Besedo vs Sightengine

Besedo moderates user-generated content for platforms seeking to detect fraud, scams and harmful material in real time. Its API supports text, images, videos, reviews, chats and other user content, and its listed moderation capabilities also include audio. AI automation and smart filters handle moderation alongside human moderators for complex or sensitive cases. Customers can create, edit or import filters and rule logic in an editor. The Implio dashboard presents performance statistics, refusal reasons and insights for refining moderation, while a RESTful HTTP API integrates the service with customer platforms. Besedo offers cloud deployment and says its system can scale to platforms processing millions of items per day. It reports an average response time below 50 milliseconds for real-time moderation and 50 milliseconds for chat, and says it supports more than 100 languages natively. Its customers include marketplaces, dating apps, gaming platforms, media companies and online communities. Pricing is available on request; a free trial includes 10,000 moderated pieces per month and unlimited users.

Sightengine provides APIs to assess, filter, and moderate images, videos, and text. Its visual moderation checks categories including nudity, hate, violence, drugs, weapons, and self-harm. It also detects AI-generated images, videos, speech, and music, as well as deepfakes. Additional tools include OCR and QR moderation, image and video search, age estimation, liveness checks, and recapture detection. Image moderation thresholds and rules can be configured for different community policies. Developers can use API examples and SDKs for Curl, Python, PHP, and Node.js. Sightengine says it does not involve human moderators or share customer content with third parties. The Free plan costs nothing and has daily and monthly usage limits; it does not include video processing or live-stream support. Starter costs $29 a month for 10,000 operations, with additional operations at $0.002 each. Sightengine is cloud-deployed and lists API and web platforms.