Dating apps
Fake profiles and romance scams show up across photos, bio and first messages. One trained reviewer needs to see all three. See dating app moderation.
ActiveFence alternative with human review and clear pricing for growing platforms
ActiveFence, now Alice, is built for the largest platforms and AI labs, sold by demo and custom quote. If you run a dating app, marketplace, game or community that needs its own rules applied to everyday content, you probably do not need an enterprise threat intelligence contract.
You need AI that clears the obvious items and trained people who decide the rest. Build your plan to see the team per shift and a monthly estimate.
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The short answer
Stay with ActiveFence if your problem is organized abuse at global scale: extremist networks, coordinated disinformation, child safety intelligence across many languages, or red teaming your own AI models. That is what it was built for. Look for an alternative when your problem is volume and consistency on your own policy, at a price you can see before a sales call. Our moderation software starts at $199 a month for 100,000 AI scored items, and our outsourced content moderation service adds dedicated moderators on a monthly retainer.
ActiveFence pricing next to published plans
ActiveFence does not publish a price list. The figures below come from its AWS Marketplace listing and third party software directories, checked in October 2026, so treat them as signals of contract size rather than a quote.
| Option | Price | What you get | Commitment | People who review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ActiveFence, UGC moderation | custom quote; directories cite from about $2,000 a month | AI detection, threat intelligence, AI, human or hybrid review | enterprise contract after a demo | your team, theirs, or both, by agreement |
| Alice AI guardrails on AWS Marketplace | $500,000 for 12 months | runtime guardrails for generative AI apps | annual | not a review service |
| Moderators Starter | $199 a month, or $99 billed yearly | 100,000 AI scored items, 3 reviewer seats, 1 policy | month to month | your team, in our queue |
| Moderators Growth | $599 a month, or $299 billed yearly | 1,000,000 items, 15 seats, 5 policies, appeals, QA sampling | month to month | your team, in our queue |
| Moderators Scale | $1,499 a month, or $749 billed yearly | 5,000,000 items, 50 seats, unlimited policies, SSO, DPA | month to month | your team, in our queue |
| Managed moderation | monthly retainer | dedicated moderators by shift and language, 24/7 coverage, Platform Scale included | SLA in contract | our trained moderators |
Why growing platforms shortlist something smaller
The usual story goes like this. A US app passes a few hundred thousand users, an app store reviewer or a payment processor asks how content is moderated, and the founders book demos with the names that come up first. ActiveFence comes up first. The demo is impressive and the proposal is sized for a company several times bigger.
What the app actually needs is narrower. Profile photos checked before they go live. Reported chats reviewed within an hour. Listings with weapons, drugs or counterfeits pulled. A written reason for every ban, and a second look when users appeal. That is daily operational work on your policy, and it is priced by how many people you need on each shift, not by how much threat research comes bundled in.
- Price visible before the first call
- Software month to month, cancel any time
- Managed team sized to your volume and hours
- Your policy, written into a decision tree
ActiveFence vs Moderators feature by feature
An honest view, including where ActiveFence is the stronger choice.
| What matters | ActiveFence (Alice) | Moderators |
|---|---|---|
| Threat intelligence | dedicated research team tracking extremism, child safety and coordinated abuse; a clear strength | not offered; we apply your policy and escalate suspected illegal content to your named contacts |
| Generative AI safety | red teaming, runtime guardrails and drift monitoring for AI models and agents | review of AI chat transcripts and generated images against your policy |
| Detection | text, image, video and audio across many languages | AI scoring of text, images and video with your thresholds |
| Review queue for your staff | moderation platform with workflows | included on every plan, with reviewer assignment and case history |
| Dedicated human moderators | available by agreement | managed service, staffed by shift and language |
| Pricing | not published, quote after demo | published software plans; managed retainer estimated in the plan builder |
| Minimum commitment | enterprise contract | none on software; managed retainer by month |
| Best for | the largest social networks, AI labs and platforms facing organized abuse | US platforms from launch to a few million monthly users that need people on their own rules |
A review team that works your queue every shift
Most of the risk on a growing platform does not need an intelligence analyst. It needs a trained moderator who knows your rules on swimwear in dating photos, replica sneakers in a resale listing or trash talk in a game lobby, and who applies them the same way at 3 a.m. as at noon.
Our managed service puts that person on your queue. AI scoring clears the clearly fine and clearly banned items. Moderators decide the middle band, handle user reports and appeals, and escalate anything that may be illegal to your on call contact by name. A QA lead samples decisions every week and the report shows volumes, response times, accuracy and appeal outcomes. See how the team is built on hire content moderators.
How moving from ActiveFence works
About 30 days, with no gap in coverage. Some teams keep ActiveFence intelligence for one high risk area and move daily review to us.
- 1
Policy and examples
Send your written rules and 50 to 100 past decisions. We turn them into a decision tree and agree the score thresholds that route items to people.
- 2
Connect and shadow
Send a copy of traffic to our API or by webhook for one to two weeks. Compare our calls with your current ones and correct anything you disagree with.
- 3
Staff the shifts
On the managed service, moderators start on the hours your users are online, by language, with escalation paths written down.
- 4
Cut over and report
Content types move one at a time. You get a weekly report and an audit log of every action, reviewer and reason.
Platforms that fit a smaller, hands on vendor
Marketplaces
Prohibited items and counterfeits are caught from price, text and seller history, not from one photo. More on marketplace moderation.
Games and communities
Chat, voice reports and usernames at peak hours, with context a keyword filter misses. Read about gaming moderation.
AI chat and creator apps
Generated images and long conversations that need policy calls, not only a score. See AI chat app moderation.
ActiveFence alternative questions
What is the best ActiveFence alternative?
It depends on what you use ActiveFence for. For threat intelligence on extremism and coordinated abuse at very large scale, few vendors compare. For a growing platform that mainly needs its own policy applied to everyday content by AI plus trained people, a moderation service with flat plans and a managed team is usually the better fit. Our content moderation companies comparison lists the other options.
How much does ActiveFence cost?
ActiveFence does not publish pricing and sells through demos and custom quotes. Software directories cite starting points around $2,000 a month, and its AI guardrails listing on AWS Marketplace shows a 12 month contract at $500,000. Expect an enterprise contract sized by volume, content types and services.
Is ActiveFence now called Alice?
Yes. activefence.com now redirects to alice.io. The company presents itself as Alice, with ActiveFence as its user generated content moderation business and the WonderSuite products for testing and guarding generative AI models and agents.
Does ActiveFence provide human moderators?
ActiveFence offers AI, human or hybrid review options and an in house intelligence team that researches threats, with pricing quoted per deal. If you want a dedicated team on your own queue every shift at a predictable monthly price, compare it with a managed moderation retainer from the plan builder above.
Can a small platform afford ActiveFence?
Sometimes, but the product is designed and priced for very large platforms. A startup reviewing a few thousand items a day usually gets more value from software at $199 to $599 a month for its own reviewers, or from a managed team sized to its real volume. The content moderation outsourcing cost guide shows typical team budgets.
How fast can we switch?
Most platforms go live in about 30 days. The first week turns your policy into a decision tree, the next one to two weeks run in shadow on real traffic, and then each content type moves over in turn while your current setup keeps running.
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