Tabu
An API that detects nudity and explicit content in images and videos in under 200ms, with tiered usage-based pricing.
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Description
Any app that lets users upload photos or videos eventually has to deal with someone uploading something it shouldn't — and building that detection system yourself means training models, handling edge cases, and keeping up with app store rules. Tabu is an API that does that job for you: send it an image or video, and within about 200 milliseconds it tells you whether it contains nudity, pornography, or other explicit content, so you can block or flag it automatically.
It's built with app store compliance and digital regulations (like the EU's Digital Services Act) in mind, offering auto-generated DSA compliance reports, a human-in-the-loop manual review queue for borderline cases, and webhooks for real-time alerts. It claims a privacy-first, zero-data-retention architecture — content is analyzed and not kept. Pricing is tiered by usage: free up to 5,000 operations/month, then $29 (50k ops), $79 (250k ops), and $199/month (1M ops), with custom enterprise pricing above that.
💬 Our review
The short version: a focused, developer-friendly content moderation API with clear, published pricing — a reasonable pick for an indie developer or small platform that needs NSFW detection without building it from scratch.
It competes directly with established, larger players — AWS Rekognition, Google Cloud Vision, Sightengine, and Hive Moderation — all of which offer broader content-moderation capabilities (violence, hate symbols, weapons, not just explicit content) as part of bigger cloud ecosystems. Tabu's edge for a small team is simplicity and transparent self-serve pricing versus AWS/Google's more complex, harder-to-estimate cloud pricing; its narrower category coverage (5 categories, focused on explicit content) is the trade-off. Worth it if explicit-content detection is your main need and you want fast setup; if you need broader moderation categories, Hive or Sightengine are worth comparing first.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit jusqu'à 5000 opérations/mois, puis 29$ à 199$/mois selon le volume, entreprise sur devis.
Pros
Latence sous 200ms, tarification par palier claire et publique
Rapports de conformité DSA générés automatiquement
File de revue humaine pour les cas limites
Politique de zéro rétention des données
Cons
Couverture de catégories plus limitée que AWS Rekognition ou Hive Moderation
Politique de zéro rétention non auditable indépendamment
Fournisseur récent face à des services cloud établis