No. 5 of 27 ·Social Media Moderation Software

Hive Moderation

Web · API · Extension

Freedom report

Two barsScore 6.4

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely1 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Hive Moderation is ranked #5 of 27 in social media moderation software on Freedom251. It runs on API, Browser extension, Web. There is no free plan.

Hive Moderation plans and pricing

All plans

Developers Free $50+ in Free Credits after adding a payment method Selected models pay-as-you-go · access to 10+ Hive Models · default rate limits · AutoML custom-model training thehive.ai · 30 Sept 2026

Enterprise Not published Custom Pricing to fit your organization’s usage All Hive Models and Moderation Dashboard · highest rate limits · premium expert support · multi-region support for high-volume deployments thehive.ai · 30 Sept 2026

Compared on social media moderation software

Free plan: No
Text moderation: Yes
Image moderation: Yes
Audio moderation: Yes
Video moderation: Yes
Custom policies: Yes
Human review workflow: Yes
Deployment options: cloud

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The record

Core function: Hive provides AI-powered moderation for harmful content across images, video, text, and audio.
Supported media: Hive lists images, videos, GIFs, WEBP, audio, and live streams as supported media formats.
Visual moderation: Visual Moderation offers more than 90 subclasses across major Trust and Safety categories in a single API response.
OCR moderation: Hive’s OCR model extracts and transcribes text from memes, GIFs, screenshots, and other image-based content for moderation.
Vision Language Model: Hive VLM uses prompt-defined policies to moderate images, video, and text through a single API without retraining when policies change.
Moderation dashboard: The Moderation Dashboard provides policy-driven workflows, custom rules and actions, spam management, reports, appeals, and manual review queues.
Compliance workflows: The Moderation Dashboard includes tools intended to help platforms address Digital Services Act compliance and supports CSAM reporting through NCMEC integration.
Child safety: Hive says its products partner with Thorn and the IWF, and its Text Moderation model provides IWF keyword and URL list results at no extra cost.
API delivery: Hive deploys its models through cloud-based APIs optimized for enterprise processing with real-time metadata and moderation signals.
Usage pricing: The pricing page lists Visual Moderation at $3.00 / 1000 Requests, Text Moderation at $0.50 / 1000 Requests, Audio Moderation at $0.03 / Minute, and OCR Moderation (Image) at $2.00 / 1000 Requests.
Self-serve limits: Hive’s V3 self-serve API has default limits such as 100 requests per day for Text Moderation and Visual Moderation.
Service status: Hive’s status page reports 100% uptime over the past 90 days for Sync API, Async API, dashboard features, and NCMEC Reporting.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Social Media Moderation Software in 2026#5 of 27
Best AI Content Moderation Software in 2026#4 of 23

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Sources

hivemoderation.com· checked 30 Sept 2026
hivemoderation.com/visual-moderation· checked 30 Sept 2026
hivemoderation.com/text-moderation· checked 30 Sept 2026
hivemoderation.com/multimodal-language-model· checked 30 Sept 2026
hivemoderation.com/dashboard· checked 30 Sept 2026
thehive.ai/pricing· checked 30 Sept 2026
docs.thehive.ai/docs/frequently-asked-questions-faq· checked 30 Sept 2026
status.hivemoderation.com· checked 30 Sept 2026