Content ModerationInternal OnlyVerified
Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, March 24, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
OpenAI offers a Moderation API that automatically classifies text and images for potentially harmful content, available to all API users and used internally across OpenAI products.
Details
The Moderation API uses AI classifiers to detect categories of potentially policy-violating content including hate speech, harassment, self-harm, sexual content, and violence. OpenAI upgraded the API to a multimodal moderation model capable of analyzing both text and images. The API is free to use for developers building on OpenAI's platform and is also applied internally to ChatGPT and DALL-E.
Products affected
OpenAI API (all models)ChatGPTDALL-E
Sources & Evidence
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Cite this record
Trace Foundation. (2026). OpenAI: OpenAI offers a Moderation API that automatically classifies text and images for potentially harmful content, available to all API users and used internally across OpenAI products (data as of 2026-07-21) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/c2a5e618-10fb-4ed7-80c5-c8de00f98aae. Accessed October 13, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/c2a5e618-10fb-4ed7-80c5-c8de00f98aae
- Data as of
- July 21, 2026
- Last verified
- April 10, 2026
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