FOR MARKETPLACES & DMS PLATFORMS
The car image API that replaces your entire editing workflow
Use our car image API and put one-click photo editing inside your marketplace or DMS. Your users send a car photo and get back a clean studio image, all on the same AI that powers our app.
Generate API keyA car image API that your users will thank you for
Send a car photo, pick a studio scene, and get back a clean, high-resolution image on the exact same AI pipeline that powers the app. It's a car photo editing API built only for vehicles, so the quality matches the app generation for generation.
How it works
Your car image API integration will be live in three steps
1
Generate your API key
Create a workspace key at app.carbackground.ai/settings/api-keys. No sales gate to start testing.
2
Send a photo
Upload a car image, by URL or base64, with the background you want. Get back a finished, high-resolution image.
3
Credits pull from your workspace
One credit per successful generation, at the same price as the app. No API markup.
EASY INTEGRATION
Designed to just drop in
Base URL
Set it up via https://api.carbackground.ai
Authentication
A workspace-scoped API key, passed as a Bearer token.
Endpoints
Create a generation, list available backgrounds, check your credit balance.
Input
JPG, PNG, or WebP up to 50 MB, by HTTPS URL or base64.
Throughput
Up to 80 requests per second per key.
Libraries
Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, and cURL.
INDUSTRIES
Built for premium platforms
Car marketplaces
Standardize every listing with a single car image API, without leaving your platform.
Dealer management systems
Drop background replacement straight into the workflow your dealers already run every day.
Dealer groups at scale
Automate photo processing across every location and thousands of cars a month.
Listing platforms
Become the platform dealers trust, with showroom-quality imagery baked in.
Why platforms choose our car photo editing API
Automotive-only AI
API built for cars, so it handles glass, wheels, shadows, and perspective the way dealers expect.
Pay-as-you-go
Credits, not subscriptions. You pay for what your users actually process, not an enterprise fee.
Full commercial rights
Every image is yours to use across listings, marketing, and your product. You get full rights.
One pipeline
The API and app never drift apart. New features land in both, so what you build on stays up to date.
Pricing is simple: it's the same
There's no separate API price list. Calls pull from your workspace credits at the same pay-as-you-go rates as everything else. No markup, no subscription, no minimums to start. Scale up as your volume grows.
No credit card – free trial included – cancel anytime
Ready to build it in?
Give your users studio-quality car photos through one car image API, without leaving your platform. Tell us about your use case and we'll take it from there.
Tell us what you’re building
Frequently Asked Questions
It's a car photo editing API that replaces a car photo's background with one of our pre-built studio scenes and returns a clean, high-resolution image, the same generation your users run in the app. Fetch the current scene list any time from the backgrounds endpoint.
One credit per successful generation, pulled from your workspace at the same pay-as-you-go rates as the app. No API markup, no separate plan.
Create an API key in your workspace settings, then post your first photo. The docs have copy-paste examples in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby, and URL.
Yes. Each key handles up to 80 requests per second, and it's built to run across whole platforms and inventories. Tell us your expected volume and we'll make sure you're set up right.
JPG, PNG, or WebP up to 50 MB, passed as an HTTPS URL or base64.
Same pipeline, same quality. The one exception is aspect ratio handling.
Yes. Full commercial rights on every image, use them anywhere in your product and marketing.
Yes. You get 10 free credits on a new workspace, no card, so your team can check the output before writing any code.
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