. Some background removers only give you a small free preview and charge for the full-size file. This one gives you the full resolution free.
Drop in a photo, get the subject back on a transparent background, and the file is off the server before you have finished downloading it.
Specifications
The hard numbers, so you know before you upload. Every value here is what the server actually enforces.
| Free | With a pass | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. No account, no sign-up, no card. | €5 for 30 days, or €3 for 24 hours |
| Images per batch | 3 | 25 |
| Maximum image size | 30 megapixels | 100 megapixels |
| Maximum file size | 99 MB per image | |
| Output | Full resolution PNG with a transparent background: no downscaling on either tier. | |
| Where it runs | On computers we operate ourselves. Your image is never sent to a third-party service. | |
| Your upload | Deleted the moment processing finishes, success or failure: on both tiers. | |
| Watermark | None, on any output, on either tier. | |
The free tier is not a trial and does not run out. What the pass buys is volume and megapixels: the cut-out model is the same either way.
Who runs it
I do. BGNinja is one person and a few computers of my own. The main one is a desktop machine in a room in the Netherlands with two graphics cards in it, switched on around the clock, on an electricity bill with my name on it; some heavier jobs, like erasing objects from a photo, can run on another of my own computers. There is nobody here to escalate to. When the site falls over, the person who notices and the person who fixes it are the same person, and it is usually back inside the hour.
About the name
On the name. Sam Ridder is not what it says on my passport. Running a free tool means putting an e-mail address in front of the whole internet, and I would rather do that behind a name I picked myself. Everything else written here is true, and the person who answers that address is the person who wrote this.
Why you are not charged per image
Every other background remover I have used rents its GPUs from a cloud provider by the second, so your photo costs them money the moment it lands. That has to come back out of you somehow: a watermark, three free images, an account, a subscription. My hardware was paid for once. Cutting out one more photo on it costs about as much electricity as a lamp left on for a minute, so there is nothing worth metering. The ads around the tool cover the power and the domain. If they stop covering it, that will be written on this page. I am not going to quietly make the free result worse in order to sell you a better one.
Privacy, plainly
Your photo is uploaded, processed, sent back to your browser, and deleted immediately. Nothing stays on disk afterwards, nothing is added to a training set, nothing is shared with anyone. The one exception is AI interior design, where the finished design is kept for 45 minutes so you can download it. The erase and restore brushes, backgrounds and downloads all happen locally in your browser after the cutout comes back. The full details are in the privacy policy, but the short version really is that short: I keep nothing longer than the tool needs, because keeping things costs money and trust and I would rather spend neither.
What it does well, and what it doesn't
The segmentation model handles people, products, pets and logos well, including tricky edges like hair and fur. It struggles when there's no clear subject (a landscape, a texture, a very busy collage), and when that happens the tool tells you instead of silently returning an empty PNG. If a cutout keeps a stray patch or misses a spot, the erase and restore brushes let you fix it by hand in seconds: erase turns an area transparent, restore brings the original cutout pixels back; those two only ever work with what the cutout already has. For actually taking an object out of a photo, the Magic erase mode goes further: paint over the object and an AI inpainting model fills in the background behind it. That fill is a reconstruction: great on simple backgrounds, imperfect on very busy ones, and when it falls short I would rather you knew that up front than found out after.
Sister project
If you have old, blurry or faded photos, PicReviver restores and sharpens them, and can adjust a stiff smile in a portrait. Same machine, same room, same rules: free, nothing kept.