Comparison

Vettly vs Bodyguard

Bodyguard offers managed comment moderation tuned for media and brand accounts. Vettly is moderation infrastructure for any product surface - chat, marketplace, video - with the API and dashboards you need to control it.

Capability
Vettly
Bodyguard
Coverage
Text + images + video (multi-modal)
Text comments (image add-on)
Dashboards & audit trails
Full decision history, evidence, appeals
Hosted comment moderation UI
Webhooks & retries
Yes, with HMAC + delivery logs
Limited
Policy control
Prebuilt + custom YAML policies, versioned
Configured by Bodyguard
Provider flexibility
OpenAI, Perspective, Hive, Azure - switch without code changes
Proprietary
Human review & appeals
Included (queue, approvals, notes)
Managed service
Latency
<300ms typical text; async for video
Real-time on comments
Pricing
Developer plan: 2k text + 100 images + 25 videos/mo
Sales-led pricing
App Store compliance
Meets Guideline 1.2 (filtering, reporting, blocking, audit trails)
Not addressed

Why choose Vettly

  • • Built for any UGC surface, not just comments
  • • Image and video coverage in the same API
  • • Self-serve pricing and onboarding
  • • YAML policies you can review and version

When Bodyguard fits

  • • You only moderate brand-owned comment threads
  • • You want a managed service that owns the workflow

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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Ship moderation in minutes

Start with the Developer plan and get text, image, and video decisions in one API. Switch providers or run side-by-side with Bodyguard as you scale.

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