| What you point it at | Any video or audio, any topic — paste a YouTube/TikTok/Reel/podcast link, or use the Chrome/Firefox extension while you watch | Its own aggregated news feed. You browse stories it has already clustered; it isn't a tool you submit an arbitrary link to |
| Unit of analysis | The individual claim — each verifiable statement gets a 0–100 credibility score with the cross-referenced sources linked | The story — synthesized across many outlets and positioned on bias spectrums rather than adjudicated claim by claim |
| Political & establishment bias mapping | Doesn't do this. BSmeter has no left/right outlet spectrum and won't show you competing narratives on a story | Its core feature. Bias Split sliders let you move across political stance and establishment stance (plus style and depth) with AI-assisted source positioning |
| Curated source breadth for news | Cross-references each claim against live web results — good for verification, but not a curated newsroom pool | ~5,000 publications spanning mainstream and alternative media, continuously maintained by a nonprofit team |
| Deepfake & AI-generated media signals | Flags synthetic/manipulated media signals and logical fallacies alongside the claim scores | Not applicable — it works on published text journalism, not media forensics on a clip |
| Cost | Free tier; Basic $3.99/mo; Premium $8.99/mo for heavier use | Completely free with no ads — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded by donors, with no paid tier to upsell you |