Bruqi
Best for: Staying, at three or more stage names, or downgrading to the free tier and keeping the account as a permanent second opinion.
Pricing reality: A free DIY tier with monthly basic scans and, in Bruqi's words, no automatic removals. Side Hustle at $29 a month or $232 a year, Creator Pro at $99 or $792, Top 1% at $249 or $1,992, all covering all usernames. No cancellation route or refund position is published, which matters less than usual precisely because you can downgrade instead.
What it does better: The permanent free tier is a real structural advantage at migration time and nobody else here has one. You can keep a Bruqi account open forever, at no cost, as a second scanner to check whatever you move to. Using a former vendor as an audit tool is a genuinely good idea and Bruqi is the only one that permits it.
What makes people leave: Two failure modes recur in Bruqi's review history: de-listing counted as removal, and notices filed against content the creator authorised — including a paying customer's own previous studio collaborations trustpilot.com on Bruqi
Verdict: The cheapest place to stay and the cheapest place to leave from. Whichever you choose, load your whitelist properly first.
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
- 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
Downgrade, do not cancel — and spend the twenty minutes on the whitelist
Downgrade to DIY rather than cancelling. Bruqi's free tier has no expiry, so the account stays open at no cost. That turns a migration into a parallel run: two scanners on the same stage name, for a month, for nothing. Nobody else in this comparison lets you do that, and it is worth using even if you have already decided.
The whitelist matters more on this migration than on any other. Before you point anything at your names, write down every domain that is legitimately yours or your collaborators': your own site, your link-in-bio host, the studios and networks you have worked with, every platform you licensed content to. Bruqi's public review history includes a paying creator whose own previous studio collaborations were taken down alongside the leaks, and a network operator receiving notices for a domain already on a whitelist. Whatever caused those, the lesson generalises: a wrong notice is a business problem with your own partners, and it is preventable in twenty minutes.
Spot-check the de-listed count before you trust it. If your Bruqi dashboard reports a number of de-listed links, take ten of them and search them in a private window. One reviewer describes 399 links reported as de-listed that still appeared in results days later. Whatever your ten return is your real starting position, and that is the number worth carrying forward rather than the dashboard's.
Then move the assets. All your usernames — check the account rather than your memory, because paid tiers cover all of them and you may be protecting names you added and forgot. Your whitelist. And your own URL list, pasted in as manual submissions, where it enters the same queue as scanned results.
Keep the free tier running afterwards. A second scanner that costs nothing is a permanent audit of whatever you move to, including openDMCA. If the free Bruqi scan starts finding things your paid service is not, that is exactly the signal you would otherwise never get.
Full pricing is at Bruqi's tiers and annual rates, and the capability comparison at openDMCA and Bruqi compared.
Whitelisting as a pipeline step, not an apology process
Every service in this category has some form of whitelist. What differs is where it sits in the pipeline, and that placement is the whole difference between a filter and a support ticket.
In openDMCA the exclusion runs at scan time. A creator's declared domains are filtered out before a notice is generated, so an authorised URL never enters the takedown queue at all. A whitelist applied after generation means the notice already exists and somebody has to catch it; a whitelist applied after sending means an apology to a partner who 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, escalating through host DMCA, an escalation template, the provider or CDN, and search de-listing. A host whose 90-day removal rate sits below 25% across at least five resolved samples skips the first two rungs. Filing precision and routing precision come from the same place: knowing something specific about the host before sending anything.
What openDMCA costs you on this switch. Money, at three or more stage names — Bruqi covers all usernames at $29 and openDMCA does not. The steepest annual discount in the category. And Bruqi's 48 public reviews, which openDMCA cannot match with any number, because its number is zero.
The estimate below assumes 100 live copies at the point of a switch, which is a common backlog on a weekly scan cadence.