Pixelcut pricing, free plan and limits

Last updated: 2026-10-03

Pixelcut is an AI photo and video editor from Pixelcut Inc., first released on iOS in November 2020, which the vendor says processes more than 1 billion images a year. It pairs its own background-removal and expand models with a menu of third-party generators, and it runs on web, iOS and Android.

About Pixelcut

Pixelcut Inc. is an Oakland, California company that began as a mobile cutout app: the iOS app was first released on 3 November 2020, and the company's About page lists Dominique Yahyavi and Prasanth Veerina as founders and 2020 as the founding year. Pixelcut says more than 70 million people use it. It renamed itself Pixa in February 2026 and went back to Pixelcut in May 2026, which is why the Claude connector package and the credential variable still carry the Pixa name.

The product has two layers. The editing layer is the vendor's own: proprietary models for background removal on images and video, plus expand, Magic Eraser, shadows and upscaling. The generation layer is a menu of other labs' models billed in credits, including Nano Banana Pro (tracked on HokAI as Gemini 3 Pro Image from Google), the FLUX.2 family from Black Forest Labs, tracked as FLUX.2, and Kuaishou's video model Kling 3.0. The pricing table also lists Google's Veo 3.1 and ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 for video, plus OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.5 and xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2 for stills. A Creative Agent sits on top: you describe the result in plain language and it picks the tools and models for each step. Pixelcut is therefore an editor and reseller more than a model maker, and the value is in having the cutout, the upscale and the generation under one login.

It fits online sellers, small brand teams and social creators who need clean product visuals without a designer or a studio. The closest like-for-like rival is Photoroom, whose Claude connector and product-photo focus overlap; the single-purpose cutout service remove.bg is narrower. Picsart leans toward general creator editing, whereas Pixelcut leans toward product photography, and for layout work you would go to Canva or, inside Adobe apps, Adobe Firefly. Browse the rest of the AI image generators category, or read the guide on AI tools for photo editing and restoration for neighbouring options. If generation matters more to you than editing, the guide to AI tools for creating images and videos compares all-in-one suites with specialists.

Developers get a REST API for cutouts, upscaling, background generation, virtual try-on and outpaint. Pixelcut also hosts an MCP server, so Claude, Cowork and Claude Code can call its tools directly. Neither a per-model credit price nor a SOC 2 report appears on its own pages, and both gaps matter: one hides the real cost of generation, the other can stall a procurement review.

Pricing

Free: core edits with no watermark on exports, background removal, upscaling and Magic Eraser marked Limited. Pro: $10 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly, with 600 credits, unlimited background removal and upscaling, a 3-person team and 1,000 batch exports a month. Business: $30 a month, or $24 billed yearly, with 3,600 credits, a 10-person team and 2,000 batch exports.

Credits are spent only on third-party image and video models. 1 clip. 1 clip with 200 credits spare.

ai/pricing on 3 October 2026.

Key Features

• Background removal for images and video: Removes backgrounds from photos and, since the Video Background Remover launched on 8 January 2026, from video, with free HD (720p) downloads without a watermark and 4K on Pro.
• Upscaler up to 16K: Enlarges images to 4K, 8K or 16K with a default Fast Upscale model and a Creative Upscale option that exposes creativity and resemblance sliders, with no sign-up needed.
• Bulk image editor: Applies one edit such as background removal, resize, watermark, shadow, crop or expand across up to 10,000 images in a single batch and returns the result as a ZIP.
• Third-party model menu: Generates images and video through 80 models listed on its pricing page on 3 October 2026 (43 image, 37 video), including Nano Banana Pro, FLUX, Kling and Veo, all drawing on one credit balance.
• Creative Agent: Takes a plain-language request such as removing a background and adding soft shadows, then chains the tools, models and saved AI actors needed; chatting is free and credits are spent only when an operation runs.
• Hosted MCP server: Exposes six tools (remove background, generate image, upscale, generate video, erase object and asset library) at mcp.pixelcut.ai/mcp for Claude, Cowork and Claude Code.

Pros

• Free exports carry no watermark, so the free plan produces usable listing images instead of a demo.
• Background removal and upscaling are unlimited on Pro, while Photoroom counts every saved image against a monthly export allowance on its pricing page.
• The Claude connector draws on the same credit system as the web app, per the vendor, so manual edits and agent-driven runs spend from one balance.
• The iOS app averages 4.74 stars from 220,180 App Store ratings as of 3 October 2026, a large sample for a consumer editor.
• API input and output files are deleted within one day and, per the API docs, are not used for training without consent.

Cons

• Pixelcut publishes how many outputs a credit balance buys, not a credit price per model, so the cost of one image or clip has to be worked out from its pricing table.
• The upscaler accepts files up to 50 MB and 6000 x 6000 px, so large scans and print masters must be shrunk before they can be enlarged.
• The 10,000-image batch ceiling is a per-batch limit; monthly batch exports are capped separately by plan, so a full catalog run can exceed the quota.
• There is no desktop app (web, iOS and Android only), and the Android listing averages 4.2 on Google Play against 4.74 on the App Store.
• The February to May 2026 Pixa rebrand left traces: the connector package is still pixa-mcp and the credential variable is PIXA_API_KEY, which can confuse a search or a security review.

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