Overview
When you log in to Reality Defender, you'll automatically see the dashboard. This is your starting point for monitoring scan activity, accessing your products, and managing your account.
Scan activity
The main dashboard displays a metrics panel and three charts summarizing your organization's detection activity. Admins see activity across the entire organization. All other users see their own scans only.
Total scans
Overall scan count with a breakdown by media type: image, video, audio, and text.
Scan frequency
Scan volume over time, broken down by conclusion (Authentic, Manipulated, Inconclusive). Filter by media type to narrow the view.
Scans by API key
Which API keys are driving the most scan volume, shown as a percentage of total scans.
Scans by result
Distribution of conclusions across all media types, shown as a percentage.
Sidebar navigation
The left sidebar gives you access to everything in the platform.
Dark/light mode — toggle display preferences from the top of the sidebar
Dashboard — return to the main dashboard view.
RealScan and RealMeeting — access available Reality Defender products from the sidebar. Products not included in your plan may appear greyed out with an Upgrade option.
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API keys and Webhooks — manage your API keys and Webhooks.
Help Center — open support documentation.
API Documentation — open integration reference documentation.
Team — manage users and roles (admin only).
Plan — view plan details and upgrade options (admin only).
Settings — update account and feature configuration (admin only).
RealScan settings
On the Settings page, admins can configure how uploaded media is processed and analyzed.
Preprocess audio
Preprocess audio helps detect ringtones, poor audio quality, cross-talk, and other audio conditions that may affect manipulation detection.
When enabled, Reality Defender performs this preprocessing step before analysis.
Delete original files after analysis
This setting controls whether original uploaded files are retained after analysis.
When enabled, aggregated results will still appear in the dashboard, but individual result files will be removed after analysis.
Enable context models
Context models add an additional analysis layer that evaluates media files for contextual signals and additional metadata.
When enabled, Context Aware analysis may provide additional insight into scan results. Because this adds processing, it may also increase scan latency compared with scans where context models are disabled.
Enable metadata analysis
Metadata analysis adds a preprocessing check that reviews media metadata, such as EXIF or AAC metadata, for markers of AI generation or manipulation.
When enabled, Reality Defender reviews available metadata as part of the scan workflow.
Enable automatic audio analysis
Automatic audio analysis applies to video files.
When enabled, audio from videos is automatically extracted and analyzed in addition to the video. Each video costs 2 credits: 1 video credit and 1 audio credit.
When disabled, only the video is analyzed, and the scan costs 1 credit.
