Azure AI Content Safety
Detects and filters harmful, offensive, or inappropriate content in text and images using AI models. · Azure · AI
Overview
Azure AI Content Safety provides AI-powered moderation for text and images, helping developers automatically detect and filter harmful or inappropriate content at scale. The free (F0) tier covers 5,000 text records and 5,000 images per month; usage simply stops once you hit the limit rather than billing you.
Good fit
Use when you need to automatically detect and filter harmful or inappropriate content in user-generated text or images.
- moderating forums
- chat applications
- social platforms
Not a fit
Avoid if you require moderation for video, audio, or need an on-premises solution; not ideal for extremely high-volume, cost-sensitive use cases.
- requiring offline moderation
- needing video/audio analysis
- strict cost controls
Quickstart · 5 steps
- Sign in to the Azure portal and create an AI Content Safety resource.
- Obtain your API key and endpoint from the resource overview.
- Install the Azure AI Content Safety SDK or use the REST API.
- Send sample text or image data to the API for moderation.
- Review moderation results and integrate into your application workflow.
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