MiniPx vs Cleanup.pictures — Free, Fast & Private
Cleanup.pictures does one thing and asks nothing of you to start; MiniPx does the same thing inside a larger toolbox and asks for a subscription. That is the honest opening. If you have a single photograph with a stray bin in the corner and you want it gone in thirty seconds with no account, a free single-purpose eraser is a perfectly good answer and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The MiniPx object remover earns its place when the erasing is one step in a longer job, or when you want to know what filled the hole.
What fills the hole
PowerPaint, an inpainting model, named on the tool page. Inpainting does not "cut out" anything. It deletes the region under your mask and synthesises new pixels that continue the surroundings, guided by what it can see at the edges of the hole. That is why the surroundings decide the outcome: sky, a plain wall, grass, sand, fabric and skin all continue predictably and come back convincing. A tiled floor with a strong perspective, a face, printed text, a repeating fence or a busy shopfront do not, and the fill will look plausible from a distance and wrong under inspection. Cleanup.pictures does not publish its model, so once again the only real test is your own photograph through both.
Mask discipline is most of the result
A slightly generous mask beats a tight one, and one pass beats five. Cover the object and a small margin of the background around it, including its shadow and any reflection — a removed lamppost that leaves its shadow on the pavement reads as a mistake immediately. Do not paint over more of the scene than you need, because everything under the mask is discarded and re-invented. If the first attempt leaves a smear, undo and redraw rather than painting over the smear: masking a bad fill asks the model to continue its own error. Small-to-medium regions work best; a mask covering a third of the frame is asking for a new photograph, not a repair.
Limits and what a run costs
Object removal is a Cloud HD tool and it draws on the HD sub-allowance. Input is up to 25 MB and 24 megapixels, a mask is required, and the run happens on our GPU. Pro includes 150 cloud runs a month on the Monthly plan, of which 10 may be HD runs — object removal, the four-times upscale, and a restoration with colorization chained on. Pricing is $3.24/month or $29/year on the launch promo ($4.99 and $39 at list, tax excluded), a failed run is not charged, and cancelling is an email to contact@minipx.com rather than a button.
Why it is worth having in the same tab
Erasing is rarely the whole job. A listing photo usually needs the distraction removed, then a crop to the platform's aspect ratio, then a conversion, then a size reduction to get under an upload cap. On MiniPx that is the crop tool, the image converter and the image compressor, all free and all on the same device, with the one paid cloud step in the middle. A single-purpose eraser hands you a file and you go and find the other four tools yourself. If the subject also needs its background gone entirely, that is a different tool again — the background remover, which is free on your device.
Where the photo goes, and one thing we will not help with
The masked photo is uploaded for that run and then deleted. Processing happens in the United States on Cloudflare R2 storage and Modal GPUs, the transfer is encrypted, and the file is deleted when the run finishes, and in all cases within 24 hours. It is never used to train anything, and Cloud HD is off until a Pro subscriber switches it on. Cleanup.pictures is a cloud tool too; read their privacy policy for their side. One boundary worth stating: an inpainting brush is very good at removing watermarks and credit lines, and we will not write a guide to doing it. Removing someone else's attribution from their photograph is a copyright problem no model solves for you.
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