Head to head
One sells credits outright instead of a subscription, which is a real advantage at low volume. The other runs on your own machine and does not meter anything.
The short answer
Photomop runs on your own device, so photos are never uploaded and free exports come back at the resolution you brought with no watermark. Erase.bg is a cloud service that sells one-time credit packs rather than subscriptions: 10 credits for $4.76, 100 for $9.52, 1,000 for $19.05, plus 3 free credits at signup.
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 Erase.bg 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 Erase.bg’s own pages, the row says so rather than repeating what other sites claim.
| Photomop | Erase.bg | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Output up to 10,000 by 10,000 pixels, from files of up to 25 MB |
| Watermark on a free export | No watermark on any export | Not published |
| Free allowance | No per-image credits and no export counter | 3 credits and 3 downloads granted at signup, and the 3 credits download 3 HD images |
| Account to use the free tool | Editing starts the moment the page loads | Yes, the free credits are granted on signup and nothing can be downloaded before that |
| Paid plan starts at | $8.00 a month, or $5.00 a month billed yearly | $4.76 one-time a month |
| Where it runs | Web on desktop, Web on mobile, Works offline once loaded | Web, iOS, Android, API |
| Works with no connection | Yes, once the page and any model are cached | No, the image has to reach their servers |
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Erase.bg is a cloud service. You upload a file, their servers run the model, and the result comes back down. That is why there is a credit for every download, why uploads stop at 25 MB, and why the API is priced the same way. Each image costs Erase.bg real GPU time, and the credit is how that cost reaches you.
Photomop works the other way round. The model downloads to your device once, caches there, and runs in 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 is stronger than a policy promising nobody will look.
Because most of this category will not sell you that. remove.bg, Slazzer, Pixelcut and Picsart all want a monthly plan, and remove.bg's subscription credits stop working when the subscription lapses. Erase.bg simply sells you a pack: 10 credits for $4.76, 100 for $9.52 or 1,000 for $19.05. If you edit photos in bursts a few times a year, that is the right shape.
The arithmetic is also good on its own terms. A thousand credits at $19.05 is around two cents an image, which undercuts most per image API rates in this market. The caveats are real but modest: credits expire after a year, they are non-refundable, and the Enterprise tier is a custom quote with no figure printed anywhere.
Erase.bg gives three credits and three downloads at signup, and those three credits download three HD images. That is a trial rather than a free tier, and the account requirement is not optional: nothing comes down before you have signed up. What you get in exchange is real output, up to 10,000 by 10,000 pixels, rather than a thumbnail preview.
Photomop has no credit count, no resolution ceiling that we impose and no watermark. The ceiling is your own hardware. On a laptop, a full-size phone photo is routine. On an older phone we run inference at a reduced size and composite the result back onto your untouched full resolution original, so the file you download is still the size you started with.
Video, for one thing. Erase.bg strips the background from clips of up to 30 seconds, which is a job Photomop does not attempt at all. It also runs bulk processing, swaps a background for a colour or another image, publishes an API, and ships apps on iOS and Android so the phone that took the photo can finish it.
There is a blunter gap too. Erase.bg cuts video and we have no video tool at all, and on stills upscaling, object removal and the passport photo tool do not have a working page yet. If you need one of those this afternoon, that is a real argument and this page will not try to talk you out of it.
For a hundred images a year, Erase.bg costs $9.52, while almost everything else in this category is a subscription costing several times that over the same period. For a thousand images, it is $19.05. Those are the numbers that make it worth naming here rather than burying, and if cost is the whole question at low volume, Erase.bg is a sound answer.
Photomop is free to use and the paid plan is published at $8 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly, and is not open for purchase yet. Nothing in the toolbox is held back for it. What it adds is unattended batch over a folder, HD background packs and an API, which are the parts that genuinely cost money to run.
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 |
| Erase.bg 10 credit pack | $4.76 one-time a month | 10 credits, bought outright rather than by subscription, valid for one year and non-refundable |
| Erase.bg 100 credit pack | $9.52 one-time a month | 100 credits, valid for one year and non-refundable, working out at under ten cents an image |
| Erase.bg 1000 credit pack | $19.05 one-time a month | 1,000 credits, valid for one year and non-refundable, which is about two cents an image |
| Erase.bg Enterprise | Not published | Custom quote, arranged through the sales address Erase.bg publishes at pixelbin.io. No figure is printed in the pricing 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 a full resolution export with no watermark and no credit to spend.
Pick this if your volume is low or bursty, you would rather buy credits outright than subscribe, and you sometimes need short video.
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, Erase.bg 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.
Only as a trial. Signing up grants three credits and three downloads, and those three credits download three HD images. An account is required before anything can be downloaded. After that you buy a credit pack: 10 credits for $4.76, 100 for $9.52 or 1,000 for $19.05.
There is no subscription. Credits are sold outright: 10 for $4.76, 100 for $9.52 and 1,000 for $19.05, which works out at roughly two cents an image on the largest pack. Credits are valid for one year and non-refundable, and Enterprise pricing is a custom quote.
Yes, after a year, and they are non-refundable. That is still friendlier than a subscription whose credits stop working the moment the plan lapses, but it means a pack bought for a project that stalls can quietly go to waste. Buy the size that matches your real annual volume.
We could not confirm a watermark policy on Erase.bg's own pages, so this page does not state one either way, and you should check before relying on it. Photomop adds no watermark on any export, at any resolution, on any plan, because there is nothing metered on our side.
No. Every tool runs on your own device inside the 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 also why the working tools keep going when your connection drops. Check it in your network tab.
No. Photomop has no video tool at all, and Erase.bg removes backgrounds from clips of up to 30 seconds. Photomop is a set of focused image tools and nothing else. If video is part of the job, Erase.bg or Pixelcut is the better place to look.
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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