openDMCA

    DMCA services for agencies, compared on roster pricing rather than features

    Five of the six services compared here publish no price for a roster. Rulta advertises agency discounts up to 50% behind a booked call, Ceartas and Bruqi and BranditScan and Privly publish single-account plans only, and openDMCA publishes $229 a month for ten creators. Ask every vendor for a written per-creator rate.

    Six creator-protection services compared on roster pricing, entry price, free trials, published surfaces and public review evidence
    FeatureopenDMCARultaBranditScanBruqiCeartasPrivly
    Entry price$29/mo — Starter, 1 creator$139/mo — Pro, 1 username$69/mo — Premium, 3 stagenames$29/mo — Side Hustle$69/mo — Star, 1 creator$49/mo — Creator Protection
    Price to cover three stage names$89/mo — Pro, up to 3 creators$324/mo — Legend, up to 4$69/mo — Premium covers 3$29/mo — all usernames includedNot published$49/mo — all platforms, all content
    How the price scalesFlat plan, then $15/mo per extra creatorPer usernameBy stagename countFlat; scan frequency is the upgradePer creator, per monthOne flat fee, no per-username surcharge
    Something you can operate before payingFree username scan, no accountFree leak search before signupFree leak check, plus a 7-day trial stated to need no cardFree DIY tier, no expiryTrial referenced, terms not published7-day trial, stated to need no card
    Published Telegram routeRouted to Telegram's published DMCA address"Telegram Takedown" — Legend tier onlyNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot published
    Face or image matching, as a published featurePerceptual hashing of images you choose, plus reverse image search"Reverse Image Search" — Legend tier only"Facial Recognition & AI Detection" — PremiumNot publishedNot publishedNot published
    Impersonation or fake-account removal, as a published featurePublished guide, not automated"Social Media Removals" — Premier tier and above"Social Media Removals" (Instagram, X, Reddit) — Premium"Impersonators" — Creator Pro and aboveNot publishedNot published
    Published price for a ten-creator roster$229/mo, 10 creatorsNot published — booked callNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot published
    Independent public review profileNoTrustpilot 4.6 from 140 reviewsTrustpilot 4.6 from 68 reviewsTrustpilot 3.7 from 48 reviewsTrustpilot 4.3 from 27 reviewsProfile exists, 0 reviews

    Choose Rulta or Ceartas over openDMCA if…

    • Your agency needs references. Rulta states it works with over 100 agencies and protects 18,900 creators, and has 140 public reviews. openDMCA has no named agency customer, no case study and no independent review profile — for a manager who has to justify a vendor choice to a roster, that is a serious deficiency and it should count.
    • You can negotiate. Rulta advertises agency discounts up to 50% for roster owners, which at Legend would put the per-creator cost in territory openDMCA's published price cannot undercut. A negotiated rate you actually hold beats any published number, and no page can tell you what you will be offered.
    • Your creators need capabilities openDMCA does not have — copyright registration, a named Telegram product, doxxing features. Rulta and BranditScan sell those. A roster price is worth nothing if the service does not do the job your creators need.
    • You want per-creator billing you can pass through to each creator cleanly. Ceartas's per-creator model, expensive as it is, maps one-to-one onto a rebilling arrangement. A bundled ten-creator plan does not divide as neatly on an invoice.

    Rulta

    Best for: The most agency evidence, and a rate you can negotiate. Rulta states over 100 agencies and 18,900 creators, offers team access for staff and creators, and advertises agency discounts up to 50% behind a booked call. No published roster price, but the most to point at.

    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: For an agency specifically: Rulta publishes no export path for takedown history and no self-serve data export. Its agency page routes roster owners to a booked call rather than to a plan, so an agency's leverage is a negotiation rather than a published price. 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: A published ladder, multiplied by your roster. Star to Platinum is priced per creator with no multi-creator plan, so ten creators is ten subscriptions. Predictable, published, and linear in the wrong direction.

    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: For an agency specifically: Cancellation is self-serve from the account. Because purchases are non-refundable, time a switch to a renewal date rather than cancelling mid-cycle, and expect no export of takedown history — Ceartas publishes none. 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.

    BranditScan

    Best for: Unlimited stagenames on one bill, sold as one creator's plan. White Glove at $149 covers unlimited stagenames with a concierge. It is not marketed as a roster plan, so confirm in writing whether a roster is permitted before assuming it.

    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: For an agency specifically: BranditScan publishes no data-export path. Billing is month-to-month with cancellation stated as available at any time; at least one reviewer disputes that a cancellation stopped the charge, so cancel from the billing provider as well as the dashboard and keep the confirmation. branditscan.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: One flat price, roster position unpublished. $49 a month for all platforms and all content on one account. Nothing published about multiple creators, so ask before assuming one subscription covers a team.

    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: For an agency specifically: Privly's published cancellation line is "Cancel anytime, no questions asked", and the trial needs no card, so evaluating it costs nothing and leaving it should cost one click. No takedown-history export is published. useprivly.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".

    Bruqi

    Best for: Cheapest per name, nothing published for teams. All usernames on one account from $29. No roster plan, no team seats and no API published, and the weakest review distribution of the six.

    Pricing reality: DIY: $0/mo for Manual removals only. Side Hustle: $29/mo for All usernames. Creator Pro: $99/mo for All usernames. Top 1%: $249/mo for All usernames.

    What it does better: Every paid tier covers all usernames at one price, starting at $29/mo — the flattest pricing model of the five competitors compared here.

    What makes people leave: For an agency specifically: Bruqi publishes no export path for takedown history. Its free DIY tier means a creator can keep a Bruqi account open, at no cost, while testing a replacement — the cheapest parallel-run of the five. bruqi.com on Bruqi

    Verdict: Automatic removal is not part of the free tier. Scan frequency, not username count, is what separates the paid tiers: weekly on Side Hustle, daily on Creator Pro, hourly on Top 1%.

    The objections worth taking seriously

    Will the charge match the price on the page, and can I actually cancel?
    Every openDMCA price on the pricing page is read from the same config that drives Stripe checkout, so the number you read is the number you are charged. Cancellation is self-serve from the dashboard, with no retention call and no ticket. The openDMCA cancellation and refund terms
    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
    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

    The four questions to put to every vendor in writing, before a roster conversation

    Choosing an agency DMCA service is buying a per-creator unit cost and an operational workflow, and almost none of that is on a pricing page. Send these four to every shortlisted vendor and compare the replies rather than the marketing.

    One: what is the per-creator rate at my roster size, in writing? Not a discount percentage — a number. Rulta advertises up to 50% off for agencies, which is a range, not a price. Ceartas prices per creator with no roster plan, so ten creators on Elite is $1,690 a month unless something unpublished applies. Get the figure, then divide it by your roster and compare like with like.

    Two: how many people can log in, and can a creator see only her own results? An agency has staff who need access and creators who should not see each other's data. Rulta publishes team access for staff and creators. Most of the rest publish nothing about seats at all. openDMCA includes unlimited team seats on its Agency plan and charges $15 a month per creator beyond the ten included.

    Three: is there a read-only API, and what does it return? If your agency runs its own dashboard or reports to creators on your own template, another vendor dashboard is a workflow you have to staff. openDMCA publishes a read-only REST API with API keys on the Agency plan. None of the five competitors compared here publishes an API at all.

    Four: how does onboarding a new creator work, and who does it? Roster churn is the actual operational cost. A creator joining should be an intake form and a whitelist, not a support ticket. Ask for the steps and time one.

    Then do the whitelist properly, once per creator. Every creator's own site, link-in-bio, studios and networks. At roster scale this is the single most expensive thing to get wrong, because a wrong notice against a partner network is your relationship rather than the creator's.

    The per-vendor arithmetic is broken out at Ceartas's per-creator ladder and Rulta's per-username tiers.

    Why a roster is where routing compounds fastest

    A single creator's leaks land on a few dozen hosts. A roster of ten lands on largely the same hosts, which is the whole reason agency economics work differently from creator economics — and it is also why the routing question matters more at roster scale, not less.

    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. The abuse-contact resolution is cached across the whole customer base, so the tenth creator on your roster whose leak lands on a given host inherits the resolution the first one paid for. A host whose 90-day removal rate sits below 25% across at least five resolved samples is fast-pathed straight to search de-listing instead of absorbing two email rounds per creator — which at roster scale is twenty wasted rounds rather than two.

    That is also the argument for a bundled roster price rather than a per-creator one. If the marginal cost of the tenth creator were the same as the first, per-creator pricing would be correct and Ceartas's model would be the honest one. openDMCA prices as though it is not, and publishes $229 a month for ten creators — Pro covers three at $89 — because the shared corpus is where the saving comes from.

    What openDMCA cannot offer an agency. A reference. No named agency customer, no case study, no independent review profile, and the Host Compliance Index that would answer the outcomes question with measured data is built but held back until it clears thirty resolved takedowns across ten hosts. Rulta can point at 100 agencies. openDMCA can point at a published price and a published mechanism, and an agency is right to weigh those differently.

    The estimate below assumes 620 live copies across a ten-creator roster, which is a modest first-scan result at that size.

    Left up, 620 exposed copies work out to an estimated $3,624 a month in diverted subscriptions. Estimate, not a measurement: it assumes 0.45 diverted subscribers per exposed post at an average subscription price of $12.99. Your number depends on your pricing and audience.

    Frequently asked questions

    Which DMCA service publishes an agency price?

    Of the six compared here, only openDMCA, at $229 a month for ten creators with each additional creator at $15. Rulta advertises agency discounts up to 50% behind a booked call, and BranditScan, Bruqi, Ceartas and Privly publish single-account plans only.

    How much does per-creator pricing cost at roster scale?

    Ceartas at Star is $69 per creator, so ten creators is $690 a month and ten on Elite is $1,690. Rulta's tiers cover up to four usernames each, so a roster needs multiple subscriptions or a negotiated agency rate.

    Does any competitor publish a read-only API?

    None of the five compared here publishes an API on the pages checked. openDMCA publishes a read-only REST API with API keys on the Agency plan, returning clients, leaks and stats. If you run your own dashboard, ask every vendor about this specifically.

    What should an agency ask that a creator would not?

    The per-creator rate in writing, how many seats are included and whether creators can be scoped to their own data, whether a read-only API exists, and what onboarding a new creator actually involves. Pricing pages answer none of these.

    Is negotiating with a bigger vendor better than a published price?

    Often, yes. Rulta advertises up to 50% off for agencies, which can beat any list price. The catch is that a negotiated rate is not portable and not comparable, so get it in writing with a term and a renewal price before you compare it against anything.

    What is the biggest operational risk at roster scale?

    Wrong notices against partner networks. One mis-filed takedown against a studio or a promotional network is your agency's relationship, not the creator's. Load every creator's authorised domains before their first scan, whichever vendor you choose.

    Sources and verification dates

    Get a written per-creator rate from every vendor, then divide. openDMCA publishes Agency at $229/mo for ten creators, unlimited team seats, and $15/mo per creator beyond that.