NSFW Video Detector
NSFW video detector. Upload a video and AI flags nudity, sexual, and explicit content with a clear safe-or-not verdict and a category breakdown.
Choose the type of analysis you want to perform on your video.
Only models with video understanding are shown. Access depends on your subscription tier.
Supports YouTube, Vimeo, and direct video file URLs. YouTube links work best with Gemini.
What is NSFW Video Detector?
NSFW Video Detector is an AI tool that scans a video you upload and classifies whether it contains nudity, sexual content, or other explicit material, then gives you a plain safe-or-not verdict. It is built for content moderation, brand safety, and parental screening, the moments when you need to know what is in a clip before it goes live, gets attached to an ad, or lands in front of a kid. This is a content-safety assessment, not a moral judgment about the people in the video, and it is not meant to shame, identify, or target anyone shown. The point is a fast classification a human can act on. You upload a clip and the AI returns a top-line rating (SFW, Borderline-Suggestive, or NSFW), a category breakdown rating nudity, sexual content, suggestive framing, graphic violence, and strong language, and a quick set of safe-for flags for work, general audiences, kids, and ad platforms. It is honest about its limits: an automated check can miss brief or subtle content and it can over-flag perfectly innocent footage, so it is a screening aid rather than a definitive ruling. For anything that looks graphic or potentially illegal it may decline to analyze in detail.
How NSFW Video Detector Works
Upload a video and the AI reviews it frame by frame along with any audio, looking for the kinds of content that make a clip unsafe for a given audience. It starts by reading your notes, because the same video can be fine on one platform and a policy violation on another, so telling it the intended platform and how strict you need the threshold sharpens the call. It then assigns a top-line verdict of SFW, Borderline-Suggestive, or NSFW with an age-suitability note. From there it breaks the content into categories and rates each as none, mild, moderate, or explicit: nudity, sexual content, suggestive or sexualized framing, graphic violence, and strong language, since violence and profanity also affect whether something is work-safe. For each category it describes what it observed and where, with timestamps when the content appears only in part of the video rather than throughout. It then summarizes with quick safe-for flags (work, general audience, kids, advertising) as yes, caution, or no. Finally it states its limitations plainly, because the assessment is a screening aid for a human decision and not a definitive ruling, and it may decline to fully analyze graphic or potentially illegal material.
Benefits of NSFW Video Detector
- Get a fast safe-or-not verdict on a video before you publish it, attach it to an ad, or share it.
- See a category breakdown that separates nudity, sexual content, suggestive framing, graphic violence, and strong language instead of one vague flag.
- Screen user-generated uploads for moderation without a person having to watch every clip in full first.
- Check brand safety so a sponsor's name never ends up next to content that violates their guidelines.
- Give parents a quick read on whether a clip is appropriate for a kids channel or a younger viewer.
- Get timestamps for where flagged content appears, so a reviewer can jump straight to the part that matters.
- Tune the call to your context by telling it the platform and how strict your threshold needs to be.
Tips for Best Results
- Tell it the platform you plan to use the video on, since work-safe, ad-safe, and kid-safe are very different thresholds.
- Say how strict you need it to be, because borderline-suggestive content can pass on one platform and fail on another.
- Upload the full clip rather than a trimmed sample, since flagged content can appear briefly at any point in the video.
- Treat the result as a screening aid and keep a human in the loop for the final publishing or filtering decision.
- Use the timestamps to review only the flagged sections instead of rewatching the entire video.
- Expect occasional over-flagging on innocent footage like swimwear or medical content, and double-check those manually.
- Re-check a re-edited or blurred version if you fix the flagged part, to confirm the verdict actually changed.
Popular Use Cases
- Platforms and communities moderating user-generated video uploads before they go public.
- Brand and marketing teams checking that a clip is safe to run next to a sponsor or in a paid campaign.
- Parents and educators screening videos before showing them to children or approving a kids channel.
- Creators verifying that a video clears a platform's content policy before they hit publish.
- Ad-ops teams filtering submitted creative for nudity, sexual content, or graphic violence.
- Trust-and-safety reviewers triaging a queue of reported videos to the ones that need a closer human look.
- Anyone who received a video and simply wants to know whether it is safe to open at work or around others.
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