Optery vs PrivacyDuck
Optery
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| Figure | Optery | PrivacyDuck |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $3.99/mo | $24.92/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 2 |
| Spec score · Data Removal Services | 8.9 (#2) | 7.3 (#24) |
| Custom removals | Ultimate customers can request removals from sites outside the standard automated coverage after the stated waiting period. | Customers can request special handling for high-risk listings, exposed images, or duplicate data. |
| Founded | 2020 | The personalized service page says the founders created PrivacyDuck in 2020. |
| Headquarters | San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States | Carson City, Nevada, USA |
| Support | Optery says its customer support specialists are available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. | Standard Protection includes email, chat, and phone support. |
Plans
In their own words
Optery
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.
PrivacyDuck
PrivacyDuck has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.