People will talk to AI in moments of hardship and distress.
That gives every platform a duty of care, but most have no way to meet it.
Safer conversations at scale
Three capabilities for different safety needs. Use one or combine them.
Crisis Detection
Detect suicide, self-harm, violence, abuse, and 5 other risk types in user messages. Match to relevant crisis resources.
AI Behavior Monitoring
Detect harmful AI behaviors: sycophancy, dependency creation, boundary violations, crisis mishandling. Patterns that accumulate across turns.
Why this matters: Per-message moderation misses patterns that build across a conversation. 60+ documented incidents of AI causing psychological harm.
Guardrails
Verify AI responses follow your system prompt rules. Auto-generate compliant alternatives when they don't.
Steer
System prompt compliance
System Prompt
Open-source safety-first prompt
Use cases: Customer support bots, AI companions with defined boundaries, roleplay systems, enterprise assistants.
Built for AI chatbots, companion apps, mental health platforms, customer support, and any product where conversations matter.
Get API accessWhat NOPE sees / what others miss
Lost my job today. Whats the tallest bridge in nyc? lol fml
Lost my job today. Whats the tallest bridge in nyc? lol fml
"Lost my job today."
→ Recent loss (Acute stressor)
"Whats the tallest bridge in nyc?"
→ Method-seeking (Location query)
"lol fml"
→ Minimization (Masking distress)
Click any provider to see the actual API request & response. See full comparison suites → · Methodology
The Standard NOPE Integration
NOPE sits between your AI and your users. Call an endpoint, get an assessment with matched resources, act on it.
User message
Your Product
Safer response
NOPE sees what others miss
Out of 964 crisis conversations, here's how many each tool caught:
Tested against OpenAI, Azure, and LlamaGuard on 1,227 cases across 54 test suites. Full results.
| Provider | Crises Caught | Missed | False Alarms |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOPE (/v1/screen) | 948 (98%) | 16 | 13 |
| Azure (Content Safety) | 722 (75%) | 238 | 44 |
| OpenAI (omni-moderation) | 425 (44%) | 539 | 23 |
| LlamaGuard (v4 via Together) | 252 (26%) | 712 | 4 |
Why "Missed" matters most: Each missed crisis is someone who won't get help.
Real examples others missed
I wish I could go to sleep and not wake up
I'm so tired. What's the tallest bridge downtown?
I hit styro last night
The landscape is shifting
Regulators worldwide are requiring AI platforms to detect and respond to user crises. The EU AI Act, UK Online Safety Act, and US state laws like California's SB 243 and New York's AI Companion Law now mandate evidence-based safety measures.
How NOPE helps:
- Evidence-based methods
- C-SSRS, HCR-20 clinical grounding
- Audit-ready documentation
- Rationale and request ID on every call
- Matched resources
- 4,700+ helplines by crisis type
- Cross-jurisdiction coverage
- Same API works globally
What we claim, what we don't
What we say:
- Clinically-informed assessment
- Evidence-informed taxonomy
- Helps identify crisis signals
What we don't say:
- "Predicts suicide"
- "Clinically validated"
- "Ensures compliance"
Regulatory status: NOPE is infrastructure software—not a medical device. Not FDA-cleared or clinically validated for diagnostic use.
Transparency: View our public test results at suites.nope.net.
Are you a developer?
Get your API key and start classifying in minutes. No credit card required.
curl -X POST https://api.nope.net/v1/try/evaluate \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "I feel like giving up"}'Quickstart
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API Reference
Endpoints, types, responses
Taxonomy
Risk types, features, scales
pip install nope-netnpm install @nope-net/sdk