Head to head
Pixelcut is the friendliest free cut-out in this category and it runs on servers. Photomop runs on your own machine. That single difference decides most of the rest.
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. Pixelcut is a cloud editor whose free web removal also exports at HD with no watermark, though the allowance is labelled Limited without a number. Pro is $10.00 a month.
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 Pixelcut 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 Pixelcut’s own pages, the row says so rather than repeating what other sites claim.
| Photomop | Pixelcut | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Free HD quality, with uploads accepted up to 8000 by 8000 pixels and 100 MB in JPG, PNG or HEIC |
| Watermark on a free export | No watermark on any export | None on the free web background removal, which exports a transparent PNG or a white background |
| Free allowance | No per-image credits and no export counter | Free background removal and upscale are labelled Limited on the pricing page, with no numeric cap published |
| Account to use the free tool | Editing starts the moment the page loads | Not required for a basic web background removal |
| Paid plan starts at | $8.00 a month, or $5.00 a month billed yearly | $10.00 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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Pixelcut is a cloud service. You upload a file, their servers run the model, and the result comes back down. That is why uploads are capped at 8000 by 8000 pixels and 100 MB, why the free tier is metered at all, and why the API is priced per image at five credits, or five cents, a removal. Each job costs them real GPU time.
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 a stronger statement than a policy promising nobody will look.
Pixelcut's is the strongest free cut-out among the cloud tools, and it deserves saying plainly. You get HD output with no watermark, exported as a transparent PNG or on a white background, without being asked to sign in first. Compared with a 0.25 megapixel preview from remove.bg or a non-commercial licence from Photoroom, that is a real gap in Pixelcut's favour.
The catch is the meter. The pricing page labels free background removal and upscale as Limited and publishes no number, so you find the ceiling by hitting it. Photomop has no counter to hit: exports come back at the size you brought, with no watermark, because your own hardware did the work and there is nothing on our side to ration.
Clearer than most of this market, with one gap. Pro is $10.00 a month for 600 AI credits, 1,000 batch exports, a commercial licence and a three person team. Business is $30.00 for 3,600 credits, 2,000 batch exports and ten people. The API is flat: one cent a credit, five credits an image, with 100 credits given at signup to try it.
The gap is annual billing, shown as a 20 percent saving rather than a price. You can do the arithmetic, but a figure you calculated yourself is not a figure the vendor published, so this page does not quote one. Photomop's own paid plan is published at $8 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly, and is not open for purchase yet.
Rather a lot. Pixelcut generates backgrounds, upscales, outpaints beyond the original frame, runs a virtual try on and removes backgrounds from video. It has native iOS and Android apps, so the phone that took the photo can finish it, and a documented API for wiring the same output into a pipeline. Photomop has none of those things today.
There is a blunter gap as well. Pixelcut upscales, generates product shots and edits video right now and we do not: 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 argue with it.
For a photo of a mug you are selling, honestly, no. For an unreleased product, a client's campaign shot under an NDA, a scanned document or a photograph of someone who did not agree to it being uploaded, it matters a great deal. The question then is not whether a vendor can be trusted with the file, but whether the upload happens at all.
That is where running on your own device stops being a technical detail. There is no upload step to opt out of, no retention window to read and no processing agreement to negotiate, because the image never becomes anybody else's problem. You can check it yourself in about a minute: open your browser's network tab, run one of the working tools, and watch nothing leave.
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 |
| Pixelcut Pro | $10.00 a month | 600 AI credits a month, background removal and upscale with no per image limit, 1,000 batch exports a month, a commercial licence and a three person team. Annual billing is shown only as a 20 percent saving, with no dollar figure in the page |
| Pixelcut Business | $30.00 a month | 3,600 AI credits a month, 2,000 batch exports a month and a ten person team. Annual billing is again shown only as a 20 percent saving |
| Pixelcut API | Not published | Credit packs from 1,000 credits for $10 up to 1,000,000 credits for $10,000, a flat one cent a credit, with 100 free credits at signup. Background removal costs 5 credits an image, so five cents |
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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 allowance to hit.
Pick this if you want a good free cut-out today, plus upscaling, generated backgrounds and video removal from the same tool.
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, Pixelcut 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.
A basic web background removal is free, exports at HD with no watermark, and does not ask you to sign in. Uploads are accepted up to 8000 by 8000 pixels and 100 MB. The pricing page labels the free allowance Limited without publishing a number, so the ceiling is not stated.
Pro is $10.00 a month for 600 AI credits, 1,000 batch exports, a commercial licence and three team seats. Business is $30.00 for 3,600 credits, 2,000 batch exports and ten seats. Annual billing is advertised as a 20 percent saving, with no dollar figure printed in the page.
Credits cost a flat one cent each, in packs from 1,000 credits for $10 up to 1,000,000 for $10,000. A background removal costs five credits, so five cents an image, and signing up gives you 100 free credits to test with. Credits do not roll over.
No. Pixelcut's own background remover page states that the free HD export carries no watermark, as either a transparent PNG or a white background. Photomop also adds no watermark on any export, at any resolution, on any plan, because nothing is metered on our side to begin with.
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.
Yes. The background remover has a working page and it runs the matting model in your own browser tab, so the photo is never uploaded. What is not built yet is upscaling, object removal and the passport photo tool, and Pixelcut does all three today.
Same cluster
Each one is built the same way: the vendor's own published facts, checked at source, next to ours.
A cloud editor built around generative AI for images, video and audio, on the web and on phones
Broad creative suite where background removal is one credit-metered tool among many across web and mobile
An automatic background remover sold in credit packs, with desktop applications and a documented API
AI photo editing and product listing studio built around background removal and product staging
Automatic background removal with the widest plugin and API range in the category, metered by image credits
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.