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ScamAI vs Reality Defender
Reality Defender is a strong, well-funded media-authenticity layer — it flags AI-generated audio, video, image, and text, and now watches live calls. But it stops at detection: no document-forgery or liveness for identity flows, and every check runs server-side. ScamAI adds the identity and document layer, and runs detection on the endpoint itself with Halo.
- Identity & document detection, not authenticity-only
- Document-forgery + liveness for KYC flows, built in
- True on-device inference with Halo, not a relocated server
At a glance
| Capability | ScamAI | Reality Defender |
|---|---|---|
| Multimodal detection (face, document, video) | Yes — one engine | Yes — media (audio, video, image, text) |
| On-device, real-time on live calls | Yes — Halo | Cloud (RealCall, RealMeeting) |
| Document-forgery & liveness for identity flows | Yes, built in | No — detection layer, no IDV |
| Explainable, evidence-backed results | Yes | Yes — scores + C2PA provenance |
| Cloud + on-prem / VPC deployment | Yes | Cloud, on-prem, air-gapped |
| Purpose-built for fraud & identity | Yes | Detection only |
Comparison reflects ScamAI's assessment; verify current capabilities with each vendor.
Reality Defender at a glance
Reality Defender is a well-funded enterprise "authenticity layer": an ensemble flagging AI-generated audio, video, image, and text across its Real Suite — RealScan, RealCall, and RealMeeting — deployable cloud, private-cloud, or air-gapped. Gartner named it a "Market Shaper" in its 2026 Emerging Market Quadrant for deepfake detection, and "the company to beat" in a research note.
Detection is only half the fight
Reality Defender scores whether media is authentic, but runs no document-forgery or liveness for identity flows and makes no identity decision. ScamAI adds exactly that layer — face, document, and liveness signals in one result your KYC flow can act on — so a flagged deepfake connects to an approve, step-up, or decline, instead of a detector plus a second identity vendor.
Defense that runs where the attack happens
RealCall and RealMeeting do watch calls in real time — but in the cloud; even Reality Defender's on-prem and air-gapped options are server-side. Halo runs detection as native inference on the endpoint itself, so sensitive call and selfie media never leaves the device. Already running Reality Defender? ScamAI drops in beside it as the on-device, identity, and document layer.
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