Optery vs PrivacyHawk

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.

PrivacyHawk is a privacy service available on Android, iOS, and the web. It offers a free plan and paid monthly plans for personal-information removal, monitoring, and digital-footprint cleanup. Premium costs $19.99 a month, billed monthly, and includes automatic monthly removals, continuous monitoring, PrivacyHawk AI auto-removal, digital footprint cleanup, email unsubscribe AI, and priority support. Platinum costs $29.99 a month and adds $5M identity-theft coverage, advanced PrivacyHawk AI, dark-web monitoring, SSN and credit alerts, and priority 24/7 support. Premium Family costs $39.99 a month, while Platinum Family costs $49.99 a month; each covers four people. PrivacyHawk lists coverage across 100 broker sites, periodic removal frequency, custom removal requests, automated request handling, and recurring monitoring. Family coverage is available, while the listed identity type is individual. PrivacyHawk was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA.