Overview
A map of the open-source online-safety landscape, with our verdict on how each project fits a CSAM-safety pipeline.
A developer’s map of the open-source online-safety landscape — not just what exists, but how each project fits (or doesn’t) a CSAM-safety pipeline built around the FightCSAM tools.
It covers 113 projects across 9 categories. For each, we give a verdict and a short take. Our own tools live in Tools; this section is everything around them.
How to read the verdicts
- Use — recommend integrating alongside FightCSAM (24).
- Learn from — a leader or alternative on an axis we also build (35).
- Reference — a dataset, benchmark, or knowledge resource (41).
- Out of scope — an adjacent problem FightCSAM deliberately does not address (13).
Categories
Credit & scope
This directory is built on awesome-safety-tools, the community-maintained list curated by ROOST. They maintain the canonical, living catalogue; we add an opinionated layer on top — categorization, a build-vs-wrap verdict, and how each piece slots into a defensible CSAM-detection, reporting, and prevention pipeline.
Like their list, inclusion here is not an endorsement — it is an attempt to map the landscape so a developer can choose well. Verdicts reflect FightCSAM’s specific lens (un-gated, self-hostable CSAM safety) and are a June 2026 snapshot; projects move fast, so treat this as a starting point and check the source.
Project descriptions are adapted from awesome-safety-tools (maintained by ROOST); the verdicts and analysis are ours. Snapshot: June 2026 — a point-in-time view that complements, and does not replace, their living list.