Crowdee

Overview

Crowdee is a content-verification platform that pairs automated checks with independent crowd review across text, social posts, images, audio and video. It is best suited to newsrooms, compliance teams and AI researchers that need an auditable record, rather than casual users looking for occasional fact checks.

Its strongest case is the combination of 14 verification pipelines, screened human reviewers and exportable evidence. The free demo is tightly capped, and deeper use means buying credits or arranging a custom project or enterprise agreement.

Key features

Crowdee covers articles, social posts, images, audio and video, with pipelines that also span documents, social and web context, identity and multi-file checks. That breadth makes it relevant to teams handling mixed media and claims, not just text-based fact-checking. Automation, APIs and scheduled pipelines support repeatable workflows; the 14-pipeline catalog gives teams more ways to structure checks than a single-purpose claim lookup.

For cases that need a human judgment, Crowdee can draw on more than one million screened crowd workers. Independent verdicts, inter-rater agreement and qualitative reasoning can add perspective beyond automated outputs, though managed human review is charged separately at €15 per worker-hour.

Users can export evidence and reviewer feedback in a PDF dossier for editorial or legal review; pay-as-you-go also includes JSON dossier export. Claim detection and citation links support assisted fact-checking with web sources. These features suit teams that need to explain a decision later, not only receive a verdict.

Crowdee says its websites, dashboards, databases and self-hosted Matomo analytics run on dedicated servers in German data centres, with automation hardware operated in Berlin. It says customer content and outputs are not used to train its foundation models and that third-party AI providers are contractually barred from training on them. The company signs an Article 28 GDPR data-processing agreement before processing customer data on a customer's behalf. These commitments may matter to organizations with data-protection obligations, but do not replace an assessment of their own requirements.

Pricing

Crowdee is freemium, with paid credits from €0.05. Its plans separate a limited single-image demo from broader automated access, project-based crowd review and negotiated enterprise deployment.

• Free — free: No credit card is required. Each IP address gets one image verification every 24 hours, with uploads up to 10 MB. The result includes a verdict, confidence score and supporting indicators. It is suitable for a narrow trial, but not regular team use or other media types.
• Pay-as-you-go — €0.05, paid once: Billed in credits with no commitment. It includes all AI pipelines, REST API access, bulk uploads and batch processing, PDF and JSON dossier export, and standard email support. This is the practical starting point for teams needing broader automated checks without a recurring plan.
• Managed Campaigns — custom pricing: Scoped per project, with custom survey templates and quality gates, crowd-assisted review at €15 per worker-hour, inter-rater agreement, gold-question QA and a dedicated project manager. It fits projects where structured human review matters; costs depend on the scope and worker-hours.
• Enterprise — custom pricing: A custom annual agreement includes negotiated API quotas and dedicated capacity, a custom SLA, SSO and role-based access control, signed DPA and security-questionnaire support, and an on-premise or private-cloud deployment option. This is for organizations requiring controlled access, capacity or deployment terms rather than a pay-as-you-go arrangement.

The free tier's one-image-per-IP daily cap and 10 MB upload ceiling make it a sampler, not a continuing free workflow. Pay-as-you-go avoids commitment but moves beyond the demo's single-image restriction only through paid credits. Managed Campaigns and Enterprise are project-scoped or contract-based, not fixed-price alternatives.

Platforms

Crowdee supports web, API and self-hosted use. The web option suits direct checks, while API access is included with pay-as-you-go and higher plans for teams integrating verification into their own processes. Enterprise adds an on-premise or private-cloud deployment option.

Who it's for

Newsrooms can use Crowdee to assess varied media and retain evidence for editorial review. Compliance teams may value the dossier, data-processing agreement and enterprise controls; AI researchers may find the pipeline range and crowd judgments useful for verification workflows. Its price structure and workflow breadth are less compelling for an individual who only wants occasional, quick checks.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Fourteen pipelines cover multiple formats and verification contexts, making the platform useful for mixed-media workflows.
• Pro: Crowd verdicts, inter-rater agreement and qualitative reasoning add a human review layer to automated checks.
• Pro: PDF and JSON evidence exports can support later editorial or legal review.
• Pro: API access, batch processing and scheduled pipelines suit repeatable or integrated operations.
• Con: The free demo is limited to one image verification per IP every 24 hours and a 10 MB upload.
• Con: Human review adds a €15-per-worker-hour charge, and managed and enterprise plans require custom pricing.
• Con: The platform's range and project-oriented options may be more than a casual fact-checking user needs.

Alternatives

For a broader shortlist, browse AI Fact-Checking Tools. Teams comparing workflow and data-management software can also see Data Version Control Tools.

• VerumVerify is an option for readers seeking a mobile app, with Android and iOS support alongside web access.
• FactGuard offers private on-device mode and a free allowance of three fact-checks per day, making it worth considering for individual checks.
• FAXTR offers API and web access, with a free tier of 1,000 API calls per month and a 10-request-per-minute limit; choose it if that API allowance suits the workload.
• Omniscient AI offers pay-per-use fact-check requests at $0.005 each, with live citations and a REST API plus SDK; it may fit API users seeking metered checks.
• Trusul is a web-based alternative for basic text and URL analysis with limited saved history on its free plan.
• Avancer Document Fact-Checker offers a free scan for image, audio and document checks, with API, self-hosted and web platforms.
• Eustace offers 25 free claim verifications, unlimited projects and documents, and Markdown reports for readers who want a claim ledger and reports.
• Factward offers two free daily verifications, URL and PDF checks, and shareable reports for readers whose needs fit those limits.

Verdict

Crowdee is a strong fit for newsrooms, compliance teams and researchers that need to verify varied media, combine automation with crowd judgments and preserve evidence. Its breadth and audit outputs are the main reasons to choose it; the sharply limited demo, per-credit pricing and custom costs for managed review or enterprise controls are reasons to look elsewhere if you need inexpensive, occasional checks.