The deepfake detection market, mapped by Gartner®
Reality Defender named as a Market Shaper in its first Emerging Market Quadrant for Deepfake Detection — Startup Vendors, as of June 2026.
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Five years ago, faking a voice or a face convincingly took a team of experts and serious computing power. Now it's quick and cheap, and it's reaching the workflows where enterprise decisions get made:
- Synthetic voices clear contact center checks
- Synthetic identities move through hiring pipelines
- Deepfaked executives approve transfers that move real money
In our view, this Gartner report gives security, fraud, and risk leaders a dedicated framework for responding. It assesses startup vendors in the emerging deepfake detection market on scale, ecosystem readiness, and potential to disrupt. Reality Defender is named a Market Shaper, as of June 2026.
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Sources: Gartner, Emerging Market Quadrant for Deepfake Detection — Startup Vendors, By Apeksha Kaushik, Alfredo Ramirez IV, Akif Khan, David Senf, 25 June 2026. Gartner, AI Vendor Race: Reality Defender Is the Company to Beat in Deepfake Detection, Apeksha Kaushik and Alfredo Ramirez IV, 7 May 2026. Gartner is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.