Background Removal API
1/5× the cost of Remove.bg

Name: Background Removal API
Brand: Brainiall
SKU: background-removal
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (87 reviews)

Microsoft retired Azure Image Analysis 4.0 background removal on March 31, 2025. Brainiall is the drop-in replacement — billed via Azure Marketplace, transparent quality benchmarks, GDPR-clean.

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Brainiall Background Removal API — split-screen showing original photo and clean transparent output

How we compare

Benchmark on diverse images (DIS5K + custom test set). Updated quarterly. Published openly — including cases where we lose.

Provider	Quality	Price/image	vs market avg	Position
Photoroom	9.4/10	$0.050	50%	—
Remove.bg	9.0/10	$0.200	200%	—
ClipDrop	8.7/10	$0.050	50%	—
Brainiall FAST	9.3/10	$0.020(80% cheaper)	20%	Parity
Brainiall HD	8.9/10	$0.050(50% cheaper)	50%	Superior

Pricing rule: 90% off when inferior · 80% off at parity · 50% off when superior. Position determined by objective benchmark, refreshed quarterly.

Pricing

Discount derived from quality position vs market average. 90% off when inferior, 80% off at parity, 50% off when superior.

Free

$0/mo

100 images/month · Fast tier · Forever free

Starter

$19/mo

1,000 images/month · Fast + HD tiers · All formats

Pro

$99/mo

10,000 images/month · Priority queue · 99.5% SLA

Business

$299/mo

50,000 images/month · Dedicated capacity · Email + Slack

Migrating from Azure Image Analysis 4.0

Microsoft retired the service March 2025 and recommends BiRefNet from third parties. We are that third party.

# Before (Azure)
POST https://{endpoint}/computervision/imageanalysis:segment
     ?api-version=2023-04-01-preview&mode=backgroundRemoval

# After (Brainiall)
POST https://api.brainiall.com/v1/image/remove-background/base64
     {"image": "<base64>", "tier": "hd"}