Detecto

What Detecto is

Detecto is a web app that estimates AI-generation likelihood for text, images, video, and audio, returning probabilities, evidence, and reviewer reports. Text reports can highlight sentences and show perplexity, burstiness, and a confidence band. Image reports provide a generation likelihood, region heatmap, surface-artifact flags, and metadata-integrity checks. Reviewers can add notes, save reports, export PDFs, or share them through controlled links. Scans and reports are private to the account by default; ephemeral mode avoids storing content or reports. Detecto says submissions are not used to train its detection models. It offers a free plan with starter credits and full report fidelity. Paid plans start at $6.99 a month, billed annually; Student requires a verified school email and covers text and image checks. Pro is $19.99 a month and Max is $59.90 a month, both billed annually and covering text, image, audio, and video. Detecto is positioned for editors, educators, verification desks, PR teams, agencies, publishers, and universities. Its scores are probabilistic, not proof.

Who it suits

Detecto may suit editorial, education, newsroom, communications, agency, publishing, and university teams that need reports on suspected AI-generated media. Its limits and probabilities matter when interpreting results.

Limits

The Free tier provides starter credits. Student is limited to 60 credits per month and text and image checks; Team has 300 credits per seat per month and a two-seat minimum. Image uploads must be JPG, PNG, or WebP files up to 10 MB, and URL ingestion is out of scope for v1.

Getting started

1. Open https://detecto.co/ in the latest version of Chrome, Safari, Edge, or Firefox.
2. Start with the Free tier, which requires no card, or choose a paid plan.
3. For Student, verify eligibility with a school email.
4. Submit text, or upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP image up to 10 MB.
5. Review the report, then add notes, save it, export a PDF, or share it with a controlled link.

Verdict

Detecto combines several media checks with evidence and review workflows, plus account privacy controls. Treat its results as probabilities, and check plan limits and image-input requirements before choosing a paid tier.