rankings / remove-image-backgrounds
The best models for removing backgrounds
16 models & services · 0 callable here now
Ranked by benchmark score per dollar (quality floor applied). Scores: PBench — image segmentation quality. Fetched 2026-07-04. Prices are our live per-call rates; ~ marks an estimate until the model is onboarded.
sorted by value · sort by score
| # | model | score | price | params | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct best value | 37 (#6) | ~$0.626 / 1k images | 2127.5M | coming soon |
| 2 | Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct | 49.2 (#3) | ~$1.341 / 1k images | 4437.8M | coming soon |
| 3 | tiiuae/Falcon-Perception top score | 57 (#1) | - | 632.4M | coming soon |
| 4 | moondream/moondream3-preview | 50.5 (#2) | - | 9268.6M | not hosted |
| 5 | Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | 49 (#4) | - | 8767.1M | not hosted |
| 6 | facebook/sam3 | 44.4 (#5) | - | 859.9M | coming soon |
| 7 | CIDAS/clipseg-rd64-refined | - | ~$0.047 / 1k images | 150.7M | coming soon |
| 8 | ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet | - | ~$0.094 / 1k images | 220.7M | coming soon |
| 9 | briaai/RMBG-1.4 | - | ~$0.047 / 1k images | 44.1M | coming soon |
| 10 | Xenova/modnet | - | - | - | coming soon |
| 11 | PaddlePaddle/PP-DocLayoutV3 | - | - | - | coming soon |
| 12 | PramaLLC/BEN2 | - | ~$0.047 / 1k images | 94.6M | coming soon |
| 13 | ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet_lite | - | ~$0.047 / 1k images | 44.4M | coming soon |
| 14 | ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet_HR | - | ~$0.094 / 1k images | 220.7M | coming soon |
| 15 | ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet-portrait | - | ~$0.094 / 1k images | 220.7M | coming soon |
| 16 | Kaleido remove.bg | - | ~$0.14-0.28 / image | - | reference |