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Cutout Labs is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. 640 installs a week from npm. It exposes 2 tools.

Remove image backgrounds from local files or URLs and get transparent PNG cutouts.

Installs per day peak 573 · avg 21
a month agotoday
Uptime history 71 hours of history
71 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
139 ms
Response time
average over 24h
640
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Cutout Labs every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://api.cutoutlabs.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://api.cutoutlabs.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://api.cutoutlabs.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.cutoutlabs.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.cutoutlabs.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

background
remove_background
Remove the background from an image and return the cutout. Provide exactly one of image_url or image_base64. Returns a transparent PNG by default, or the subject on a solid colour when bg_color is set. When several objects or a person and a product appear together, the model may keep or drop some of them (for example a hand holding a product); use roi to restrict the subject area. Parts of a subject hidden behind something else cannot be recovered.
quota
get_quota
Return how many free remove_background calls remain today for the API key.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.cutoutlabs.com/mcp streamable-http answering 127 ms 9 min ago

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Cutout Labs — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Cutout Labs do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_quota, remove_background. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Cutout Labs working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 139 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Cutout Labs?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Cutout Labs need an API key?
No. Cutout Labs completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Cutout Labs?
It answers our handshake in 139 ms on average, which is faster than 87% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Cutout Labs?
The npm package @cutoutlabs/mcp was installed 640 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.