Sightengine
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Features
31 features across 12 categories
AI Content Detection(5)
Detect AI-generated images and assess the authenticity of media
Detect AI-generated music
Spot AI-generated video content
Identify face swaps and AI manipulation in images
Detect if images were generated using Stable Diffusion or other generative AI models
Analytics & Monitoring(1)
Online usage dashboard with detailed request logs for monitoring API usage
Content Moderation(7)
Transcribe and detect profanity in audio
Detect attempts to circumvent or disintermediate your platform, including abusive links, QR codes, phone numbers, email addresses, and references to other platforms
Moderate images with 120+ moderation classes covering nudity, hate, violence, drugs, weapons, and self-harm
Moderate text and QR codes present in images and videos
Detect activities such as smoking, vaping, gambling, drinking alcohol, sextoys, banknotes, and coins
Detect and filter sexual, hateful, violent, insulting or otherwise inappropriate texts. Detect personal information, links, usernames, and restricted activities
Moderate and filter videos and live streams
Developer Tools(1)
Comprehensive API docs, SDKs, and quick-start guides for easy integration
Image Analysis & OCR(4)
Anonymize images in content moderation pipeline
Assess technical and aesthetical quality, automatically detect low-quality images, identify issues like bad framing, blurriness, poor lighting, and highlight high-quality content
Extract text from images and videos at scale
Anonymize videos in content moderation pipeline
People & Identity(2)
Implement age group verifications for images
Enhanced profile picture verification: check if the image contains a clear and recognizable face, if the face is real, if other people or children are present
Performance(2)
Dedicated infrastructure for unparalleled performance on Enterprise plan
Prioritized processing for optimal speed on higher tier plans
Privacy & Compliance(1)
No human moderator involved, images remain private and are not shared with any 3rd party
Reliability(1)
Failure-tolerant infrastructure and fallback strategies with high-end hardware
Security(1)
Secure API endpoints with HTTPS encryption
Support(4)
Dedicated customer support engineer assigned to Enterprise customers
Email-based customer support included in paid plans
Service Level Agreement guarantees for Enterprise customers
Prioritized support response times on higher tier plans
Visual Search(2)
Find duplicates and similar content to detect near-duplicates and spam
Identify similar and duplicate content, prevent spammy behavior, and create custom disallow lists to block abuse
Pricing
Free
- ✓2,000 operations per month (max 500 per day)
- ✓1 simultaneous video stream
- ✓Content Moderation
- ✓Full access to all Moderation APIs
- ✓Access to all Models
- ✓High performance and availability
- ✓Secure environment and API
- ✓Usage monitoring
- ✓API SDKs and examples
Starter
- ✓10,000 operations per month + $0.002 per additional op
- ✓1 simultaneous video stream
- ✓Content Moderation
- ✓Email support
- ✓Full access to all Moderation APIs
- ✓Access to all Models
- ✓No hard usage limits
- ✓High performance and availability
- ✓Secure environment and API
- ✓Usage monitoring
Growth
- ✓40,000 operations per month + $0.002 per additional op
- ✓2 simultaneous video streams
- ✓Content Moderation
- ✓Email Support
- ✓Full access to all Moderation APIs
- ✓Access to all Models
- ✓No hard usage limits
- ✓High performance and availability
- ✓Secure environment and API
- ✓Usage monitoring
Pro
- ✓200,000 operations per month + $0.0015 per additional op
- ✓5 simultaneous video streams
- ✓Content Moderation
- ✓Prioritized processing for Optimal Speed
- ✓Prioritized Support
- ✓Full access to all Moderation APIs
- ✓Access to all Models
- ✓No hard usage limits
- ✓High performance and availability
- ✓Secure environment and API
- ✓Usage monitoring
Enterprise
- ✓Custom number of operations
- ✓Custom number of simultaneous streams
- ✓Content Moderation
- ✓Image and Video Anonymization
- ✓Dedicated infrastructure for Unparalleled performance
- ✓Dedicated Customer Support Engineer
- ✓Enterprise-class SLA
- ✓Exclusive enterprise premium options
- ✓Full access to all Moderation APIs
- ✓Access to all Models
- ✓No hard usage limits
- ✓High performance and availability
- ✓Secure environment and API
- ✓Usage monitoring
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