Photoroom Remove Background $0.02 per image vs Sume's rate

Photoroom's API pricing page lists Remove Background (Basic) at $0.02 per image and Image Editing (Plus) at $0.10 per image. Sume's background removal, POST /v1/rmbg-1.0/remove, is $0.0225 per image on its rate card. The two are billed the same way, per image, so the difference is the rate: $0.0025 per image.

Photoroom facts are from its pricing page, read 2026-10-01. The Sume rate is from the pricing rate card and the OpenAPI document served with the API reference.

What does Photoroom's page list?

Two tiers, a sandbox, and a free allowance. The page says the sandbox output is watermarked and that the account includes 10 free production Remove Background calls.

What does Sume charge per cutout?

$0.0225 per image, with a 5.5% agent fee by default on top. The request takes an image_url and returns a PNG artifact with alpha, hosted on Sume's media domain. Sume's page does not list a watermarked sandbox, so test with a real image and look at the cost on GET /v1/usage.

What do 1,000 and 10,000 images cost?

Straight multiplication from the two per-image rates, before Sume's agent fee.

Is cutout price the only cost to plan for?

No. If a catalog photo then needs a larger size, upscale is its own item, and order matters; see remove background, then upscale, or the reverse. For bulk jobs, read remove backgrounds in bulk for how to submit many images.