Hive
APIs for moderating, detecting, understanding, searching, translating, and generating media content.
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About Hive
Hive gives developers API access to pre-trained models for understanding, searching, moderating, translating, and generating media. The catalog covers visual, text, audio, and OCR moderation, plus detection for AI-generated images, video, deepfakes, and audio. It also includes object, scene, logo, face, and identity analysis, media search, speech transcription, text translation, generative media, and custom model training. That range makes Hive relevant to trust and safety teams, media platforms, brands, agencies, and dating services processing content at scale. Listed models use usage-based pricing. Higher limits, full model access, the moderation dashboard, multi-region support, and premium support come through custom enterprise pricing. Using one vendor for several workflows can simplify integration, but teams still have to estimate costs model by model because request prices and limits differ.
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Best use cases
A service checks uploaded media with moderation models before staff inspect content that needs attention.
An authenticity workflow checks images, video, or audio for signs of AI generation and deepfake manipulation.
A media library adds object detection, reverse image search, transcription, or translation to improve discovery.
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Broader model coverage can reduce the need to integrate separate vendors for moderation, detection, search, and translation.
Usage-based model pricing suits variable traffic, but costs require request-level forecasting across each selected capability.
Enterprise packaging adds the dashboard, high rate limits, support, and multi-region deployment through custom pricing.
Features
Content moderation
Flag unsafe or sensitive visual, text, audio, and OCR content in platform review workflows.
AI content detection
Classify AI-generated images, deepfakes, videos, and audio as part of authenticity checks.
Media understanding
Detect objects, scenes, logos, faces, and other attributes for search, measurement, and analysis.
Search and translation
Add media search, reverse image search, speech transcription, and text translation to applications.
Pros
- One API catalog spans moderation, AI-content detection, search, translation, generation, and media analysis.
- Usage-based pricing lets teams pay for listed model requests instead of committing to a single fixed subscription.
- Enterprise access includes the moderation dashboard, high rate limits, premium support, and multi-region support.
Cons
- Request costs vary by model, so teams with several workflows need a model-by-model traffic forecast.
- The listed Visual Moderation tier has a 100-request daily limit, which is restrictive for production traffic.
- Higher limits and the Enterprise package require sales contact, reducing price visibility during early evaluation.
Pricing Plans
Visual Moderation
- Flags sensitive or unsafe visuals
- Limit of 100 requests per day
- Higher limits available through sales
Enterprise
- Access to all Hive models and the moderation dashboard
- Highest rate limits
- Premium support
- Multi-region support for high-volume deployments
* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on Hive's official website.