Google is shutting down the Perspective API on December 31, 2026. If your moderation pipeline, your community bot, or your research depends on it, you need a new home for toxicity scoring. I built one.
What it is
A Perspective-compatible toxicity scorer: send comment text, get back a toxicity score in the same shape Perspective users already know — so migration is mostly an endpoint change, not a rewrite.
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Endpoint:
POST https://exchangerebel.com/toll/toxicity/analyze - Price: $0.005 per call · batch of up to 100 comments for $0.25
- No subscription, no monthly minimum, no API-key dashboard to babysit. It is pay-per-call, built for scripts and AI agents as much as for humans.
How good is it — measured, not claimed
I evaluated it against Jigsaw's public test data (the same source Perspective was built on): 63,978 comments, mean AUC 0.9863 across the toxicity attributes. That is a strong score, and I am publishing it because a scorer you cannot measure is a scorer you cannot trust.
One honest limitation, stated up front: scores in the 0.3–0.7 band are review territory, not verdicts. No classifier — mine included — should auto-ban a human on a mid-band score. Design your pipeline so the middle goes to a person.
Why pay-per-call
Perspective was free, and free is why it is being shut down. A scorer that charges half a cent per call can afford to exist next year. If you are an agent developer: this is one of 34 pay-per-call data services at ExchangeRebel, all priced the same way — you only pay for delivered answers, and a failed call is refunded, not billed.
Try it with one comment you already know the answer to. That is the only demo that matters.
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