Crowdee vs Scrutinly

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.

Scrutinly is a web-based fact-checking service for articles, claims, URLs, social posts, and images. It extracts checkable statements from supplied text and evaluates each against current web sources. URL checking fetches the article directly, avoiding manual copying. Results classify claims as Supported, Unsupported, Mixed, or Satirical and provide links to the sources used. A stacked bar summarizes the proportions of Supported, Unsupported, and Mixed claims in a check. Image analysis is in beta: it estimates signs of AI generation or changed context, then gives a probability score and explanation; the service warns that these evaluations may be unreliable. Results remain in search history, and identical content can reuse cached output without consuming tokens. Security features listed by the site include two-factor authentication, PBKDF2 password hashing, and JWT sessions; searches are private to each account and not sold or shared. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 150,000 tokens. Pro costs $12 a month, while Max costs $49 a month.