Reality Defender Launches Free Access to Deepfake Detection API

For the past few years at Reality Defender, we've been on the front lines of the battle against deepfakes, protecting Fortune 500 companies and government agencies from increasingly sophisticated AI-generated deception. We built detection systems that catch deepfakes others miss, earning recognition like the RSA Innovation Award along the way.

Yet every success story came with a nagging question: What about everyone else?

Today marks a pivotal moment in our mission to enable trust in an AI-powered world. We are proud to publicly launch Reality Defender's public developer API and SDK with a free tier offering 50 detections per month. Any developer, anywhere, can now integrate enterprise-grade deepfake detection into their applications with just two lines of code.

This isn't just about opening up our API. It's about fundamentally changing how the developer community defends against digital deception.

Why an API, and Why Today

We were early when we founded Reality Defender, but right on time when it mattered most. Deepfakes were evolving from novelty to weapon – tools that could cost businesses millions in fraud or destroy reputations in minutes. We built enterprise-grade detection capabilities that major institutions rely on daily.

As we worked to integrate our platform into call centers and web conferencing platforms, we realized something crucial: protection should be anywhere and everywhere possible, and it shouldn't solely be reserved for those with enterprise budgets.

When a single deepfake can devastate a startup or manipulate a local election, detection needs to be everywhere, embedded in every app, accessible to every developer, and protecting every user. This is why we've made integrating our enterprise-grade deepfake detection as simple as possible.

Two Lines of Code

That's all it takes to add the same multi-model detection capabilities that protect Fortune 500 companies to your application. Currently supporting audio and image detection, we'll be expanding to video and other modalities in the coming months.

We designed this API with real-world use cases in mind:

• OSINT researchers and journalists verifying content authenticity
• Trust and safety teams combating AI-powered fraud
• Financial services preventing sophisticated social engineering attacks
• Brand protection teams identifying synthetic content before it goes viral
• Legal professionals ensuring evidence integrity

Whether you are a solo developer building the next fact-checking tool or a startup creating trust infrastructure for the AI age, you now have access to the same detection capabilities as our enterprise clients — and the first 50 detections each month are free.

Our new API also introduces something the Reality Defender has been particularly excited about: context-aware detection that looks beyond just faces. Our proprietary techniques analyze the entire image, holistically marrying multiple types of common and novel approaches to classification and detection to consider the image as a whole and catch sophisticated deepfakes that other systems miss. This makes our deepfake detection no longer just for catching impersonations, but many other types of deepfakes in the wild.

Building a Distributed Defense Network

By launching this API, we are no longer simply offering a platform; we are building the start of a distributed defense network.

Every developer integrating our API becomes part of a global shield against AI deception. This brings us closer to a world where detecting deepfakes is as routine as filtering spam. Where every communication platform, every content management system, every social app has deepfake detection built in.

This is the future we're building toward. And this is several giant steps forward towards making it a reality.

Get Started Today

The API and free tier are available immediately at realitydefender.com/api. Here, you can find comprehensive documentation, SDKs, and example implementations to get you started.

We made this API production-ready from day one because this is not a beta test — it's a call to action. The tools to impersonate are evolving daily. The tools to detect must be everywhere and then some.

Join us today in building a more trustworthy digital world, two lines of code at a time.