Is this video a deepfake?
Verify any video in seconds — for free. Upload a clip or paste a direct link, and our AI video checker scans frame-by-frame for face swaps and AI synthesis (Sora, Kling, Veo, Runway, Hailuo, Luma).
Speed Tip: Clips under 60 seconds analyze fastest (approx. 5–10s). Max video length: 5 minutes / 50 MB.
Specialized Detectors & Forensics
Model signatures & catfish checksHow to verify if a video is real or a deepfake
- 1. Upload or paste
- Drop a clip from your device or paste a direct video file URL (MP4, MOV, WebM — max 50 MB).
- 2. Frame-by-frame analysis
- Our detection engine samples frames across the clip and scans each for face-swap artifacts and known generator signatures.
- 3. Clear verdict
- Real or Deepfake / AI — with separate deepfake and AI-generation scores, the likely generator, and how many frames were analyzed.
How to spot a deepfake video
A detector is the reliable check, but a few tells are worth knowing — especially on a clip you can only watch, not upload. Slow it down and look for these.
- Blinking & eye movement
- Deepfaked faces often blink too rarely, too regularly, or with eyes that do not quite track where the person is looking.
- Lip-sync & mouth interior
- Watch the mouth on hard consonants (b, p, m) and look inside it — teeth that blur or merge and lips that drift out of sync are classic face-swap tells.
- Face edges & hairline
- The boundary where a swapped face meets hair, ears, and jaw is the hardest thing to fake. Look for flicker, warping, or a faint seam, especially on head turns.
- Lighting & shadows
- A face lit differently from its surroundings, or shadows that fall the wrong way, means the face was composited in.
- Skin texture
- AI skin is often too smooth and even — missing pores, stray hairs, and the small asymmetries of real skin — or it shimmers subtly from frame to frame.
- Teeth, jewelry & fine detail
- Generators struggle with rigid, repeating detail: teeth that change count, earrings that morph, glasses frames that wobble.
- Audio & voice
- Cloned voices can sound flat or unnaturally smooth, and the audio may drift a beat off the lips. Check the sound and the mouth together.
- Motion & physics
- Fully AI-generated clips betray themselves in motion — too-smooth "gliding" movement, hands with the wrong number of fingers, or backgrounds that warp and melt as the camera moves.
No single tell is proof: real compression, filters, and re-recording can mimic some, and the best fakes hide them all. When it matters, run the clip through a frame-by-frame detector instead of trusting your eye.
Which AI video generators we detect
Our detector recognizes the fingerprints modern text-to-video and face-swap tools leave behind, and names the most likely source when it can. These are the engines it is tuned for today.
| Model | What it is | Signature we look for |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Sora | OpenAI’s photorealistic text-to-video model. | Fluid "mass-merge" where objects flow into one another; uncanny physics on contact. |
| Runway Gen-3 | A leading cinematic AI video generator. | Edge softening and lateral motion-blur smearing on camera moves. |
| Kling | Kuaishou’s high-realism human-motion generator. | Micro-jitter in fingers and a subtle facial "breathing" between frames. |
| Google Veo | Google DeepMind’s cinematic video model. | Specular lighting that disconnects from the scene; drifting particle detail. |
| MiniMax Hailuo | A popular text-to-video engine. | Latent-decode smearing in high-detail regions. |
| Luma Dream Machine | Luma’s fast text/image-to-video model. | Texture crawl and warping across fine backgrounds. |
| Pika | An effects-driven viral video generator. | Non-physical "melt" and crush boundaries in its signature effects. |
| Alibaba Wan | An open high-definition diffusion video model. | 3D VAE decompression smearing under motion. |
| Tencent Hunyuan | A large open-source video model. | Temporal flicker in textured regions across frames. |
Deepfake vs. AI-generated: what’s the difference?
People use the words interchangeably, but they are two different things — and we score them separately.
| Deepfake (manipulated real footage) | AI-generated (fully synthetic) | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Real video of a real person, altered — usually a face swap or lip re-enactment. | The entire clip is invented by a model from a prompt; no camera ever filmed it. |
| Typical use | Impersonating a specific person — a catfish "proof" video, a fake executive, a celebrity. | A person or scene that never existed — fake influencers, scam ads, "historical" hoaxes. |
| How we detect it | Face-swap seams, blending artifacts, and inconsistencies around the edited face. | Generator fingerprints and synthesis artifacts across the whole frame. |
| Where it shows in your result | The Face-Swap / deepfake score. | The Synthetic-AI score. |
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Frequently asked questions
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