Hive

Name

Hive

Legal name

Castle Global, Inc.

Website

https://thehive.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Content Moderation Platform

akta.pro primary industry

Model Monitoring, Drift & Behavioral Anomaly Detection (HDAAAKAF)

Keywords

• Content moderation AI
• Trust and safety platform
• Deepfake detection API
• AI content classification
• Generative AI models

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Usage-Based API Consumption: Pay-as-you-go billing priced per 1,000 requests, per minute of audio/video, per image, or per 1M input/output tokens. Customers start with $50+ in free credits after adding a payment method, and pricing scales linearly with inference steps for image generation.
2. Enterprise Subscription / Custom Contract: Annual or multi-year enterprise commitments with custom pricing, all Hive models plus the Hive Moderation Dashboard, highest rate limits, premium expert support, and multi-region availability for high-volume deployments.
3. AutoML Data & Training Consumption: Consumption revenue from AutoML training (per 1M rows seen, per last-layer, LoRA, or full fine-tuning job) plus recurring monthly storage fees for hosted rows and files billed at 12:01am UTC on the first of each month.
4. Contact-Sales / Quote-Based Specialized Services: Quote-based pricing for high-limit variants of moderation and detection APIs, CSAM Detection, image-to-image generation, text-to-speech, video generation, media search, custom index, face-related models, and demographic attributes, plus services like Visual Moderation + GARM, Audio Moderation + GARM, and video processing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Hive is a cloud-based AI platform that provides pre-trained deep learning models and APIs for understanding, searching, and generating visual, text, and audio content. Its offerings include content moderation, AI-generated content/deepfake detection, brand and IP protection, generative AI, child safety (CSAM/CSE) detection, and custom AutoML training, all delivered via REST APIs and a no-code Moderation Dashboard.

Product overview

Hive offers a unified AI platform composed of multiple integrated products spanning content moderation, AI-generated content detection, generative AI, and enterprise solutions. The core platform comprises the API and Moderation Dashboard, which orchestrate individual capability modules including Visual Moderation, Text Moderation, Audio Moderation, and the CSAM Detection API. Generative AI capabilities are offered through Image Generation (with models such as SDXL, SDXL Enhanced, Flux Schnell, Flux Schnell Enhanced, and Emojis), Video Generation, Image-to-Image Generation, and Text-to-Speech. The Hive VLM (Vision Language Model) and its Playground serve as a flagship multimodal offering. Enterprise-tier offerings include Hive Detect for Enterprises (deepfake and AI-generated content detection) and supporting modules such as Logo Recognition, Celebrity Recognition, IP Likeness Detection, Face Detection, OCR, Reverse Image Search, Speech-to-Text, Text Translation, AutoML, Sponsorship Intelligence, Ad Intelligence, and Context-Based Ad Targeting. Data Labeling services are offered as a professional service to support custom model development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hive Moderation: Content moderation service offered via hivemoderation.com, providing visual, text, and audio moderation along with a Moderation Dashboard and review tool.
• Hive Detect

Products and services

• Visual Moderation API
• Text Moderation API
• Audio Moderation API
• CSAM Detection API
• CSE Text Classifier API
• AI-Generated Content Detection
• Hive Vision Language Model (VLM)
• Hive Detect for Enterprises
• Hive Moderation Dashboard
• Hive Image Generation
• Hive Video Generation
• Hive Text-to-Speech
• Hive AutoML
• Hive Brand & IP Recognition
• Hive Search (Reverse Image, Media, Custom Index)
• Hive Speech-to-Text & Translation

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 99% accuracy in identifying AI-manipulated videos per Hive Moderation's reported benchmarks
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability14 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Thorn (Safer by Thorn)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerThorn's Safer CSAM/CSE technology is embedded in Hive's CSAM Detection API and CSE Text Classifier API (covering CSAM, child access, sextortion, self-generated content, CSA discussion, and grooming). Thorn maintains the 57M+ hash database, receives regular NCMEC updates, and IWF members can access IWF hashes. Announced July 8, 2024 (Safer Match go-live) with later expansion in 2025 (CSAM text classification powered by Thorn, April 7, 2026).
• NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)coreTechnology or IntegrationNCMEC CyberTipline reporting is integrated directly into Hive's Moderation Dashboard, letting platforms submit required reports for flagged CSAM without leaving the workflow. Hive's AI image and video classifiers were trained in part using data from the NCMEC CyberTipline (served exclusively on Hive's APIs). Announced February 26, 2025.
• Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)coreTechnology or IntegrationIWF members can access IWF's image and video hashes of CSAM content through Hive's CSAM Detection API, expanding the platform's coverage of known CSAM beyond Thorn's database. Announced January 23, 2025.
• FanvueminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCreator subscription platform Fanvue uses Hive for AI content moderation on its platform serving 17 million monthly users, alongside a parallel partnership with ElevenLabs for voice cloning. Announced January 18, 2026.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Clarifai: Clarifai provides a computer-vision and multimodal AI platform exposed via API, with visual classifiers, custom model training, and content moderation workflows. It competes with Hive on the developer-first AI-vision stack and on enterprise visual moderation and AutoML use cases.
• ActiveFence: ActiveFence is a trust-and-safety content moderation platform that scans text, image, video, and audio for harmful content using AI classifiers. It directly competes with Hive's visual, text, and audio moderation APIs and serves similar enterprise trust-and-safety buyers across social platforms and marketplaces.
• Reality Defender: Reality Defender is a deepfake and AI-generated content detection platform for images, video, and audio used by enterprises, governments, and media organizations. It is a direct competitor to Hive's AI-Generated Content Detection suite and Hive Detect for Enterprises.
• Resemble AI: Resemble AI provides AI voice synthesis and audio deepfake detection, and topped the Podonos Audio Deepfake Detection benchmark at 98.05% accuracy versus Hive's 83.5%. It directly competes with Hive on enterprise audio moderation and audio deepfake detection.
• Sensity AI: Sensity AI (now part of IDEMIA) provides deepfake detection and AI-generated content identification across image, video, and audio for enterprises and governments. It is a direct competitor to Hive's AI-Generated Content Detection APIs and Hive Detect for Enterprises.
• CloudSight: CloudSight offers a computer-vision API for image captioning, classification, and visual understanding, used in developer-facing product workflows. It competes with Hive on the developer-first vision AI API surface and on enterprise visual classification use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Google Cloud Vision AI: Google Cloud Vision AI provides general-purpose image classification, OCR, object detection, and content moderation as part of the Google Cloud platform. It overlaps with Hive's visual moderation, OCR, object detection, and Logo Recognition APIs, but is positioned as a broad cloud incumbent rather than a safety-specialized vendor.
• Amazon Rekognition: Amazon Rekognition offers image and video analysis including content moderation, facial analysis, celebrity recognition, and text detection within the AWS ecosystem. It is a broad incumbent overlapping with Hive's visual moderation, celebrity recognition, and face detection APIs at scale.
• Microsoft Azure AI Vision: Microsoft Azure AI Vision provides image classification, OCR, spatial analysis, and content moderation as part of the Azure AI services suite. It overlaps with Hive's moderation and vision APIs as a broad hyperscaler incumbent rather than a focused safety vendor.

Others

• Thorn: Thorn is a nonprofit technology organization that builds the Safer CSAM/CSE detection platform and partners with Hive to embed that capability into Hive's CSAM Detection API and CSE Text Classifier API. Thorn is a partner rather than direct competitor, but it is the upstream source of Hive's most differentiated child-safety capability.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hiveai
• Xx.com/hive_ai

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors12 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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