PicWish (AI Background Remover) · Background removal
Good hair handling and refinement tools are offset by login-gated downloads and HD credit costs; free previews do not imply full-size rights.
US-West (California, AS2914)
2048 × 2048 · PNG · Open native file ↗
Subsequent pricing and service checks are shown separately without altering historical scores.
One run does not establish all complex scenes, untested paid maxima or long-term uptime.
Plans & historical pricing
Web free, weekly/monthly/annual subscriptions and expanded packs; excludes API · 2026-10-20
13 plan / billing-period records, all listed; — means that period is not recorded.
Actual annual charges $59.99/$263.99. A 3-day trial is offered; cancel before expiry to avoid charges. Exact daily free count is unspecified. The 11,500-credit pack includes a current 1,500-credit bonus.
Cancellation, sources & verification record
Cancel under My Orders; request refunds through official support, eligibility not separately verified.
Official plans and usage terms ↗ · 2026-10-20 Capture 1 ↗ · Capture 2 ↗ · Capture 3 ↗ · Capture 4 ↗
Pricing recorded on the test date · 2026-10-16
Subscription from $5.99/mo (50 credits/mo, billed annually) · Pay-as-you-go from $14.99 (300 credits)
Free 1616px tier + Monthly credit subscription + Pay-as-you-go credit packs
Historical context only; not current purchase guidance.
Delivery & access
- Free delivery record
- 1616×1616 (2.61 MP, 78.9% linear scale of 2048×2048 original, unwatermarked RGBA PNG)
- Attached file dimensions
- 2048 × 2048 · PNG
Read directly from the attached file; this does not establish free download availability at that size.
- Watermark
- None (Completely unwatermarked transparent RGBA PNG)
- Free allowance
- Free logged-in users can download 1616×1616 'Free image' PNGs without credit deduction; full 2048×2048 HD requires Pro or 1 credit
- Account requirements
- Requires Google / Apple / Facebook / Email login to download the free 1616×1616 PNG
- Maximum specification record
- 1616×1616 (Free Preview PNG · No Watermark) / 2048×2048 (HD Original · Requires 1 Credit / Pro)
May include advertised capabilities; this does not establish a tested paid tier.
- Batch & API
- Supports 30–100 image Bulk Edit on web, plus desktop app and commercial API
- Manual refinement
- Built-in Refine (Keep/Erase brush), Light on, and Resize tools
Tested result & sample
Top-5 Hair Matting Precision (`mad_band=0.0806`, `sad_k=33.09`): preserves fine curly hair flyaways with natural semi-transparent alpha gradients (`alpha_entropy=2.843`) and virtually zero background color halo; 99.81% foreground recall (`fg_recall=0.9981`) and only 0.175% background leak (`bg_leak=0.00175`).
- Edge error MAD
- 0.0806 · Lower is better
- Global error SAD(k)
- 33.09 · Lower is better
- Foreground retention
- 99.810% · Higher is better
- Background residue
- 0.175% · Lower is better
These historical measurements describe alpha error at edges (MAD), total alpha error / 1000 (SAD), foreground retention and background residue. Low-resolution outputs are aligned to the reference under the original protocol; this does not imply a full-resolution export.
- Fixture
- anchor_bgremove_v1
- Recorded environment
- US-West (California, AS2914)
- Network-observed server wait
- 6.12 s
- End-to-end reference
- 16.17 s
Network wait includes round trips, queuing and polling error, not pure inference time. Local timings depend on the device; repetition counts are not standardized in legacy records.
Experience, rules & trust
- Disclosure
- Clearly labels 'Free image 1616 x 1616px (Free)' vs 'HD image 2048 x 2048px (Pro)' in the Download modal (Screenshot ③)
- Interaction
- Requires Google / Apple / Email login before downloading the free 1616×1616 cutout, and displays a Pro trial banner inside the download modal, though the free '1616 x 1616px Free' button works cleanly with one click.
- Entity record
- Wangxu Technology Co., Ltd. (PicWish / Apowersoft)
- Origin
- Hong Kong / Shenzhen, China
- Domain history record
- 2021–Present
- Third-party tracking record
- Google Tag Manager · Bing BAT
- External information
- Mature visual AI suite specializing in e-commerce cutouts, hair-level alpha matting, and photo restoration.
- Processing
- Cloud async inference + Alibaba Cloud HK OSS 1-hour signed delivery (x-oss-expires=3600)
- Retention statement
- Free web uploads are automatically purged after processing unless saved to PicWish My Space
A recorded statement does not verify deletion or all data-processing behavior.
Verifiable audit trail & evidence
Four SHA-256-verified stages link the benchmark fixture, same-run interface screenshots, native exported artifact and archived pricing sources.
anchor_bgremove_v1 · Inspect fixture & file inspector →
Captures entry rules, result view and export disclosure.
Screenshots, native output and official claims support different conclusions. Evidence grades are not product safety certifications.
Evaluation basis & full scores · Overall 82.5/100
Overall = honesty & reputation × 30% + capability × 70%. Component maxima follow this report’s rubric. List scores are rounded for display; original precision is retained here.
Scoring version 2.3.1 · Test fixture anchor_bgremove_v1
Honesty & reputation · 80/100 · 30%
| Criterion | Score | Rationale | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 30 / 40 | Transparent tiered download dialog (Screenshot ③): clicking Download clearly shows 'Free image: 1616 x 1616px (Free)' alongside 'HD image: 2048 x 2048px (Pro)', without injecting any watermark into the free 1616×1616 transparent PNG. | Evidence A → |
| Interaction restraint | 16 / 20 | Requires Google / Apple / Email login before downloading the free 1616×1616 cutout, and displays a Pro trial banner inside the download modal, though the free '1616 x 1616px Free' button works cleanly with one click. | Evidence A → |
| Background & reputation | 21 / 25 | Developed by Wangxu Technology Co., Ltd. (Apowersoft / LightPDF / GitMind ecosystem, Hong Kong & Shenzhen), operating since 2021 with desktop, mobile, and API products. | Evidence B → |
| Engineering & privacy | 13 / 15 | High-precision portrait alpha matting (`mad_band=0.0806`, Top-5 overall in our 17-tool benchmark, `fg_recall=99.81%`) completed in 6.12s server processing time. | Evidence A → |
Capability · 83.5/100 · 70%
| Criterion | Score | Rationale | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task quality | 53.5 / 65 | Transition band error mad_band=0.0806 · Global SAD(k)=33.09 · Foreground recall 99.81% / Background leak 0.175% | Evidence A → |
| Deliverable specifications | 18 / 20 | True Alpha channel (8/8); Max deliverable spec: 1616×1616 (Free Preview PNG · No Watermark) / 2048×2048 (HD Original · Requires 1 Credit / Pro) | Evidence A → |
| Processing speed | 12 / 15 | Network-observed server wait: 6.12s (API mode: async_oss; network upload 10.05s / end-to-end 16.17s shown for reference only, never penalized) | Evidence A → |
Legacy scores may include advertised maximum capabilities. Read tested output separately from paid capabilities. Records without matching tiers and scope are not ranked together.
Revisions & corrections
- 2026-10-16
Initial real-machine evaluation using Mode A synthetic Ground-Truth Alpha anchor (anchor_bgremove_v1).