What is Sightengine?
Sightengine provides automated content moderation and image analysis via API for developers, trust & safety teams, marketplaces, and social platforms.It performs image moderation across 120+ classes and moderates videos and live streams for nudity, hate, violence, drugs, weapons, self-harm, and other policy categories.
Sightengine offers OCR and QR moderation to extract and screen text and contact data from images and video, plus text moderation for abusive or restricted content.AI content detection features include identification of AI-generated images, deepfakes, AI-generated video, speech, and music to support media authenticity checks.
Visual search and near-duplicate detection locate similar images and videos to prevent spam, abuse, and circumvention, while image quality assessment flags low-quality media.People and identity tools validate profile images, estimate age groups, and check face visibility and realism for onboarding and fraud prevention.
Sightengine pricing Subscription
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Sightengine's key features
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Image moderation — multi-class automated detection (nudity, hate, violence, drugs, weapons, self-harm, etc.)
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Video moderation — automated moderation and filtering of videos and live streams
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Text moderation — detect and filter unwanted or policy-violating text, personal information, links, usernames, and restricted activity references
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OCR & QR moderation — extract and moderate text and QR codes from images and videos at scale
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AI-content and deepfake detection — detect AI-generated images, videos, speech, music and identify face swaps/AI manipulations
Sightengine use cases
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Moderate user-uploaded images and live streams for nudity, violence, hate, self-harm, drugs, weapons and AI-generated media using Sightengine’s image/video analysis and live-stream moderation APIs to automatically flag or remove violating content and reduce manual review workload
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Verify user identities and ages for marketplaces, fintech or dating apps by combining Sightengine’s OCR, profile image verification, identity/age checks and media authenticity/deepfake detection to prevent fraud and ensure regulatory compliance
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Improve e-commerce listing quality and trust by using Sightengine’s visual search, near-duplicate detection, image quality checks and OCR for product labels to detect counterfeit items, remove low-quality images and auto-tag visual attributes for better search and cataloging
Who is it for?
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Developers
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Content moderators
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Safety and compliance teams
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Online marketplaces
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Social media platforms
