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Content Moderation:Product overview

Last Updated:Aug 05, 2025

Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation is a leading service in the field of content moderation. It is built on Alibaba's extensive security expertise and combines content administration experience from platforms in diverse sectors, such as e-commerce, community, and payment, with advanced AI algorithms and cloud computing infrastructure. The service provides businesses and developers with mature, stable, and out-of-the-box Content Moderation solutions. These solutions help you quickly detect various risks in text, images, videos, voice, and documents in the complex and ever-changing internet environment to help you improve your platform's content quality and user experience.

Product features

The content detection algorithm models have been trained on extensive samples and have undergone diverse evaluations. They are also continuously iterated and upgraded daily. The out-of-the-box model allows enterprises and developers to quickly obtain automated content moderation capabilities. In addition, we provide systematic methods and processes to support custom requirements such as algorithm model adjustments, optimization for specific detection targets, and optimization of detection thresholds.

Currently, the core features of Content Moderation include three components: the Content Moderation API, and the console.

  • Content Moderation API

    The Content Moderation API detects content by calling Alibaba Cloud interfaces. It detects and identifies whether text, images, videos, voices, and documents contain pornography, politically sensitive content, violence, horror, inappropriate advertising, spam, or undesirable content. It is applicable to business scenarios with public-facing content, such as video websites, live streaming platforms, social platforms, media platforms, vertical communities, forums, e-commerce websites, storage services, CDN platforms, and AIGC products.

  • Console

    For the two detection methods mentioned above, Content Moderation provides the Alibaba Cloud Management Console to meet analysis and control needs, such as data statistics, content moderation analysis, personalized control configuration, and risk library management. This feature is suitable for users who need analysis, have different detection requirements for multiple scenarios, or require personalized control and management.

Relationship between Content Moderation 2.0 and 1.0

Content Moderation 2.0 is a new content moderation product. Compared to Content Moderation 1.0, it has preset common business scenarios and is optimized for product effectiveness, label richness, configuration flexibility, and price.

Capability comparison between Content Moderation Enhanced Edition and 1.0

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Content Moderation 2.0

Content Moderation 1.0

Billing method and pricing

  • Image

    Billing formula: Fee = Number of images × Number of business scenarios × Unit price of business scenario

    Pay-as-you-go: Starts from USD 0.6 per 1,000 images, which is approximately 48% of the price of version 1.0

  • Text

    Billing formula: Fee = Number of text entries × Number of business scenarios × Unit price of business scenario

    Pay-as-you-go: Starts from USD 0.3 per 1,000 calls, which is approximately 60% of the price of version 1.0

  • Voice

    Billing formula: Fee = Audio duration in minutes × Number of business scenarios × Unit price of business scenario

    Pay-as-you-go: USD 9 per 1,000 minutes

  • Video

    Billing formula: Fee = Number of video snapshots × Number of business scenarios × Unit price of business scenario + Video duration in minutes × Number of voice scenarios × Unit price of voice

    Pay-as-you-go: Starts from USD 0.6 per 1,000 calls for video snapshots, and USD 8.1 per 1,000 minutes, which is approximately 34% of the price of version 1.0 for video audio

Note

For more information about the pricing of Content Moderation 2.0, see Content Moderation Pricing.

  • Image

    Billing formula: Fee = Number of images × Number of threat scenarios × Unit price of scenario

  • Text

    Billing formula: Fee = Number of text entries × Number of threat scenarios × Unit price of scenario

  • Video

    Billing formula: Fee = Number of video snapshots × Number of threat scenarios × Unit price of threat scenario

Note

For more information about the pricing of Content Moderation 1.0, see Content Moderation Pricing.

Detection configuration

Detection scope (10+ major categories)

Custom libraries

Detection scope (5+ major categories)

Custom libraries

Default capacity

  • Image: 100 QPS

  • Text: 100 QPS

  • Voice: 50 ingest endpoints

  • Video: 50 ingest endpoints

  • Document: 20 ingest endpoints

  • Image: 50 QPS

  • Text: 100 QPS

  • Video: 20 ingest endpoints

Scenario modality

Modality: Image, text, voice, video

Preset business scenarios: common baseline, social entertainment live streaming, audio and video media, and more

Modality: Image, text, video

Preset business scenario: General

Detection results

Interpretable labels (50+, multiple violation labels can be returned simultaneously)

Confidence score

Interpretable labels (40+, only one violation label can be returned)

Suggested action

Activation and billing

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Content Moderation 2.0

Content Moderation 1.0

Pay-as-you-go

The pay-as-you-go billing method for Content Moderation 2.0 meters and bills based on different content types (such as images, text, and voices) and detection volume. For the same content, when multiple threat scenarios are detected simultaneously, the cost is 50% to 70% lower than that of version 1.0 under the same usage conditions.

The pay-as-you-go billing method for Content Moderation 1.0 meters and bills based on the specific type of detected content (such as images, text, videos, ), detection scenarios (including but not limited to image pornography detection, image QR code detection, and text anti-spam), daily scan volume tiers, the suggested action after algorithm detection (for example, review, block, or pass), and the region used for content detection (for example, China (Shanghai)).