On-device moderation: privacy and cost, solved together
Why scanning user content on the phone, instead of a cloud service, fixes two problems at once.
Content moderation is usually framed as a cost center: every image and message becomes an API call. Move it on-device and the economics flip.
Nothing to upload
Nosmai Moderation classifies images, video and text directly on the device. Because nothing is uploaded, there is no per-call bill and no new data-handling surface to defend in a compliance review.
Your policy, your thresholds
Every item gets a confidence score per category, and you set the cut-off, globally or per category. Adjust at runtime, ship a remote config flip without an app release, and tighten as you learn how your community behaves.
Moderation that never sees a server is cheaper, faster, and easier to certify. There is no trade-off to make. — Daniel Park
Where to go from here
If you are weighing build vs buy on moderation, the cost story usually decides it. With a per-call model, you are bidding against your own growth. With on-device, you are bidding once. That is the version we wanted to be able to buy ourselves.