Background removal API · beta

Your remove.bg code keeps working. Change one URL.

lassocut answers the remove.bg API with the same endpoints, parameters, response headers and error codes. The remove.bg API service shuts down on 1 December 2026; your integration doesn't have to.

Get an API key See the migration guide 
# the only line you change
- https://api.remove.bg/v1.0/removebg
+ https://api.lassocut.com/v1.0/removebg

# same header, same form fields
  X-Api-Key: YOUR_LASSOCUT_KEY
  image_file=@photo.jpg  size=auto  format=png
3 endpoints/removebg, /account and /improve, on the same paths as the remove.bg API.
Same errorsThe documented error codes and messages, word for word, so your error handling still matches.
Up to 50 MPPreview, full size and 50-megapixel output, PNG, JPG, WebP or ZIP, at the same credit cost per image.

How the cut-out is made

Every image goes through a model chosen for its subject. Headshots and portraits go to one model, full-body people, products, cars, animals and logos to another. When you send type=auto, a classifier picks the subject first and returns it in the X-Type header, as you already expect.

Both models are open-source under MIT licences, and we run them ourselves: no third-party image API in the loop. Your images are processed in memory and are not stored.

Pricing

One credit per full-size image, a quarter credit per preview, as you are used to. Credit packs never expire. Prices in US dollars (USD), for business use. Buy them in your account, paid securely with Stripe.

Free
50
API previews per month
100 credits
$9
$0.09 per image
1,000 credits
$39
$0.039 per image
10,000 credits
$249
$0.025 per image
100,000 credits
$1,500
$0.015 per image

Larger volumes with a service agreement: write to us.

Moving from remove.bg

Plain HTTP clients, curl, Python, Node and PHP need only the new base URL and key. The migration guide lists every parameter and the few differences, with copy-paste examples.