Alecto Core review
Text moderation APIs pair explainable results with optional hosted human review.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Alecto Core is a cloud moderation API and operational dashboard for teams handling user-generated text in communities, chat, marketplaces and support workflows. Developers can send single, batch, structured and handle content to REST endpoints, while teams can review usage and request logs in the dashboard. It is suited to organizations that want automated moderation results and a human review path; it is less suitable for products that need moderation across multiple content types or deployment outside the cloud.
The Free plan costs £0 per month and includes 5,000 calls, a hard cap with no surprise charges, an account dashboard and docs support. Lite is £9.99 monthly for 50,000 included calls; Developer is £19 for 100,000; Growth is £49 for 500,000; and Scale is £149 for 1,000,000. Each paid plan has optional overage billing and an account dashboard. Lite and Developer include email support, while Growth and Scale include priority email support. This stepped structure lets teams choose a monthly call allowance, though the paid plans' optional overage billing differs from the Free plan's hard cap.
Responses include severity scores, suggested actions, category flags, matched terms and plain-language explanations, giving developers information to apply custom policy rules. Custom word lists, categories, allowlists and score thresholds can shape moderation, and outbound webhooks can report review and block events. For borderline cases, the hosted review queue lets moderators approve or reject content; a separate crisis-detection workflow is also available. These controls make Alecto Core a fit for teams combining automated decisions with human escalation. Buyers needing broader media coverage, more than six supported languages or non-cloud deployment should look elsewhere.
Alecto Core pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Returns severity scores, actions, category flags and plain-language explanations
- Routes borderline cases to an optional hosted human review queue
- Free plan includes 5,000 calls per month with a hard cap
- Where it doesn't
- Moderation is limited to text content
- Supports six languages
- Cloud deployment only
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