Sightengine helps teams moderate user videos and live streams with precision. Detect nudity, violence, hate, self-harm, weapons, drugs, and policy violations with frame-level timestamps so your trust and safety workflows can act immediately.
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Why teams choose Sightengine
Strong video moderation is not just about flagging clips. It is about helping your product make confident decisions at scale: allow, block, blur, age-gate, or escalate. Sightengine gives you high-granularity signals designed for production trust and safety operations.
Get exact moments for unsafe events, so you can remove or redact only problematic segments instead of discarding full videos.
Detect risky scenes in near real-time to enforce platform guidelines during broadcasts and reduce exposure windows.
Cover nudity, violence, gore, hate symbols, weapons, drugs, and more with tunable thresholds to match your policy.
Route ambiguous or severe events into review queues while auto-approving low-risk content to keep moderation costs efficient.
Run video moderation workflows for high-volume user-generated content without building and maintaining your own model stack.
Integrate quickly with webhooks and SDK-friendly endpoints, then iterate as your moderation policy evolves.
Moderation checks
Go far beyond basic nudity and violence flags. Tune precise moderation checks for communities with different norms, risk levels, and policy requirements.
Beyond moderation
Protect ranking systems, recommendation feeds, and trust layers with anti-spam, anti-fraud, authenticity, and quality signals built for production workflows.
Detect near-duplicate clips, repeat upload patterns, and recycled content at scale.
Surface behavior and content indicators linked to scams, manipulation, and account abuse.
Identify synthetic or manipulated video signals to support verification and trust workflows.
Score blur, framing, exposure, and overall quality to improve user experience and reduce junk.
Submit a video URL or media file. Sightengine analyzes visual content and returns detailed policy signals with confidence scores and timestamps.
STEP 2Use confidence thresholds to choose automated actions: block, blur, age-restrict, quarantine, or escalate to human review.
STEP 3Feed outcomes into your trust and safety operations, incident dashboards, and support systems for consistent enforcement.
Industry coverage
Sightengine powers trust and safety teams across social apps, creator platforms, dating products, marketplaces, and content communities.
Moderate large volumes of short-form videos and stories while preserving fast publishing experiences.
Protect members from explicit, violent, or abusive uploads and support safer interpersonal interactions.
Reduce abuse risk in product videos, user posts, and live seller streams with policy-based moderation pipelines.
Launch your video moderation API integration quickly, then tune your policy logic over time. The API returns clear, actionable outputs for engineering and moderation teams.
# Analyze a video and receive moderation signals
curl -X POST 'https://api.sightengine.com/1.0/video/check-sync.json' \
-F 'media=@/path/to/video.mp4' \
-F 'models=nudity-2.1,gore-2.0,weapon,recreational_drug' \
-F 'api_user={api_user}' \
-F 'api_secret={api_secret}'
# response includes timestamps and confidence levels
if score > threshold:
block_or_escalate()FAQ
Video moderation is the process of detecting unsafe or policy-violating content in uploaded videos and live streams. It helps platforms reduce legal, brand, and user safety risk while scaling trust and safety operations efficiently.
Yes. Sightengine supports moderation workflows for recorded videos and live streams, with event timestamps so your systems can take fast and precise actions.
Yes. You can configure thresholds and decision logic for different content categories and risk levels, then combine automatic actions with human review escalation where needed.
Teams typically integrate quickly using standard API requests and callback workflows. Sightengine documentation provides model guidance and implementation examples for faster rollout.
Deploy a modern video moderation engine that protects users, supports trust and safety teams, and scales with your platform from day one.