Comparison

Sightengine Alternative: Vettly vs Sightengine

Sightengine is strong at image and video classification. Vettly keeps that detection quality and adds text, dashboards, audit trails, appeals, and policy control - so you ship a moderation product, not just a classifier.

Vettly vs Sightengine

Capability
Vettly
Sightengine
Coverage
Text + images + video (multi-modal)
Image + video (text via separate API)
Dashboards & audit trails
Full decision history, evidence, appeals
Detection results, no full review workflow
Webhooks & retries
Yes, with HMAC + delivery logs
Async results only
Policy control
Prebuilt + custom YAML policies, versioned
Threshold tuning per category
Provider flexibility
OpenAI, Perspective, Hive, Azure - switch without code changes
Single proprietary model
Human review & appeals
Included (queue, approvals, notes)
Build your own
Latency
<300ms typical text; async for video
Fast image checks
Pricing
Developer plan: 2k text + 100 images + 25 videos/mo
Per-call, scales steeply
App Store compliance
Meets Guideline 1.2 (filtering, reporting, blocking, audit trails)
Not addressed

Why choose Vettly

  • • One API and one schema for text, image, and video
  • • Built-in audit trails, appeals, and human review
  • • YAML policies versioned alongside your code
  • • Provider switchboard (route to OpenAI, Hive, or Azure when needed)

When Sightengine fits

  • • You only need image classification with no review workflow
  • • You already own a moderation product and want a detection model
  • • You do not need text moderation in the same pipeline

Shipping an iOS app?

Vettly covers every App Store Guideline 1.2 requirement out of the box: content filtering, user reporting, user blocking, and audit trails.

See the compliance checklist →

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Start with 15,000 free decisions per month and get text, image, and video decisions in one API. Switch providers or run side-by-side with Sightengine as you scale.

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