Head to head
One is a broad cloud platform metered in credits, with a passport tool we have not built yet. The other is a set of photo tools running on your own machine. Volume and confidentiality decide it.
The short answer
Cutout.Pro is a cloud platform covering background removal, retouching, colourising, video and passport photos, metered in credits that roll over up to five times the monthly allocation. Photomop is an on-device studio: models run in your browser tab, so photos are never uploaded and there are no credits to count.
Updated
Not every tool in the catalogue has a working page yet: upscale image, remove object and passport photo are still being built. Everything else runs today, on your own device. We put that first rather than at the bottom, because it is the thing most likely to send you to Cutout.Pro instead, and you should find it out here rather than after you have opened a tab.
Side by side
Every cell below is a fact one of the two of us publishes. Where we could not read a number on Cutout.Pro’s own pages, the row says so rather than repeating what other sites claim.
| Photomop | Cutout.Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Where processing happens | On your own device, in the tab | On their servers, after your photo is uploaded |
| Free export resolution | No cap we impose. Your device sets the ceiling | Not published |
| Watermark on a free export | No watermark on any export | Not published |
| Free allowance | No per-image credits and no export counter | 5 free credits on signup, previews described as permanently free, and credits that roll over up to five times the monthly allocation |
| Account to use the free tool | Editing starts the moment the page loads | Not published |
| Paid plan starts at | $8.00 a month, or $5.00 a month billed yearly | $5.00 a month |
| Where it runs | Web on desktop, Web on mobile, Works offline once loaded | Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Shopify plugin, API |
| Works with no connection | Yes, once the page and any model are cached | No, the image has to reach their servers |
Slide the table sideways to see every column.
Cutout.Pro is a cloud platform. You upload an image, its servers run the model, and the result comes back down, which is why there is a credit counter at all. Every credit corresponds to real GPU time somebody has to pay for, and that same logic explains the free preview: showing you a small result costs less than producing a full one.
Photomop works the other way round. The model downloads to your device once, caches there, and then runs inside the tab through WebGPU where the browser supports it and WebAssembly everywhere else. Your file is read from disk into memory, processed, and written back out as a download. It never reaches a server of ours, which you can confirm in your own network tab.
Cutout.Pro's image pricing page states three useful things about free use. New accounts get 5 free credits on signup. Previews are described as permanently free, which means you can see the result before spending anything. And credits roll over, up to five times the monthly allocation, so a quiet month is not simply forfeited. That last rule is more generous than most in this category.
What the page does not say is what a free export actually looks like. The watermark policy is not disclosed there, and neither is the resolution a free download comes back at, so this page states neither. Photomop's side is simpler: no watermark on any export, no export counter, and the file comes back at the resolution you brought it in at.
There is a wrinkle worth naming first. Cutout.Pro picks the currency from the country it places your connection in, so the same page shows different money to different people and a figure quoted without a country attached to it means very little. The figures below are the US dollar ones, read at Cutout.Pro's own image pricing page on 10 August 2026.
Six monthly tiers: 80 credits at $5.00, 170 at $9.90, 300 at $16.90, 550 at $29.00, 1000 at $49.00 and 1450 at $69.00. That is $0.063 an image at the bottom and $0.048 at the top, so the discount for committing to volume is real but small. No annual billing option was visible on the page, and the same rates are quoted for API calls.
Cutout.Pro ships a Passport Photo Maker, which is one of the few genuine overlaps with something we plan. Passport work is a real job with real rules: a country sets the print size, the head height range and the background colour, and a photo that misses any of them gets rejected at the counter. A tool that encodes those rules saves an expensive second trip.
Ours is not built. A passport tool is on Photomop's list and does not have a working page yet, so if you need a compliant passport photo this week, Cutout.Pro has one and we do not. The case for doing it on your own device is strong, since a passport photo is a picture of your face attached to an identity document, but that case is about the future.
Quite a lot beyond the cut-out. Cutout.Pro lists AI image generation, face cutout, retouch object removal, a photo enhancer, a photo colouriser, the passport maker and video background removal. It runs on the web, on iOS and Android, on Mac and Windows desktop, through a Shopify plugin and through an API. That is a broad platform, and Photomop has no equivalent for most of it.
The Shopify plugin and the API are the two that matter most for a seller. A plugin that sits in the shop admin means images get handled where the listings already live, and a documented API means the same output can be wired into a pipeline. Photomop has no hosted API today, and on-device processing makes a server-side API an awkward thing to offer.
What each one costs
Both ladders in full, monthly and yearly, because the large number on a pricing page is almost always the yearly rate and almost nobody pays it in month one.
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Photomop Free | $0 a month | Every tool at full resolution, with no watermark on the way out |
| Photomop Pro | $8.00 a month, or $5.00 a month billed yearly | Unattended batch over a folder, HD background packs, an API with 1,000 images a month, early access to new tools. Not open for purchase yet |
| Cutout.Pro 80 credits a month | $5.00 a month | 80 image credits a month. Cutout.Pro serves this page in the currency of the country it thinks you are in, so the figure here is the US dollar price read at their own image pricing page on 10 August 2026 |
| Cutout.Pro 170 credits a month | $9.90 a month | 170 image credits a month, at the US dollar price read at Cutout.Pro's own image pricing page |
| Cutout.Pro 300 credits a month | $16.90 a month | 300 image credits a month, at the US dollar price read at Cutout.Pro's own image pricing page |
| Cutout.Pro 550 credits a month | $29.00 a month | 550 image credits a month, at the US dollar price read at Cutout.Pro's own image pricing page |
| Cutout.Pro 1000 credits a month | $49.00 a month | 1000 image credits a month, at the US dollar price read at Cutout.Pro's own image pricing page |
| Cutout.Pro 1450 credits a month | $69.00 a month | 1450 image credits a month, at the US dollar price read at Cutout.Pro's own image pricing page. No annual billing option was visible on the page |
Slide the table sideways to see every column.
Both columns are the same length on purpose. If ours were twice as long you would be reading an advert.
Pick this if the photo should not leave your machine, or you want full-resolution exports with no watermark and no credits to count.
Pick this if you need video background removal, a Shopify plugin or a passport photo today, and rollover credits fit your workload.
The honest version
The case against us is short and worth saying out loud: upscale image, remove object and passport photo do not have a working page yet, so those jobs need another tool today, and there is no hosted API today, so a workflow that needs one has to look elsewhere. If either of those is the thing you need this week, Cutout.Pro is the better answer today and this page is not going to argue otherwise.
Questions people ask
The things people search for once they have narrowed it down to these two.
You get 5 free credits on signup, and its pricing page describes previews as permanently free, so you can see a result before spending anything. Past those credits you need a monthly tier. The page does not disclose the watermark policy or the resolution of a free export, so neither is stated here.
From $5.00 a month for 80 image credits up to $69.00 for 1450, read at Cutout.Pro's own image pricing page on 10 August 2026. The tiers in between are $9.90 for 170, $16.90 for 300, $29.00 for 550 and $49.00 for 1000. The page serves whichever currency matches the country it places you in, so check it from where you are before subscribing.
Its pricing page states that credits roll over up to five times the monthly allocation, which is more generous than most vendors in this category manage. That suits an uneven workload, where a quiet month funds a busy one. Photomop has no credits at all, because there is no per-image server cost to meter.
No. Every tool runs on your own device inside the browser tab. Your file is read from disk into memory, processed there, and written back out as a download. Nothing is sent to us, which is why the tools keep working when your connection drops. You can confirm it in your browser's network tab.
Not yet. A passport tool is planned but it does not have a working page yet. Cutout.Pro ships a Passport Photo Maker now, so if you need a compliant photo this week that is the one that exists. Ours is in build, and this page will say so until it is not.
No annual option was visible on the pricing page when we read it on 10 August 2026, so every tier there is a monthly commitment. That matters if your work is seasonal, though rollover credits soften it. Check at cutout.pro before subscribing, since pricing pages in this category change frequently.
Same cluster
Each one is built the same way: the vendor's own published facts, checked at source, next to ours.
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Resize, crop, compress, convert and batch edit all work right now, on your own device, at full resolution and with no watermark. No account, nothing uploaded. Read how the on-device pipeline works if you want to check that claim before you trust it with a client’s photo, or the pricing page for where the paid line falls.