BranditScan
Best for: Staying, if you are on Premium with three names and the identity features are doing work for you.
Pricing reality: Premium at $69 a month or $690 a year, White Glove at $149 a month or $1,490 a year, both month to month unless you took the annual option. The page states cancellation at any time and no long-term contract, so the switching exposure is one month rather than a term.
What it does better: BranditScan makes it cheap to change your mind in either direction: a free leak check with no signup and a seven-day trial it states needs no credit card mean you can re-evaluate it later without committing anything. Few vendors here make returning that easy.
What makes people leave: The recurring complaint is de-listing counted as removal — in a seven-month subscriber's words, all they do is get the links delisted from Google, since 90% of the content isn't actually removed — with manual submissions usually ignored trustpilot.com on BranditScan
Verdict: A low-cost switch either way. The decision should rest on the twenty-URL test rather than on the $20 monthly difference.
The objections worth taking seriously
- It says de-listed, but the file is still sitting there.
- De-listing and removal are two outcomes and openDMCA reports them separately rather than as one number. A de-listing is re-checked against the live index, and a removed URL is re-checked daily in case it came back, which is a different claim from either being finished. What a Google de-listing does and does not do
- 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
- Do I have to upload my leaked content to your servers?
- No. A openDMCA scan takes a username, not a file. Reference images are optional and only used if you choose face or image matching, and the privacy policy states plainly what is stored and for how long. What openDMCA stores, and what it never asks you for
Cancel, then check your statement. In that order, on that day
Do the twenty-URL test before you decide anything. Open twenty links BranditScan's dashboard reports as handled, in a private browser window, and count how many still load. Then search your main stagename in the same window and count results the dashboard never showed you. Those two numbers decide this. A seven-month subscriber wrote publicly that most of what she was shown as handled was de-listed rather than removed — the test is how you find out whether that is your experience too.
Then cancel, and confirm the charge. BranditScan states month-to-month billing with cancellation at any time and no long-term contract. At least one reviewer reports being billed $96 against a published $69 after cancelling. Whatever the explanation, the habit worth forming applies to every vendor here: cancel in the dashboard, then open your card or PayPal statement on the next billing date and check the number. Keep the confirmation email. This takes two minutes and it is the only step on this page that has ever cost anyone money.
Keep your own list, and do not apologise for it. If you have been running your own spreadsheet alongside a paid service — and people who have watched a dashboard and reality disagree usually have — that sheet is the artefact that survives. BranditScan publishes no takedown-history export, so screenshot the counts you care about, copy the URLs out, and paste them into whatever comes next as manual submissions. They enter the same queue as scanned results.
Rebuild the whitelist first. Your own site, your link-in-bio, every studio and network you have worked with. Fifteen minutes, before the first scan rather than after the first wrong notice.
The price comparison in full is at BranditScan's published tiers and renewal prices, and the capability comparison at openDMCA and BranditScan compared.
Why a migration is the right moment to separate de-listed from removed
Most creators discover the difference between a de-listing and a removal during a switch, because a switch is the first time they open the links themselves. It is worth understanding before you interpret whatever the twenty-URL test returns.
A de-listing takes the URL out of Google's results and leaves the file on the server. Anyone with the direct link still reaches it, and any forum that reposts the link restores its reach. A removal takes the file down. Reporting them as one number is how a dashboard reaches a large figure while content stays online, and it is the most frequent complaint across low-star reviews in this entire category — not BranditScan's alone.
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. Two consequences matter at migration time. A de-listing is re-queried against the live index before it is marked verified rather than assumed from a submission receipt. And a URL marked removed is re-checked on a daily sweep, so anything that came back reopens as a new case instead of staying closed in a report.
That is why pasting in your historical URLs is worth doing even for links you believe are already handled. The ones that quietly came back are exactly the ones a fresh scan might not prioritise and your old sheet knows about.
What you give up. Facial recognition as a headline capability, the named doxxing and identity features, a seven-day no-card trial, and 68 public reviews at 4.6 against openDMCA's none. Those are real and no routing argument replaces them.
The estimate below assumes 130 live copies at the point of a switch across two or three stagenames.