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Veritone
AI orchestration platform and applications for media archives, public safety evidence and advertising
As of 31 August 2026, Veritone's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A publicly listed company selling aiWARE, an orchestration layer that runs many third-party AI models over one media archive, plus finished applications for digital evidence, media monetisation and advertising. Softwr lists it under AI. Veritone is made by Veritone, Inc., available on Web, API, Self-hosted.
Overview
What Veritone does
Veritone, Inc. is a Nasdaq-listed company whose core technology is aiWARE, an operating layer that routes media through a catalogue of machine learning engines from many vendors for transcription, translation, face and object recognition, redaction and content indexing, then makes the results searchable. Rather than betting on one model, it selects among competing ones and normalises the output, which is the architectural argument for buying a platform rather than an API. In practice buyers do not purchase an orchestration layer, they purchase an application built on it. The three that matter are iDEMS, a digital evidence management system for police and prosecutors that handles body camera and interview footage with automated redaction; media and entertainment products that index broadcast archives so rights holders can find and licence clips; and an advertising and content intelligence suite. Public sector adoption is helped by aiWARE holding FedRAMP authorisation, which for US government buyers removes a procurement barrier that no amount of feature parity would. The fact a shortlist should turn on is corporate. Veritone divested Veritone One, its media agency, in 2024 for up to $104 million, and has been reshaping itself around software and licensing with revenue guidance in the low hundreds of millions. That is a company mid-restructure. Public filings make its financial position unusually visible compared with private competitors, which cuts both ways: you can read the risk, and the risk is legible. For a multi-year evidence management contract, read the filings before the datasheet.
What people use it for
- A police department buried in body camera footage that must be redacted before disclosure, where automated face and audio redaction converts weeks of manual work into review time
- A broadcaster or sports rights holder that cannot find footage in its own archive and loses licensing revenue because searching it costs more than the clip earns
- A federal agency that needs AI processing inside an authorised boundary, where FedRAMP status decides the shortlist before capability does
- A media buyer wanting attribution on broadcast and podcast advertising that digital analytics tools cannot see
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- Nothing is publicly priced, and because consumption of the underlying AI engines is metered, the total cost of a large archive ingest is difficult to forecast before you have run one.
- The company is mid-restructure after divesting its media agency, with revenue guidance well below earlier expectations, so a buyer signing a multi-year evidence contract is taking corporate risk they can read in the public filings but cannot control.
- The orchestration proposition means Veritone sits between you and the model vendors, so when a specific engine underperforms on your content the remedy is a support case rather than switching provider yourself.
- The product portfolio spans law enforcement, broadcast, advertising and synthetic voice, which is a wide surface for one engineering organisation and means attention to any single application depends on where the revenue growth currently is.
- Automated redaction is a review aid, not a guarantee: an agency remains legally responsible for what is disclosed, so the staff time saved is smaller than the demonstration implies once verification is included.
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Pricing
What Veritone costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
aiWARE platform
On request
- Consumption-based use of the AI engine catalogue
- Enterprise licence, quoted
- Self-hosted and FedRAMP deployment options
iDEMS
On request
- Digital evidence management for law enforcement
- Automated redaction and disclosure workflow
- Quoted per agency, commonly on government contract vehicles
Media and entertainment applications
On request
- Archive indexing, monetisation and advertising intelligence
- Quoted
Capabilities
Features
aiWARE orchestration
Routes media through many third-party AI engines and normalises the output into one searchable index
iDEMS
Digital evidence management for law enforcement with automated redaction and chain of custody
Automated redaction
Face, plate and audio redaction on body camera and interview footage for disclosure
Media archive indexing
Searchable index over broadcast and film archives for rights holders and licensing teams
FedRAMP authorisation
Authorised for US federal use, including self-hosted tenant deployment
Advertising and content intelligence
Measurement and attribution over broadcast and podcast advertising
Voice and synthetic media
Licensed synthetic voice products for rights holders and estates
Self-hosted deployment
Deployable into government tenants rather than only as multi-tenant cloud
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
What do you actually buy from Veritone?
An application, most often iDEMS for digital evidence or a media archive product. aiWARE is the platform underneath, and it is rarely purchased on its own outside enterprise and government deals.
Is pricing published?
No. Everything is quoted, and platform use is metered by consumption of the underlying AI engines, which makes forecasting a large ingest difficult.
Is it approved for US government use?
aiWARE holds FedRAMP authorisation and can be deployed into self-hosted government tenants, which is frequently the reason it reaches a public sector shortlist.
Did Veritone sell its advertising agency?
Yes. Veritone One was divested in 2024 for up to $104 million, and the remaining company is focused on enterprise AI software and licensing.
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