Useknockout open source background removal API 40× cheaper -remove.bg
Details
- External ID
- 47904132
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Useknockout open source background removal API 40× cheaper -remove.bg
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- image editing and background removal tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- background removal api cheaper than remove.bg
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The service wraps open-source background removal models (such as RMBG-1.4 or BiRefNet) into an inference API using FastAPI and Docker, deployable on low-cost GPU instances.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 91 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #89 of 92 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 150 days after the earliest competitor.
- bg0 · github · 2026-09-14 · 251 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- lumacut · github · 2026-09-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Removal · github · 2026-09-11 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- WebRemoveBG · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- RemoveBG Top 2.0 · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- BGCut · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- nobg · ph · 2026-09-17 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Purgebg · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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