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shnwazdev-rembgapi

A small production-ready API for removing image backgrounds with rembg, built for upload, base64, raw bytes, and remote image URLs.

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Live endpoint https://shnwazdev-rembgapi.vercel.app/api/remove

Default model u2netp

Warm request about 3 seconds

Quick start

Send an image, receive a transparent PNG.

curl -s -F file=@input.jpg \
  https://shnwazdev-rembgapi.vercel.app/api/remove \
  -o output.png

Use multipart uploads, JSON base64, form URLs, or raw image bytes.

Bad URLs, private hosts, non-image responses, and size issues return JSON errors.

Uses the lightweight model by default and caches model files during warm reuse.

upload validate remove png

Reference

Open API docs