# Reality Defender: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/reality-defender/
Covers: July 31 to Sept. 26, 2025
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Reality Defender: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/reality-defender/, updated 2026-11-11

> Reality Defender is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 26, 2025.

General deepfake detection vendor (audio, video, image) with a hiring use case among several. Its hiring page pitches "Protect hiring decisions + employee access from deepfake impersonation" for recruiting, HR and security teams. RealMeeting scans live interviews for manipulated faces and cloned voices and returns verdicts with confidence scores; RealAPI and RealScan check submitted files. The vendor says media analysis does not establish identity, so it is not an ID check or background check. Source: [realitydefender.com](https://www.realitydefender.com/solutions/hiring-workforce-protection).

## Facts

- Site: [realitydefender.com](https://www.realitydefender.com/)
- Category: Background, identity and fraud checks
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-reality-defender)

General deepfake detection vendor (audio, video, image) with a hiring use case among several. Its hiring page pitches "Protect hiring decisions + employee access from deepfake impersonation" for recruiting, HR and security teams. RealMeeting scans live interviews for manipulated faces and cloned voices and returns verdicts with confidence scores; RealAPI and RealScan check submitted files. The vendor says media analysis does not establish identity, so it is not an ID check or background check. Source: [realitydefender.com](https://www.realitydefender.com/solutions/hiring-workforce-protection).

- Category: Background, identity and fraud checks
- Price: Developer API free tier of 50 detections a month; enterprise products sales-led
- AI capabilities: Fraud and identity
- Scale: Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Series A expanded to $33M in October 2024 (Illuminate Financial lead); strategic investors include Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, Accenture, BNY and Samsung Next)

Sources: [realitydefender.com](https://www.realitydefender.com/solutions/hiring-workforce-protection), [realitydefender.com](https://www.realitydefender.com/product/realmeeting), [realitydefender.com](https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/inside-our-live-demo-catching-deepfake-job-candidates-on-zoom), [realitydefender.com](https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/reality-defender-launches-free-access-to-deepfake-detection-api), [realitydefender.com](https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/bny-samsung-next-and-fusion-fund-invest-in-reality-defender), [realitydefender.com](https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/reality-defender-named-gartner-deepfake-detection-company-to-beat) and [2 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-reality-defender).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Reality Defender demos catching a deepfake job candidate on Zoom

Research, Sept. 26, 2025. Reality Defender staged a Zoom job interview with a deepfake candidate that its in-meeting scan flagged as manipulated in seconds, with post-meeting reports for HR and security teams.

Source: [Vendor blog](https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/inside-our-live-demo-catching-deepfake-job-candidates-on-zoom). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-reality-defender).

### Reality Defender opens free deepfake detection API

Launch, July 31, 2025. Reality Defender launched a public developer API and SDK with a free tier of 50 detections a month, starting with audio and image detection.

Source: [Vendor blog](https://www.realitydefender.com/insights/reality-defender-launches-free-access-to-deepfake-detection-api). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-reality-defender).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology