Photomop vs the rest
Eighteen head-to-heads, each built from the other vendor's own published facts.
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Free is the product. Pro is the volume.
Every tool at full resolution for nothing, because running them on your device costs us nothing.
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The short answer
Photomop is free to use: every tool, full resolution exports and no watermark. Pro costs $8 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly at $60 a year, and adds batch processing over whole folders, HD background packs, API access with 1,000 images a month and early access to new tools. Pro is not on sale yet.
Free
Available now$0to use
Every tool, at the resolution you brought. This is not a sample of the paid product. It is the product.
- Every tool in the toolbox
- Full resolution in, full resolution out
- No watermark on anything you export
- No credit counter and no per-image charge
- Runs on your device, so nothing is uploaded
- Commercial use included
- Keeps working offline once the model is cached
Pro
Coming soon$8a month
Or $5 a month billed yearly, at $60 a year
For the days when it is a folder of 400 listings rather than one photo, and for developers who want the same models behind an endpoint.
- Everything in Free, unchanged
- Batch processing: point it at a folder and walk away
- HD background library packs, curated and licensed
- API access with 1,000 images a month included
- New tools land on Pro first
- Priority support from a human
Prices in USD. Cancel anytime. Pro is not on sale yet, and these are the prices we intend to launch it with.
In detail
What the free plan actually includes
“Free” is the most abused word on a pricing page, so here is the long version, line by line, including the places where the answer is a qualified one. If something below reads as too generous to be sustainable, the architecture section explains why it is not: running a model on your own hardware costs us nothing per image, so there is no bill for the free plan to be hiding.
| On the free plan | What you get | The detail |
|---|---|---|
| Which tools | All of them | Nothing on the tools hub is reserved for Pro. The paid plan adds capability around the tools rather than unlocking them. |
| Export resolution | Whatever you brought | A 48 megapixel phone photo comes back at 48 megapixels. Your device sets the ceiling, and there is no plan-level cap sitting under it. |
| Watermark | None, anywhere | Not on the preview, not on the export, not on the printable passport sheet. There is no paid step to remove one. |
| Per-image credits | Not metered | There is no counter to run down, because an edit on your own hardware costs us no GPU seconds to serve. |
| Account | Not needed today | Open a tool and start. Accounts arrive with Pro, because a subscription needs somebody to bill. If that ever changes for free users, the changelog will say so before it happens. |
| Card details | Not asked for | There is no trial to convert, so there is nothing to hold a card against. |
| Commercial use | Included | Sell the listing, print the catalogue, ship the ad. Your photo stays yours, the output is yours, and no attribution is required. |
| Offline | Works once the model is cached | The tools keep running with the network off, which is also the simplest proof that your image is not going anywhere. |
| File formats | In and out | JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP and HEIC in. PNG or WebP with a real alpha channel out, or a flattened JPG when a marketplace insists. |
| Support | Email, best effort | One inbox, read by the people who build it. Pro puts your message in front of them sooner rather than giving you a different address. |
Slide the table sideways to see every column.
Two honest caveats. Your device is the real limit on very large files, so an old phone will work slower and cut fine detail less cleanly than a laptop, which is written up on the tools page. And this is a launch build: the changelog lists what is still rough, and it will list any change to the free plan on the day it happens rather than afterwards.
Line by line
What changes when you pay
Short version: nothing about the editing gets better. What you buy is throughput and automation.
| Feature | Free, $0 | Pro, $8 a month |
|---|---|---|
| The tools | All of them | All of them |
| Export resolution | Full, whatever you brought | Full |
| Watermark | No | No |
| Per-image credits | Not metered | Not metered |
| Account | Not needed today | Yes, for billing |
| Where processing happens | Your device | Your device |
| Works offline | Included | Included |
| Commercial use | Included | Included |
| Batch queue over a folder | No | Included |
| HD background packs | Free packs only | Full library |
| API access | No | 1,000 images a month |
| Early access to new tools | No | Included |
| Support | Email, best effort | Email, prioritised |
Slide the table sideways to see every column.
The economics
Why we can give the good part away
A cloud background remover pays for a GPU every time you click the button. That single line on their invoice explains every free tier on the market: the preview capped at 0.25 megapixels, the watermark, the daily credit count, the account wall that exists to attach a card to a face.
We do not have that line. The model runs on the device already sitting in front of you, so a thousand cut-outs cost us exactly what zero cut-outs cost us. Once that is true, metering the free tier stops being a business decision and starts being pointless spite.
Pro charges for the things that do have a cost. A hosted API runs on our servers. An HD background library has to be shot or licensed. A batch queue that survives a closed laptop needs somewhere to live. Those are worth money. Cutting out one photo is not.
The catch, and there is one, is that this only works while the compute stays on your side of the wire. It is the same bet the whole company is built on, argued at length on the about page. If we ever moved a tool to a server we would be back to paying per image, and the free plan would have to change to match. That is precisely why we would rather not.
How it compares, August 2026
| Tool | Paid from | Free export |
|---|---|---|
| Photomop | $5 a month | Full resolution |
| Photoroom | Around $12.99 a month | Reduced |
| Pixelcut | Around $9.99 a month | Reduced |
| remove.bg | Credit packs | 0.25 megapixels |
Figures published by each vendor and checked in August 2026. They change their prices without telling us, so treat this as a snapshot and check theirs before you decide.
FAQ
Pricing questions
What the free tier covers, what Pro adds, and what happens the day you stop paying.
What does the free plan actually include?
Every tool, at the full resolution of the file you brought, with no watermark on the export and no per-image credit counter. Every tool runs on your own hardware, so serving you costs us no GPU time and there is nothing for us to meter. That is what makes the free plan a working product rather than a preview of one.
Do I need an account or a card to use the free tools?
Not as things stand today. Open a tool, drop a photo in, download the result. Accounts arrive with Pro, because a subscription needs somebody to bill, and if we ever ask free users to sign in the changelog will say so before it happens.
What does Pro actually add?
The four things that genuinely cost money to run or take real work to build: unattended batch processing across a whole folder, a curated and licensed HD background library, a hosted API with 1,000 images a month included, and early access to new tools. Editing a single image on your own device costs us nothing to serve, which is why it sits on the free plan.
Can I buy Pro today?
Not yet. Photomop is in its launch window and the free tools are what shipped first. The prices on this page are the ones we intend to launch Pro with, published early so nobody is surprised later. If a plan changes before Pro opens, this page changes with it and the changelog records why.
How much cheaper is this than the alternatives?
Pro at $8 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly, undercuts the tools people usually compare it against: Photoroom sits around $12.99 a month and Pixelcut around $9.99 as of August 2026. The bigger difference is the free plan. Theirs caps a free export to a small preview; ours currently hands back the full resolution file.
How does billing work, and can I cancel?
Monthly Pro bills every month and yearly Pro bills once for $60. You can cancel at any time from your account, and cancelling stops the next charge rather than cutting you off mid-period. Prices are in US dollars, and any local tax is added at checkout depending on where you are.
What happens to my work if I stop paying for Pro?
The tools keep working exactly as they do now, because they run on your device and are on the free plan anyway. What stops is the Pro-only capability: the unattended batch queue, the API key and the paid background packs. Nothing you already exported is affected, since those files have only ever existed on your own machine.
Why is there no free trial of Pro?
Because the free plan is not a crippled version of Pro, so a trial would not tell you much. Free already gives you every tool at full resolution with no watermark. Pro adds throughput and automation, which you either need for the volume you work at or you do not. When Pro opens we would rather you decide on that basis than on a countdown.
Still unsure? Email us and a person will answer, or open any tool in the toolbox and put a real photo through one. That settles the question faster than a pricing page can.
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