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Reality Defender: what it sells, price and AI features

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.

Updated . Launches and events from July 31 to 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.

Site
realitydefender.com
Category
Background, identity and fraud checks
Status
Active

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    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.

    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)

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    Reality Defender on the AI hiring software map

Launches and dated events, newest first

  1. Reality Defender demos catching a deepfake job candidate on Zoom

    Research, . 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. From the AI hiring software map.

  2. Reality Defender opens free deepfake detection API

    Launch, . 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. From the AI hiring software map.

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Cite as: Newsprint, "Reality Defender: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/reality-defender/, updated 2026-11-11

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