Comparison

Vettly vs Google Cloud Vision SafeSearch

Google Cloud Vision SafeSearch returns likelihood scores for adult, spoof, medical, violence, and racy content. Vettly turns those signals into product decisions with policies, actions, dashboards, and appeals - and adds text and video.

Capability
Vettly
Google Cloud Vision
Coverage
Text + images + video (multi-modal)
Image SafeSearch only
Dashboards & audit trails
Full decision history, evidence, appeals
Cloud Console (general)
Webhooks & retries
Yes, with HMAC + delivery logs
Pub/Sub plumbing required
Policy control
Prebuilt + custom YAML policies, versioned
Likelihood thresholds you implement
Provider flexibility
OpenAI, Perspective, Hive, Azure - switch without code changes
Google models only
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-image, scales
App Store compliance
Meets Guideline 1.2 (filtering, reporting, blocking, audit trails)
Not addressed

Why choose Vettly

  • • One API for text, image, and video moderation decisions
  • • Built-in dashboards, evidence, audit trails, and appeals
  • • Versioned YAML policies you can review like code
  • • Provider switchboard - keep Google for some categories if you want

When Google Cloud Vision fits

  • • You only need image SafeSearch scores and will build the workflow yourself
  • • You are deeply invested in Google Cloud and want one vendor

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 Google Cloud Vision as you scale.

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