Image Object Removal API
Remove unwanted objects from images in seconds
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Image Object Removal API - Remove unwanted objects from images in seconds

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This API uses state-of-the-art AI to cleanly remove people, objects, text, or background distractions while preserving image quality and realism. ⚡ One-call API — simple input, clean output 🎯 High-quality inpainting — natural, artifact-free results 🧠 Works on complex scenes — people, shadows, clutter 💸 Affordable & fast — ideal for production use 🔌 Built on Replicate — easy to integrate

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Bikash, the maker of Image Object Removal API. I built this after repeatedly needing to remove people, clutter, and random objects from images while building products and realizing most tools were either manual, expensive, or low quality output. This API focuses on: clean, realistic result simple input speed + affordability for real production use I’d love feedback from: developers integrating image tools founders building photo or e-commerce products anyone who’s struggled with Photoshop 😅 Happy to answer questions, share benchmarks, or talk about how it works under the hood. Thanks for checking it out and supporting makers! 🙏

  hi there! i am founder building photos for e-commerce products =) my feedback - feels very straightforward in a good way. Mark it, remove it, done

Congrats on the launch!

Maker

 i'm glad you liked it and thanks for your comment!

I wanted to make something very easy to use.

If you use Figma, you should check out my plugin in Figma too. Link here:

Or browser:

:)

That's an interesting idea to have this service as an API. You should check your product link, it doesn't seem to work atm - "Page not found" error.

Maker

 Hi Anton, i just fixed the link. Thanks for the heads-up!

Update link here:

Is this provided as an API?
How is it priced?
Can it remove elements other than people, such as watermarks or subtitles?

Maker

 

Yes — it is an API that you can integrate into your app or workflow. It’s built on Replicate and exposes a simple REST API where you send an image + mask and get back the edited result.

You can check this product page for pricing. It's basically $1 for 4545 API request.

It can remove objects, text, background distractions, and more, not just people.

Let me know if you need any help!

This hits a very real pain point — clean object removal at API level is surprisingly hard to get right. Love the focus on realistic results and production readiness, not just demos.
Curious: how does the API handle tricky cases like hair, shadows, or overlapping objects, and what kind of latency are you seeing in real-world use?

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Thank you for your kind words!

For hair, shadows, and overlapping objects, the API uses diffusion-based inpainting rather than classical segmentation + fill. The masked region is reconstructed using surrounding context, so soft edges (hair strands), cast shadows, and partial occlusions are handled as part of the generation step instead of being hard-cut. Results are best with precise masks, but the model is fairly tolerant to imperfect boundaries.

For latency, typical end-to-end inference is in the ~2–5 second range per image at common resolutions. Latency scales with image size and mask complexity, and the API is stateless, so it works well behind queues or async workers in production.

This is already being used in automated pipelines, not just interactive demos.

 That makes a lot of sense — diffusion-based inpainting feels like the right call for handling hair and shadows without the usual cutout artifacts. Good to hear it’s already holding up in automated pipelines, not just interactive use.

Curious as you scale this further: are you seeing teams standardize on any mask-generation strategies (human-in-the-loop vs auto-masking), and do you plan to offer guidance or tooling there to help keep results consistent in production?

Maker

 Great question!

You don’t need to worry about manually creating masks. Just brush over the area you want to remove and our tools handle the masking automatically.


You can try it out here by uploading an image and editing the object you want to remove:

Or, if you prefer working in Figma, you can use this link:

Both are built on top of this same Replicate model.

Regarding consistent results, the automatic masking combined with the model already gives reliable outputs across images (you can try it!). We don’t require extra steps in most cases, but of course, we are continuously improving it as we grow.

 Thanks for your reply.Nice, that makes sense — the “just brush and go” workflow feels much more approachable than manual masking, especially for non-designers. I like that the same model powers both the web tool and the Figma plugin, that consistency really matters.

The idea seems good to me and could work well as an integration for other services. Unfortunately, your website doesn't open, so I can't check your API endpoints or understand what your solution is capable of.

Maker

 

The link is fixed now. You can check the full API details here:

Wow, this Image Object Removal API is seriously cool! The high-quality inpainting looks amazing. Im curious, how well does it handle removing reflections in glass or water?

Maker

 

Thanks! It can be a bit tricky, but it still works pretty well. You can try it yourself in the browser and see how it handles reflections:

Please share the output with me here. I'm excited to see!

Congrats on the launch! Love the focus on simplicity and affordability instead of heavy, manual tools. How does it perform on more complex scenes with multiple overlapping objects?