Pixelcut Background Remover · Background removal
Hair detail and the download flow perform well, with clear free-tier labels; login-free output is 1080px and full size requires login.
US-West (California, AS2914)
1080 × 1080 · 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, Pro and all eight Business volumes with monthly/annual selection; API separate · 2026-10-20
19 plan / billing-period records, all listed; — means that period is not recorded.
Annual charges for Pro and all eight Business volumes were verified separately in Stripe checkout. Unlimited paid removal coexists with batch-export limits. The free tier still says Limited without an exact removal count; it is not treated as unlimited.
Verification has gaps; unknown prices and quotas are not inferred.
Cancellation, sources & verification record
Cancel anytime; refund eligibility unverified.
Official plans and usage terms ↗ · 2026-10-20 Capture 1 ↗ · Capture 2 ↗ · Capture 3 ↗
Annual USD checkout summaries for each volume ↗ · 2026-10-20 Capture 1 ↗ · Capture 2 ↗ · Capture 3 ↗ · Capture 4 ↗ · Capture 5 ↗ · Capture 6 ↗ · Capture 7 ↗ · Capture 8 ↗ · Capture 9 ↗
Pricing recorded on the test date · 2026-10-16
$9.99/mo (or ~$59.99/yr billed annually)
Free tier + Pixelcut Pro subscription + API credits
Historical context only; not current purchase guidance.
Delivery & access
- Free delivery record
- 1080×1080 guest preview (27.81% pixel area retained, 1.66MB watermark-free true-Alpha PNG); 2048×2048 free with sign-in
- Attached file dimensions
- 1080 × 1080 · PNG
Read directly from the attached file; this does not establish free download availability at that size.
- Watermark
- None
- Free allowance
- Single-image background removal is free; Batch Edit requires upgrading to Pixelcut Pro
- Account requirements
- No login required for 1080×1080 export; Google / Apple / Email sign-in unlocks free 2048×2048 full-resolution export
- Maximum specification record
- 2048×2048 (1080×1080 free guest preview export; dropdown explicitly states 'Full resolution 2048×2048 — Free with sign in')
May include advertised capabilities; this does not establish a tested paid tier.
- Batch & API
- Supports Batch Edit (Pro subscription feature)
- Manual refinement
- Built-in Retouch brush, Expand, Upscale, Shadow, and AI Background generator in left sidebar
Tested result & sample
Hair strand transitions are remarkably crisp and natural (transition-band error mad_band=0.0701, SAD(k)=26.71, gradient error 0.0207), with 99.94% foreground recall and only 0.018% background leak—ranking in the absolute top tier of all tested tools.
- Edge error MAD
- 0.0701 · Lower is better
- Global error SAD(k)
- 26.707 · Lower is better
- Foreground retention
- 99.940% · Higher is better
- Background residue
- 0.018% · 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
- 3.03 s
- End-to-end reference
- 16.87 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 disclosed in the Download dropdown menu with exact pixel dimensions
- Interaction
- Enters the clean online workspace immediately after upload with zero popup spam; guests can export a 1080×1080 watermark-free PNG in one click.
- Entity record
- Pixelcut Inc. (San Francisco, CA, USA)
- Origin
- San Francisco, USA (Y Combinator S20)
- Domain history record
- Founded 2020
- Third-party tracking record
- Google Analytics · PostHog
- External information
- Leading AI product photography tool whose proprietary matting and shadow models are widely praised by e-commerce merchants.
- Processing
- Cloud synchronous API inference (api2.pixelcut.app/image/matte/v1, 3.03s server time)
- Retention statement
- Guest sessions cache results locally in the active browser tab
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.
Official plans and usage terms (snapshot ↗) · Annual USD checkout summaries for each volume (snapshot ↗)
Screenshots, native output and official claims support different conclusions. Evidence grades are not product safety certifications.
Evaluation basis & full scores · Overall 90.6/100
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 · 83/100 · 30%
| Criterion | Score | Rationale | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 30 / 40 | Clicking the top-right Download dropdown clearly lists both tiers upfront: 'Preview resolution 1080×1080 — Free' and 'Full resolution 2048×2048 — Free with sign in', with zero hidden paywalls or watermark ambushes. | Evidence A → |
| Interaction restraint | 18 / 20 | Enters the clean online workspace immediately after upload with zero popup spam; guests can export a 1080×1080 watermark-free PNG in one click. | Evidence A → |
| Background & reputation | 23 / 25 | Pixelcut Inc. (San Francisco AI design startup, Y Combinator S20 alum, trusted by tens of millions of e-commerce creators worldwide). | Evidence A → |
| Engineering & privacy | 12 / 15 | Synchronously returns the PNG cutout via dedicated endpoint api2.pixelcut.app/image/matte/v1 (server_s=3.03s) with a clean network pipeline. | Evidence A → |
Capability · 93.9/100 · 70%
| Criterion | Score | Rationale | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task quality | 60.9 / 65 | Transition band error mad_band=0.0701 · Global SAD(k)=26.707 · Foreground recall 99.94% / Background leak 0.018% | Evidence A → |
| Deliverable specifications | 20 / 20 | True Alpha channel (8/8); Max deliverable spec: 2048×2048 (1080×1080 free guest preview export; dropdown explicitly states 'Full resolution 2048×2048 — Free with sign in') | Evidence A → |
| Processing speed | 13 / 15 | Network-observed server wait: 3.03s (API mode: sync; network upload 9.79s / end-to-end 16.87s 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 synthetic ground-truth anchor_bgremove_v1 and CDP network timing isolation.