detecto.co

What It Is

Detecto is an AI content detection tool built for editors, publishers, education, PR, and investigative journalism. Instead of returning a single overall score, it sends text, images, and videos through two or more detection engines, then combines the results into a forensic report. The emphasis is on giving editorial teams something they can use for pre-publication review and audit trails.

Core Capabilities

For text, Detecto supports sentence-by-sentence analysis ranging from press releases to long-form features of up to 10,000 words. It returns per-segment likelihood, perplexity, burstiness, and confidence variance, and highlights sentences that may deserve a second look. For images, it supports JPG, PNG, and WebP files up to 10MB, assessing AI likelihood, metadata integrity, and signs of visual manipulation. For video, it supports MP4, MOV, and YouTube or TikTok URLs, scoring scenes in 10-second intervals and flagging audio-visual inconsistencies. Audio detection is still listed as Coming soon.

Pricing and Trial

The page clearly states that no credit card or registration is required, and users can get 3 free sample reviews. Each review consumes 1 credit. The service uses a credit and subscription model: monthly and annual plans renew automatically, subscription credits expire, while one-time credit purchases are generally retained. Specific plan prices did not appear in the captured page content; it only points users to detecto.co/credits. Payments are made by credit card and processed by KOMOJU.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are broad multimodal coverage, reports that include sentence-level, paragraph-level, and scene-level evidence, and support for PDF/CSV export—making it suitable for teams that need explainable review records. Detecto also clearly states that AI detection is probabilistic, may produce false positives or false negatives, and should not be the sole basis for disciplinary, employment, legal, or other adverse actions. The limitations are that it does not disclose the specific models or vendors used, API integration details are limited, Chinese-language support is not specified, and audio detection has not yet launched.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Detecto is best suited to newsrooms, PR teams, university projects, independent publishers, translation studios, and investigative journalists for pre-publication AI-trace screening, source material authenticity checks, and report archiving. The source text does not provide information on availability from mainland China. Since payments rely on overseas credit cards/KOMOJU, actual network access and payment availability should be tested independently. If access is limited, alternatives such as GPTZero, Originality.ai, Copyleaks, and Turnitin AI Detection may be worth comparing.