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The Affordable Truepic Alternative for 2026

Enterprise-grade photo and video certification shouldn't cost enterprise prices. CHECKHC offers the same C2PA-compatible blockchain verification, multi-model AI detection and 200+ year permanent storage — at up to 150x lower cost than Truepic, Verisart, Copytrack or Numbers Protocol. No enterprise contract, no sales call, no volume commitment.

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10 free certifications included. No enterprise contract required.

Why Switch to CHECKHC?

Same professional features. Same industry standards. 150x lower price.

Compare the Cost Per Certification

Enterprise Solutions
~$15/cert
vs
CHECKHC
~$0.10/cert

Based on Enterprise plan with 10,000 certifications/month at 999€

Feature Enterprise Solutions CHECKHC
Blockchain Certification ✓ ✓
AI/Deepfake Detection ✓ ✓
Video Support ✓ ✓
C2PA Compatible ✓ ✓
Permanent Storage (200+ years) ✗ ✓
GDPR Compliant (with deletion option) ✗ ✓
Local File Processing ✗ ✓
No Enterprise Contract ✗ ✓
Starting Price $10,000+/year 9€/month

The Solution

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Radical Cost Savings

Start at just 9€/month for individuals or 99€/month for businesses. No hidden fees, no long-term contracts, no enterprise sales calls.

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Same Security Standards

Blockchain-based certification creates unforgeable proof of authenticity. Official C2PA member for content provenance standards.

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Images AND Videos

Full support for both photo certification and video deepfake detection. One platform for all your content authenticity needs.

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200+ Year Storage

Your certifications aren't just recorded—they're preserved for centuries on permanent storage infrastructure. True long-term proof.

How CHECKHC delivers enterprise-grade certification at individual pricing

A detailed breakdown of the architecture that lets us stay 150x cheaper than Truepic without cutting any corners on trust or durability.

The pricing gap between CHECKHC and legacy enterprise certification tools is not magic — it is an architectural choice. Legacy providers like Truepic rely on proprietary SaaS stacks, dedicated sales teams and hosting models that were designed for multi-year enterprise contracts. CHECKHC is built from the ground up on open standards (C2PA), public blockchain infrastructure (Solana for anchoring, Arweave for 200+ year permanent storage) and automated onboarding. Every new user self-serves in under a minute, every certification is processed by the same hosted pipeline, and the average blockchain anchoring cost stays in the fraction of a cent range even on Solana fee spikes.

On the detection side, CHECKHC runs a multi-model panel that covers the major generative image and video models of 2026 — Midjourney v5/v6/v7, DALL-E 2/3, Stable Diffusion 1.5/SDXL/SD3, Flux.1, Adobe Firefly, Google Imagen, OpenAI Sora, Runway Gen-2/Gen-3, Luma Dream Machine, Kling and Vidu. Each detector is specialised in a family of fingerprints (VAE artefacts, frequency-domain anomalies, C2PA manifest parsing, temporal coherence for video). Results are combined into a single 0–100 confidence score with the most likely generator family named explicitly in plain English. According to Sumsub, deepfake fraud attempts grew by more than 550% year-over-year in 2024, and the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2024 ranked AI-driven misinformation among the most severe short-term global risks. A certification tool that cannot answer «which generator most likely produced this file?» is no longer enough for insurance, legal or editorial workflows.

Finally, on storage, CHECKHC's «Flexible» blockchain mode was designed explicitly to resolve the tension between blockchain permanence and GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure). Only a SHA-256 cryptographic hash of the file is anchored to Solana and its proof is duplicated on Arweave for long-term availability. The original file never leaves your infrastructure unless you explicitly opt into our optional encrypted storage. Competing tools that upload the file itself to a private backend simply cannot offer the same GDPR alignment — and that matters for every European newsroom, insurance company and law firm that adopts certification in 2026. For a deep dive on that topic, see our detailed guide on GDPR image storage.

How CHECKHC compares to other alternatives

Truepic is not the only enterprise certification tool on the market. Here is how CHECKHC lines up against the four most commonly cited competitors.

vs Truepic. Truepic pioneered C2PA-compatible mobile capture and is widely used in insurance and humanitarian documentation. Its SDK is strong but its entry-level pricing is oriented towards enterprise integrations. CHECKHC covers the same C2PA compatibility and adds self-serve pricing from 9€/month, blockchain anchoring to Solana and multi-model AI detection in the same dashboard — features that Truepic typically bundles only on enterprise tiers.

vs Verisart. Verisart focuses on NFT and digital art certification and works very well for galleries and collectors. CHECKHC covers that same scenario through our NFT authenticity certification workflow, but also handles photojournalism, insurance evidence, legal photography and GDPR-compliant enterprise archives — a broader surface at a lower price point.

vs Copytrack. Copytrack is excellent at tracking unauthorised image reuse across the web, but it does not certify authenticity before publication. CHECKHC is the complementary layer: you certify the original at creation, then if someone reposts it, you can cryptographically prove your version pre-dates theirs. Many photographers and agencies use both.

vs Numbers Protocol. Numbers Protocol is a Web3-native content provenance platform with a strong developer ecosystem. CHECKHC offers a simpler, single-dashboard experience aimed at non-developer professionals (journalists, insurers, lawyers, photographers) who want C2PA compatibility and blockchain proof without having to learn a Web3 stack. Our API covers the technical use cases for teams who do want developer-grade integration.

Three concrete migration scenarios

Real contexts where switching from a legacy enterprise certification tool to CHECKHC changes the economics of the project.

Regional newsroom, 2,000 photos/month

A regional newsroom was quoted around 30,000€/year for an enterprise certification licence covering 2,000 photos per month. Switching to CHECKHC's Business tier, the same volume costs under 100€/month — a saving of roughly 28,800€ per year. The editorial team reinvested the saved budget into an additional reporter and still got audit-ready PDF verification reports for every photo published.

Insurance claims department

An insurance company was using a legacy tool priced per certification for claim evidence photos. With about 8,000 photos per month, the bill was running above 120,000€/year. CHECKHC's API at 99€/month covers the same volume under the Business plan. The fraud team got faster detection reports (including an explicit «likely AI-generated» flag on every suspicious claim photo) and the legal team got a blockchain-anchored audit trail.

Freelance photographer collective

A collective of 12 wedding and editorial photographers could not justify individual enterprise subscriptions but wanted authoritative proof that the images they delivered were untouched originals. Each member now runs their own 9€/month CHECKHC Individual plan. Total yearly cost: under 1,300€ for the entire collective — less than a single seat on the competing platform they evaluated.

Who's Making the Switch?

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Media Agencies

News organizations certifying source images without enterprise budgets.

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Law Firms

Legal professionals needing court-admissible photo evidence certification.

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Insurance Companies

Claims departments verifying photo authenticity at scale.

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Photography Studios

Professional photographers protecting their work from AI accusations.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How can CHECKHC be 150x cheaper than Truepic without cutting corners? +
The pricing gap is structural, not accidental. Legacy enterprise certification tools carry the cost of dedicated sales teams, multi-year contract negotiations and proprietary hosting models designed for long procurement cycles. CHECKHC is built on open standards (C2PA) and public blockchain infrastructure (Solana for anchoring, Arweave for permanent storage), has fully automated onboarding, and relies on a single hosted detection pipeline shared across all users. Every euro you pay goes into engineering, research and infrastructure rather than into enterprise overhead. The trust guarantees — cryptographic hashing, blockchain timestamping, C2PA compatibility — are exactly the same.
Is CHECKHC certification legally valid as evidence? +
CHECKHC certifications combine three legally meaningful elements: a SHA-256 cryptographic hash that mathematically proves file integrity, a blockchain timestamp from Solana that proves the file existed at a given date, and a permanent Arweave proof for long-term availability. Courts across Europe and North America increasingly accept this kind of cryptographic evidence as proof of creation date and integrity, though the evidentiary weight depends on the specific jurisdiction and case. CHECKHC is a French SAS based in Rochefort (SIREN 994 183 275), which simplifies the legal base for European proceedings. We recommend discussing certification workflows with your legal counsel for court-specific requirements.
Is CHECKHC fully C2PA compatible like Truepic and Adobe? +
Yes. CHECKHC is compatible with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) standard, which is the same standard used by Adobe, Microsoft, BBC, Reuters, Sony, Nikon and Truepic. Your certified images carry C2PA manifests that can be read by any compatible viewer, including social platforms that are starting to display provenance badges on verified content. The C2PA layer is complementary to our blockchain anchoring — you get both the cross-industry provenance chain and the cryptographic immutability, in a single certification flow.
How does CHECKHC handle GDPR when the blockchain is immutable? +
This is one of the most important architectural decisions we made. Only a SHA-256 hash of your file is anchored to the blockchain, never the file itself. The hash is a 64-character string that cannot be reversed into the original image, so blockchain permanence does not conflict with GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure): you can always delete the original file, and the hash remains meaningful only if someone presents a file whose hash matches. For European newsrooms, insurers and law firms this is the difference between a workable compliance story and a blocker. See our detailed explainer on GDPR image storage.
Can I migrate from Truepic, Verisart or Numbers Protocol without losing existing certifications? +
Yes. Migrating to CHECKHC is a zero-risk move because certification systems do not invalidate each other. Your existing certifications on Truepic, Verisart, Numbers Protocol or any C2PA-compatible platform remain valid on their original chain. You simply start certifying new content with CHECKHC going forward, and for critical legacy assets you can re-certify on our pipeline to add a second, independent proof. There is no vendor lock-in and no forced data migration. Most customers complete the switch in a single afternoon and start generating reports the same day.
Does CHECKHC really detect AI-generated images and videos, or just blockchain-stamp them? +
CHECKHC does both, and this is a key difference from tools that only stamp files without checking their origin. Every upload can be routed through our multi-model AI detector which covers Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Flux.1, Adobe Firefly, Imagen, Sora, Runway, Luma, Kling and Vidu. You get a 0–100 confidence score and the most likely generator family named explicitly. This means you can use CHECKHC both defensively (is this photo I was sent really authentic?) and proactively (I want to prove my own photo is not AI). Both flows live in the same dashboard.
What is actually included in the 10 free certifications trial? +
Every new account gets 10 free certifications with the full feature set: multi-model AI detection report, blockchain anchoring on Solana, permanent Arweave proof and a downloadable audit-ready PDF. No credit card is required, no feature is locked behind the paywall and no watermark is added to your reports. The goal is to let you evaluate the complete workflow on your own files before you commit to an Individual or Business plan. Most teams use their 10 free certifications on a mixed set — a tipster photo, a wedding portfolio sample and a suspected deepfake — and decide within a day.
Who should stay on Truepic or enterprise tools rather than switch? +
We are genuinely honest about this. If your organisation already has a deep, custom integration of Truepic's SDK inside a mobile capture app, or a multi-year signed enterprise contract with professional services you rely on, switching purely to save money may not be worth the migration effort. CHECKHC is the right choice for teams that are still evaluating, for organisations that currently have no certification layer at all, and for users who value self-serve speed and lower total cost of ownership over white-glove enterprise onboarding. Book a 15-minute evaluation call if you want a neutral recommendation on your specific setup.