Cutout.pro Review
Cutout.pro cuts subjects out of their background in one click, with upscaling, enhancement and a dozen smaller image tools bolted on around that core.
Free account: 5 trial credits · Paid from $5/mo · Site-stated
What it does
Cutout.pro is a background remover first. Upload a photo, it isolates the subject, you download a transparent PNG. Around that core it runs a toolbox: image upscaling, photo enhancement, face retouching, background replacement. The toolbox is real, but the order of that sentence is the honest one — everything else is a side feature. (How well each sub-tool performs is not tested yet.)
The free tier
Its image-pricing page states the deal precisely: a free account carries 5 trial credits, small-size previews are free forever, and every full-resolution download costs credits — 1 credit to remove a background, 2 credits to run the photo enhancer. Subscriptions start at $5.00 a month for 80 credits, with $9.90 buying 170 at a better per-credit rate; pay-as-you-go starts at $4.99 for 30 credits. Read that as a trial, not a free tier: five cutouts, or two enhancements and a cutout, and the credits are gone. Site-stated numbers, not our test results. Our hands-on test (31 October 2026) of the photo enhancer, no account: a 1024×1024 photo came back with a free 750×750 preview — smaller than the original — with no watermark, downloadable in PNG or JPG after dismissing a subscription offer ($9.9/mo, "Maybe later" works). The full 2048×2048 download is where the wall sits: an account plus 2 credits. Processing itself was near-instant.
The catch nobody mentions
A dedicated background remover, a dedicated upscaler and a dedicated enhancer will each do their one job better than a suite does all three. The catch with any suite — this one included — is that you pay for the breadth whether or not you use it, and review sites rate the bundle while you only came for one tool. The pricing page makes the breadth explicit: one credit pool is shared across every tool in the suite, and the photo enhancer costs 2 credits an image against 1 for the core cutout. That gap may partly reflect computing costs, but it is consistent with a product built around the cutout.
How to use it
Upload a photo, wait for the automatic cutout, refine the edges if needed, download. The upscaler and enhancer live in separate tabs of the same site — if you came to enlarge a photo, that's the tab you want, not the homepage.
What it doesn't do well
Depth. Upscaling is a side feature here, not the product; for pure 2x or 4x enlargement, a dedicated upscaler does the job with fewer detours — see our ImgUpscaler review for one with a verified 50-credit free tier. The specific limits we verified: free previews cap at 750×750, the HD download is 2048×2048 behind an account, and formats are PNG or JPG. (Batch-processing and cutout-side limits are not tested yet.) For background removal, by contrast, this is the tool built for the job.
Who it's for
Product listings. If you shoot items and need transparent backgrounds weekly, this is the tool shape built for that job. If you need one big photo for a print, use a dedicated upscaler instead.