The deepfake detection market, mapped by Gartner®
Compare startup vendors in Gartner’s Emerging Market Quadrant for Deepfake Detection — Startup Vendors, published 25 June 2026. The report names Reality Defender a Market Shaper.
A framework for your vendor evaluation
Deepfakes can reach the conversations and submissions behind consequential business decisions:
- Customer calls involving account access + payments
- Candidate interviews and workforce meetings
- Executive instructions involving transfers or confidential information
In our view, this Gartner report gives security, fraud and risk leaders a framework for evaluating startup vendors. Its assessment considers scale, ecosystem readiness and potential to disrupt.
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Sources: Gartner, Emerging Market Quadrant for Deepfake Detection — Startup Vendors, By Apeksha Kaushik, Alfredo Ramirez IV, Akif Khan, David Senf, 25 June 2026. Gartner, AI Vendor Race: Reality Defender Is the Company to Beat in Deepfake Detection, Apeksha Kaushik and Alfredo Ramirez IV, 7 May 2026. Gartner is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.