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Hive Moderation
San Francisco, California, United States
What it is
Hive Moderation provides cloud-based APIs for moderating harmful content in images, video, text, and audio. Supported media include GIFs, WEBP, and live streams. Its Visual Moderation API covers more than 90 subclasses across major Trust and Safety categories in one response. Text Moderation detects explicit abuse, indirect threats, coded language, and evasive phrasing, with support for about 30 languages. An OCR model extracts text from memes, GIFs, screenshots, and other image-based content. Audio Moderation combines speech transcription and moderation, returning punctuated transcripts, word-level timestamps, confidence scores, and moderation results. Hive VLM applies prompt-defined policies to images, video, and text through one API, without retraining when policies change. The separate Moderation Dashboard supports custom rules and actions, spam management, reports, appeals, and manual review queues. It also includes tools intended to help with Digital Services Act compliance and NCMEC reporting. The Developers plan offers free credits after adding a payment method, then bills selected models pay-as-you-go; there is no free plan. Listed rates include $3.00 / 1000 Requests for Visual Moderation and $0.50 / 1000 Requests for Text Moderation.
For and against
For
- Visual Moderation covers 90-plus subclasses in one response.
- Text Moderation supports about 30 languages.
- Audio results include word-level timestamps and confidence scores.
- Dashboard includes appeals and manual review queues.
- Developers can access free credits after adding a payment method.
Against
- There is no free plan.
- Self-serve Text and Visual Moderation default to 100 requests per day.
- Visual Moderation costs $3.00 / 1000 Requests.
- Text Moderation costs $0.50 / 1000 Requests.
The verdict
Hive combines model-based moderation with dashboard workflows for rules, reports, appeals, and manual review. Check the per-use rates and default self-serve limits against your expected volume.
Who it suits
Hive Moderation suits platforms and developers that need automated content checks across several media types, configurable policies, or a manual review workflow.
Plans and prices
Developers
Selected models pay-as-you-go · access to 10+ Hive Models · default rate limits · AutoML custom-model training
Read 30 Sep 2026 · thehive.ai
Enterprise Plan
higher throughput · enterprise-only models · API access
Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.thehive.ai
Enterprise
All Hive Models and Moderation Dashboard · highest rate limits · premium expert support · multi-region support for high-volume deployments
Read 30 Sep 2026 · thehive.ai
On the record
- Accepted file formats
- Documented image formats are GIF, JPG, PNG and WEBP; video formats include MP4, WEBM, AVI, MKV, WMV and MOV; audio formats include FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV and M4A.docs.thehive.ai · read 14 Oct 2026
- AI-generated content detection
- Hive offers tools for detecting AI-generated and deepfake images and video, including a browser extension.hivemoderation.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- API availability
- Hive exposes cloud APIs with synchronous and asynchronous processing, real-time metadata and moderation signals.hivemoderation.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- API delivery
- Hive deploys its models through cloud-based APIs optimized for enterprise processing with real-time metadata and moderation signals.hivemoderation.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- API versions
- Documentation covers V2 authentication and V3 API-key usage through model playgrounds.docs.thehive.ai · read 14 Oct 2026
- Audio moderation
- The audio model combines transcription, unsafe-speech detection and language identification for uploaded and live audio.hivemoderation.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Child safety
- Hive says its products partner with Thorn and the IWF, and its Text Moderation model provides IWF keyword and URL list results at no extra cost.hivemoderation.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Company headquarters and founding
- LinkedIn lists Hive headquarters in San Francisco and the company’s founding year as 2013.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Hive’s terms identify the company as Castle Global, Inc. and include Hive Moderation among its services.thehive.ai · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company size and workforce
- LinkedIn describes more than 200 full-time employees and over five million distributed data-labeling contributors.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Compliance workflows
- The Moderation Dashboard includes tools intended to help platforms address Digital Services Act compliance and supports CSAM reporting through NCMEC integration.hivemoderation.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Core function
- Hive provides AI-powered moderation for harmful content across images, video, text, and audio.hivemoderation.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment model
- Hive describes its moderation models as cloud-based APIs and does not document a self-hosted deployment option on the getting-started page.hivemoderation.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Developer documentation
- The documentation includes API reference links, upload formats, CSV submission, callbacks, task export, model updates and account permissions.docs.thehive.ai · read 14 Oct 2026
- Format limitation
- Some video formats may process successfully but may not play in all browsers and do not work with human-labeling projects.docs.thehive.ai · read 14 Oct 2026
- Funding
- LinkedIn says Hive has raised more than $120 million; TechCrunch reported an $85 million raise in April 2021 at a $2 billion valuation.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The dashboard includes NCMEC reporting, and Hive describes partnerships with Thorn and the IWF for child-safety detection.hivemoderation.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- IP and publicity detection
- Hive detects possible misuse of copyrighted media, logos, fictional characters, public figures and celebrity likenesses.hivemoderation.com · read 14 Oct 2026
