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Content Moderation:Introduction to Video Moderation 2.0 and its billing methods

Last Updated:May 11, 2024

This topic describes the features and billing methods of Video Moderation 2.0.

1. Introduction to Video Moderation 2.0

Feature description

You can call the Video Moderation 2.0 service to identify whether on-demand videos or live streams contain content or elements that violate relevant regulations on network content dissemination, affect the content order on a specific platform, or impact user experience. Video Moderation 2.0 can reuse the configurations of Image Moderation 2.0 and Voice Moderation 2.0. Video Moderation 2.0 of Content Moderation allows you to develop further moderation or governance measures for specific image and voice content in videos based on business scenarios, platform-specific content governance rules, or rich risk labels and scores of confidence levels returned by API calls.

Version comparison

Compared with Video Moderation 1.0, Video Moderation 2.0 provides more risk types and risk labels and supports more flexible console configurations.

Item

Video Moderation 2.0

Video Moderation 1.0

Default number of concurrent moderation tasks

50

20

Default QPS

100

50

Supported video size by default

500 MB

200 MB

Supported scope of risk moderation

Images in videos:

  • Common baseline moderation

Note

Video Moderation 2.0 reuses the moderation services and configurations of Image Moderation 2.0. For more information about Image Moderation 2.0, see Service description.

Voices in videos:

  • Multi-language voice moderation

Note

Video Moderation 2.0 reuses the moderation services and configurations of Voice Moderation 2.0 and Image Moderation 2.0. For more information about Voice Moderation 2.0 and Image Moderation 2.0, see Service description.

Images in videos:

  • Pornography moderation

  • Terrorist content moderation

  • Undesirable scene moderation

  • Logo moderation

  • Ad violation moderation

    Console

    • Supports settings of image moderation.

    • Supports settings of voice moderation.

    • Supports frame capture settings.

    • Supports moderation result settings.

    Supports settings of moderation items.

    Billing

    You are charged based on the risk scenarios of image moderation and voice moderation. You can configure whether to enable voice moderation for videos.

    Fees = Number of captured frames × Number of moderation services + Video duration × Unit price of voice moderation

    Image moderation is charged based on the following moderation services. Moderation services can be selected based on your business requirements, and the price of image moderation in Video Moderation 2.0 is the same as that of Image Moderation 2.0.

    Common baseline moderation

    Voice moderation is charged based on the video duration. The price of voice moderation in Video Moderation 2.0 is equivalent to 90% of the price of Voice Moderation 2.0.

    You are charged based on the risk scenarios of image moderation and voice moderation. You can configure whether to enable voice moderation for videos.

    Fees = Number of captured frames × Number of risk scenarios + Video duration × Unit price of voice moderation

    Image moderation is charged based on the following risk scenarios. Risk scenarios can be selected based on your business requirements, and the price of image moderation in Video Moderation 1.0 is 1.8 times that of Image Moderation 1.0.

    • Pornography moderation

    • Terrorist content moderation

    • Undesirable scene moderation

    • Logo moderation

    • Ad violation moderation

    Voice moderation is charged based on the video duration. The price of voice moderation in Video Moderation 1.0 is the same as that of Voice Moderation 1.0.

    Service description

    The following table describes the services supported by Video Moderation 2.0.

    Service

    Content to be moderated

    Use scenario

    Video file moderation (videoDetection_global)

    Violation information in images or voices

    To moderate prohibited or inappropriate content in video files. We recommend that you perform moderation on all video files that are accessible over the Internet.

    Live stream moderation (liveStreamDetection_global)

    Violation information in images or voices

    To moderate prohibited or inappropriate content in live streams. We recommend that you perform moderation on all live streams that are accessible over the Internet.

    2. Billing methods

    Pay-as-you-go

    After you activate the Video Moderation 2.0 service, the default billing method is pay-as-you-go. You are not charged if you do not call the service. The following table describes the billing rules for Video Moderation 2.0.

    Moderation type

    Supported moderation service

    Unit price

    Standard image moderation (image_standard)

    Common baseline moderation: baselineCheck_global

    USD 0.6 per thousand calls

    You are charged every time you call a common baseline moderation service. You are charged based on the actual usage. For example, you are charged USD 0.06 if you call the common baseline moderation service 100 times.

    Standard voice moderation (video_standard)

    Voice moderation: audio_media_detection_global

    Live stream moderation: liveStreamDetection_global

    USD 8.1 per thousand minutes, which is equivalent to USD 0.486 per hour

    Note

    Bills for the pay-as-you-go billing method of Content Moderation 2.0 are generated every 24 hours. In the billing details, moderationType corresponds to the moderation type column in the preceding table. For more information, see Bill Details.

    3. Usage notes

    Description

    You can use the following methods to call the Video Moderation 2.0 service:

    Operations in the console

    • We recommend that you modify the video moderation policy in the Content Moderation console before you use the Video Moderation 2.0 service for the first time.

    • You can modify the video moderation policy, configure differentiated policies for different services, view call results, and query service usage in the console.