Ideogram AI Remove Background

Ideogram AI Remove Background

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Ideogram Remove Background is a fast AI background remover that removes image backgrounds and returns a clean transparent foreground image. Ready-to-use REST inference API for product photos, portraits, design assets, e-commerce images, and creative workflows with high-quality cutouts, simple integration, no coldstarts, and affordable pricing.

Features

Ideogram Remove Background removes the background from an input image and returns a transparent cutout, making it easy to isolate products, people, and objects for clean downstream use in design, e-commerce, and marketing workflows.

Why Choose This?

• Fast background removal Remove image backgrounds in a single step with a simple upload workflow.

• Transparent output Generate clean cutouts that are ready for compositing, product listings, and creative editing.

• Simple one-image input Upload a single image and get a processed result without extra prompt engineering or manual masking.

• Useful for production workflows Ideal for product photos, design assets, social content, and catalog preparation.

• Production-ready API Easy to integrate into automated editing, creative tooling, and asset-preparation pipelines.

Parameters

How to Use

1. Upload your image — provide the image you want to process.
2. Submit — run the model to remove the background.
3. Download the result — use the transparent output in your workflow.

Example Use Case

Remove the background from a perfume bottle photo to create a clean transparent product cutout for e-commerce and ad creatives.

Pricing

Just $0.01 per image.

Best Use Cases

• E-commerce product images — Create clean transparent cutouts for product listings and catalogs.
• Marketing creatives — Isolate products or subjects for ads, banners, and promotional designs.
• Design workflows — Prepare assets for compositing, layout, and visual editing.
• Social media content — Quickly create clean foreground cutouts for posts and branded content.
• Catalog and asset cleanup — Standardize image assets for internal or public-facing use.

Pro Tips

• Use clear images with well-defined subjects for cleaner background removal.
• Product photos with good contrast between subject and background usually work best.
• Transparent outputs are especially useful for layered design workflows and marketplace listings.
• Start with the highest-quality source image available for more precise edge handling.

Notes

• image is the only required field.
• Pricing is fixed at $0.01 per image.
• The output is intended for transparent-background use cases.

Authentication

For authentication details, please refer to the Authentication Guide.

API Endpoints

Submit Task & Query Result

set -euo pipefail

export WAVESPEED_API_KEY="your-api-key"

REQUEST_BODY=$(cat <<'JSON'
{
  "image": "https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/media/cc0-images/painted-hand-298-332.jpg"
}
JSON
)

# 1. Submit the prediction.
SUBMIT_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
  -X POST "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/ideogram-ai/remove-background" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WAVESPEED_API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "${REQUEST_BODY}")

TASK=$(printf '%s' "${SUBMIT_RESPONSE}" | jq 'if type == "object" and has("data") then .data else . end')
PREDICTION_ID=$(printf '%s' "${TASK}" | jq -r '.id // empty')
if [ -z "${PREDICTION_ID}" ]; then
  printf 'Submission response did not contain a prediction id
' >&2
  exit 1
fi
RESULT_URL=$(printf '%s' "${TASK}" | jq -r '.urls.get // empty')
if [ -z "${RESULT_URL}" ]; then RESULT_URL="https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/${PREDICTION_ID}/result"; fi

# 2. Poll until the prediction finishes.
while true; do
  RESPONSE=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body \
    "${RESULT_URL}" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WAVESPEED_API_KEY}")
  RESULT=$(printf '%s' "${RESPONSE}" | jq 'if type == "object" and has("data") then .data else . end')
  STATUS=$(printf '%s' "${RESULT}" | jq -r '.status // empty')

  case "${STATUS}" in
    completed) printf '%s\n' "${RESULT}" | jq '.outputs'; break ;;
    failed|cancelled|timeout) printf '%s\n' "${RESULT}" | jq . >&2; exit 1 ;;
    created|processing) sleep 2 ;;
    *) printf 'Unexpected status: %s
' "${STATUS}" >&2; exit 1 ;;
  esac
done

Parameters

Task Submission Parameters

Request Parameters

Response Parameters

Result Request Parameters

Result Response Parameters