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ZOREAL Verify

Alternatives to Reality Defender

Reality Defender sells multimodal deepfake detection: RealScan scans images, audio and video in a web app, RealAPI exposes the detection API with SDKs in five languages, and RealCall and RealMeeting cover live calls and meetings, with on-premises and private-cloud deployment on offer. ZOREAL Verify examines PDFs and document images for forgery and manipulation, images for AI generation and editing, audio for synthetic or cloned voices, and video for deepfakes. This page sets the two side by side on what each classifies, what each returns, and what each publishes about price, data handling and certification.

Information last reviewed 10 September 2026. Compared: Reality Defender’s RealScan and RealAPI on uploaded files against ZOREAL Verify; RealCall and RealMeeting (live channels) and ZOREAL’s identity products are out of scope.

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Where ZOREAL Verify and Reality Defender differ

  • Multimodal by design

    Verify is multimodal: PDF, images, audio and video, checked for deepfakes, fraud, AI-edited content and voice clones.

  • A free tier beside a price list

    Reality Defender: “Get started for free with 50 audio or image scans per month.”; paid and enterprise plans are unpublished (/pricing and /plans return 404, September 2026). ZOREAL Verify: 10 free checks a day; Premium includes a monthly fraud-check pool.

  • A status and heatmap beside findings

    Reality Defender returns an overall status of AUTHENTIC, FAKE or SUSPICIOUS with a normalised score that is “always > 0 and < 100”, per-model scores, and heatmap images for the suspect region of an image. ZOREAL Verify presents findings to review in context: what deserves attention, where it appears and why it matters, alongside the information you already have.

  • Where the analysis runs

    Reality Defender lists API integration, on-premises, private cloud or virtual private cloud, hosted SaaS, a secure container and the web app as deployment options. ZOREAL’s pricing page lists the Bynn REST API, SDKs and result webhooks on Premium, with checks available through Bynn today; on-premises deployment for Verify is not stated on zoreal.com as of September 2026.

Side by side

Comparison of ZOREAL Verify and Reality Defender’s RealScan and RealAPI on what is classified, what is returned, pricing, integration, data handling and certifications, from Reality Defender’s public materials reviewed on 10 September 2026 and ZOREAL’s own pages reviewed on 11 September 2026.

AttributeZOREAL VerifyReality Defender
What is examinedDocument analysis looks at content, fonts, graphical consistency, metadata and digital signatures to reveal changes beneath the finished page: changed amounts, replaced payment details and altered text, and whether a signed document has remained intact. Image analysis examines both AI-generated imagery and signs of manipulation within an image. Audio analysis examines acoustic patterns for signs of synthetic speech and voice cloning. Video analysis looks for generated or manipulated imagery, including face swaps and inconsistencies across frames.An ensemble of named models per modality (for example rd-cedar-img), each returning a raw prediction and a normalised score, combined into an overall status for the media; the platform covers “synthetic and manipulated speech and voice clones”, “AI-generated and manipulated video content”, “AI-generated faces, forgeries, and manipulated photos” and text (platform page, API reference).
ModalitiesVerify is multimodal: PDF, images, audio and video, checked for deepfakes, fraud, AI-edited content and voice clones.Images .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif and .webp “up to 50MB”; audio .mp3, .wav, .m4a, .aac, .ogg, .flac and .alac “up to 20MB”; video .mp4 and .mov “up to 250MB”; text .txt “up to 900KB”; “The free tier only supports uploading audio and image files.” (API reference, SDK quickstart). PDF document forensics is not stated in the public materials we reviewed (homepage, platform page, docs).
ModelsVerify runs proprietary, state-of-the-art models trained on hundreds of millions of PDFs and images.An ensemble of named per-modality models, each reported with its own prediction and normalised score in the API response (API reference). No detector accuracy percentage or evaluation dataset is stated in the public materials we reviewed; the platform page’s “73% Accuracy rate at which humans can detect audio deepfakes” is a statistic about humans, not the product.
What is returnedVerify examines the document or media: how it may have been created or changed. It presents findings to review in context: what deserves attention (the type of change or inconsistency that needs review), where it appears, and why it matters, alongside the information you already have. It does not address the person behind an interaction, which is Identify’s question.A per-media status of “AUTHENTIC, FAKE, SUSPICIOUS, NOT_APPLICABLE, UNABLE_TO_EVALUATE” with a normalised score “always > 0 and < 100 (never exactly 0 or 100)”; per-model entries with name, status, prediction and final score; “heatmaps” as PNG URLs for image detections; an explainability page for text; a thumbnail and an aggregation JSON (API reference). The platform page describes “real-time risk scoring, email alerts, and reporting for all media types”.
PricingFree: 10 Verify checks per day, "One shared pool across eligible check types" (PDF fraud, AI image detection, still-image deepfake checks, age estimation and liveness when available). Premium: 10 PDF fraud and AI image checks per month, then metered per additional check; ID document verification and MRZ reading, the full KYC bundle (document, chip, face match and liveness) and AML and sanctions screening (including the screening certificate) metered per check; liveness verification listed as "Coming soon" and metered per check; document manipulation and forgery checks, bank statement and letter fraud detection, moderation, NFC chip verification, face matching, business verification and proof of address at "Ask about pricing". "Checks are available through Bynn today; the integrated ZOREAL Verify dashboard is coming soon." Unused allowances do not roll over. Premium is priced per user, monthly or yearly, with two months free on yearly billing; every organization member is a paid Premium seat; metered usage is charged separately. Enterprise: contact us. Current prices are on the ZOREAL price list at zoreal.com/pricing.Free tier: “Get started for free with 50 audio or image scans per month.” (homepage), audio and image only per the docs. Paid plans, enterprise and on-premises: no published price list as of September 2026 (/pricing and /plans return 404); contact is through the homepage’s demo and API sign-up links.
IntegrationThe pricing page lists "Bynn REST API, SDKs and result webhooks" on Premium and "ZOREAL dashboard uploads and detailed results" as "Coming soon", with the note that checks are available through Bynn today and the integrated ZOREAL Verify dashboard is coming soon. The API reference on zoreal.com covers the Meetings API; no Verify API reference is published on zoreal.com as of September 2026.Web app at app.realitydefender.ai, a REST API with presigned-URL upload and social-media URL upload, SDKs in “TypeScript/JavaScript”, “Python”, “Go”, “Rust” and “Java”, and deployment as API integration, on-premises (on NVIDIA hardware), private cloud, hosted SaaS or secure container; ZeroFox integrated the detection into its platform on 2 June 2026 (SDK quickstart, platform page, contact-center page, ZeroFox post).
Data handlingNot stated on zoreal.com as of September 2026. The examples on the Verify page are interactive illustrations; switching formats or selecting a detail changes the illustration and does not upload a file or run a live analysis.Privacy policy: “We will not retain your personal information for longer than is reasonably necessary”; thumbnails and presigned URLs expire after 15 minutes (API reference); a retention period for submitted media and a hosting region are not stated in the public materials we reviewed; on-premises and private-cloud options exist for customers who keep data in place.
CertificationsOrganization-level, as zoreal.com lists them for Bynn Intelligence, Inc.: SOC 2 (attestation), PCI DSS (SAQ A), GDPR (data protection), ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (information security certification) and CSA STAR Level One (cloud security self-assessment). No Verify-specific evaluation or certification is stated on zoreal.com as of September 2026.Not stated in the public materials we reviewed (platform page, homepage, privacy policy); the platform page mentions compliance capabilities without naming a standard.

Third-party details on this page reflect what each provider publicly stated on the review date shown above and may have changed since. Where a provider does not state something publicly, this page says so rather than assuming. Statements about what Reality Defender offers reflect its public materials on the review date; absence of a feature from those materials does not mean it is unavailable. ZOREAL's current prices are on the ZOREAL price list.

Where ZOREAL Verify and Reality Defender agree

Both classify AI generation and manipulation across images, audio and video, and both locate the finding. Reality Defender returns heatmaps for the suspect region of an image and per-model scores behind an overall status; ZOREAL Verify’s image analysis examines both AI-generated imagery and signs of manipulation within an image, its audio analysis examines acoustic patterns for synthetic speech and voice cloning, its video analysis looks for face swaps and inconsistencies across frames, and it says where a finding appears and why it matters.

Both offer a free way in, Reality Defender 50 audio or image scans a month and ZOREAL Verify 10 checks a day, and both deliver by API (ZOREAL’s through Bynn today). Both return a graded result with an explanation rather than a bare verdict, and neither publishes a detector accuracy figure: Reality Defender states none on the pages read, and no Verify-specific evaluation is stated on zoreal.com.

Reality Defender’s scope is both wider and narrower than Verify’s. Wider, because it adds text detection, live call and meeting products, SDKs in five languages and on-premises, private-cloud and container deployment. Narrower, because PDF document forensics is not stated on its pages, while ZOREAL Verify’s document analysis of content, fonts, graphical consistency, metadata and digital signatures sits beside its media analysis.

ZOREAL Verify may fit you if

  • ZOREAL Verify checks whether a document is manipulated, edited or AI-generated, and gives the best fraud signals in the industry.
  • You want PDFs and document images examined by the same product as your images, audio and video
  • You want a published paid rate per check rather than an unpublished plan
  • You want to run 10 checks a day at no cost across eligible check types

Reality Defender may fit you if

  • You need on-premises, private-cloud or container deployment
  • You want SDKs in TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust or Java
  • You want image heatmaps and per-model scores in the response
  • You want to start with 50 free audio or image scans a month

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How we compared

This comparison is based on publicly available information from Reality Defender’s official website, documentation, pricing and published materials, and on ZOREAL’s own published product pages and pricing, as reviewed on 10 September 2026. Features, pricing and availability may change at any time. Verify current details directly with each provider before deciding.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. Which electronic signature method satisfies which law, what level of identity assurance a regulation requires, and whether a content signature or provenance mark meets a given standard all depend on the jurisdiction and the regulator’s guidance. ZOREAL Sign asserts no legal effect for the signatures it records. Confirm your obligations with qualified counsel before choosing a method.

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