The developer-first content moderation API

Moderate text, images, and video in a single API call. Ship with built-in reporting, blocking, appeals, and audit trails.Production-ready in minutes, not quarters.

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15,000 decisions/mo free • No credit card required

Policy versioning
Appeals workflow
Decision replay
Compliance exports
LIFECYCLE ARCHITECTURE

Every decision is traceable, contestable, and replayable

A regex gives you a yes/no. An LLM gives you a score. Vettly gives you a complete decision record that tracks policy version, appeal outcome, and retention status so you're always ready for moderation reviews.

STEP 01

Intake

Content & context

STEP 02

Evaluation

Policy applied

STEP 03

Action

Decision made

STEP 04

Storage

Securely pinned

STEP 05

Review

Appeals handled

STEP 06

Audit

Fully searchable

DEVELOPER FIRST

Three integration steps. Six workflows behind the scenes.

You integrate three simple endpoints. Vettly handles filtering, reporting, blocking, appeals, audit trails, and policy versioning for you.

1. Add one moderation call

Call the /v1/check endpoint before content is published.

Policy evaluation, graduated actions, category scoring, and full decision logging.

2. Turn on report + block

Enable user reporting and blocking endpoints.

Report routing, resolution tracking, mutual-block enforcement, and appeals workflow.

3. Ship with audit evidence

Every decision logged with the policy version that produced it.

Decision replay, compliance exports, retention rules, and searchable history.
Read the Documentation
api/content/check.ts
import { Vettly } from '@vettly/sdk';

// Initialize the SDK
const vettly = new Vettly(process.env.VETTLY_API_KEY);

// Block toxic content before it hits your DB
const decision = await vettly.check({
  content: { text: "Hello world", type: "text" },
  user_id: "usr_123",
  policy_id: "pol_strict_v2"
});

if (decision.action === "block") {
  return res.status(400).json({ 
    error: "Content violates community standards",
    reason: decision.flags[0]
  });
}
BUILT WITH VETTLY

Real products. Same developer platform.

Family and Discord are products we built on Vettly. They exercise the moderation decisions, policy controls, and review workflows available to teams through the API.

Family safety

Vettly Family

A parent-and-teen safety experience built on Vettly's moderation decisions, focused review context, and traceable actions.

Focused signalsReview contextTraceable decisions
See what we builtwith Vettly Family
Community moderation

Vettly Discord

A community bot that turns Vettly decisions into channel actions, moderator logs, and human review when a case needs judgment.

Chat + mediaPolicy actionsDecision logs
See what we builtwith Vettly Discord

Want the primitives behind both products?

Build with Vettly
USE CASES

Built for teams shipping UGC.

Define your content policy in plain English. Vettly enforces it across text, images, and video with decisions your team can trace, explain, and absolutely defend.

Social & Community
▾
Social & Community

Chat, comments, and user profiles. Filter text and images before they appear, add report buttons, and let users block each other with a single integration.

  • Chat messages & comments
  • User profiles & bios
  • Photo & video sharing
Marketplaces
▾
AI & Chatbots
▾
Kids & EdTech
▾
INTERACTIVE PLAYGROUND

See it in action

Edit the text, run Analyze, and see the real API response processing through our policy engine in milliseconds.

request.content.text
policy.yaml
name: community-safe
version: "1.0"
rules:
  - category: hate_speech
    threshold: 0.6
    action: block
  - category: harassment
    threshold: 0.6
    action: flag
  - category: violence
    threshold: 0.7
    action: warn
  - category: spam
    threshold: 0.5
    action: flag
response.json()
{
  "decisionId": "dec_xxxxxxxx",
  "action": "allow",
  "safe": true,
  "policyVersion": "[email protected]",
  "categories": [],
  "latency_ms": "---"
}

Behind the Scenes

Evidence Retained
Appeal / Review
Audit
Export
Replay
SCALE WITH VETTLY

Simple, predictable pricing.

Start free. Upgrade when you need more volume, longer decision history, or advanced policy workflows.

Free

Enough for a 5,000-user app

$0forever
  • 15,000 decisions / month
  • Text, images & video
  • Starter policy templates
  • Decision IDs & audit trail
  • 24-hour decision history

Starter

Ship your MVP securely

$19/month
  • 100,000 decisions / month
  • Everything in Free
  • 1-year decision history
  • Custom policy rules
  • Decision webhooks
BEST VALUE

Growth

Ship publicly with protection

$49/month
  • 300,000 decisions / month
  • Everything in Starter
  • Spam & scam detection
  • Advanced risk controls
  • 3-year moderation logs

Pricing is simple: All plans include fully-searchable decision IDs, policy versioning, and our rigorous audit trail.

Overage pricing (all paid plans): text $0.0001/unit · image $0.001/unit · video $0.01/unit. Billed monthly.