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Aidetector Cx vs Geardex

Screening text, images, video and voice for AI-generation signals before publication or submission · Photographers, videographers and small studios who need one record of every camera, lens and drone - serials, receipts, values, loans and maintenance - instead of a spreadsheet beside a shared drive

Decision pointAIDetector.cxGearDex
Best forScreening text, images, video and voice for AI-generation signals before publication or submissionPhotographers, videographers and small studios who need one record of every camera, lens and drone - serials, receipts, values, loans and maintenance - instead of a spreadsheet beside a shared drive
CategoryProductivityProductivity
PriceFree (5 trial checks) + Pro $10/mo billed annually ($120/yr) - Pro Plus $24.17/mo ($290/yr) - Business $65.83/mo ($790/yr)Starter free (25 gear items, 10 categories, 25 AI actions a week, one 50 MB client gallery, a 3-page site); Pro $4/mo or $39/yr; Studio $19/mo or $179/yr; no free trial on paid plans
AIToolsEssentials editorial score4.0/54.2/5

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AIDetector.cx

Free: 5 introductory checks total (1 guest + 4 signed-in), no recurring reset. Pro $10/month billed annually ($120/year) with 300 credits/month. Pro Plus US$29/month or US$290/year - 1,000 credits/month. Business US$79/month or US$790/year - 3,000 credits/month with up to 5 team seats. Annual billing is charged upfront and grants credits monthly on the renewal cycle. Credit costs vary by job: standard text/image/video detection 1 credit, advanced image & deepfake analysis 4 credits/image, forensic video & deepfake 6 credits per 30s, citation verification 1 credit per 5 references, hallucination checking 2 credits per 1,000 words. Verified 2026-10-08 from /pricing plus the shipped /assets/index-*.js monthlyPrice literals (12/29/79), which agree.

Official sources checked 2026-10-08
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  • Payment processor attribution differs across two live legal pages - the Privacy Policy names Paystack for billing while the Cookie Policy names Stripe (plus a Stripe cookie table). Both may be accurate for different layers, but the checkout flow was not exercised.
  • No independent third-party accuracy evaluation is published; the benchmark figures are the vendor's own results on a 400-document internal corpus.
  • Security posture is now unanswered rather than contradicted - the former 'SOC-2 Type II Certified' footer claim was removed in the 2026-10-08 fix, and no replacement certification or audit detail is published.
  • The free tier is five one-time introductory checks (1 guest + 4 signed-in), not a recurring free plan.

Not a FormSubmit submission - an inbound affiliate/partnership offer to partnerships@aidetector.cx, held from 2026-10-06 pending two publication blockers. Editorial entry written independently; no vendor copy reused. Both blockers verified cleared on the live site 2026-10-08: (1) the training-use contradiction is gone - both /detector and /privacy now state submitted analysis text is not used to train or fine-tune detection models on any plan, and the old Enterprise/Professional-scoped opt-out sentence no longer exists; (2) the four named third-party testimonials (Forbes / Stripe / HubSpot / Nature Portfolio) have been removed from /detector. The vendor also removed the SOC-2 Type II footer claim and the 98.7% / 1.2s / 12.4M+ / 142+ marketing figures. Verified the same day from the live pages: /pricing (plans 12/29/79 monthly, 120/290/790 annual, 300/1,000/3,000 credits), /privacy (data controller AIDetector.cx Inc., Berkeley CA; 12-month analysis history retention, deletable from the dashboard; no training use), /terms (you retain ownership of submitted content; output licensed for personal or commercial use; governed by California law), /cookies (Cloudflare / Stripe / Supabase), and a sitemap listing ~40 pages. Operator: AIDetector.cx Inc., a named legal entity, not a sole-proprietor microsite. Name is shared with unrelated live detectors on aidetector.com and aidetector.ai, so the listing carries the exact .cx domain. Affiliate terms confirmed in writing 2026-10-08 - 30% recurring on eligible subscription payments for the lifetime of the customer, monthly and annual eligible, 30-day attribution window, 30-day hold, $50 minimum payout.

GearDex

Starter free: up to 25 gear items in 10 categories, 3 shoot plans, 1 client gallery with 50 MB, 1 gear document, 1 kit on the Site, 25 AI actions a week, QR label per item, CSV import and export. Pro $4/month or $39/year ($3.25/month billed yearly, saving $9): unlimited gear in 50 categories, 3 Site themes and 10 pages with own domain, 3 client galleries at 200 MB each, 150 AI actions a week, market price lookup 10/week. Studio $19/month or $179/year (~$14.92/month billed yearly, saving $49): 10-seat team workspace, all 12 themes, Stories, 10 active galleries at 10 GB each with 100 GB total, booking, quotes, contracts, invoices, Studio Agent API and webhooks, unlimited AI actions. Prices in USD with taxes calculated at checkout. No free trial on paid plans; refunds not automatic. The site's llms.txt states that older third-party listings quoting $9 and $29 are out of date.

Official sources checked 2026-10-21

Submitted via form by the vendor 2026-10-22 05:38 UTC (2026-10-21 22:38 PDT); editorial entry written independently from live pages on the site's Pacific working date 2026-10-21. Prices were read from three surfaces that agree: the application/ld+json Offer array on /pricing (0.00, 4.00, 39.00, 19.00, 179.00), the rendered plan cards and the limit-by-limit comparison table on the same page, and /legal/billing which restates US$4/month or US$39/year and US$19/month or US$179/year; the site's llms.txt carries the same figures. Category was reclassified from the submitted 'Writing & Productivity' to Productivity after reading the product pages - it is a gear-inventory and studio-operations app, not a writing tool. Legal pages read in full: /legal/privacy (last updated 2026-10-19, 16 sections), /legal/terms (2026-10-02, 13 sections, California governing law, liability cap of the greater of six months' fees or US$100), /legal/billing (refunds, renewals, California Automatic Renewal Law notice) and /legal/notice; all four return 200 and the Terms' reference to /legal/billing resolves. Privacy section 1 names the controller as Dylan Andersen, GearDex, 842 St Vincent, Irvine, CA 92618, matching /legal/notice and /contact. Trackers were checked on the served pages rather than assumed: Google Analytics G-BNVX42Q1BT loads with Consent Mode defaulting analytics_storage and ad_storage to denied and send_page_view false, and the policy scopes Analytics to accepted cookies, with an Accept All / Reject All banner present in the markup. Contact route: geardex.app publishes no MX (DNS returns only the SOA for the apex), so the address on every page and in the submission - geardex.help@gmail.com - is the working route, not a @geardex.app address. Domain registered 2025-06-28 with Namecheap on Vercel DNS, 16 months old at the check. The privacy policy describes iPhone and Android apps that are not shipped - /download offers Safari Add to Home Screen for iPhone, lists no Android app and carries no App Store or Play link - and that discrepancy is recorded in cons rather than treated as a blocker. Vendor usage claims (300+ photographers, 6,100+ items tracked, $722K+ managed) are unverified by us. No purchase or account was created and no checkout was exercised.

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