Managed background removal for teams moving more than one image at a time. Every credit tier runs the same versioned model on CutoutJet's hosted GPU fleet, with prepaid packs planned from $15.
Planned billing contract: one credit per successful output up to 10 MP; failed jobs and verified idempotent retries should not consume another credit.
REAL GPU OUTPUT1024 × 1536 · RGBA
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SOURCECUTOUTJET
No hand mask. No retouching.971 ms warm local request
THIS OUTPUT1.6 MP
Original generated at 1024 × 1536
WARM DEVELOPMENT REQUEST971 ms
End to end through the measured GPU path
CUTOUTJET · 50-IMAGE RUN423 ms
Mean · 462 ms p95
POST-PROCESSINGNone
Transparent result shown as returned
COMPETITOR RESULTS · OBSERVED AUG 2026
Cost is clear. Speed is directional. Quality is unfinished.
Three different evidence levels, labeled on purpose. Price is a current list-price comparison; speed comes from separate environments; quality comes from a limited preview diagnostic.
COST · 10,000-OUTPUT PRICE POINT
Proposed $0.0299
10,000-image prepaid pack
The planned CutoutJet Growth pack is $299 once—about one-third of the referenced remove.bg annual-billing unit price, without an extreme loss-leader discount.
Price snapshot only · not a claim of equivalent quality, availability, features, or support.
SPEED · UNMATCHED OBSERVATION
423 vs 1,509 ms
CutoutJet local / remove.bg remote mean
Our 50-image CUDA run versus 27 historical remove.bg API calls. The observed gap is 3.6×, but network, hardware, resolution, and test dates differ.
Directional engineering evidence · not a production speed claim.
QUALITY · PREVIEW DIAGNOSTIC
17 vs 33
Per-image MAE wins · CutoutJet / remove.bg
Aggregate pixel-weighted error favored CutoutJet, but the typical-image win count favored remove.bg. We use the more conservative signal.
49 competitor outputs were reduced-resolution previews · full-resolution result pending.
The portrait is an original fictional subject built to stress curls, flyaways, backlight, glasses, skin, and loose fabric. The cutout came straight from the current development Rust-to-CUDA request path.
On per-image MAE, remove.bg won 33 of 50 images and CutoutJet won 17. Aggregate pixel-weighted MAE favored CutoutJet—0.00376 versus 0.00670—because a few large competitor failures moved the mean.
Forty-nine competitor outputs were reduced-resolution previews and the reference mattes were lossy, so this is a development diagnostic—not a full-resolution quality claim. The next gate is a rights-cleared, lossless 1,000-image holdout.
CutoutJet owns the runtime, model version, capacity controls, and delivery path. Customers buy successful outputs—not servers, licenses, or a machine to operate.
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FIXED PRODUCTION MODEL
The same hosted model and output contract at every tier.
Every tier uses the same hosted model. Plans differ only by credit volume, with pricing centered near one-third of the referenced remove.bg benchmark. Checkout remains disabled until payment, entitlement, legal, and production gates pass.
Starter pack
$15one time
500 non-expiring credits
$0.030 per successful output · same hosted production model.
Growth pack
$299one time
10,000 non-expiring credits
$0.0299 per successful output · same hosted production model.
LOWEST UNIT COST
Scale pack
$2,799one time
100,000 non-expiring credits
$0.02799 per successful output · same hosted production model.
PRICE ANCHOR · OCT 2026 · USD The Growth tier is about 3× lower than the referenced remove.bg annual-billing unit price. It is not a quality, SLA, or feature-equivalence claim.
Estimator only. It minimizes purchase cost for the selected credit target; taxes and approved refunds are not included.
THE FUNDABLE PLAN
A working lane. A measurable gap. A clean next gate.
Funding goes to commercial model rights, a rights-cleared matched benchmark, target-cloud optimization, billing operations, and converting measured trials into repeat production revenue.
Ship only commercially redistributable model artifacts.
02Run the matched holdout
1,000 lossless, rights-cleared images against current competitors.
03Tune the hosted lane
TensorRT, fixed-fleet GPU load tests, and specialist boundary refinement.
04Convert the wedge
Three repeat customers with measured edit-time savings.
READY FOR THE REAL QUEUE
Put CutoutJet in the workflow.
Review the measured output now. Hosted prepaid checkout will open only after automated fulfillment, legal terms, and production operations pass their launch gates.
Checkout is intentionally offline. A public site setting cannot bypass the server-side billing, recovery, migration, Stripe-account, and webhook-version gates.