Hive Moderation

Hive

[object Object]

Hive Vision
Language Model

The new paradigm for content moderation

Hive's Vision Language Model (VLM) uses a prompt-defined policy to detect platform-violating content across images, video and text. Teams use Hive VLM to moderate sexual content, hate, drugs, graphic content, weapons, and other important moderation signals through a single API.

Moderation guided by
your policy

Hive’s VLM is designed to behave like a classifier for custom moderation rules. Instead of relying on a fixed set of labels, Trust and Safety teams can describe what they want enforced in the prompt and apply that policy across different content types. When moderation standards change, the prompt can be updated without retraining the model.

Hive’s VLM can support moderation workflows across a wide range of policy areas including:

Sexual and suggestive content

Sexual and suggestive content

Hate and abusive content

Drugs and drug-related Imagery

Weapons, including guns

Age-related policy enforcement

Brand and celebrity detection

Image

Multimodal moderation in one API

Hive VLM is multimodal, meaning it can reason across text, images, and video together, empowering T&S teams to catch violations that single-modality systems may miss. That means better coverage of nuanced violations, faster enforcement of decisions, and more efficient policy enforcement.

Hive’s VLM supports moderation across various input types:

Text only

Text only

Analyze written content against platform rules.
Image only

Image only

Detect policy-violating or unsafe content in images.
Text + image

Text + image

Evaluate text and visuals together when context changes meaning, such as listings, captions, or messages paired with media.
Video

Video

Run moderation on sampled frames or use frame-level analysis for video workflows. Teams can review outputs per frame or apply a prompt once across the full video, depending on the use case.
Multimodal moderation examples

Adapt quickly as
policies evolve

Flexible moderation without retraining

Flexible moderation without retraining

Moderation standards can shift quickly. Hive's VLM makes it easier to adapt by letting teams refine prompts, add new enforcement logic, and address emerging edge cases without retraining. Your prompt becomes your policy, making moderation easier to update and maintain.
Built for fast iteration and seamless evaluation

Built for fast iteration and seamless evaluation

Hive helps Trust & Safety teams quickly refine prompts, test edge cases, and evaluate performance across real moderation scenarios. With Playground for rapid iteration and AutoML Evaluations for structured testing, teams can move from exploration to validation faster and with more confidence.
Dev friendly integration, available PAYGO for production

Dev friendly integration, available PAYGO for production

VLM is available for production processing without an enterprise contract required, great for dev stage platforms as they scale.

How customers use
Hive Vision Language Model

Online Communities
Online Communities

Online Communities

Moderate posts, messages, and media with one model built to understand text, images, and video all together.

Moderate posts, messages, and media with one model built to understand text, images, and video all together.

Gaming Companies
Gaming Companies

Gaming Companies

Analyze entire conversations, forum threads, and in-game interactions to detect offenses.

Analyze entire conversations, forum threads, and in-game interactions to detect offenses.

Marketplaces
Marketplaces

Marketplaces

Assess images, video, and text at the same time to verify listings, detect counterfeit or prohibited goods, and enforce content policy compliance.

Assess images, video, and text at the same time to verify listings, detect counterfeit or prohibited goods, and enforce content policy compliance.

Dating Apps
Dating Apps

Dating Apps

Evaluate profile photos, bios, and messages together to moderate unsafe content, spot impersonation and AI-enabled fraud, and support age-related policy enforcement.

Evaluate profile photos, bios, and messages together to moderate unsafe content, spot impersonation and AI-enabled fraud, and support age-related policy enforcement.

Rideshare and Delivery Services
Rideshare and Delivery Services

Rideshare and Delivery Services

Review messages, user-submitted media, and proof-of-delivery content to detect policy violations, support fraud checks, and verify delivery-related claims.

Review messages, user-submitted media, and proof-of-delivery content to detect policy violations, support fraud checks, and verify delivery-related claims.

See our Hive VLM in action

Moderation

Object Detection

Visual Q&A

Selected

Prompt

You are a content-safety checker. Return JSON with two keys: - "violates" – true / false - "reasons" – an array of strings listing every policy area violated (choose from: "nudity", "sexual_content", "violence", "profanity", "drugs", "alcohol", "graphic", "other").
Results
{ "violates": false, "reasons": [] }

Ready to strengthen content moderation?

See how Hive helps platforms detect harmful content, enforce policy, and support trust and safety operations through one comprehensive suite.