remove.bg Reviews

1. Viking

   · PM at IoT01 · about 5 years ago

   Erase bg easy,but too expensive..

   🏁 Competitors: PixMiller, Removal.ai

   👍 Pros:    Quality

   👎 Cons:    Expensive

Bright Data Reviews

1. Sam Mitchell

   · Owner at KittenProperties · over 2 years ago
   Mixed feelings

   We used their DC proxies and Residential proxies. Resi proxies were having quite low success rate. We had to use resi solution from other proxy providers. Unblocker didn't work well either also it was way too expensive.

   🏁 Competitors: Decodo, NetNut.io

   👍 Pros:    Cheap dc proxies

   👎 Cons:    Quite expensive|Residential proxies are worse than competitiors

remove.bg mentions (296)

• Building a Browser-Based ID Photo Maker: Face Detection, Head Estimation & Background Removal

  When replacing backgrounds, edge pixels bleed the original background color. We use @imgly/background-removal (ISNet model) — the same engine behind remove.bg's open-source alternative — then apply color decontamination:. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• 🚀 10 Tiny Dev Tools That Feel Like Superpowers (Free or Almost Free)

  Instantly remove image backgrounds for profile pics, product images, or UIs. 🔗 https://remove.bg. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU

  Ahh, for a second I thought https://remove.bg had open-sourced their product (which I've been very happy with). - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Comment your OCs and I might just draw them

  Thats supposed to be teeth btw, remove.bg just counted that as a bg even tho it was a png. Source: over 2 years ago

• I have removed a background via API but how do I access the background file with the image cut out? Is there another way of doing that?

  I have a folder of 50 images and I want to use their backgrounds to train a SD model. I want to cut out the object and inpaint the removed portion. I have tried using the remove.bg api, which does a good job of removing the object, but I dont have the background file. Is there another way of doing this? My goal is to end up with 50 images of the backgrounds that have been inpainted over where the object used to... Source: almost 3 years ago

Bright Data mentions (45)

• Precursor

  Happy to offer a counter of some great products for anti-bot defeat: https://brightdata.com/ https://www.zenrows.com/ https://www.capsolver.com/ https://scrapfly.io/ hundreds of millions of residential ips, human browser fingerprints, custom browser binaries, auto solve of turnstyle, recaptcha v3, kasada, datadome, AWS WAF, etc if they come up. - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

• Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026: A Hands-On Comparison of the Top 10

  The best web scraping tools 2026 leaderboard hasn't changed; the gap has narrowed. Bright Data remains the safest bet for any team that wants to spend time on the data, not on the scraping. The 660-scraper library, 400M-IP network, pay-per-success pricing and unlimited concurrency are still uncontested at the high end. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• The Economics of Web Scraping: How Consultancies Price Data Extraction and Manage Scope Creep

  Infrastructure Pass-Through (OpEx) Data extraction at scale is infrastructure-heavy. Bypassing modern Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) requires high-quality residential proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, and substantial browser-automation compute resources. Services like Bright Data charge significantly by the gigabyte for premium residential IPs. These variable infrastructure costs must be passed directly to the client,... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• LinkedIn Scraping Is Dead: 5 Legal, ToS-Safe Alternatives That Actually Work in 2026

  Bright Data has successfully defended web scraping in U.S. Courts and offers LinkedIn datasets pre-collected and ready to download. LinkedIn profile data on their dataset marketplace runs around $250 per 100,000 records. The freshness caveat is real: bulk datasets are snapshots, not real-time. If you need current job titles on a rolling basis, you're better with an enrichment API than a one-time dataset pull.... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Building a Live AI Market Research Terminal: How Bright Data and Convex Replace Polling With Real-Time Everything

  Bright Data built an open-source demo that solves this. It's called the Signal Terminal, a financial research tool built around that problem. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago