BiRefNet
Free open background remover with clean edges around hair.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Removing backgrounds offline, for free
- On your PC
- Some setup
- Works on
- Windows, Linux, Mac
- License
- MIT
What’s good
- MIT license, fine for business use
- Small model (0.2B), quick even on modest PCs
- Built into many free tools and demos
Downsides
- No simple app of its own; use ComfyUI or a demo
- Only removes backgrounds, no other edits
At a glance.
- Best for
- Removing backgrounds offline, for free
- Price
- Free, open source
- Version
- BiRefNetReleased 2024-07
- Works on
- Windows, Linux, Mac
- Open source
- Yes, MIT
- Made by
- Peng Zheng and co-authors (open research)
- Website
- github.com
Should you use it?
It is #8 of 10. Good for removing backgrounds offline, for free; for most people, ChatGPT Images is the better start.
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Some setup: download a model inside an app.
Use ComfyUI, Hugging Face demo apps.
- You need
- Any recent computer; a graphics card makes it faster
- Setup
- Some setupDownload a model inside an app
- Laptop, 8 GBRuns
- PC, 16 GB+Runs
- Mac, 16 GBRuns
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns