What does background removal
actually cost you per month?

How each number is calculated (sources & assumptions, checked Oct 2, 2026)

• Fottly Cloud — founding-customer pricing (40% off, locked in for the first 20 customers): Starter $19/mo (≈10,000 images), Growth $59/mo (≈40,000 images), Business $130/mo (≈100,000 images). Above 100,000/month: custom quote. Source: fottly.com/pricing.
• Fottly self-hosted — the software is free and open-source (AGPL-3.0, no license fee); the only cost is your own server, flat no matter how many images you process. Default shown: $9/mo for a small VPS — edit it above to match your own infrastructure.
• remove.bg — published subscription rate: $9.80/40 credits ≈ $0.245/image (1 credit ≈ 1 image at standard resolution). Above ~8,300 images/month (100,000/year) remove.bg requires a custom Enterprise plan. Source: remove.bg/pricing.
• Photoroom (API) — Basic plan: $0.02/image, $20/mo minimum. Partner plan: $0.01/image, $1,000/mo minimum for high volume. The cheaper of the two is shown for each volume. Source: photoroom.com/api/pricing, photoroom.com/api/api-partner-plan.
• Poof (poof.bg) — credit plans: Free 100 credits, Pro $9/2,000, Mega $29/10,000, Ultra $99/50,000, Giga $299/200,000; above 200,000/month, extra $20 top-ups of 30,000 credits are added. Source: poof.bg/pricing.
• Cloudinary — the AI background-removal effect (e_background_removal) counts as 75 "transformations" plus 1 for the upload = 76 tx per image; 1,000 tx = 1 credit. Plus plan $97/mo* (225 credits) and Advanced plan $244/mo* (600 credits) — AI background removal is only available from Advanced up. Source: cloudinary.com/documentation/transformation_counts and cloudinary.com/pricing (*yearly billing shown as a monthly rate; monthly billing costs more).
• EUR figures are converted at a fixed, approximate rate (1 EUR ≈ 1.09 USD) purely so everything can be compared in one currency — it is not the live exchange rate.
• This tool is an independent marketing estimate from Fottly, not a binding quote. Every provider can change pricing or terms at any time — always confirm on their own pricing page before deciding.