ComfyUI Native Recraft Remove Background Node The Recraft Remove Background node uses Recraft’s API to intelligently detect and remove image backgrounds, creating images with transparent backgrounds and corresponding alpha masks.

Parameters

Basic Parameters

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
imageimage-Input image to remove background from

Output

OutputTypeDescription
IMAGEimageImage with background removed (with alpha channel)
MASKmaskMask of the main subject (white areas are preserved)

Source Code

[Node source code (Updated on 2025-05-03)]
class RecraftRemoveBackgroundNode:
    """
    Remove background from image, and return processed image and mask.
    """

    RETURN_TYPES = (IO.IMAGE, IO.MASK)
    DESCRIPTION = cleandoc(__doc__ or "")  # Handle potential None value
    FUNCTION = "api_call"
    API_NODE = True
    CATEGORY = "api node/image/Recraft"

    @classmethod
    def INPUT_TYPES(s):
        return {
            "required": {
                "image": (IO.IMAGE, ),
            },
            "optional": {
            },
            "hidden": {
                "auth_token": "AUTH_TOKEN_COMFY_ORG",
            },
        }

    def api_call(
        self,
        image: torch.Tensor,
        auth_token=None,
        **kwargs,
    ):
        images = []
        total = image.shape[0]
        pbar = ProgressBar(total)
        for i in range(total):
            sub_bytes = handle_recraft_file_request(
                image=image[i],
                path="/proxy/recraft/images/removeBackground",
                auth_token=auth_token,
            )
            images.append(torch.cat([bytesio_to_image_tensor(x) for x in sub_bytes], dim=0))
            pbar.update(1)

        images_tensor = torch.cat(images, dim=0)
        # use alpha channel as masks, in B,H,W format
        masks_tensor = images_tensor[:,:,:,-1:].squeeze(-1)
        return (images_tensor, masks_tensor)