Crowdee vs Groundery

Crowdee is a content-verification platform for checking articles, social posts, images, audio, video, documents, URLs and claims. It combines automated triage with access to more than 1 million screened crowd workers, who can provide independent verdicts, reviewer agreement and written reasoning. Its 14 pipelines cover media, text and documents, social and web context, identity and multi-file checks; automation, APIs and scheduled pipelines support different workflows. Evidence and reviewer feedback can be exported in a PDF dossier for editorial or legal review. Pay-as-you-go and higher plans include a REST API. The free plan allows one image check per IP address every 24 hours, with uploads up to 10 MB. Pay-as-you-go costs €0.05, paid once, with no commitment. Managed Campaigns and Enterprise use custom pricing. Crowdee lists hosting on dedicated servers in German data centres, with automation hardware in Berlin, and says customer content is not used to train foundation models. It is aimed at newsrooms, compliance teams and AI researchers.

Groundery extracts factual claims from live or recorded material and checks them against sources chosen for each session. Live inputs include a microphone, a browser tab playing audio, or a stream URL such as YouTube Live, Twitch, or Vimeo. The site says live results usually arrive while the speaker remains on the same topic, ranging from seconds to about a minute depending on the evidence. For recordings, it accepts MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV, YouTube links, or pasted transcripts. Claims are timestamped so reviewers can revisit the relevant moment, inspect evidence, and share or export reports. Source controls can search the web, limit checks to selected sites, or exclude sites. Groundery says it prioritizes authoritative sources and provides direct links for review. It is available on the web and as a Chrome extension. The Free plan includes 3 hours of fact-checking and 10 instant text checks per month; Pro costs $599 a month. Its terms warn that AI-generated results may be inaccurate or incomplete and are informational aids, not definitive judgments. Uploaded content and results remain until deleted or the account closes, with backups potentially persisting for up to 30 days after deletion.