Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation vs Tisane API

Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation uses machine learning and managed APIs to automate moderation of images and videos. It detects categories including explicit or suggestive content, violence, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, hate symbols, gambling, and disturbing content. Results include labels, confidence scores, and video timestamps, which can support granular rules based on a hierarchical taxonomy. Customers can train a Custom Moderation adapter for image analysis with as few as 20 annotated images. Low-confidence predictions can be sent to Amazon Augmented AI for review by internal teams or third-party reviewers. For stored video, StartContentModeration analyzes content in an Amazon S3 bucket and publishes completion status to an Amazon SNS topic. AWS charges according to images or video duration processed, with no minimum fees or upfront commitments. The Free Tier lasts 12 months from account creation and includes 60 video-analysis minutes per month and two custom-adapter training hours monthly. Images and videos passed to the service may be stored and used to improve it unless customers opt out; stored content is encrypted at rest using AWS KMS.

Tisane API is a text moderation service that returns human-readable reasons for its decisions. Its RESTful API returns detailed results in milliseconds, and the product handles algospeak, slang, and misspellings. Analysis can be tailored to contexts such as usernames and search queries. Tisane can translate foreign content while preserving its original profanities and slurs, and it can also identify topics, entities, and sentiment. For gaming, its moderation is described as distinguishing in-game violence references from criminal activity and detecting scammers, groomers, and trolls. Deployments include public cloud, on-premise installation, and Tisane Embedded as an in-process library; the pricing page also offers on-premise deployment for privacy or air-gap requirements. Listed integrations include plugins for Slack, Minecraft, Webex, Discord, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, as well as Zapier, Make, and n8n. The free Community plan includes 50,000 requests with a limit of 10 hits per minute and no technical support. Paid plans start at $99 a month.