Background removal API for production-ready images
Turn raw uploads into ready-to-use visuals
Background removal gives every image a cleaner, more reusable base. Use it to separate products, people, or objects from distracting source backgrounds and return consistent cutouts.
Keep edges clean
Preserve product boundaries, hair, fur, fabric edges, transparent details, and complex shapes where simple cutout tools often create rough borders.
Standardize visual layout
After removing the background, add padding, safe zones, or white space so products don't look cropped too tightly.
Prepare for next steps
Use background removal as the first step before background generation, resizing, upscaling, or marketplace export.
Built for common background workflows
White and custom BG
Replace removed backgrounds with pure white, neutral, or brand-specific colors to match marketplace rules or catalog standards.
Transparent PNGs
Create transparent-background assets for web design, graphic design, print layouts, product configurators, and creative automation.
Background blur
Keep the original photo context while softening visual distractions. Useful for portraits, marketplace images, profile photos, and app content.
Selective removal
Specify which object should stay in the image. Claid's guided background removal will preserve specified objects while removing the rest.
Background removal at retail scale
OXFAM GB · LARGE CHARITY RETAILER
Oxfam GB uses Claid's background removal API to standardize product images across a constantly changing online catalog. The team publishes up to 4,000-5,000 products per day, with new items going live at a rate of more than 2 per minute during peak hours.
2x less time
on background removal
"Claid takes the hassle out of product photos for our listers."
Kathryn Richards
Delivery Lead at Oxfam GB
Integrate background removal into your image pipelines
Add automated background removal to your workflow with a simple API call.
POST /remove-background { "input": { "image URL": "https://..." }, "operations": { "remove-background": { "padding": "10%" } } } // response { "output_url": "https://..." }
- Remove BG from product photos, portraits, and user uploads
- Return transparent PNGs, white BG, custom colors, or blurred BG
- Preserve fine edges around hair, fabric, and transparent objects
- Add padding and safe zones around products
- Combine BG removal with resizing, upscaling, and generation
Need background removal at production scale?
Use Claid as an enterprise API with higher limits, SLAs, and dedicated engineering support, or work with our team on a custom visual workflow that includes background removal, padding, enhancement, generation, QA, and export rules.
Background removal workflows for every vertical
Claid can turn varied source photos into standardized outputs for product pages, marketplaces, apps, print layouts, and internal content systems.
Build multi-step workflows
You don't need to move images between separate tools or add manual QA steps for every file. Use background removal as one step in a complete image processing chain.
Automated API workflow
Automate background removal and speed up image preparation
Use Claid's API to turn inconsistent product photos, seller uploads, portraits, and user-generated images into standardized outputs automatically. Remove backgrounds, apply transparent or solid-color results, add spacing, resize, upscale, or generate new scenes in one chainable workflow.
