What is Reality Defender?

Reality Defender is a deepfake detection service sold as an API with SDKs, a web app called RealScan, and enterprise deployments. The vendor says its detection models are AI-based classifiers that return a probability score for whether audio, image or video is AI-generated or manipulated.

Who it's for

Developers and security, fraud and trust-and-safety teams that need to check media for synthetic content; the vendor lists call center fraud, hiring, identity verification, executive impersonation and media verification as use cases. The vendor says the tool does not verify identity or fact-check content, and that the final judgment about the media stays with the analyst.

Pros & cons

Strengths

The vendor lists a Free plan at $0 with 50 audio or image scans a month, no credit card required.
The vendor lists SDKs in Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust and Java, plus a REST API over HTTPS, and says all SDK variants are open source.
Results are labeled Authentic, Suspicious or Manipulated with explainable indicators, and the web app exports reports as PDF.
Enterprise lists on-premises, private cloud, containerized and air-gapped deployment options, plus Zoom, Teams, Webex and contact center integrations and a Chrome extension.
The web app accepts files, social media video links and text (a 200-word minimum is stated for text), and the vendor lists audio support in eight languages, including English and Spanish.

Limitations

The Free plan covers image and audio only and is capped at 50 scans a month; video starts on the paid Business plan, and text is listed only for Enterprise with no specifications.
Vendor pages disagree on plan details: the product page lists Free with up to 3 seats and a Business plan at $399 with annual billing for 1,000 scans a month; an older campaign page lists one seat for Free and a Growth plan from $399 a month with 50+ scans; a help article lists a Developer plan with 1,000 scans a month and Free scans that include text.
Listed media limits: audio up to 100MB and 12 seconds to 5 minutes, images up to 10MB, video up to 250MB (formats such as wav, mp3, jpg, png, mp4, mov).
Enterprise pricing is custom and sold through sales. Business is limited to 1 seat, and the pages read do not state how long uploaded media is retained or whether it is used for model training.
Reported (not re-verified this session): the vendor's data processing addendum says personal data is retained as needed to deliver the service and deleted or returned on request or at contract end.

Plans and pricing

Free: $0. 50 image or audio scans a month, up to 3 seats per the product page (1 seat per an older page), result score, no credit card.
Business (earlier called Growth or Developer): $399 with annual billing. 1,000 scans a month, 1 seat, unlimited API keys, audio, image and video.
Enterprise: Custom. Custom scan volume, unlimited seats, text, livestreaming, explainability, integrations, Chrome extension, on-premises or air-gapped options, dedicated support.

Prices were read from the vendor's RealAPI and RealScan product pages in US dollars. The official /pricing page could not be fetched, and the exact monthly-versus-annual wording for $399 is 'with annual billing', so Confirm on the live pricing page. Older vendor pages use different plan names and scan counts.

Details checked October 2026 against the vendor's own pages. Prices and limits change, so confirm before you buy. Official pricing page ↗

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