BiRefNet · IOPaint · Real-ESRGAN — open-source under the hood
Remove backgrounds. Erase objects. Upscale.
One endpoint per primitive — same quality as remove.bg, twenty times the price tag undone.
50 free images per month. No card. Sub-second on T4.
Request / response
One endpoint per primitive. Multipart in, JSON out.
Request
curl -X POST https://api.mattly.dev/v1/remove-bg \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MATTLY_KEY" \
-F "image=@product.jpg" \
-F "size=full"Response
{
"id": "req_01HX...",
"status": "succeeded",
"data": {
"url": "https://r2.mattly.dev/outputs/req_01HX/result.png",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1080,
"size_bytes": 421008,
"metadata": {
"engine_used": "birefnet",
"worker_duration_ms": 612
}
},
"usage": { "units": 1, "unit_type": "image" }
}Pricing comparison
Same quality. Twentieth the price.
Public pricing pages, May 2026.
| remove.bg | PhotoRoom | Cloudinary | Mattly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-image price | $0.20 | $0.05–$0.10 | $0.02–$0.10 | $0.01 |
| Background removal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Object erase | — | Yes | Limited | Yes |
| 4× upscale | — | — | Limited | Yes |
| Free tier | Preview | Limited | — | 50 images / mo |
Pricing
Simple, usage-based pricing.
Free tier first. Scale when you need to.