Runs advanced AI entirely on your local device. Your images never leave your computer.
Yes. Processing backgrounds on FormatGrid is entirely free. Because the tool utilizes your own device's computing power rather than our servers, we don't pay infrastructure fees—allowing us to pass that benefit completely to you with no limits or sign-ups required.
Nowhere. FormatGrid strictly avoids uploading, transmitting, or caching your images on external servers. The machine learning model is streamed directly to your browser framework and runs inside an isolated client-side thread.
The very first time you click isolate, your browser securely downloads a lightweight, compressed open-source AI vision model (around 12-15MB) straight from a public CDN cache. Once stored in your browser's local IndexedDB space, subsequent background removals happen instantly with zero download times.