Clipdrop

This is the tool Clipdrop built its reputation on, and it shows. Upload a photo and the model isolates the main subject, hair and transparency included. No selection brush required. The free tier returns standard-resolution cutouts. Pro unlocks high-resolution output and a higher daily ceiling. For product photos and portrait work, the accuracy here is why this is the one most people try first.

Cleanup is an inpainting tool, which means it reconstructs the background underneath whatever you delete. You brush over the target, whether that's a passerby, a power line, a blemish or a logo. It works best on textured surfaces like grass, pavement or sky. On flat, structured backgrounds such as tiled walls, you'll sometimes see where the fill was stitched.

The image upscaler enlarges a picture by 2x or 4x while reducing noise and pulling back detail that compression smeared away. It's the practical fix for a photo that's too small to print or too soft to use as a hero image. Free accounts are limited to 2x at 20 images per day. Paid accounts get 4x and higher resolution, and the API documentation mentions up to 16x for enterprise use.

Clipdrop's text to image generator is built on a Stable Diffusion implementation tuned for speed. That tradeoff is worth knowing about: it returns results faster than most consumer generators, but fine detail and prompt adherence lag behind the bigger names. Treat it as a fast drafting tool for mockups and concept images rather than a final-art pipeline.

Replace Background combines background removal with generative filling. You send an image plus a text prompt, and the subject lands in a new scene. Relight is the quieter feature in this pair, and arguably the more useful one for product work: it changes the lighting direction and color on an existing photo so mismatched shots look like they came from the same session.

The Universal Resizer takes any image and outputs any size or format, with presets for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and TikTok. Uncrop does the inverse of cropping: it extends the canvas and generates the missing edges, which saves an image that was shot too tight or needs a wider banner treatment.

Clipdrop ships desktop apps for Windows and macOS plus plugins for Photoshop, Figma, Chrome and other common tools. The Photoshop plugin is the standout, since it lets you run background removal and cleanup inside a document you're already editing instead of bouncing files between browser tabs.

Every major tool is available as a REST endpoint: remove background, upscale, cleanup, remove text, uncrop, replace background and text to image. Pricing is usage-based rather than a flat subscription, and Jasper's API platform is the current home for the documentation.