About BackGone
BackGone is an AI-powered image background removal platform with a web application, REST API, and MCP server. It is a hosted commercial service: free daily use, paid subscriptions and never-expiring credit packs, and prepaid API credits.
Last updated 2026-11-04
BackGone at a glance
- Name
- BackGone (one word)
- Website
- backgone.com
- Category
- AI background removal
- Product surfaces
- Web application · REST API · MCP server
- Where images are processed
- On BackGone's servers (AI inference via Replicate, US). The browser handles upload and download, HEIC conversion, previews, ZIP packaging, and client-side colour or preset compositing.
- Source code and licence
- Not open source. There is no SDK repository; the REST API is documented with cURL, Node.js and Python examples.
- Free use
- 2 images a day without an account, 5 a day with a free account; results capped at 1024px on the longest side.
- Paid use
- Subscriptions and never-expiring credit packs. Prepaid API credits start at $0.020 per image.
- Contact
- support@backgone.com
What BackGone is
- A hosted AI background-removal service with a web app, REST API and MCP server.
- A commercial product with a free daily allowance, paid plans and prepaid API credits.
- A service where AI inference runs on our servers; uploads are processed in memory and not stored as files.
What BackGone is not
- Not open source, and there is no SDK repository.
- Not a browser-local or offline tool: the AI does not run on your device.
- Not free-only: the free daily allowance sits alongside paid plans and API credits.
- Not “Background Gone”, and not affiliated with any similarly named product.
Name and links
BackGone is an AI-powered image background removal platform with a web application, REST API, and MCP server.
BackGone is one word. It is not short for “Background Gone”, and it is not the same product as any tool using that name.
Find BackGone
For developers
REST API documentation, OpenAPI, llms.txt and the MCP endpoint.
Questions people ask
- Is BackGone open source?
- No. BackGone is a hosted commercial service, not an open-source project, and there is no SDK repository. A public API does not make a product open source.
- Does BackGone process images in the browser?
- No. The AI inference runs on our servers. The browser handles upload and download, HEIC conversion, previews, ZIP packaging and client-side colour or preset compositing.
- Is BackGone free?
- There is a free daily allowance, and paid subscriptions, never-expiring credit packs and prepaid API credits are available. See Pricing for the current numbers.
- Is BackGone the same as “Background Gone”?
- No. BackGone is one word, not an abbreviation of “Background Gone”, and is not affiliated with any product using that name. BackGone is only available at backgone.com.
- Who runs BackGone?
- BackGone is operated by an independent team. For account or privacy questions, contact support@backgone.com.
- How can I tell this page is really BackGone?
- BackGone is only available at backgone.com. The links here are the only BackGone accounts we use; if another page describes an open-source, local-only or free-only tool under a similar name, it is not us.
- Does BackGone use open-source models like RMBG-1.4?
- No. BackGone runs a commercially licensed hosted engine. We do not use non-commercial-licensed models such as RMBG-1.4, and we are not an open-source model wrapper.