BranditScan
Best for: Three stagenames at $69, and the smallest price increase. The cheapest step up from $29 that still covers several names on one bill, with a trial that needs no card so the increase can be tested before it is paid.
Pricing reality: Premium: $69/mo for 3 stagenames. Premium (annual): $690/yr for 3 stagenames. White Glove: $149/mo for Unlimited stagenames. White Glove (annual): $1490/yr for Unlimited stagenames.
What it does better: Three stage names are included in the $69/mo entry plan, where a per-username competitor would charge for each.
What makes people leave: The most detailed negative review describes de-listing standing in for removal, and manual submissions going unactioned. In a reviewer's own words: All they do is get the links delisted from Google, since 90% of the content isn't actually removed. Most of the links found are to blank pages… Plus, manual submissions are usually ignored, whether they're fake social media accounts or leaked videos on various forums. trustpilot.com on BranditScan
Verdict: Premium covers three stagenames; more than three requires White Glove at $149/mo. Both tiers advertise the same core feature set — White Glove buys stagenames, a concierge and more aggressive scanning rather than new capability. Telegram is not named anywhere on BranditScan's pricing page or its benefits page; the published social surfaces are Instagram, X and Reddit.
Privly
Best for: $49 flat, and the best published exit. All platforms and all content on one price, with "Cancel anytime, no questions asked". No public reviews at all, so the precision question is untestable from outside.
Pricing reality: Free Trial: $0/mo for 7 days, 1 scan, up to 3 uploads. Creator Protection: $49/mo for All platforms, all content. Platform Offboarding: $499 one-time for Concierge, 12 months of cover. Copyright Registration: $299 one-time for Optional add-on.
What it does better: The flattest published price in this comparison for a full-service plan: $49/mo, in Privly's words "Same plan, every feature, no per-username surcharge, no hidden tiers".
What makes people leave: No public review record at all: Privly's Trustpilot profile carries zero reviews, so there is no third-party evidence to weigh in either direction. openDMCA is in the same position and says so. trustpilot.com on Privly
Verdict: The trial caps at one scan and three uploads. The paid plan publishes no username, platform or volume cap at all — Privly's own line is "All platforms · All content · One flat fee".
Rulta
Best for: Whitelisting as a named core feature. Whitelisting is listed on Rulta's $139 Pro tier rather than left unstated. Rulta's own review history also contains over-broad filing complaints, so this is a difference in what is published, not proof of a better outcome.
Pricing reality: Pro: $139/mo for 1 username. Premier: $184/mo for 2 usernames. Legend: $324/mo for 4 usernames.
What it does better: Rulta states it is "Google's Trusted Copyright Partner" and cites Google's public Transparency Report for a claimed 200,000,000+ links reported.
What makes people leave: Price scales with stage names, not with usage. One username is $139/mo; four is $324/mo. A creator who adds a second name pays 32% more for the same leaks. rulta.com on Rulta
Verdict: Plans stop at four usernames. Telegram takedown, copyright registration and reverse image search appear only on Legend, the $324/mo tier. Submission volume is capped below Legend.
Ceartas
Best for: Per creator, with the terms published. From $69 per creator, with terms, refund position and cancellation route all published. Nothing published about whitelisting or filing precision.
Pricing reality: Star: $69/mo for 1 creator. Elite: $169/mo for 1 creator. VIP: $349/mo for 1 creator. Platinum: $1200/mo for 1 creator.
What it does better: A published price ladder that reaches genuinely high-touch service, which most of the category does not publish at all.
What makes people leave: Per-creator pricing on every tier: an agency with a roster of ten pays ten times, and there is no published multi-creator plan. ceartas.io on Ceartas
Verdict: Pricing is per creator per month on every tier, so a roster multiplies the bill linearly. The $69 Star tier caps manual takedown requests at 300; unlimited manual requests start at $169/mo.
The objections worth taking seriously
- Will it file notices against my own pages or my collab partners?
- Your own domains are excluded in openDMCA before a notice is generated, not apologised for afterwards. Whitelisting runs at scan time, so an authorised URL never reaches the takedown queue at all — which is the difference between a filter and a support ticket. How openDMCA separates your official pages from the leaks
- Is this a scam, like half the category?
- Fair question, and the honest answer is that openDMCA cannot prove it with a testimonial. What it can do is publish the instrument: a notice under 17 U.S.C. §512 is the same one studios file, openDMCA acts as your authorised agent, and the policy that binds openDMCA to that role is public. Read the openDMCA DMCA policy, including the counter-notice route
- Does any of this work, or is it emails into a void?
- Some hosts never comply, and openDMCA does not pretend otherwise. Instead it measures each host's removal rate over 90 days and fast-paths hosts below 25% compliance, with at least five resolved samples, straight to search de-listing rather than burning two email rounds on them. The manual version of the same process, published in full
Try the free fix before you pay for a more expensive one
If the reason you are here is a notice that went somewhere it should not have, the first thing to try costs nothing and works on any service, including the one you have.
Load a complete whitelist and watch for a month. Your own site, your link-in-bio host, every studio and network you have collaborated with, every platform you licensed content to, and any promotional site that has permission to use your images. Most creators load two or three domains and stop; the list is usually eight to twelve once you actually write it out. If the wrong notices stop, you have solved the problem for $0 and you should stay on the cheapest plan in the category.
If they do not stop, the question becomes where the filter runs. A whitelist applied before a notice is generated prevents the notice. A whitelist applied afterwards is a review step somebody has to perform. Ask any candidate which of the two they do, in writing, because it is not on anyone's pricing page.
Do not cancel — downgrade. Bruqi's DIY tier is free and permanent, so you can keep the account open as a second scanner while you test something else at no cost. That is unique in this comparison and it makes the whole comparison free. The sequence is at how to migrate from Bruqi.
Then price the increase honestly. At three stage names: Bruqi $29, BranditScan $69, Privly $49, openDMCA Pro $89, Ceartas from $69 per creator, Rulta $324. Whatever you switch to, you are paying more for filing precision you cannot verify until you have used it for a month.
Where a whitelist runs, and why it is the same question as routing
Filing precision and routing quality come from the same place: knowing something specific about a URL before acting on it. A service that treats every host identically also tends to treat every URL identically, and both failures show up in the same review histories.
In openDMCA the whitelist runs at scan time. A creator's declared domains are excluded before a notice is generated, so an authorised URL never enters the takedown queue at all — there is no notice to catch, no review step to staff and no apology to send to a network that was sending you traffic.
The routing works the same way. openDMCA routes every infringing URL through the Removal Graph — a live map of which hosts actually remove content, how fast, and through which channel — so each takedown takes the shortest path that has historically worked for that host. A host whose 90-day removal rate sits below 25% across at least five resolved samples skips two email rounds and goes to search de-listing. Both behaviours are a filter placed before an action rather than a correction placed after one.
What that costs you against Bruqi. Money, at every stage-name count above one. Bruqi covers all usernames at $29 and openDMCA Starter covers one creator at $29. Bruqi's annual discount is twice as deep as openDMCA's. And Bruqi has 48 public reviews you can read tonight; openDMCA has none, which means this argument is a description of a mechanism rather than evidence of an outcome.
The estimate below assumes 105 live copies at the point of a switch.