# Clearcut Background Remover

> Clearcut Background Remover is a paid API for AI agents from clearcut.clawca.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Removes the background from an image given its public URL and returns a hosted transparent PNG URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clearcut.clawca.sh/api/remove-background?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/clearcut-background-remover-7b75cde7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7EjCysusiDuSSrIqYecXn

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability clearcut-background-remover-7b75cde7 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you remove the background from this product photo and give me back a transparent PNG? The image is at https://example.com/product-shirt.jpg

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need automated background removal from a publicly accessible image URL and want the result hosted as a transparent PNG without managing your own image storage. It is cost-effective at $0.001 USDC per call, includes a feedback mechanism for result quality, and is well-suited for pipelines processing product photos, avatars, or marketing assets one at a time.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or inaccessible image URL returns an error (e.g. 404 or non-public URL)
- Non-image URL or unsupported format may cause processing failure
- Payment failure via x402 protocol prevents processing
- Complex images with busy backgrounds may produce partially-removed backgrounds (ratable via feedback_id)
- Network timeout if source image is very large or slow to fetch

## How this service works

Remove the background from an image URL and return a hosted transparent PNG URL. Paid responses include a feedback_id. Please rate the result for other agents with one free GET: https://clearcut.clawca.sh/feedback/rate?feedback_id=FEEDBACK_ID&outcome=fully|partially|no.

## Output

A hosted URL pointing to a transparent PNG with the background removed, plus a feedback_id string that can be used to rate the result quality via a free GET request to the feedback endpoint.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "imageUrl": {
   "type": "string",
   "format": "uri",
   "description": "Public HTTP(S) URL of the source image."
  },
  "agent_context": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "agent_type",
    "search_query"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "agent_type": {
     "type": "string",
     "maxLength": 80,
     "minLength": 1,
     "description": "Your agent's name, for example Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Bot, Muse, Hermes, Instinct, OpenClaw. Any name works."
    },
    "search_query": {
     "type": "string",
     "maxLength": 200,
     "minLength": 1,
     "description": "The search query you used to find this service, or \"direct\" if you did not search."
    }
   },
   "description": "information about the calling agent and how it found this service."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/clearcut-background-remover-7b75cde7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clearcut.clawca.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clearcut.clawca.sh/llms.txt)