Crowdee

Crowdee is a content-verification platform that combines automated checks with independent crowd review. It is built for newsrooms, compliance teams, and AI researchers that need documented verdicts across different media. Its breadth and evidence exports are compelling, but the free demo is too limited for routine work.

Overview

Checks can cover text, URLs, claims, account handles, documents, articles, social posts, images, audio, and video. Crowdee’s blend of automation and human review makes it more relevant to teams building verification into editorial or compliance workflows than to people who only need an occasional fact-check.

The platform’s background in a research collaboration involving Deutsche Welle, RBB, DFKI, Fraunhofer IDMT, and others gives context to its news-verification focus. Crowdee GmbH is based in Berlin.

Key features

The 14 verification pipelines span image, audio, video, text and documents, social and web context, identity, and multi-file checks. Claim detection, citation links, and assisted fact-checking support structured assessments; scheduled pipelines and API access can suit recurring workloads. The range is a strength for mixed-media teams, though users seeking only a simple text lookup may not need this breadth.

More than one million screened crowd workers can provide independent verdicts, inter-rater agreement, and qualitative reasoning. That can add a human perspective when an automated result is not enough, but managed human review costs €15 per worker-hour and is arranged through the custom-priced Managed Campaigns plan.

Evidence and reviewer feedback can be exported as a PDF dossier for editorial or legal review. Pay-as-you-go also includes JSON export, giving teams a machine-readable option alongside the report.

Crowdee says customer content and outputs are not used to train its foundation models, and that it contractually requires third-party AI providers not to train on them. It signs an Article 28 GDPR data-processing agreement before processing customer data on a customer’s behalf. Its website, dashboards, databases, and self-hosted Matomo analytics are hosted on dedicated servers in German data centres; automation hardware is operated in Berlin.

Pricing

Free costs nothing, with no credit card required. The demo allows one image verification per IP address every 24 hours and uploads up to 10 MB; it returns a verdict, confidence score, and supporting indicators. Community support is included. This is enough to sample an image check, not to assess a broader verification workflow.

Pay-as-you-go costs €0.05, paid once, billed in credits with no commitment. It includes all AI pipelines, REST API access, bulk uploads and batch processing, PDF and JSON dossier exports, and standard email support. This is the clearest route for teams that need ongoing automated checks without a custom contract, but the per-use price makes volume an important consideration.

Managed Campaigns has custom pricing, scoped per project. It adds custom survey templates and quality gates, crowd-assisted review at €15 per worker-hour, inter-rater agreement, gold-question quality assurance, and a dedicated project manager. It fits teams that need a configured human-review process rather than just access to the standard pipelines.

Enterprise has custom pricing under an annual agreement. It includes negotiated API quotas and dedicated capacity, a custom SLA, SSO and role-based access control, signed DPA and security-questionnaire support, and an on-premise or private-cloud deployment option. These terms target organizations with deployment and governance requirements that go beyond pay-as-you-go access.

Platforms

Crowdee supports web, API, and self-hosted deployments. API access is included in Pay-as-you-go and higher plans, while private-cloud and on-premise options are offered with Enterprise.

Who it's for

Newsrooms can use the mixed-media checks and evidence dossiers to support editorial review; compliance teams may value the documented outputs and data-protection terms; AI researchers can draw on the range of verification pipelines and human judgments. It is less suited to casual users who want frequent free checks, since the free demo is image-only and limited to one check per IP every 24 hours.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Fourteen pipelines cover multiple media and verification contexts, making Crowdee useful beyond text-only checks.
• Pros: Screened crowd workers, inter-rater agreement, and qualitative reasoning provide human review options alongside automation.
• Pros: PDF and JSON exports preserve evidence for editorial, legal, or programmatic workflows.
• Pros: Pay-as-you-go has no commitment and includes API access, batch processing, and all AI pipelines.
• Cons: The free demo permits just one image check per IP each day, so it cannot support routine or multi-format use.
• Cons: Human review is an additional €15 per worker-hour, and project management or enterprise capabilities require custom pricing.

Alternatives

For a different fact-checking tool, compare the AI Fact-Checking Tools list. Teams evaluating version-control software may also consult Data Version Control Tools.

• VerumVerify is a freemium option for Android, iOS, and web, with three weekly checks on its free plan and a global news feed.
• FactGuard offers three free daily checks, on-device private mode, and a Fact Feed; it also supports API, iOS, and web.
• Avancer Document Fact-Checker may suit users focused on image, audio, and document checks, with one free scan and API, self-hosted, and web platforms.
• Eustace provides 25 free claim verifications, unlimited projects and documents, and ledger and Markdown reporting for web users.
• Factward offers two free daily verifications, URL and PDF checks, and shareable reports across API, extension, and web.
• FAXTR is an API and web option with 1,000 free monthly API calls and claims search.
• Groundery offers free monthly fact-checking time and instant text checks, with live, recorded, transcript, and browser-extension workflows.
• Omniscient AI uses metered pricing, with a $0 monthly base and $0.005 per fact-check request, plus API and extension access.

Verdict

Crowdee is a strong fit for organizations that verify varied media and need a defensible record, especially when automated checks must be complemented by human review. Its pipeline breadth, exports, and API are the main reasons to choose it. Look elsewhere if you need generous free use or predictable costs for substantial human review: the demo is narrowly capped, and managed work is billed by worker-hour under a custom project arrangement.