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AI Guardrails:Image Moderation Enhanced Edition 2.0: features and billing

Last Updated:Mar 18, 2026

This topic describes the features and billing model for Image Moderation Enhanced Edition 2.0.

1. Introduction to Image Moderation Enhanced Edition 2.0

Features

The Image Moderation Enhanced Edition 2.0 API detects content or elements in images that violate online content dissemination regulations, disrupt platform content order, or degrade user experience. It supports 40+ content risk tags and 40+ risk control items. Using AI Guardrails’s Image Moderation Enhanced Edition 2.0, you can apply additional review or administration measures for specific images—based on industry-specific norms or platform content governance rules—using the rich set of risk tags and confidence scores returned by the API.

Version comparison

Compared with Image Moderation 1.0, Image Moderation Enhanced Edition 2.0 provides broader risk coverage, more granular risk labels, and more comprehensive and flexible console configuration options.

Comparison item

Image Moderation2.0

Image Moderation 1.0

Default QPS

Non-large-model version: 100

Large-model version: 50

50

Risk detection scope

  • Baseline Check: Detects pornography (including text-image pornography), sexy content, terrorist content (including text-image terrorist content), prohibited content (including text-image prohibited content), flags, inappropriate content, abuse, and special elements.

  • Image Moderation for Large and Small Model Integration: Combines large-model and expert-model capabilities to detect pornography, sexy content, politically sensitive content, terrorist content, prohibited content, religious content, advertising traffic diversion, and inappropriate content.

  • AIGC image detection: Determines whether an image is likely generated by AIGC.

Pornography, politically sensitive and terrorist content, text-image violations, inappropriate scenes, special logos, QR codes

Risk detection labels

100+

Note

For a full list of labels, see the Risk label interpretation table.

40+

Note

For a full list of labels, see label.

Console

  1. Configure detection items

  2. Set up custom image libraries

  3. Set up custom dictionaries

  4. Copy services (for multiple business needs)

  5. Query results for up to 30 days

Note

For more information, see the Console operation guide.

  1. Configure detection items

  2. Set up custom image libraries

  3. Query results for up to 7 days

Supported image formats

PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP, WEBP, TIFF, SVG, GIF, ICO, HEIC

PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, WEBP

Billing

Billed per service. Each service detects multiple risks simultaneously.

Cost = Number of images × Number of services

Billed separately for the following services:

  • Baseline Check

  • Image Moderation for Large and Small Model Integration

  • AIGC image detection

Billing is based on threat scenarios (scene).

Billed per risk scenario (scene). Cost = Number of images × Number of risk scenarios

Billed separately for the following risk scenarios:

  • Image pornography detection

  • Politically sensitive and terrorist content

  • Text-image violations

  • Inappropriate scenes

  • Special logos

  • QR codes

Services

Image Moderation V2.0 supports the following services:

Scenario

Service

Detection content

Applicable scenarios

General-purpose scenarios

Baseline Check (baselineCheck_global)

Detects pornography, sexually explicit content, terrorist content, prohibited content, flags, inappropriate content, abuse, and special elements in images. Includes both visual content and embedded text in 18 languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Arabic, Filipino, Hindi, Türkiye, Russian, Italian, and Dutch. For a full list of detectable items, see the AI Guardrails Console.

Use this service to detect whether images contain noncompliant or unsuitable content. Apply it to all images exposed to the public internet.

Large model moderation

Image Moderation for Large and Small Model Integration (postImageCheckByVL_global)

Combines large-model and expert-model capabilities to detect pornography, sexually explicit content, politically sensitive content, terrorist content, prohibited content, religious content, flags, advertising traffic diversion, inappropriate content, abuse, and other violations. Returns detailed labels. For a full list of detectable items, see the AI Guardrails Console.

Use this service when high accuracy is required. For more information, see Large model-based image moderation enhanced service.

AIGC scenarios

AIGC image detection (aigcDetector_global)

Determines whether an input image is likely AI-generated.

Use this service to determine whether images are AI-generated. Apply it to tag image sources. For more information, see Image Moderation Enhanced 2.0 AIGC scenario detection service.

2. Billing

Pay-as-you-go

After you enable Image Moderation Enhanced Edition 2.0, pay-as-you-go is the default billing method. You are not charged if you do not call the service. The following table lists the pricing for the Image Moderation Enhanced Edition 2.0 API.

Moderation type

Supported business scenarios (services)

Unit price

Standard image moderation (image_standard)

  • Baseline Check: baselineCheck_global

  • Global AIGC Image Identification: aigcDetector_global

0.6 USD per 1,000 calls

Note

One call to Baseline Check counts as one billing unit. For example, 100 calls cost 0.06 USD.

Advanced image moderation (image_advanced)

  • Global Large and Small Model Integration Image Moderation: postImageCheckByVL_global

1.2 USD per 1,000 calls

Note

You are charged for each invocation of the general baseline detection service. For example, 100 invocations of the large and small model fusion image moderation service cost 0.12 USD.

Note

The billing frequency for AI Guardrails Enhanced Edition 2.0 pay-as-you-go instances is once every 24 hours. In the billing detail report, the moderationType field corresponds to the moderation type field described earlier. You can view Billing Details.

3. Usage

Integration

Image Moderation Enhanced Edition supports SDK integration and native HTTPS integration:

Console operations

  • When using the service for the first time, configure your image moderation policy in the AI Guardrails Console.

  • You can modify the detection scope, configure differentiated policies for different businesses, set up custom image libraries and custom dictionaries, view call results, and query usage in the console.

  • You can perform visual effect testing in the console. Run effect testing after adjusting your moderation policy.

For step-by-step instructions, see the Console operation guide.