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backgroundremover

Background Remover lets you Remove Background from images and video using AI with a simple command line interface that is free and open source.
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Downloads
Day
1.0K
Week
4.7K
Month
17.4K
Stars
7.9K
Forks
644
Issues
9
Version
0.4.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
82
Adoption
72
Community
20
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
46 days ago
Monthly downloads
17,404
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
17,404
Stars
7,863
Stars per 1k downloads
451.79
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
671
Month daily avg
580
Momentum
+15.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.6
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
77 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
6.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
19
Monthly downloads
17,404
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
30
 
Issue Burden
1.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 301
Windows 72
macOS 52

Python Versions

3.12
59.4% 249
3.10
23.2% 97
3.13
10.5% 44
3.14
3.6% 15
3.11
3.3% 14

Top Countries

1. US US
280
2. CN CN
46
3. DE DE
14
4. CA CA
7
5. IN IN
7
6. SG SG
7
7. ZA ZA
6
8. JP JP
5
9. AU AU
4
10. BR BR
4

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 5, 2021
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.4.1
Total Releases
31
Contributors
19
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Johnathan Nader
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
remove background u2net remove background background remover
Topics
background-remover backgroundremover removebackground remove-background remove-background-image remove-background-video background-removal python video pytorch video-editing photo-editing ai
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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