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| Compare features | SponsorSkipAI + transcript tools | SponsorBlockCommunity timestamps | Skipper AICommunity + Gemini | SkipVidSkipping + video tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsor detection | AI reads the transcript | Viewer-submitted timestamps | SponsorBlock + YouTube Gemini | SponsorBlock data |
| Skip boundaries | AI checks start + end in context | Early starts + late ends found in our audit | Community or Gemini timestamps | SponsorBlock timestamps |
| Videos not marked yet | Analyze available captions | Needs a viewer submission | AI needs an eligible YouTube account | Needs SponsorBlock coverage |
| Transcript search | Search + click to jump | Not listed | Not listed | Keyword search + jump |
| Sponsor text | Highlighted in the transcript | Timeline segments | Timeline markers | Not listed |
| Undo a skip | One click. Remembered locally. | Unskip + vote | Not listed | Not listed |
Provider sources are linked above. “Not listed” means not described in those sources. See our timestamp audit. Updated September 15, 2026.
Detection research · test of September 15, 2026
Measured,
not promised.
20 YouTube videos SponsorSkip had never seen, from 20 channels, 6 h 03 min of footage. Every second of sponsor time was located and frozen before the detector ran, then scored against what SponsorSkip skips on its own.
- Editorial time skipped by mistake
- 0.08 s of 20,017 s
- Skips inside uncertain edge zones
- 62.6 s, scored neither right nor wrong
- Uncertain reference time excluded
- 154.5 s at the first and last caption line of each sponsor read
* Two passages were held for manual confirmation. Held time counts as missed. A browser promotion nested inside a product segment was read as an editorial recommendation.
How the test was run
- 01Chosen blindThe newest suitable upload from each of the first 20 reachable channels on a fixed list, picked before any detector call. None of the 20 videos appeared among 9,970 earlier analysis files.
- 02Read twiceTwo independent AI readers went through all 9,340 caption lines. Every disagreement between them was settled against the source.
- 03FrozenThe reference, the sources and the detector build were locked by SHA-256 before the first call. Nothing was tuned on these results.
- 04No second chancesNo best-of selection, no reruns based on results, no videos removed afterwards. All 20 stay in the score.
- 05Strict scoringOnly cuts that skip without confirmation count. Passages held for review count as missed. Uncertain edges are excluded, not claimed.
Follow-up measurements
On the live system, against SponsorBlock's community timestamps.
The detector has been updated since September 15. Later builds were measured against SponsorBlock's community timestamps instead of a frozen reference. That yardstick reads lower for a known reason: most of the difference is transition sentences around a sponsor read, which SponsorBlock marks and SponsorSkip deliberately leaves playing.
| Test | Videos | SponsorBlock sponsor time skipped | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 29 · live production system | 20 new | 89.0% | 0 s of editorial content skipped. Every second skipped outside SponsorBlock's marks was checked and was ad copy. |
| September 30 · current build, live since October 1 | 30 | 93.1% | Borderline skips outside SponsorBlock's marks include a 1.1 s transition sentence. |
All 20 videos of the September 15 test
Community timestamps can miss the cut.
Our August 24 caption audit found early starts, late ends and category conflicts in saved SponsorBlock references. For example, our review put the return to content in an OverSimplified video about 6 seconds before the recorded segment ended.
The start matters, too.
In a RealLifeLore video, the recorded segment started about 123 seconds before the promotion, in the middle of the story. SponsorSkip's live result on October 19 starts at the promotion's first sentence.
These are examples from our caption audits, not a database-wide error rate. Community entries can change. View the recorded timestamps ↗
Detection and transcript tools.
SponsorSkip analyzes available captions, highlights sponsor text and lets you search and jump through the video. Undo an unwanted skip and the same selection is remembered on your device.
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Your first 20 videos are free. Pro allows up to 200 new video analyses a month and Ultra up to 1,000, both with transcript search and one-click undo; videos that were already analyzed don’t count. Compare our plans and limits → SponsorBlock is free and also offers community categories such as intros and outros.