DeleteMe Review 2026: Is DeleteMe Legit, and Is DeleteMe Worth It?
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The short answer
DeleteMe is a legitimate data removal service run by Abine, Inc. of Boston, in business since 2011 and rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau. It removes personal information from data brokers, assigns a named human privacy expert to every account, and re-checks your listings quarterly. It costs $129.00 for one person for a year, and DeleteMe sells no month-to-month plan on any tier, so the $8.71 a month advertised on its pricing page is really $209.00 charged once for two years. It is the most expensive way to cover one person and the cheapest way to buy human-assisted removal for four, at $62.38 per person per year on the $499.00 family plan. It holds 3.7 out of 5 across 261 Trustpilot reviews, against the 4.7 out of 5 it cites on its own site.
Last updated 31 August 2026. Every price here was read on that date from DeleteMe's own plans page and from the pricing configuration it uses to build those cards, which is how the tiers behind the public page came out. The per-person figures are our arithmetic on published totals, shown in full so you can check the working. We sell a competing product, which is exactly why this page cites a source for every number instead of asking you to trust us.
DeleteMe pricing: all six US plans, both terms
DeleteMe sells three household sizes on two commitment lengths, and its pricing page shows one length at a time behind a toggle. Here are all six at once, with what you are actually charged and what each works out at per person per year. Every one of these is billed once, up front.
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| Plan | People | Term | Billed once | Shown as a month | Per person per year |
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| Individual, 1 year | 1 | 1 year | $129.00 | $10.75 | $129.00 |
| Individual, 2 years | 1 | 2 years | $209.00 | $8.71 | $104.50 |
| Couple, 1 year | 2 | 1 year | $229.00 | $19.08 | $114.50 |
| Couple, 2 years | 2 | 2 years | $349.00 | $14.54 | $87.25 |
| Family, 1 year | 4 | 1 year | $329.00 | $27.42 | $82.25 |
| Family, 2 years | 4 | 2 years | $499.00 | $20.79 | $62.38 |
The single most useful fact about DeleteMe's pricing is what is missing from that table: there is no monthly column, because DeleteMe does not sell one. Incogni will take $15.98 for a month, Optery $3.99, OneRep $14.95. DeleteMe's minimum commitment is $129.00 charged today for twelve months of service. Every "from $8.71 a month" headline you have read about DeleteMe, including on DeleteMe's own page, is $209.00 divided by twenty-four.
Where the pricing gets genuinely good is at four people. Four seats for two years is $499.00, which is $62.38 per person per year, and that is the cheapest human-assisted removal seat published by any vendor in this category. The gap between the individual plan and the family plan is unusually wide: one person for two years costs $209.00, while four people for the same two years costs $499.00, so seats two, three and four cost $96.67 each rather than $209.00.
Two smaller things to price in. All US plans renew automatically unless you cancel, and DeleteMe states plainly that they are for US residents only. Business coverage is not published at all, it is quoted by sales. The full arithmetic on every tier, including the struck-through comparison prices DeleteMe shows against the multi-person plans, is on our DeleteMe cost and pricing page.
Not on the public plans page
DeleteMe has five price tiers, and you are shown one
The plan cards on joindeleteme.com are built by a pricing configuration that is delivered with the page. That configuration defines five product tiers, each with its own Stripe product identifier, each priced for one person for one year in US dollars. Only the standard tier renders on the public plans page. The rest appear on pages that ask for a specific tier, which is how partner and executive offers are usually built. We have not seen the feature list for the four higher tiers, so the table below states the price and nothing more.
| Tier | 1 person, 1 year | What is published about it |
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| Standard | $129.00 | The plan on the public pricing page. Quarterly reports, a named privacy expert, custom removal requests. |
| Gold | $180.00 | A separate product tier. DeleteMe does not describe it on its public plans page. |
| Diamond | $425.00 | A separate product tier. DeleteMe does not describe it on its public plans page. |
| Platinum | $1,000.00 | A separate product tier. DeleteMe does not describe it on its public plans page. |
| VIP | $5,000.00 | The top tier in the configuration, roughly 39 times the standard price for one person. |
None of this is improper. Most companies selling to both consumers and executives keep the executive rate card off the consumer page, and a $5,000 tier is a plausible price for high-touch protection of a public figure. It is worth knowing for one practical reason: if you are buying because of a specific threat rather than general tidiness, the $129 consumer plan is the bottom rung of a ladder, and the conversation you actually want is with sales.
Four things the star rating hides
How to read a DeleteMe review before you buy
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The $8.71 a month is a two-year prepay, not a subscription price
DeleteMe sells no month-to-month plan on any tier, in any household size. The $8.71 its pricing page shows is $209.00 charged once, covering one person for two years. The cheapest way to start is $129.00 charged once for twelve months, so the real question is not whether you can afford $8.71 a month, it is whether you are ready to commit $129 before you have seen a single removal.
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The site count changed, and most reviews have not caught up
DeleteMe now states on its own sites page that it removes private information from 986 data brokers. Reviews written a year ago, and comparison tables copied from them since, still quote a figure in the low hundreds or even 30+. Read the wording carefully though: DeleteMe frames 986 as the list of brokers it has found and removed data from, which is a cumulative claim rather than a per-plan coverage promise.
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Its own rating and its Trustpilot rating are a full point apart
DeleteMe states on its pricing page that it has an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 across over 400 reviews, alongside an A+ BBB rating. On Trustpilot, which collects reviews independently, DeleteMe holds 3.7 out of 5 across 261 reviews, with 72 percent five-star and 14 percent one-star. Neither number is wrong. They are measuring different pools, and the gap is worth knowing before you weigh either.
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There are four price tiers above the one you are shown
The pricing configuration behind DeleteMe's plan cards defines five product tiers, not one: Standard at $129, then Gold at $180, Diamond at $425, Platinum at $1,000 and VIP at $5,000, each for one person for one year and each with its own Stripe product. Only Standard renders on the public plans page. If you are buying for an executive rather than a household, that ladder is what the sales conversation is built on.
What DeleteMe actually does for $129
You hand over your name, the addresses you have lived at, your email addresses and your phone numbers. DeleteMe searches the brokers on its list for matches, files opt-outs, and puts a named privacy expert on the account to handle the sites that reject or ignore an automated request. It sends a privacy report every quarter showing what was found, what came down and what came back, and it re-runs the sweep on that same quarterly cadence.
The named expert is the product. Everything else in this category can be automated and mostly has been, which is why Incogni can sell 420+ sites for $95.88 and Optery can sell 380+ for $39. What software struggles with is the broker that demands a notarized form, the one whose opt-out page breaks on a nonstandard name, and the one that simply does not respond. Those are the sites a person has to chase, and chasing them is what the premium over Incogni buys you.
The cadence cuts both ways. Quarterly is a sensible reporting rhythm and it is also the source of the most common complaint about DeleteMe: a listing that reappears in week two of a quarter sits there until the next sweep. Incogni re-sends on a rolling schedule and Optery scans monthly. If a specific site keeps coming back, that difference will matter more to you than the price does.
DeleteMe states that a typical account sees an average of 15 publicly Google-able listings removed within days, that it has saved its users more than 20,000 hours, and that new brokers are added through the year at no extra cost. Those are its own figures and nobody audits them, so treat them as claims to compare against other claims. The first pass is also something you can do yourself for free, and our data broker opt-out list walks through the sites worth starting with.
Where DeleteMe loses
Three honest limits
- 1. You cannot try it, at all. No free tier, no free trial, no monthly plan. The minimum way in is $129.00 charged today. Optery will show you your own exposure report free, and OneRep runs a trial.
- 2. The guarantee has no published window. DeleteMe advertises a 100% satisfaction guarantee but does not say how long you have. Incogni, Optery and OneRep all publish an explicit 30 days. That is a real difference when the entry price is the highest in the category.
- 3. Quarterly is slower than the market. A relisting can sit live for up to three months before the next sweep catches it. For most people that is fine. If you are dealing with a specific harasser or a specific site, it is not.
None of these make DeleteMe a bad buy. They describe who it is not for: somebody who wants to test before committing, or who needs a relisting caught in days rather than months.
Is DeleteMe legit, who runs it, and what do the reviews say?
The company behind it
DeleteMe is built and run by Abine, Inc., which describes itself as the online privacy company and is based in Boston. Abine has been operating since 2011, which makes DeleteMe the oldest product in this comparison by a decade: Incogni launched in September 2021 and Optery in 2020. It holds an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and publishes the full list of brokers it works on rather than a headline number alone.
Longevity is the strongest thing DeleteMe has, and it is worth weighing against what hangs over some rivals. OneRep's founder and chief executive has publicly acknowledged retaining an ownership stake in a people-search company, which we work through in our look at whether OneRep is legit. Nothing comparable attaches to Abine. If the question you are really asking is whether the company will still exist to honor a two-year prepayment, fifteen years of trading is a reasonable answer.
What the public reviews actually say
There are two ratings in circulation and they disagree. DeleteMe's own pricing page states an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 across over 400 reviews. On Trustpilot, checked 31 August 2026, DeleteMe holds 3.7 out of 5 across 261 reviews, with 72 percent at five stars and 14 percent at one. For contrast, Incogni holds 4.3 across 2,927 Trustpilot reviews. Neither DeleteMe figure is fabricated; they measure different pools of reviewers, and the honest reading is that DeleteMe is well regarded with a hard core of unhappy customers.
The one-star reviews cluster on two themes, and both are worth knowing in advance. Listings reappearing between the quarterly sweeps is the first, which is a design consequence rather than a fault. The second is billing: an annual or biennial plan that renews automatically at the full price catches people who thought they had bought a one-off cleanup. Set a calendar reminder before the renewal date if you only want one term.
One caution about reviews generally in this niche. DeleteMe runs an affiliate program, as do Incogni, Optery and OneRep, so a large share of the DeleteMe reviews you will find were written by people earning a commission on the sale. That does not make them wrong. It does mean the useful part of any review is the checkable number, not the verdict.
DeleteMe vs Incogni vs Optery vs OneRep
The four services people weigh DeleteMe against, on the columns that decide it. Every price is the vendor's own published US figure, read 31 August 2026.
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| Service | Cheapest way in | Published coverage | Human handling | Try before you pay | Best for |
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| DeleteMe | $129 a year. No month-to-month plan at any tier. | 986 data brokers, per its own sites page | Yes. A named privacy expert on every plan, and quarterly reports. | No free tier and no free trial. 100% satisfaction guarantee, no published window. | People who want a person, not software, working the brokers that refuse |
| Incogni | $95.88 a year, or $15.98 month to month | 420+ sites, plus 3,000+ more on the Unlimited tiers | No. Removals are automated. Live phone support on Unlimited tiers only. | No free trial. 30-day money-back guarantee. | Covering a household of five for the least money, at $38.38 each |
| Optery | $39 a year on Core, or $3.99 month to month | 380+ on Core, 560+ on Extended, 635+ on Ultimate, 950+ with custom requests | Yes, from Extended up: a human privacy agent plus before-and-after screenshots. | Genuinely free Basic tier. 30-day money-back guarantee. | Seeing proof a listing came down, and trying a service without paying |
| OneRep | $99.95 a year, or $14.95 month to month | OneRep does not headline a single site count on its pricing page | Automated, with support | Free trial, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee. | Large households: $179.95 a year covers up to six people |
Cost per person per year, cheapest first
Headline prices are close to meaningless here, because two of these vendors sell household plans and two mostly do not. What decides it is the cost per person per year once everybody who needs covering is covered, and whether a human is on the account at that price.
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| Plan | What you pay | Per person per year | Handling |
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| OneRep, up to 6 people | $179.95 a year | $29.99 | Automated, with support |
| Incogni Family, up to 5 | $191.88 a year | $38.38 | Automated |
| Optery Core, 1 person | $39.00 a year | $39.00 | Automated, no privacy agent |
| DeleteMe Family, 4 people, 2 years | $499.00 billed once | $62.38 | Named human privacy expert |
| DeleteMe Family, 4 people, 1 year | $329.00 a year | $82.25 | Named human privacy expert |
| DeleteMe Couple, 2 people, 2 years | $349.00 billed once | $87.25 | Named human privacy expert |
| Incogni Standard, 1 person | $95.88 a year | $95.88 | Automated |
| DeleteMe Individual, 1 person, 1 year | $129.00 a year | $129.00 | Named human privacy expert |
| Optery Extended, 1 person | $149.00 a year | $149.00 | Human privacy agent, plus screenshots |
Two things fall out of that. DeleteMe holds both ends of the table: its individual plan at $129.00 is the most expensive consumer seat any of these four sells, and its four-person two-year plan at $62.38 is the cheapest seat with a human attached. And the closest genuine like-for-like matchup is not DeleteMe against Incogni, it is DeleteMe at $129 against Optery Extended at $149, because those are the two single-person plans that both put a privacy agent on the account. Twenty dollars separates them, and what you get for it is DeleteMe's quarterly report against Optery's before-and-after screenshots. We price that pair out in full in Optery vs DeleteMe pricing.
So is DeleteMe worth it?
For a household of four, yes, clearly. $499.00 covering four people for two years is $62.38 each per year with a named human on the account, and nothing else in this category gets close on that combination. For a couple it is still good at $87.25 each. For one person paying $129.00 a year it becomes a judgment call, because Incogni will cover a broad automated roster for $95.88 and Optery Core for $39, and neither asks you to commit a year up front.
Buy DeleteMe if you have more than one person to cover, or if you have already tried an automated service and hit brokers that ignored it. That second case is the one DeleteMe is genuinely built for, and it is the reason it can charge the most in the category while being the oldest company in it. Buy Optery instead if you want to see proof a listing came down or want to start free. Buy Incogni if breadth per dollar is what you are optimizing and nobody needs to chase anything. Buy OneRep if you have a large family and price is the only thing that matters, having read the ownership question first.
Do not buy any of them expecting a permanent result. Every service here sells maintenance, not a cure: brokers rebuild profiles from public records continuously, and a removal filed in March does nothing about a record created in September. Price the renewal, not the first year, and remember that DeleteMe's renewal is automatic and at full price. If you will genuinely keep filing opt-outs yourself, the free route beats all four and you should take it. We work through where that route runs out in whether data removal services are worth it, and the category-wide range in how much data removal costs.
Before you commit $129
Do these three first, they are free
- 1. Find out how exposed you actually are. Some people appear on a handful of sites and some on dozens, and the answer decides whether $129 is good value or wasted. The scan at the top of this page is free.
- 2. Clear the three or four worst sites yourself. The largest people-search sites carry most of the damage, and each opt-out takes a few minutes. Start with whichever ones your own name actually returns.
- 3. Check back in ninety days. If the listings you removed are still gone, you may not need a subscription. If they are back, you have just proved what the annual fee is for, on your own data rather than on a vendor's marketing.
That third step settles it, and it matters more with DeleteMe than with the others, because DeleteMe is the one that will not let you test it for a month.
Frequently asked questions
Is DeleteMe legit?
Yes. DeleteMe is built and run by Abine, Inc., a Boston privacy company that has been in business since 2011, and it holds an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. It publishes its prices openly, names the brokers it works on, assigns a real person to each account and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. The fair criticism is about value and cadence, not legitimacy.
Is DeleteMe worth it?
For a household of four on the two-year plan, yes: $62.38 per person per year is the cheapest human-assisted seat anywhere in this category. For one person paying $129, it is a genuine trade rather than an obvious win, because Incogni covers a broad automated roster for $95.88 and Optery Core costs $39. You are paying the difference for a named person and quarterly reports.
How much is DeleteMe per month?
DeleteMe has no monthly plan. Every tier is billed once, up front, for either one year or two. The monthly figures on its pricing page are the total divided by the term: $10.75 is $129.00 for one person for a year, and $8.71 is $209.00 for one person for two years. If a monthly charge matters to you, Optery bills $3.99 a month and Incogni $15.98.
How much does DeleteMe charge?
For US residents, checked 31 August 2026: one person is $129.00 for a year or $209.00 for two years, two people are $229.00 or $349.00, and four people are $329.00 or $499.00. Business coverage is quoted by sales rather than published. All consumer plans renew automatically unless you cancel, and all are limited to US residents.
Is DeleteMe free?
No. DeleteMe has no free tier and no free trial, so the cheapest way to see it work is to buy a year at $129.00 and rely on the satisfaction guarantee. If you want to check your exposure before paying anyone, run the free scan at the top of this page, or use Optery, which is the only major service in this category with a genuinely free tier that shows you your listings.
Does DeleteMe work?
Yes, within the limits of what any removal service can do. DeleteMe files opt-outs, has a named expert handle the brokers that reject automated requests, and re-checks quarterly, and it states that a typical account has an average of 15 publicly Google-able listings removed within days. What it cannot do is make removal permanent, because brokers rebuild profiles from fresh public records.
Does DeleteMe really work for spam calls?
Indirectly, and slowly. Removing your phone number from people-search listings shrinks the supply of lists your number appears on, so call and text volume usually falls over months rather than weeks. It does nothing about numbers already sold and already in rotation. Pair it with the free filters your carrier and phone already have if you want a faster result.
Does DeleteMe remove your information from the dark web?
No, and neither does any competitor, whatever the marketing says. Data traded on the dark web sits on infrastructure nobody can serve an opt-out on. What these services actually do is monitor for your details appearing in breach dumps and tell you. Removal only works against the legal, US-registered data brokers that are obliged to honor an opt-out request.
How many data brokers does DeleteMe remove from?
DeleteMe states on its sites page that it removes private information from 986 data brokers, and publishes the list. Note the framing: it describes this as the brokers it has found and removed data from, which is cumulative rather than a per-plan coverage figure. Incogni publishes 420+ per plan and Optery 380+ to 635+ by tier. Every count in this category is self-reported and none is audited.
Is DeleteMe or Incogni better?
Incogni is cheaper for one person at $95.88 against $129, sells a month-to-month plan where DeleteMe sells none, and is far cheaper for a household of five at $38.38 each. DeleteMe puts a named human on every plan, which Incogni does not do at any price. Pick DeleteMe if brokers that reject automated opt-outs are your problem, and Incogni if breadth per dollar is.
Is DeleteMe safe to give my personal information to?
DeleteMe needs your name, past addresses, emails and phone numbers, because nothing can find your listings without them. That trade is unavoidable in this category and identical at Incogni, Optery and OneRep. The checks worth making are that the operator is identifiable, has a published privacy policy and a track record, all of which Abine has held since 2011.
What do DeleteMe reviews and complaints say?
DeleteMe holds 3.7 out of 5 on Trustpilot across 261 reviews, with 72 percent at five stars and 14 percent at one, while its own site cites 4.7 out of 5 across 400+ reviews. Positive reviews name the assigned expert and the quarterly report. The recurring complaint is listings reappearing between quarterly checks, which is a cadence issue rather than a failure to remove.
Does DeleteMe sell your information?
Abine publishes a privacy policy and a "do not sell my personal information" link, and selling customer data would be commercially fatal for a company whose entire product is data removal. That said, you should read the policy rather than take the reasoning on trust, and the same applies to every vendor here. The structural point is that these companies make money from subscriptions, not from resale.
Can I cancel DeleteMe and get a refund?
DeleteMe advertises a 100% satisfaction guarantee but does not publish a refund window on its plans page, which is weaker than the explicit 30-day money-back guarantees Incogni, Optery and OneRep all publish. Plans renew automatically unless canceled. If a stated refund deadline matters to you, that is a real reason to prefer one of the other three.
Compare the rest of the field
A review is one column of the decision. These pages cover the others: what each service costs in full, who owns it, and what the free route gets you before you pay anyone.
DeleteMe cost and pricing
Every DeleteMe tier on both terms, with the per-person arithmetic and the comparison prices worked out.
DeleteMe alternative
What to switch to if DeleteMe is not the fit, tier by tier and price by price.
Optery vs DeleteMe pricing
The only matchup where both vendors put a human on the account, priced seat by seat.
Incogni review
Incogni tested, including the month-to-month price that is double the rate every review quotes.
DeleteMe vs Incogni
The two most-compared services, on coverage and cadence rather than price alone.
Is OneRep legit?
The ownership question that matters more than OneRep's price, and how Mozilla resolved it.
Best data removal services
The whole field ranked, with what each one is genuinely best at.
Data broker opt-out list
Every site to start with, and what each asks for before it will remove you.
Are data removal services worth it?
When a subscription pays for itself and when it plainly does not.
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