What image resolutions and pricing does Cleanup.pictures offer?

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Cleanup.pictures offers a free tier that handles unlimited images at up to 720p resolution, and a Pro tier starting at $3 that removes the resolution cap and adds a high-quality refiner. If you need inpainting inside your own product rather than through the web app, there is also an API billed on usage, with separate pricing.

Resolution and pricing at a glance

Plan Price Images Resolution Extras
Free $0 Unlimited Limited to 720p —
Pro Starting from $3 Unlimited Unlimited High-quality refiner
ClipDrop Pro Starting from $11 Unlimited Unlimited Cleanup, remove background, replace background, uncrop, generative fill, and other tools
API Usage-based — — Separate pricing applies; see API documentation

Two things are worth noting from this table. First, the free plan's only real constraint is resolution — you are not limited by a monthly image count. Second, the $3 Pro tier and the $11 ClipDrop Pro tier are different products: the cheaper one is Cleanup.pictures' own Pro plan, while ClipDrop Pro bundles Cleanup together with a broader toolset.

What the free plan actually gets you

The free tier is enough for most casual retouching. You can remove unwanted objects, people, text, logos, watermarks, or date stamps, and you can do it on as many images as you like. The catch is that output is capped at 720p.

That cap matters depending on your end use:

  • Fine for: social media posts, Instagram stories, quick profile pictures, casual sharing.
  • Problematic for: print work, e-commerce product shots that need to zoom, real estate listings, or any image where the client expects full camera resolution.

If you are a photographer printing for customers, or an agency delivering to a client, 720p will usually not be acceptable — that is the point at which Pro becomes the practical choice.

What Pro adds

Pro starts from $3 and changes two things:

  1. No resolution limit. You keep the original resolution of your source image.
  2. High-quality refiner. This is a quality pass on top of the standard inpainting result, aimed at cleaner edges and fewer artifacts in the filled area.

The "starting from" wording means the $3 figure is an entry point, not necessarily a flat price for every billing option. Check the pricing page for the current rate that applies to you before committing.

The API option

If you want inpainting built into your own product or workflow rather than done manually in the browser, Cleanup.pictures exposes an API. It is priced on usage, and the site notes that special pricing applies — so this is not a flat subscription you can compare directly against the Free and Pro tiers. The API documentation is the place to get actual rates and limits.

How to decide

  • You retouch occasionally and only post online → Free. Unlimited images, 720p is fine.
  • You deliver images to clients, print, or sell products → Pro from $3. The resolution cap is the deciding factor, not the image count.
  • You want Cleanup plus background removal, uncropping, and generative fill in one subscription → ClipDrop Pro from $11.
  • You are building inpainting into software → API, usage-based.

One caveat on the free plan: because there is no stated image limit, the resolution cap is doing all the work of separating the tiers. If your images are already small or you are only publishing at web sizes, you may never hit a reason to pay.