# Recraft Remove Background API

> Recraft Remove Background — fast, high-fidelity AI image generation & editing.

- **Provider**: Recraft
- **Model id**: `recraft-remove-background`
- **Modality**: image
- **Price**: 0.77 credits

## Overview

Recraft Remove Background is called in two steps: create a generation task, then poll the task until the result is ready.

## Authentication

All requests require a Bearer Token in the request header:

```
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
```

## Create Task

`POST https://you.bot/api/v1/generate`

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|-------------|
| modelId | string | Yes | Model id: `recraft-remove-background` |
| input | object | Yes | Input parameters object (see below) |
| callbackUrl | string | No | https URL to receive a signed webhook on completion |

### input object parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|-------------|
| image | string | Yes | Image to remove background from. Supported formats: PNG, JPG, WEBP. Max 5MB, max 16MP, max dimension 4096px, min dimension 256px. (image URL) |
| nsfw_checker | boolean | No | A configurable parameter. Defaults to true in the Playground. (true/false) (default: true) |

### Request example

```json
{
  "modelId": "recraft-remove-background",
  "input": {
    "image": "https://example.com/input.jpg",
    "nsfw_checker": true
  }
}
```

### Response example

```json
{
  "taskId": "281e5b0…f39b9",
  "creditsCharged": 24
}
```

## Query Task

`GET https://you.bot/api/v1/task/{taskId}?model=recraft-remove-background`

When `state` is `success`, the output is in `resultUrls`: `{ "state": "success", "resultUrls": [ ... ] }`. (Text models return inline in the create response.)

## Error Codes

| Code | Description |
|------|-------------|
| 200 | Request successful |
| 400 | Invalid request parameters |
| 401 | Authentication failed, check API Key |
| 402 | Insufficient account balance |
| 422 | Parameter validation failed |
| 429 | Request rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal server error |