Clipdrop
Jasper's AI image toolkit: bg removal, upscaling, relight, cleanup.
Overview
Clipdrop is an AI-powered image editing platform, now owned by Jasper (acquired from Stability AI in February 2024), that bundles multiple specialised image manipulation tools: background removal, image upscaling, text-to-image generation (powered by Stable Diffusion), background replacement, image relighting, and object cleanup. The platform provides professional image editing results accessible through a simple web interface.
The Relight feature is particularly distinctive: it allows changing the lighting of an existing photo by describing the desired light source without requiring a reshoot. The Cleanup tool removes unwanted objects from photos with AI-generated fill that matches the background. ClipDrop's API is widely used for integrating AI image editing into other applications and workflows.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Text to image
- Background removal
- Upscaler x2
- Cleanup & relight
- 1,000 uses/24h per tool
- Upscaling up to 16x
- Skip-the-queue processing
- High-resolution output
- Pay-per-call pricing
- All editing tools via API
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
Clipdrop in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Clipdrop bundles background removal, image upscaling (up to 16x on paid plans), relighting, object cleanup, uncrop, and Stable-Diffusion text-to-image into one interface, now run by Jasper after its February 2024 purchase from Stability AI. The free tier is genuinely usable — 20 free background removals, upscales, and relights per 24 hours, 50 text-removals — before it throttles you into the queue. The catches show up under load: paying users report slow processing queues, login/auth failures, and output quality that reviewers say drops noticeably after checkout versus the free trial. Exports cap at roughly 8192px regardless of upscale setting and land at 72dpi, which matters for print work. Support, billing, and refund complaints come up often enough to flag. Solid for quick social and e-commerce image work; budget extra patience if something goes wrong with a paid order.
What people say
72dpi. That's the resolution Clipdrop exports land at regardless of how far you push the upscaler, and it's the kind of detail that trips up anyone planning to print what they generate — a recurring complaint in reviews alongside a hard cap around 8192px no matter which upscale multiplier you select.
The toolkit itself is broad: background removal, image upscaling, relighting (change a photo's light source without a reshoot), object cleanup, uncrop, and Stable Diffusion text-to-image, all reachable from one interface. Jasper bought the whole thing from Stability AI in February 2024 and still runs it both as a standalone site (clipdrop.co) and through its own API for business integrations.
The free tier is more generous than most rivals — 20 free background removals, upscales, cleanups, and relights every 24 hours, 50 text-removals — which is enough to actually evaluate the tools before paying. But once money changes hands, the complaints cluster in a familiar place: slow processing queues, login and authentication failures, and output quality that several reviewers say noticeably drops after the free-trial period ends. Support and refund requests reportedly go unanswered for days.
Good breadth for the price if you just need quick edits for social posts or product listings. Professional studios doing print or high-volume production work should expect to hit the resolution ceiling and budget for occasional support friction.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- Clipdrop's founders built a viral demo at WWDC 2020 showing photos being grabbed from a phone screen and dropped into Photoshop on a Mac — the demo went viral and led to the company's founding.
- The Relight feature can change a product photo from studio lighting to natural window light in 3 seconds — a retouching task that previously required a skilled photo editor.
- Clipdrop was acquired by Stability AI in 2023, making it the distribution layer for Stable Diffusion technology in professional image editing contexts.
Frequently asked questions
About this listing
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