Best Deepfake Detectors

Reality Defender covers the most ground. It checks uploaded audio, images and video, and it also runs in real time inside contact centres and video meetings, where many deepfake scams now happen. Developers get a free API tier of 50 audio or image scans a month, which is rare among enterprise-focused vendors.

Its recognition comes mostly from industry bodies rather than academic tests: it won the RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox in April 2025 and Gartner has highlighted it in deepfake-detection research. We did not find a large public head-to-head study that confirms its accuracy against rivals, so we score that cautiously.

Pick it if you run a business that needs to protect calls, meetings and uploaded media in one place. Skip it if you are an individual who only needs to check the odd video; Hive's free extension is simpler.

Hive is the easiest way for an ordinary person to check a suspicious video or image. Its free Chrome extension scans media on the page you are viewing, with no account. Behind it are the same models Hive sells to platforms and to the US Department of Defense, which partnered with Hive on synthetic-media detection.

Hive has the best independent evidence for AI images, from a 2024 University of Chicago study. For video and audio deepfakes, we found less public testing. Its results are a confidence score with limited explanation, which is fine for a quick check but weaker as evidence.

Pick it if you want a free, fast check on something you saw online. Skip it if you need a detailed forensic report for legal or HR use; Sensity or Reality Defender are better suited.

Pindrop has spent more than a decade on phone fraud, and Pulse is its deepfake detector for voice calls and video meetings. It checks for synthetic speech, voice cloning, face swaps and whether a real person is on camera, and it plugs into Teams, Zoom, Webex and hiring platforms to catch fake job candidates.

Its evidence is stronger than most. Pindrop cites an NPR test with outside voice-cloning tools in which it correctly identified 81 of 84 clips, and it publishes error rates: 99% detection on known engines, over 90% on unseen ones and under 1% false positives, which are vendor figures.

Pick it if you run a call centre, bank help line or remote hiring process. Skip it if you need to check images or uploaded social-media videos; it is built for live calls and meetings, and it is sold only to businesses.

Sensity is aimed at investigators rather than the public. It checks video, images and audio using several layers, from pixel patterns and voice features to file metadata, and produces forensic reports designed to support police work, court cases and fraud investigations. It can run on-premise, which matters when evidence cannot leave a secure network.

Its headline figure, 98% accuracy on public datasets, is a vendor claim. The Deepfake-Eval-2024 study showed that public-dataset scores can overstate real-world performance, so treat it with care.

Pick it if you need detailed, explainable reports for legal or investigative use. Skip it if you want a quick consumer check or published prices.

Resemble AI makes voice-cloning software, and Resemble Detect is its tool for catching synthetic voices, video and images. Coming from a voice company, it is especially strong on audio formats, including the compressed codecs used by phone systems. It gives a verdict plus an explanation, and offers a Chrome extension and plug-ins for Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex, with a free tier that needs no card.

Its accuracy claims (up to 99.5%, 250+ generators, 54 languages) are the company's own, and it says it ranks first on third-party benchmarks, which we could not verify independently.

Pick it if you want voice deepfake detection with a free way to start. Skip it if you need a vendor with independent published test results.

AI or Not is the cheapest self-serve way to check deepfakes. The $5 Pro plan includes monthly credits usable on deepfake, voice, video, music, image and text detection, and every plan includes an API key.

Its evidence is thinner than the enterprise tools. In the 2024 University of Chicago test of AI-image detectors, Hive outperformed it, and we found no large independent test of its video or voice deepfake detection.

Pick it if you are a freelancer, student journalist or small team that needs occasional multi-format checks. Skip it if a wrong answer could cost money or reputation; use an enterprise tool plus human review.