Productivity comparison
Aidetector Cx vs Sonaopus
Screening text, images, video and voice for AI-generation signals before publication or submission · Structuring HR, EA, project, recruiting, and real-estate situations into prompts that produce usable documents
| Decision point | AIDetector.cx | Sonaopus |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Screening text, images, video and voice for AI-generation signals before publication or submission | Structuring HR, EA, project, recruiting, and real-estate situations into prompts that produce usable documents |
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Price | Free (5 trial checks) + Pro $12/mo ($120/yr) - Pro Plus $29/mo ($290/yr) - Business $79/mo ($790/yr) | $99 one-time per profession (five products) |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 4.0/5 | 4.1/5 |
Scores are editorial product assessments — job fit, likely output quality, ease of adoption, and operational cost — not lab benchmarks, and no tool here has a published hands-on result. How we score.
Evidence status
Free: 5 introductory checks total (1 guest + 4 signed-in), no recurring reset. Pro US$12/month or US$120/year - 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 2026-10-08Open verification questions
- 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.
$99 USD one-time per profession-specific product, no subscription and no recurring charge. Five products: HR Management, Executive Assistant, Project Management, Real Estate, Recruiting. Free tier: up to eight generations per profession before purchase, with no signup or card. Lifetime access covers future updates to that profession's tool. Terms state that except where required by law all purchases are final and no refunds are offered, with the free trial given as the reason. A stale third-party mirror (devadex.com) still lists a retired pre-launch $59 price; the mirrored store account sonaopusaiworkflow.gumroad.com now returns 404 and the price on every live vendor page is $99.
Official sources checked 2026-09-13Open verification questions
- No service address or city/country is published for the seller or data controller; the vendor declined to publish one beyond the Nigeria governing-law clause. The operator name is disclosed.
- No data-export feature exists for locally stored workflow data; the Privacy Policy states this and directs users to contact support.
- A stale third-party mirror (devadex.com) continues to advertise a retired $59 pre-launch price for the HR product. The mirrored Gumroad account now 404s; the mirror is outside the vendor's direct control.
Submitted via /submit-tool.html by the vendor on 2026-09-09 and held pending verification. The vendor published /privacy and /terms on 2026-09-12 and answered every outstanding question, so the listing was published 2026-09-12 with remaining caveats recorded in cons and unresolved_claims. Editorial entry written independently; no submission copy was reused. Verified on 2026-09-12: both legal pages live and substantive; all five Gumroad products at $99 with no subscription; shipped JavaScript writes only sonaopus_hr/_ea/_pm/_re/_role to localStorage, makes zero fetch/XHR/sendBeacon calls, and has no third-party script tags; handoff targets claude.ai/new, chatgpt.com/ and gemini.google.com/ carry no query parameters. Operator: Praise Boyinde, sole proprietor, no registered entity, governing law Nigeria. The domain publishes no MX records, so the Gmail address printed in both legal pages is the only reachable contact. Re-checked 2026-09-13 against the live homepage and a vendor email the same day. Closed: the homepage FAQ no longer says “Nothing stored”; on-page copy now matches the Privacy Policy (everything runs in the browser, progress saves locally, nothing is sent until you hand it to an assistant). Closed: a standalone legal-review FAQ (“Nothing happens without you”) is live and treats ER letters, HR policies, and similar outputs as drafts to verify, with legal or compliance risk flagged on-screen. Closed: affiliate terms were stated in writing by the vendor on 2026-09-13 — 40% flat one-time commission ($39.60 per $99 product), no recurring commission because there is no subscription, 30-day cookie, attribution and payout through Gumroad. Approved and wired 2026-09-13: site ref https://sonaopus.com/?ref=58448483 on Visit and official-pricing CTAs; per-product Gumroad affiliate URLs on the five profession products. Editorial score, cons, and methodology are unchanged.
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