Costs
what the services may charge you.
Each outside service bills you directly. This page lists the price basis of each one as read on 11 November 2026, so you can fill in the console's unit prices. Prices change: check each provider's own pricing page before you launch.
01Price basis per service
These are estimates for planning, read from the providers' public pages on 11 November 2026. They are not quotes and they will change.
| Service | Price basis | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Google Web Risk | No charge up to 100,000 lookups a month, then about $0.50 per 1,000 | One or two lookups per checked link (the address and where it leads). |
| Domain registries (RDAP) | No charge | No account. |
| Sightengine | A no-cost tier of 2,000 operations a month; paid plans from about $29 a month (video needs a paid plan) | One image check uses 10 operations (two models of 5). A video uses the same per analysed frame. AI-speech detection uses 1 operation per started 10 seconds. |
| Google Cloud Vision | About $0.0035 per image after Google's monthly no-cost units | One call per checked image. |
| Content Credentials | No charge | Runs on your server. |
| Google Fact Check Tools | Google publishes no price; quotas apply | One search per claim. |
| Anthropic or Perplexity web research | About $0.01 per web search, plus model tokens (Anthropic: $10 per 1,000 searches, re-read 12 November 2026) | One research call per claim, at most 3 claims per check. |
| Speech to text | Per minute of audio, set by your service | Only for voice messages and video sound. |
| Language model | Per token, set by your provider | Used by most checks: the message, e-mail, page and screenshot reads, claim finding, the summary of a finished check, and the assistant. A local model costs only your own hardware. |
| App Store, Google Play | The stores keep their commission on Pro subscriptions | Set in your developer accounts. |
02Unit prices in the console
The console counts checks by type: light checks (links, messages, e-mails, QR codes, screenshots), media units (an image is 1 unit, audio 1 per started minute, video 10 per started 30 seconds), claim checks and assistant messages. In Unit prices you enter what one of each costs you, as a plain decimal number such as 0.002, and a currency. The Costs page multiplies them by today's and this month's counts.
- Light check. Add up the services one check calls: for a link, one Web Risk lookup (two when it redirects) plus the model tokens of the page read and of the summary; for a message, the model read and summary plus a link check for each link (at most 5).
- Media unit. For an image: 10 Sightengine operations plus one Cloud Vision call, at your plan's price. A screenshot read by the model costs the model tokens instead, plus the image checks when it is not a message.
- Claim check. One fact-check search plus the web searches and tokens of your research provider.
- Assistant message. The tokens of one answer at your model's price.
The server counts checks, not provider operations. Your provider dashboards show the exact usage. Use the daily caps in Plans and Assistant to put a ceiling on what one day can cost.