Optery vs Privacy Bee

Optery helps people find and remove personal information posted on data broker and people-search sites. Its free platform provides visibility into where information appears online; Free Basic includes personalized exposure reports with screenshots, scans of Google and Bing search results, self-service removal tools, and quarterly reports. Paid plans add automated scans and removals, but brokers may add profiles again after an opt-out. Exposure and removal reports include live screenshots showing where profiles were found or removed. Core costs $3.99 a month, billed yearly at $39, and covers automated removals from 380+ sites, with a limit of one name and city and state per user. Extended costs $14.99 a month, billed yearly at $149, and adds more site coverage, unlimited name variations and past cities and states, an assigned human Privacy Agent, and before-and-after screenshots about every 90 days. Ultimate costs $24.99 a month, billed yearly at $249, and includes custom requests for 950+ sites total after 30 days. Optery also offers an API for partner applications and programmatic access to exposure screenshots. It supports Android, iOS, web, API, and extension. Optery says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Privacy Bee scans for exposed personal information and works to remove it from data brokers and other sites through automation and human effort. Its dashboard displays a Privacy Risk Score and removal status, and the company says it documents removals with screenshots. An encrypted Identity Vault stores information used to monitor for exposures and start takedown requests. Plans include continuous monitoring because information can reappear after removal. Privacy Bee says its network includes 1,148 data brokers and 185,269 additional companies worldwide, though plan coverage varies: Essentials lists 517 data brokers, while Pro and Signature list 1,148. A free scan shows exposures without requiring a credit card, but is not described as a free trial of a paid plan. Essentials and Pro have a 30-day money-back guarantee; Signature does not. Privacy Bee says it cannot remove government records or some public records and does not provide reputation management for bad reviews. Android, iPhone, and iPad apps are available. Essentials costs $8 a month and Pro costs $16 a month, approximately when billed annually; Signature costs $67 a month, approximately when billed annually.