Megaton Mask

You drag a box around your subject and the tool extracts a mask automatically, no manual tracing needed. Megaton says it runs on "the leading segmentation model," so the first pass often lands close enough to skip clean-up. It's the core of the product: point, click, export.

Magic Edge is the feature that separates Mask from cheaper cutout tools. It rebuilds the fine details a normal mask loses, such as individual hair strands, fur, feathers, and smoke edges. On a talking-head clip, those strands are the difference between a believable cutout and a visible halo.

You can turn any clip into a green screen composite in a few clicks, ready for keying in a video editor. This works on footage that was never shot against green, which is the main draw for editors working with existing material.

Mask outputs in three shapes: a green screen composite, an alpha mask, or a PNG sequence with frame-by-frame transparency. Alpha masks suit advanced compositing, while PNG sequences fit motion graphics pipelines. The export adapts to the workflow you already have.

If the automatic pass misses something, you can describe the fix in a short text prompt or hand-draw an annotation. Text prompts suit simple corrections, and annotations handle a subject the AI read wrong. Both keep you on one screen instead of bouncing into another app.

Megaton ships a developer API with documented endpoints for masks, videos, and images. The company says Mask works with coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex, so they can act as a post-production helper. That path fits teams that want to run extraction at scale instead of clicking through the interface.

You buy credits and spend them when you use them, with no subscription. Starter runs $5 for 500 credits, Builder is $25 for 3,000, and Scale is $100 for 15,000. Megaton says that covers roughly 100 to 3,000 background removals depending on the pack.