Optery Alternative: How Dataremoval Compares
The short answer
Optery is an established data removal service known for before-and-after removal screenshots, with a free scan and paid tiers listed at $39 per year for Core, $149 for Extended, and $249 for Ultimate at the time of writing. Dataremoval is an alternative built around continuous re-scanning and a transparent per-broker removal log.
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Optery is an established service with real customers. This page compares its published plans with Dataremoval, row by row.
Their offer
What Optery does
- Optery has been running since 2020 and is known for publishing before-and-after screenshots as proof each removal actually happened.
- It offers a genuinely useful free tier that scans data brokers and shows you where you are exposed, with no card required.
- Paid tiers are published at $39 per year for Core, $149 for Extended, and $249 per year for Ultimate ($3.99, $14.99, and $24.99 per month respectively, about 17 percent cheaper billed annually).
- Core is fully automated and covers one name plus one city and state; Extended and Ultimate add a human Privacy Agent and wider coverage, with Ultimate customers covered first as new brokers are added.
- It covers a large roster of US people-search and data broker sites and reports removals per broker.
Published details, checked on 10 August 2026. Optery's own site. Prices change; theirs is authoritative, not ours.
The trade-off they made
Optery ties its stronger coverage and human oversight to its higher tiers: Core is automated and single-profile, so people with several past names or addresses need Extended or Ultimate to be fully covered. That tiering is a coherent, transparent trade, and the screenshot evidence is a real strength Dataremoval is designing to match with a dated per-broker log.
Our plan
What Dataremoval intends to do
- A per-broker removal log with the request date, current state, and evidence for each broker, in the spirit of Optery's screenshots but viewable any day.
- Continuous re-scanning, so a listing that reappears is treated as a new job rather than waiting for the next cycle.
- Automated opt-outs with the awkward, rejection-prone brokers escalated to a person, without gating that escalation behind the top tier.
- Tiers aimed at people with elevated exposure: executives, doctors, lawyers, and company security teams.
Which should you pick?
Optery is a real, working service with an unusually good free scan and a solid track record, and if you want removals handled today it is a strong choice, especially for the proof-by-screenshot approach. Dataremoval is built around continuous scanning and a dated per-broker log so the evidence and the re-checks are always current, not tied to a cycle.
Optery and Dataremoval, side by side
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| Optery | Dataremoval | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $7.99 a month, billed yearly | $9 a month billed yearly |
| Who files the opt-out | Automated requests | AI agents, humans on the brokers that reject automation |
| Re-check cadence | Ongoing automated requests | Full re-scan every month |
| Evidence you can read | Request status per broker | Dated per-broker log with evidence |
| Custom removals | On the higher tier | On the Executive tier |
| Team and employee plans | Yes | Business tier |
There is a third option nobody sells you: do it yourself. Every broker's opt-out is free, and the complete opt-out list links to all 45 of them. The exposure scan will show you what the internet returns for your name, and our pricing page puts all four options in one table.
Optery is most often weighed against Incogni, and the answer flips on household size: Optery Core is $39 a year against Incogni Standard at $95.88 for one person, but Incogni Family covers five for $191.88 while Optery prices every seat separately. We priced both tier by tier on both billing terms. Optery and DeleteMe are the only two services here that assign a human privacy agent, which makes that the one genuinely like-for-like matchup, and we worked it out in Optery vs DeleteMe pricing.
One detail to settle before you buy any Optery tier: the 380+ and 560+ site counts on its plan cards fall to 150+ and 330+ unless you switch on a setting called Expanded Reach, which is off until you turn it on. That gap, the genuinely free Basic tier and what its Trustpilot reviews say are all in our Optery review.
If the decision is really about the money, the published rates for every mainstream service, plus what the free route costs you in hours, are in how much data removal costs. And if you have not settled whether any of this is worth paying for, we make the honest case in are data removal services worth it. The cheapest way into a paid plan anywhere in this category is Optery Core at $39 a year, with a free tier that shows you your own exposure report first, and we went through the whole rate card in our Optery review. If you are covering more than yourself, the cheapest published seat is OneRep Family at $30.00 per person per year for up to six people, which we priced out in full in our OneRep review.
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