No watermark on the free export. Transparent WebM, GIF or green screen, straight out: free exports go up to 1920 px.
VideoBGNinja cuts the background out of a short video of a person, no green screen, no account, no watermark, no charge. It is one tool that does one thing, built and run by one person in the Netherlands, on computers I operate myself.
Runway and the rest charge by the minute (Unscreen did too, until it closed) because they rent their graphics cards from a cloud provider by the second. I don't rent anything. The matting runs on a card I bought once, in a machine whose electricity bill has my name on it. Your clip costs me a few minutes of power. The ads on the page cover that. There is also an optional pass for longer clips and 4K, but nobody needs one to use the tool.
What it costs you instead is patience: one card, one queue, so a busy evening means your video waits behind somebody else's. That trade seemed better than a subscription.
Because it all runs on computers I operate myself, your video never touches a third-party AI service. The pipeline is simple and strict: your upload is deleted the moment processing finishes, and the results (the transparent WebM, green-screen MP4 and alpha matte) are wiped within 45 minutes. Nothing is stored longer, nothing is watched, and nothing is ever used to train anything. The one exception: if you choose to send us a file yourself, we keep it for at most 30 days and one person on our team looks at it. Even then it is never shared or used for training. If the server restarts, leftover files are purged too. The full details are in the privacy policy, which is short, because there isn't much data to write a policy about.
It's built for people. That is why it can hold on to hair, hands and a moving body without a green screen, and it is exactly where it stops. Talking heads, vlogs, interviews, streamers, dance clips: excellent. Pets and products: a coin flip. A clip with no person in it comes back nearly empty, and the tool will tell you so rather than hand you a black rectangle and take the credit. I would rather write that here than promise "any video" and waste your upload. The filming guide covers what helps.
VideoBGNinja shares its hardware with the other tools I run, including BGNinja for photo backgrounds and StemGrab for splitting music into stems. Same idea every time: one job, done properly, free, files wiped automatically afterwards.
Questions, bug reports or ideas? The contact page comes to my own inbox.
The hard numbers, so you know before you upload. Every value here is what the server actually enforces.
| Free | With a pass | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. No account, no sign-up, no card. | €5 for 30 days, or €3 for 24 hours |
| Maximum clip length | 90 seconds | 4 minutes |
| Maximum file size | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| Maximum resolution | 1920 px on the longest side | 3840 px |
| MOV output (alpha) | No | Yes |
| Queue | Normal | Priority when the cards are busy |
| Input formats | 10 video formats: MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV, AVI, M4V, MPG, MPEG, WMV, 3GP | |
| Where it runs | On our own graphics cards in the Netherlands. Your video is never sent to a third-party service. | |
| Your upload | Deleted the moment processing finishes, success or failure: on both tiers. | |
| Watermark | None, on any output, on either tier. | |
The free tier is not a trial and does not run out. What the pass buys is length, resolution and speed: the model is the same either way.
The name at the top. Sam Ridder is a pen name. I am one person and I would like to stay one person rather than a search result. The hardware, the queue and the limits described above are all real.
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