A free alternative to remove.bg
remove.bg says its website will no longer be available from 1 December 2026. This free background remover runs on your device, with no watermark or sign-up.
remove.bg says its website will no longer be available from 1 December 2026. This free background remover runs on your device, with no watermark or sign-up.
The remove.bg standalone website says it will no longer be available from 1 December 2026 at 9:00 CET, and that its background removal is moving to Canva. If you are looking for another free way to cut out a photo, this page opens the SafeResize background remover. SafeResize is not affiliated with remove.bg or Canva.
It removes the background of any photo, such as a person, a product, a pet, a car or a logo, with an AI model that runs on your own device. Your photo is never uploaded. You get a full-size PNG with a see-through background, up to 12 megapixels (for example 4000 × 3000 pixels). It is free, with no watermark and no sign-up.
Each background remover does things its own way. These are the questions worth asking of any of them, with the plain answer for this one.
No. SafeResize is a separate free website, and it is not affiliated with remove.bg or Canva. It uses its own AI model, BiRefNet_lite (MIT licence), which runs in your browser with ONNX Runtime Web.
Its standalone website says it will no longer be available from 1 December 2026 at 9:00 CET, and that its background removal is moving to Canva. For anything about your remove.bg account, check the remove.bg website itself.
It only makes a PNG with a see-through background. It does not add a white or coloured background, there is no brush to touch up the edges by hand, and there is no batch: it does one photo at a time. For those, open the PNG in a photo or design app afterwards.
About 10 to 20 seconds a photo on a recent computer. A phone takes longer, up to a minute or more on an older one. The first photo also waits for the one-time download of the AI.