Check the Cap started as an app that catches filters, warping, and AI edits in any photo. The same detection engine is now an API — one call returns a manipulation score, the receipt of every edit found, and the un-filtered original.
If your product depends on photos being real, this API is for you.
Verify photos before publication. Catch AI-generated imagery and undisclosed retouching in user-submitted tips, wire photos, and social-sourced footage.
Scan uploads at ingest. Label filtered and AI-edited media at scale, enforce disclosure policies, and protect trust & safety teams from manual review.
Flag heavily filtered and face-warped profile photos at signup. Give users an authenticity signal before the first date, not after.
Detect retouched, warped, or synthetic claim photos before adjusters ever see them. Route suspicious submissions to human review automatically.
Keep listings honest. Screen product and profile photos for beauty-filter retouching, AI upscaling, and background fabrication.
Add a manipulation signal to KYC pipelines. Catch edited selfies and synthetic portraits before they reach your document-verification vendor.
Verify identity photos and detect AI-edited submissions in remote proctoring, scholarship applications, and yearbook / ID issuance.
Triage viral imagery for manipulation before it moves polls. Audit campaign media for undisclosed synthetic edits at scale.
curl -X POST https://api.checkthecap.com/v1/scan \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CTC_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"image_url": "https://cdn.example.com/profile-photo.jpg"
}'
# 200 OK
{
"id": "ana_9f2c…",
"capScore": 73,
"confidence": 0.91,
"summary": "Heavy skin smoothing and jawline reshaping; generative fill on the background.",
"tags": ["skin-smoothing", "jawline-reshaped", "generative-ai"],
"receipt": "https://api.checkthecap.com/v1/analyses/ana_9f2c…"
}/v1/scanper assetAnalyze an image. Returns a 0–100 manipulation score, per-tag breakdown (smoothing, warping, generative AI, …), and a human-readable summary.
/v1/restoreper assetSubmit a photo and receive the un-filtered, natural version — warping undone, smoothing reversed, AI artifacts removed.
/v1/scan/videoper video minuteFrame-sampled manipulation analysis for short-form and long-form video. Scored per minute of ingested footage.
/v1/analyses/{id}includedRetrieve a signed, timestamped verdict for your compliance trail — the receipt your legal and policy teams can cite.
Charged per asset, per video minute, or by committed API volume — your choice.
We're onboarding a first wave of API partners now — newsrooms, platforms, and verification vendors first. Tell us what you're building.