Comparison

Vettly vs Building In-House

Building moderation means integrating providers, managing evidence, dashboards, webhooks, appeals, and policy versioning - then maintaining it. Vettly ships the whole stack in minutes with multi-modal coverage and provider flexibility.

Capability
Vettly
Build In-House
Time to launch
Minutes to live (SDK + dashboard)
3–6 weeks engineering
Coverage
Text + images + video
You build/maintain each modality
Dashboards & audit trails
Included (decisions, evidence, appeals)
Custom build
Webhooks & retries
Included with delivery logs
Custom build
Policy control
Prebuilt + custom YAML, versioned
Design + maintain policies, versioning
Provider flexibility
Switch OpenAI/Perspective/Hive/Azure in UI
Integrate and failover yourself
Human review
Built-in queue and actions
Build UI + workflows
Cost
Subscription with included usage
Engineering + infra + provider bills

Why choose Vettly

  • • Multi-modal and multi-provider on day one
  • • Dashboards, audit trails, evidence, and appeals included
  • • Webhooks with retries, HMAC, delivery logs
  • • Zero time sunk into infra, queues, or policy plumbing

When in-house makes sense

  • • Extremely bespoke needs with large dedicated teams
  • • You must self-host every component for compliance
  • • You can staff ongoing provider/infra maintenance

Ship moderation now

Avoid months of build time - plug in Vettly, keep provider choice, and get dashboards, evidence, and appeals out of the box.

Start with Developer - 2k text + 100 images + 25 videos