Sightengine vs Tisane API

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.

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.