Bodyguard

Name: Bodyguard
Brand: Bodyguard

All-in-one moderation and audience insights solution

Est 2018|Valuation $31.6M|Raised $11.4M|27 Ref Customers

LinkedIn 9K|Web traffic 8K|FTEs 36|HQ Paris, Île-de-France, FR

MarketsSocial Listening & Consumer Intelligence

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Bodyguard vs Spectrum Labs - Spectrum Labs emphasizes deep Trust & Safety capabilities, contextual AI, and enterprise compliance support. It positions itself for platforms that require extensive behavioral classification and regulatory alignment. - Bodyguard emphasizes an integrated moderation and insights product with multi-platform integrations and a centralized dashboard. - For large platforms facing extreme abuse vectors that require a specialized Trust & Safety stack, Spectrum Labs may be more closely aligned. Bodyguard vs Modulate (ToxMod) - Modulate is specialized for voice moderation and gaming trust & safety. Bodyguard provides multimodal moderation and social integrations for text/images/video. - Gaming organizations with substantial voice toxicity concerns may combine a text-focused provider with a voice-native vendor such as Modulate. Bodyguard vs Hive Moderation (API-first) - Hive is commonly adopted as an API provider for organizations that build custom moderation workflows; Bodyguard provides a dashboarded workflow with integrations. - Organizations that prefer model-provider APIs and have engineering capacity to build a complete moderation pipeline may prefer API-first vendors for flexibility and cost control.

Market share and adoption trends

Public data is insufficient to credibly state market share.
Adoption signals include recognizable customers and event usage; competitors also present customer and funding claims.

	Bodyguard	Spectrum Labs (Guardian)	Modulate (ToxMod)
Starting Price	entry tier in the low thousands per month (Guardian plan)	pricing often handled via sales engagement	free/low-entry starter options with paid tiers in the mid-thousands per month
Primary fit	Brands and platforms seeking multi-channel moderation and a centralized dashboard	Large platforms with deep Trust & Safety needs (behavioral classification, contextual AI)	Gaming and voice chat moderation (voice-native analysis)
Key capability	Multi-platform social integrations and API; real-time moderation focus; published entry pricing	Trust & Safety-oriented contextual AI and compliance support	Voice moderation specialization
Key limitation	Limited public third-party reviews and limited public security-certification transparency	Pricing often opaque and sales-led motion	Narrower focus (voice) compared with broader social comment moderation

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Bodyguard vs Spectrum Labs

Spectrum Labs emphasizes deep Trust & Safety capabilities, contextual AI, and enterprise compliance support. It positions itself for platforms that require extensive behavioral classification and regulatory alignment.
Bodyguard emphasizes an integrated moderation and insights product with multi-platform integrations and a centralized dashboard.
For large platforms facing extreme abuse vectors that require a specialized Trust & Safety stack, Spectrum Labs may be more closely aligned.

Bodyguard vs Modulate (ToxMod)

Modulate is specialized for voice moderation and gaming trust & safety. Bodyguard provides multimodal moderation and social integrations for text/images/video.
Gaming organizations with substantial voice toxicity concerns may combine a text-focused provider with a voice-native vendor such as Modulate.

Bodyguard vs Hive Moderation (API-first)

Hive is commonly adopted as an API provider for organizations that build custom moderation workflows; Bodyguard provides a dashboarded workflow with integrations.
Organizations that prefer model-provider APIs and have engineering capacity to build a complete moderation pipeline may prefer API-first vendors for flexibility and cost control.

Market share and adoption trends

Public data is insufficient to credibly state market share.
Adoption signals include recognizable customers and event usage; competitors also present customer and funding claims.

	Bodyguard	Spectrum Labs (Guardian)	Modulate (ToxMod)
Starting Price	entry tier in the low thousands per month (Guardian plan)	pricing often handled via sales engagement	free/low-entry starter options with paid tiers in the mid-thousands per month
Primary fit	Brands and platforms seeking multi-channel moderation and a centralized dashboard	Large platforms with deep Trust & Safety needs (behavioral classification, contextual AI)	Gaming and voice chat moderation (voice-native analysis)
Key capability	Multi-platform social integrations and API; real-time moderation focus; published entry pricing	Trust & Safety-oriented contextual AI and compliance support	Voice moderation specialization
Key limitation	Limited public third-party reviews and limited public security-certification transparency	Pricing often opaque and sales-led motion	Narrower focus (voice) compared with broader social comment moderation