Hermosso's AI background remover is free to use with no sign-up — 3 removals a day — deleting the background from any photo and giving you a transparent PNG in seconds; the model identifies the subject, whether a person, product or pet, and cuts it out down to fine detail like hair and fur. Need more? Signed-in runs cost 50 credits per image, and new accounts get 400 free credits.
Transparency needs an alpha channel, and only formats like PNG and WebP carry one — a JPG cannot store a transparent background at all, so a "transparent" JPG always comes back with white where the background was. That is why this background remover's PNG download keeps the full-resolution alpha channel: drop the cutout straight into Shopify, Etsy, Canva, PowerPoint or any design tool and the transparency just works. When people search for a transparent AI cutout or an AI transparent PNG, this alpha-channel file is exactly what they are after.
| Tool | Price | What it does better | Where Hermosso wins |
|---|---|---|---|
| remove.bg | Low-resolution previews at no cost; full-resolution downloads from about $1 per image pay-as-you-go, less on subscription | The original specialist — fast, with a mature API and plugins for design tools. | No separate subscription — the cutout is one of many tools your Hermosso credits already cover. |
| PhotoRoom | A limited free plan; Pro is $12.99/month or $7.50/month billed yearly | Purpose-built for marketplace sellers, with AI backgrounds and batch product-photo workflows. | Transparent-PNG cutouts without the product-photo upsell, inside a full creative studio. |
| Canva | Background Remover is part of the paid Canva Pro plan | The cutout drops straight into Canva's templates and brand kits. | A dedicated cutout tool without paying for a whole design suite. |
| Photoshop | From about $20 a month (Photography plan) | Manual masks and refinements for pixel-perfect, complex cutouts. | One click and a few seconds — nothing to install, no manual masking. |
| Hermosso | Free for 3 removals a day, no sign-up; then 50 credits per transparent PNG (400 free credits on sign-up; plans from $9/month) | — | A transparent PNG in one click, then relight it, place it in a new scene, edit it or animate it in the same studio. |
AI cutouts handle hair and fur well, but genuinely hard cases — glassware, lace, semi-transparent fabric, or a subject that blends into the background — can leave rough edges that need a manual touch-up in an editor. And if you do not need transparency at all — you want a new scene behind the subject rather than a transparent PNG — use AI Relight or the image editor instead.
Upload your photo to Hermosso's AI background remover, press Remove background, and download the result — the output is a transparent PNG with an alpha channel, not a white background.
Yes — free with no sign-up, 3 removals a day. With an account, new accounts receive 400 free credits and one transparent PNG runs 50 credits, so your first eight cutouts there are free too; after that, plans start at $9/month — see pricing.
Yes — the AI background remover cuts fine edges like hair, fur and product detail far more accurately than manual selection tools, though it is worth checking the edges at full zoom on the checkerboard preview.
Yes — the Passport Photo maker removes the background, applies the regulation white backdrop and crops to US 2×2in or EU/UK 35×45mm.
You can download it for shops, listings, slides and mockups, or keep working in Hermosso — relight it into a new scene, edit it with a prompt or animate it into a video clip.
Read the guide: AI background remover tips. See plans and pricing.