BranditScan
Best for: Two to three stage names at the lowest credible monthly price, or an unlimited-stagename flat ceiling at $149.
Pricing reality: Two published tiers. Premium is $69 a month or $690 a year for three stagenames, advertised at $34.50 for the first month. White Glove is $149 a month or $1,490 a year for unlimited stagenames, adding a personal concierge, account management, more aggressive scanning and SEO and brand optimisation. Annual billing on both is stated to save two months. There is no roster or agency plan published.
What it does better: BranditScan's entry price does more work than anyone else's here. Three stagenames, facial recognition, doxing and stalking protection, an identity shield and social removals are all on the $69 plan rather than staged across tiers — the opposite of Rulta's structure, where the interesting capabilities sit at $324.
What makes people leave: The two published tiers advertise the same core feature set, so a buyer who upgrades expecting better takedown behaviour is buying stagename headroom and a concierge, and at least one reviewer reports being charged $96 against a published $69 after cancelling trustpilot.com on BranditScan
Verdict: The best-value entry price in this comparison, with two things to check before renewal: what your second month actually costs after the 50% introductory discount, and whether the removed count in the dashboard survives you opening the links.
The objections worth taking seriously
- 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
- 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
- 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
The two prices to write down before you subscribe to BranditScan
An introductory discount changes what you should compare. BranditScan advertises 50% off the first month, which puts Premium at $34.50 for month one and $69 from month two. Both numbers are real; only one is the price of the product.
Compare month two, not month one. Every price on this page and every competitor page should be read at renewal rate. A $34.50 first month against a $29 openDMCA Starter looks close. A $69 second month against $29 does not. The discount is a legitimate offer and it is also the number that makes a twelve-month comparison wrong if you use it.
Then check the annual arithmetic. $690 a year against $69 a month is two months free, exactly as the page says. openDMCA's annual pricing works the same way — $290 and $890 for Starter and Pro — so on both sides the annual decision is the same trade: two months saved against twelve months of commitment to a vendor you have used for four weeks.
Confirm the charge after the first renewal. This is not a general caution. A BranditScan reviewer reports being billed $96 against a published $69 after cancelling. Whatever the explanation — currency, tax, a different plan — the useful habit is to open your card statement on the day of your second charge and check the figure matches the page. Do that with every vendor in this category, including this one.
If you are switching away. Cancel in the dashboard, confirm in the billing provider, and keep the confirmation email. BranditScan publishes no export of takedown history, so screenshot the counts you care about first.
Where a low entry price stops being the deciding number
At $69 for three stagenames, BranditScan is cheaper than openDMCA for the most common creator shape in this market. That is the honest starting position and the rest of this section is about what the remaining $20 a month is being asked to buy.
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. Concretely, that means a de-listing is re-queried against the live index before it is marked verified, a removed URL is re-checked daily so a reupload reopens as a new case, and a host whose 90-day removal rate sits below 25% across at least five resolved samples is fast-pathed to search de-listing instead of absorbing two more email rounds.
Whether that is worth $20 a month depends entirely on something you can measure without anyone's help: take twenty URLs your current service reports as handled, open them in a private window, and count how many still load. If the answer is twenty, buy on price. If it is eleven, the $20 is the cheapest part of the decision.
What openDMCA does not have here. No free trial of the automation, no facial recognition as a headline product, no doxxing feature, no concierge, and no public review history against BranditScan's 68 reviews at 4.6. Four of those five are things BranditScan sells and openDMCA does not.
The estimate below assumes 120 live copies across three stage names, which is the shape where these two prices are closest.