CarShots vs Car Background AI

Car Background AI, at carbackground.ai, is a web-based AI car photo editor for dealers. You upload photos from your phone, a camera or your inventory system, pick one of its 20+ background templates or generate your own scene, and it replaces the background, blurs the license plate and adds your branding in the same pass. It also offers a car image API.

The difference with CarShots is where the work starts. Car Background AI edits whatever lands in the upload box. CarShots gives your team a shot list with an outline on screen for each exterior angle, in the browser or the iOS app, and sends every photo back on a clean backdrop in about 20 seconds. Try a photo of your own car and compare it with your current listing photos.

Car Background AI lists four self-serve plans, so line up the price of one finished photo at the number of photos you shoot each month.

Yes, automatically. Car Background AI finds the plate and blurs it on every photo it edits, so you don't have to remember to ask. CarShots doesn't blur plates automatically; you hide a plate with a one-line photo edit, like "hide the license plate", on the photos where you want it hidden. You can also blur plates in any photo with the free license plate blur tool.

Car Background AI has 20+ ready-made templates for showroom, studio and outdoor looks, takes your own background uploads, and can generate a new scene that it saves as a template for the rest of your inventory.

CarShots keeps the choice short: 20 curated backdrops across studio, showroom, outdoor and scenic looks. Choose one and use it on every car, so every listing on your website matches. For your own showroom or a branded background, email CarShots. Browse the set on the car backgrounds page.

Car Background AI gives every angle of a car the same background, so the set is ready for a 360 spin on your listing or website. CarShots doesn't make interactive 360 spins. It makes a 15-second 360° walkaround video with voiceover and music from the car's photos, and the trial includes one. More on walkaround videos.

Car Background AI's API runs at the same price per photo as its app, using a key you create in your workspace, which suits dealer groups and platforms with their own software.

CarShots skips the API. Each car has a Website feed switch, and its photos and walkaround videos join a CSV or XML inventory feed, or an SFTP upload, that your website or DMS picks up, with new ones added as they finish. You can also download one photo or a zip of the whole car.