remove.bg is shutting down. Here is what to use instead.
On 1 December 2026 remove.bg retires its standalone site, folds web removal into Canva and moves its API to Leonardo.Ai — plugins and automations included. Feyard does the same job entirely inside your browser: three model tiers, an edge brush, batch ZIP export, no uploads and no per-image fee.
What happens on 1 December 2026
remove.bg stops being a standalone product. Each surface goes somewhere different, and two of them go nowhere at all.
| Surface | Date | What it becomes |
|---|---|---|
| remove.bg website | 1 Dec 2026, 09:00 CET | Canva's built-in Background Remover — you must open the Canva editor and be signed in. |
| remove.bg self-serve API | 1 Dec 2026, 09:00 CET | Leonardo.Ai API — new account, new key, new billing. |
| Photoshop / Figma / GIMP / Sketch plugins | 1 Dec 2026 | Discontinued, no successor (Canva points plugin users at Affinity + a Canva Pro plan). |
| Zapier / Make automations | 1 Dec 2026 | Discontinued — every no-code workflow built on remove.bg stops delivering. |
| remove.bg desktop app | 1 Dec 2026 | Discontinued. |
| Prepaid credits | Before 1 Dec 2026 | Use them first — unused credits do not survive the migration. |
Verified 20 September 2026. Confirm the authoritative wording against remove.bg's own notice before making billing decisions.
Four things to do before 1 December
Download what you already made
Pull every past remove.bg export you still need, plus the invoices. After the shutdown there is no account to log back into.
Spend or reclaim your credits
Unused prepaid credits do not carry over to Canva or Leonardo.Ai. Use them before 1 December 2026 or ask support about a refund.
Audit your automations
Any Zapier / Make scenario or Photoshop action built on remove.bg stops on the shutdown date. Replace the step now rather than after it silently fails.
Decide where the photos should physically go
If the images are customer photos, medical scans or anything with a confidentiality clause, moving them to an on-device tool removes the vendor from your compliance scope entirely.
Feyard vs remove.bg vs Canva vs Photoroom vs Adobe Express
Every competitor below sends your photo to a server and charges for the round trip. The differences that matter are where the pixels are processed and what the free tier is allowed to be used for.
| Capability | Feyard | remove.bguntil 1 Dec 2026 | Canva | Photoroom | Adobe Express |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where your photo is processed | In your browser — never uploaded | remove.bg servers | Canva servers | Photoroom servers | Adobe servers |
| Account required | No | No (web), yes (API) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free full-resolution export | Yes, up to 5120 px source | No — free tier is a 0.25 MP preview | No — high-res needs a Pro plan | No — watermarked | Limited free tier |
| Commercial use of free output | Yes | No — free downloads are personal use only | Plan-dependent | Paid plans only | Paid plans only |
| Model choice | 3 tiers (Fast / Sharp / Sharp · GPU) | 1 proprietary model | 1 model | Several, preset per workflow | 1 model |
| Manual edge brush | Yes — edits the alpha channel, survives export changes | Magic Brush (AI, no mask editing) | Brush inside the editor | Yes | Brush inside the editor |
| Edge refine sliders (feather / shrink / contrast) | Yes | No | No | Partial | No |
| Batch | Up to 500 images → one ZIP | 500 images/min — paid plans only | No | Yes, paid plans | Limited |
| Backgrounds, shadows & aspect ratios | 8 backgrounds, 5 shadows, 8 aspect ratios, padding + zoom | AI-generated backgrounds, AI Shadow | Full template library | AI scenes | Full template library |
| API | None yet | Retiring → Leonardo.Ai | Canva Connect API | Yes | No |
| Desktop plugins | None yet | Discontinued 1 Dec 2026 | n/a | Mobile apps | n/a |
| Price | $0 | ~$0.20–$0.60 per image, or a subscription | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription |
Your images never leave the device
Inference runs on WebGPU or WASM in the page itself. There is no upload endpoint, no retention policy to read, and nothing to delete afterwards — which also means no per-image bill.
Full resolution is free, and licensed for commercial use
remove.bg's free tier gives you a 0.25 MP preview and explicitly forbids commercial use. Every download here is full resolution, unwatermarked, and yours to sell with.
A brush that edits the mask, not the pixels
Touch-ups write into the alpha channel, so they survive a background swap, a shadow, an aspect change or a re-export at 4K. Pixel-based erasers have to be redone each time.
Batch 500 images into one ZIP, no credits
Drop a folder in, get a ZIP out. No credits, no queue position, no 500-images-per-minute tier to buy.
Try it on your own photo
Drop an image in. The model downloads once, then everything runs on your device — including this page being free to reload as often as you like.
Looking for something specific? The dedicated product page covers the three model tiers, the refine sliders and batch export in detail — open the background remover.