AI Engine: AI APIs for images, faces and text
Remove backgrounds, moderate uploads, compare faces and read documents with one REST call. Every API has a free plan.

requests.post(
"https://background-removal-ai.p.rapidapi.com/remove-background",
headers=HEADERS,
data={"image_url": photo_url},
).json()["image_url"] # transparent PNG- Faces and identity
- Face Analyzer, Face Swap, Face Restoration, Emotion & Personality
- Image editing
- Background Removal, Image Colorization, Photo to Anime, Photo to Portrait, Image Generation
- Moderation and safety
- NSFW Detect, Mask Detection, PPE Detection
- Detection and text
- OCR Wizard, Object Detection, Label Image, Logo Detection, Landmark Detection
Need several? AI All-in-One groups them under one subscription.
- API calls served
- 2.5M+
- developers
- 3,000+
- RapidAPI rating
- 4.5/5
- uptime
- 99.9%
“Great set of APIs with clean documentation and fast response times. The free tier is generous enough to prototype and the paid plans scale well.”
See what our APIs do
Open any API to read its docs and try it on your own images.

Background Removal
Cut out products and people, with a transparent PNG back

NSFW Detect
Score images by category to allow, review or block them

Face Analyzer
Detect, compare and search faces, including KYC selfie checks

Face Swap
Put one face onto one photo or a whole set of templates

OCR Wizard
Extract text and structured data from documents and IDs

Object Detection
Identify and locate objects with bounding boxes and labels

Face Restoration
Enhance and restore low-quality face photos

Image Colorization
Add realistic color to black and white photos

Photo to Anime
Transform photos into Ghibli and 7 other art styles
Three steps to your first call
No ML expertise needed. No infrastructure to manage. Just a simple API call.
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Call the API
Make a simple REST call from any language. Results come back as JSON.
What teams build with them
Clean up a product catalog
Give thousands of vendor photos the same white background, in batches.
Background removal at scaleKeep unsafe images off your platform
Score each upload by category, then allow, review or block it with your own rules.
Compare NSFW detection APIsVerify users at signup
Check that a KYC selfie shows the same person as the ID photo.
KYC selfie verification in PythonBuild a photo app
Let guests find their event photos with one selfie, or sort a library by person.
Find event photos by selfie