Sightengine
AI-Powered Content Moderation and Deepfake Detection API Platform
by Kozelo SAS · Paris, France · Founded 2012
What is Sightengine?
Sightengine is an AI-driven content moderation and media analysis API built for developers and platforms. It provides real-time image, video, text, and audio moderation across 120+ detection classes, including nudity, violence, hate speech, and restricted activities.
The platform also specializes in AI-generated image and video detection, deepfake identification, and near-duplicate content search.
Founded in Paris in 2012, Sightengine serves social networks, marketplaces, dating apps, and media platforms worldwide with sub-second API response times and proprietary deep learning models trained specifically for trust and safety use cases.
Sightengine — AI-Powered Content Moderation and Deepfake Detection API Platform Whether you're evaluating Sightengine for your team or comparing it to alternatives in the AI Development Tools category, this in-depth review covers everything: features, pricing, real user reviews, pros and cons, integrations, and direct comparisons against competitors.
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Pros & Cons
- Sub-Second API Response Times
- Transparent Public Pricing Model
- Proprietary Deep Learning Models
- 120+ Moderation Class Granularity
- API-Only With No Dashboard
- SDKs Lack Regular Maintenance
- Limited Decision Explainability Output
Frequently Asked Questions
5 questionsSightengine allows multiple detection models to be combined in a single API request. Developers can stack models such as nudity, violence, text moderation, and AI detection simultaneously, reducing latency and operation counts compared to running them separately.
Sightengine provides official client libraries for Python, PHP, and Node.js. The API also supports direct REST calls via cURL, making it compatible with virtually any programming language that can send HTTP requests.
Sightengine uses proprietary deep learning models trained to identify artifacts and patterns typical of AI-generated content. It supports detection across generators like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E, returning confidence scores indicating the likelihood of synthetic origin.
Yes, live-stream moderation is available on the Pro plan and above. Sightengine processes video frames at configurable rates between 0.5fps and 2fps on Pro plans, analyzing each frame against selected moderation models and returning results in real time.
An operation is Sightengine's usage unit. Running one detection model on a single image counts as one operation. Combining multiple models in one call may consume additional operations. Failed requests and errors are not counted toward the monthly quota.
Who is Sightengine for?
Sightengine is most useful for Trust and Safety Engineers, Platform Developers Building Moderation Pipelines, Marketplace Product Listing Moderators and Dating App Development Teams.
Sightengine pricing
Sightengine uses a freemium model: a usable free tier with optional paid upgrades. Headline pricing: From $29/mo. For the current tier breakdown and any limits, see the pricing section above or check the vendor's pricing page directly — limits and prices change.
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Sightengine Pricing
From $29/mo
- 10,000 operations per month
- $0.002 per additional operation
- Visual moderation (up to 50MB per video)
- Text moderation
- 40,000 operations per month
- $0.002 per additional operation
- Advanced video and live-stream moderation (up to 500MB)
- Audio moderation
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