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OpenAI Moderations API

Given text and/or image inputs, classifies if those inputs are potentially harmful.

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POST /moderations Check text or images for harmful content · Create moderation #

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“How do I check whether a user's message is harmful before showing it?”

“Can the moderation check handle images as well as text?”

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Check {input} for harmful content.

Classify {input} with moderation model {model} and tell me which categories were flagged.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Openai Moderations API
  version: 2.3.0
  contact:
    name: OpenAI Support
    url: https://help.openai.com/
  license:
    name: MIT
    identifier: MIT
  termsOfService: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
  description: 'Operations tagged Moderations across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: openai-openapi-master-2026-09-23.yml, openai-openapi-master-2026-10-12.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://api.openai.com/v1
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/openai/openapi/openai-moderations-api-openapi.yml

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