LocalMod vs Tisane API

LocalMod is a free content moderation API for text and images that runs on Linux within a self-hosted setup. The project says it can run offline, keeping user data within the user's infrastructure. Text classifiers check for PII, toxicity, prompt injection, spam, and NSFW text; the PII classifier covers emails, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and credit card numbers. Image moderation detects explicit or adult images. API endpoints support single and batch text analysis, PII redaction, and image analysis from a URL or uploaded file. The README documents Python use, running an API server, and Docker deployment, and includes an example Discord bot for real-time text and image moderation with auto-delete, timeouts, and logging. Offline operation requires downloading the models once and setting LOCALMOD_OFFLINE=1; the documented download is about 3.5 GB and includes the image model. The README recommends a GPU for production workloads and lists CPU and GPU latency estimates by classifier. LocalMod is MIT licensed.

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.