COMPARISON · HOSTED MODERATION

Deterministic moderation
on your own terms.

Bodyguard.ai is a hosted moderation SaaS with contextual analysis. Filter8 is the deterministic alternative you can replay and explain — sub-millisecond on the hot path, flat-cost at scale, and nothing retained after the response.

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Deterministic & replayable

A hosted contextual model gives you a decision and a confidence. Filter8's verdict is a pure function of (bundle, input) — the same answer every time, with a trace you can replay.

Flat cost, private

Subscription/usage pricing scales with volume. Filter8 is flat at scale — and keeps nothing after the response.

Evasion + PII built-in

26 evasion classes folded before matching, plus phone/email/URL classifiers — including spelled-out — in one sub-millisecond call.

Bodyguard.ai vs Filter8 — on text

CAPABILITY	Bodyguard.ai	Filter8
Approach	Hosted contextual ML	Deterministic engine
Cost model	Subscription / usage	Flat — marginal cost ≈ compute
Latency	Network round-trip	Sub-millisecond, in-process
Output	Moderation decision	Verdict + clean_text
Explainable / replayable	Confidence / labels	✓ reproducible explain trace
Data residency	Text sent to Bodyguard	Nothing retained after the response
Evasion (leet · homoglyph · spacing · zero-width)	Model-dependent	26 classes, deterministic
Contact / PII (incl. spelled-out)	Varies	Built-in classifiers
Rating-aware (E–M · minors)	Configurable	Per-rating, per-category ceilings
Multilingual contextual analysis	✓ core strength	— English-first, deterministic

Bodyguard is a product of Bodyguard.ai. Comparison as of July 2026 based on public information and Filter8's positioning; capabilities and pricing change — verify current details with the vendor before relying on specifics.

WHERE BODYGUARD WINS

Honest about the trade

Bodyguard.ai's strength is contextual, multilingual ML analysis as a managed service, with social-platform integrations for brands moderating public feeds. If you want nuance across many languages without curating anything, that's a real fit. Filter8 is deliberately narrow: the fastest, cheapest, most private path for high-volume text — and it escalates the ambiguous tail to a model when you want that nuance.

Bodyguard.ai comparison questions

Is Filter8 a Bodyguard.ai alternative?

For the deterministic, high-volume text path, yes — replayable, sub-millisecond, flat-cost. Bodyguard's strength is hosted multilingual contextual analysis; route that nuanced tail to a model async.

Can I self-host?

Not yet — Filter8 is a managed, hosted API today. It keeps nothing after the response and logs offsets, never the text.

Is deterministic accurate enough?

For known patterns and evasion on the hot path, yes and far faster. Escalate the genuinely ambiguous cases to a model, off the hot path.

Does Filter8 do many languages?

It's English-first and deterministic today. For broad multilingual nuance, pair a model for the review tail — deterministic core, model on the edge.

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Deterministic moderation, on your terms.

Replayable and flat-cost. Run your worst-case inputs and decide on evidence. 100 free calls, no card.

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