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Content Moderation API · 50+ violation categories

Keep every platform safe with intelligent content moderation

Detect hate speech, violence, adult content, misinformation, and 50+ policy violations across text, URLs, and images in real time. Configurable thresholds, batch processing, and human-in-the-loop escalation workflows for platforms that cannot afford content failures.

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Violation categories
<100ms
Response time
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Languages
99.9%
Uptime SLA
The challenge

User-generated content is a liability until it is classified

Every comment, review, listing, and upload on your platform is a potential brand risk, legal exposure, or user-safety incident. Manual review teams cannot keep pace with the volume. Rule-based filters miss context. And a single viral moderation failure can undo years of trust-building.

The scale problem is existential

Platforms processing millions of submissions daily cannot route every piece of content through human reviewers. Even a 0.1% miss rate means thousands of harmful posts reaching audiences before anyone notices. Automated pre-screening is not a nice-to-have — it is the only way to maintain safety at scale without hiring faster than you grow. Every minute of delay between a harmful post and its removal is a minute of exposure for your users and your brand.

Regulatory pressure is accelerating

The EU Digital Services Act, UK Online Safety Act, and emerging legislation worldwide impose legal obligations on platforms to detect and remove illegal content within hours. Failure to comply means fines calculated as a percentage of global revenue. Compliance requires not just detection capability, but auditable logs proving you acted promptly and consistently. The cost of reactive moderation is no longer just reputational — it is financial and legal.

User trust erodes with every failure

Users leave platforms where they encounter unchecked hate speech, harassment, or unsafe content. Advertisers pull spend from environments they cannot trust. A single viral moderation failure generates press coverage that no marketing budget can counteract. The platforms that retain users and revenue are the ones that prove, consistently and at scale, that harmful content does not survive on their infrastructure long enough to matter.

Multilingual content multiplies complexity

Hate speech in one language looks like gibberish to a filter trained on another. Code-switching, transliteration, and cultural context create blind spots that monolingual systems cannot address. A moderation solution that works only in English fails platforms with global user bases — and those are the platforms facing the highest regulatory scrutiny. Our models detect violations across 30+ languages natively, not through translation layers that lose nuance.

Capabilities

What the Content Moderation API detects

Our models are trained on diverse, multilingual datasets and continuously updated to catch evolving patterns of harmful content. Every detection comes with a confidence score and category label for granular policy enforcement.

Hate speech and harassment

Detect slurs, coded language, dogwhistles, targeted harassment, and group-based attacks across 30+ languages. The model understands context — distinguishing news reporting about hate crimes from actual hate speech, academic discussion from promotion. Severity scoring differentiates borderline cases from clear violations.

NSFW and adult content

Identify sexually explicit material, nudity, suggestive content, and age-inappropriate material in both text descriptions and URLs. Multi-tier classification distinguishes clinical health content from pornographic material, allowing health platforms to set appropriate thresholds without over-blocking.

Violence, self-harm, and threats

Flag graphic violence, self-harm content, weapons glorification, and threatening language. Configurable severity tiers let news publishers allow conflict reporting while blocking gratuitous violence. Self-harm detection triggers priority routing for welfare escalation workflows.

Misinformation and disinformation

Detect health misinformation, election interference claims, financial scams, and conspiracy theories. Signal confidence scores rather than binary verdicts, so editorial teams make the final call on contested speech. Pattern detection catches coordinated inauthentic behavior.

Custom policy rules

Define your own violation categories beyond our built-in 50+ types. Marketplace platforms add counterfeit-product rules. Education platforms flag plagiarism signals. Gaming platforms define toxicity specific to their communities. Every custom rule inherits the same confidence scoring and audit logging.

URL and link analysis

Users do not just post text — they share links. Every URL in user content is classified against our 102M-domain corpus for malware, phishing, adult content, gambling, and 700+ categories. A link to a scam site is just as much a policy violation as the text around it, and our API catches both in a single call.

By the numbers

Content moderation at production scale

Every metric is measured against production traffic, not synthetic benchmarks. These numbers reflect the real-world performance that platforms depend on to keep their users safe.

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Violation categories
<100ms
API response time
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Languages supported
99.9%
Uptime SLA
How it works

From submission to moderation decision in four steps

The Content Moderation API integrates into your existing content processing workflow with a single REST endpoint. Submit text or URLs, receive structured violation reports, and route flagged content according to your escalation rules.

1

Content ingestion

Submit text, URLs, or both via the real-time API endpoint. Batch mode processes thousands of items per request for archive moderation and backlog cleanup.

2

Multi-model analysis

Ensemble models evaluate content across 50+ violation categories simultaneously. URL content is classified against our 102M-domain corpus. Every detection receives a confidence score.

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Policy matching

Detections are compared against your configured thresholds per category. Auto-approve low-risk, auto-reject clear violations, and route borderline cases to human reviewers based on your rules.

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Action and audit

Structured response includes violations, scores, and recommended actions. Every decision is logged with the policy version active at processing time for regulatory audit trails.

Under the hood

How a moderation call works

When your application submits content, our pipeline evaluates it against every active policy in your configuration. The response includes all detected violations with confidence scores, severity levels, and the specific text spans that triggered each detection — so your moderation dashboard can highlight exactly what was flagged and why.

Because content can violate multiple policies simultaneously, our API returns all applicable violations rather than stopping at the first match. A single post can be flagged for hate speech, self-harm references, and a malicious URL at the same time, giving your moderation team the complete picture in one API call.

  • Real-time endpoint for live submissions and batch endpoint for archive processing
  • Confidence scores per violation for threshold-based auto-moderation
  • Text span highlighting shows exactly which phrases triggered each detection
  • URL analysis integrated via our 102M-domain classification corpus
  • Audit-ready timestamped logs with policy version tracking

Moderation pipeline

InputUser posts: “Check out this great deal...” + URL
Text scanScam language detected · Confidence: 87%
URL scanLink classified: Phishing · Risk: High
PolicyMatches: Scam (auto-reject) + Phishing (auto-reject)
Auto-rejected — user notified, incident logged for audit
Straight answers

Common concerns about automated moderation

Automated moderation has a mixed reputation. Some of these concerns are outdated; others require honest answers about what automation can and cannot do.

“Automated moderation will over-block legitimate content”

That is what happens with keyword-based filters. Our models understand context — a medical professional discussing self-harm treatment is not the same as content promoting self-harm. Configurable confidence thresholds let you set the sensitivity that matches your platform’s tolerance. Route borderline cases to human reviewers rather than auto-rejecting.

“We already have a trust and safety team”

Great — our API makes them effective at scale. Instead of reviewing everything, your team reviews what the model flagged as borderline. Clear violations are handled automatically. Clear approvals skip the queue entirely. Your team focuses on judgment calls, not volume — which is where human expertise actually matters.

“Moderation tools don’t work outside English”

Our models detect violations across 30+ languages natively, not through translation. Code-switching between languages within a single post is handled without separate processing. Platforms with global user bases face the highest regulatory scrutiny — monolingual moderation is not compliant, it is a gap in coverage.

“Users will just find workarounds”

Users always try to evade filters — leetspeak, homoglyphs, intentional misspellings, context manipulation. Our models are trained on adversarial examples and updated continuously as new evasion patterns emerge. More importantly, evasion attempts themselves are a signal: unusual character substitution patterns can trigger review even if the exact phrase is novel.

“We cannot afford the latency on real-time content”

Sub-100ms response time. A user posting a comment will not notice the moderation check because it completes before the page renders the success state. For chat applications where even 100ms matters, pre-screen against the most critical categories and run the full analysis asynchronously.

“Integration with our stack will take months”

It is a single REST endpoint. Submit text, get a JSON response with violations and scores. Most teams have a working integration within a day and production-grade routing within a week. The API handles the complexity — your side is a POST request and a switch statement on the response.
Questions

Content moderation, asked and answered

What content formats does the API support?
The Content Moderation API processes plain text and URLs in a single request. Text analysis detects policy violations in user-generated content, comments, reviews, chat messages, and any free-text input. URL analysis classifies linked domains against our 102M-domain corpus for malware, phishing, adult content, gambling, and 700+ additional categories. Both modalities are analyzed simultaneously, so you get a complete violation report in one API call.
How do I set moderation thresholds?
Every violation detection includes a confidence score from 0 to 1. You configure thresholds per category: for example, auto-reject hate speech above 0.9, route to human review between 0.6 and 0.9, and auto-approve below 0.6. Different thresholds for different categories let you be strict on CSAM (zero tolerance) while being more nuanced on potentially satirical content. Thresholds can differ by user segment, content type, or any other attribute your platform tracks.
Can I define custom violation categories?
Yes. Beyond our built-in 50+ categories, you can define custom policy rules specific to your platform. Marketplace platforms add counterfeit-product detection. Education platforms flag academic dishonesty signals. Gaming platforms define community-specific toxicity rules. Financial platforms catch investment scam patterns. Every custom rule gets the same confidence scoring, text-span highlighting, and audit logging as built-in categories.
What is the difference between real-time and batch processing?
The real-time endpoint processes individual submissions as they arrive — a comment being posted, a listing being created, a chat message being sent. Response time is under 100ms. The batch endpoint processes thousands of items per request and is designed for archive moderation: scanning your existing content library against new or updated policies, re-evaluating historical content when regulations change, or processing a backlog of queued items. Both endpoints return identical response structures.
How does the API handle evolving language and new slang?
Our models are retrained continuously on new data that includes emerging slang, evolving coded language, and novel evasion techniques. When a new term or pattern enters the hate-speech lexicon, it is incorporated into our training data and deployed without any action required on your part. The API version you call today is always running the latest model — no manual updates, no version management, no lag between a new threat pattern and your platform’s ability to detect it.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. We offer a 14-day free trial with full API access — no credit card required. You can also test the API immediately through our live demo, which runs against production models with real classification. Submit your own text and URLs to see exactly how the API evaluates them before committing to an integration.
How does content moderation work alongside website categorization?
The Content Moderation API and the Website Categorization API share the same underlying domain classification corpus. When users share links, the moderation API classifies the destination domain against 700+ categories and 102M+ classified domains. This means a link to a phishing site, an adult domain, or a known scam page is flagged just as reliably as hateful text — giving your moderation team a complete picture of user-submitted content, not just the words they typed.
What compliance standards does the API help us meet?
The API provides the automated detection and audit logging capabilities required by the EU Digital Services Act, UK Online Safety Act, Australia’s Online Safety Act, and similar legislation. Every moderation decision is timestamped and logged with the input, output, confidence scores, and the policy version active at processing time. This gives your legal team a reproducible audit trail showing exactly what was detected, when it was flagged, and what action was taken — the documentation regulators require when they review your moderation practices.

Test content moderation with your own data

Submit text or a URL to our live demo and see real-time violation detection with confidence scores. No sign-up, no credit card, no time limit.