Cleanup.Pictures vs Inpainty

Cleanup.Pictures and Inpainty are both image generation tracked by AIDiveForge. Below is a side-by-side comparison of pricing, capabilities, platforms, and ownership — sourced from each tool's live website and verified before publishing.

Cleanup.Pictures

Cleanup.pictures is a browser-based inpainting tool: you upload an image, brush over the object you want removed, and the AI fills in the background. Free-tier edits are capped at 720p output, which is fine for social media and rough drafts but stops short of print or high-resolution e-commerce requirements. Resolution above 720p is a paid-only feature. The API lets developers pipe inpainting into automated workflows — product photo pipelines, real estate listing processors, batch cleanup jobs — without a human touching a browser. The tool does one thing: it removes objects. It does not retouch, relight, or composite.

Inpainty

Upload a PNG, JPG, or WebP screenshot and the AI marks every detected text block as a clickable target. Tap a block, retype the text, download. The tool regenerates the image attempting to match the original font family, weight, size, and color. No account, no installation, no Photoshop license. The ceiling appears fast: single-block edits on clean screenshots work well, but complex backgrounds, decorative fonts, or tightly kerned text will produce mismatches the tool cannot recover from. When that happens, teams open Figma or Photoshop anyway.

Attribute	Cleanup.Pictures	Inpainty
Pricing	Paid	Free
Price	$5/mo or $36/year	—
Free trial	No	No
Open source	No	Yes
Has API	Yes	No
Self-hosted option	No	No
Platforms	Web (browser-based); mobile-responsive; accessible on iOS and Android via responsive design	Web (browser), iOS, Android
Released	2020	—
Pros	Mask-and-fill workflow completes in seconds for simple backgrounds, so photographers and e-commerce sellers avoid the twenty-plus-minute Photoshop session that manual clone-stamping requires on the same task. Free tier allows unlimited edits at 720p with no account, which means teams can validate whether the model handles their specific image type before committing to a paid tier. API access enables inpainting to be embedded in automated product photo pipelines or listing processors, so developers remove the manual browser step entirely from bulk workflows. Runs entirely in-browser with no software installation, so creative professionals on locked-down machines or client hardware can still process images without an IT request. Owned by Jasper post-acquisition, with the tool remaining available as a standalone product, so existing API integrations do not require immediate rearchitecting.	No signup and no installation required, so a teammate who needs a one-time fix can be done before the time it takes to provision a Figma seat. AI detects every text block independently and makes each one clickable, which means you do not have to mask or locate text regions manually the way you would in an image editor. Format preservation per block — font family, weight, size, and color — so localized screenshots stay visually consistent with the source without manual style matching. Mobile-first editing with native share sheet support on iOS and Android, so the fix-and-share loop does not require a desktop if the screenshot originated on a phone. Text replacement doubles as content removal — typing nothing or replacement copy into a block hides names, prices, or emails, so sensitive screenshots can be shared without a separate redaction tool.
Cons	Output is hard-capped at 720p on the free tier, which means any workflow requiring print-resolution or high-DPI e-commerce images hits a wall immediately — teams either pay or export at low resolution and upscale separately, adding a step and introducing upscaling artifacts. On complex or high-frequency backgrounds — patterned textiles, dense foliage, brick walls, tiled floors — the fill produces visible smearing or texture discontinuity that requires manual correction in Photoshop or Affinity Photo; at that point the tool has added a step rather than removed one, and teams with predominantly complex-background images abandon it for dedicated retouching workflows. The API provides no built-in quality scoring or failure detection, so developers building batch pipelines must implement their own output validation logic or ship bad fills silently. The tool performs a single operation — object removal — with no ability to retouch, relight, adjust color, or composite, which means any project requiring more than removal still requires a second application regardless of how well the removal itself goes.	On decorative fonts, non-Latin scripts with complex rendering, or screenshots with photographic backgrounds, the regenerated text visibly mismatches the original — the vendor acknowledges this with 'tries to match' language, and there is no manual override for font or color. Teams with brand-critical assets open a design tool at that point. There is no batch mode, no API, and no self-hosting path, so any team that needs to process more than a handful of screenshots — automated localization pipelines, QA screenshot diffing, documentation generation at scale — hits the tool's ceiling immediately and switches to a scripted solution or a design platform with programmatic export.

Bottom line

Cleanup.Pictures is paid while Inpainty is free; Inpainty is open source; only Cleanup.Pictures exposes a public API. Choose based on which difference matters most for your workflow.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Cleanup.Pictures and Inpainty?

Cleanup.Pictures is Paid, while Inpainty is Free and open source. Compare pricing, free trial, API, platforms, and pros/cons in the table above on AIDiveForge.

Is Cleanup.Pictures better than Inpainty?

It depends on your workflow. Use the side-by-side attributes (pricing, open source, API, self-hosted, platforms) to decide. AIDiveForge does not rank a universal winner — we publish verified facts so you can choose.