Bruqi
Best for: A creator with several stage names who wants one flat bill and is choosing on price rather than on published process.
Pricing reality: Four published tiers. A free DIY tier with monthly basic scans and, in Bruqi's own words, no automatic removals. Side Hustle at $29 a month or $232 a year, with weekly scans. Creator Pro at $99 a month or $792 a year, with daily scans, adding Bing, X, Reddit and impersonator coverage. Top 1% at $249 a month or $1,992 a year, with hourly scans across all social media. All paid tiers state that they cover all usernames.
What it does better: Bruqi's annual discount is roughly a third rather than the two months free that everyone else offers, and its upgrade axis is scan frequency rather than seat count. Both are more buyer-friendly structures than the category norm, and together they make Bruqi the cheapest way in this comparison to protect several names for a year.
What makes people leave: Price is where Bruqi wins and precision is where it loses: its review history includes a paying creator whose own authorised studio collaborations were taken down alongside the leaks, and site operators receiving notices for domains already on a whitelist trustpilot.com on Bruqi
Verdict: The cheapest published protection for a multi-name creator, and the one where loading your own domains into the whitelist before the first scan matters most.
The objections worth taking seriously
- 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
- 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
- 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
How to read a frequency ladder without overbuying
Most price ladders in this category sell you seats. Bruqi's sells you clock speed, which is a genuinely different question and one most buyers answer wrong in the expensive direction.
Weekly versus daily is a real difference. Daily versus hourly usually is not. A leak found on Tuesday instead of the following Sunday is five days less exposure and five days less indexing. A leak found at 2pm instead of 9am is four hours, and the host's response time is measured in days regardless. The step from $29 to $99 buys something measurable; the step from $99 to $249 buys 23 hours a day that the takedown queue cannot use.
Buy frequency for the first month, then downgrade. The scan that matters most is the first one, because it clears the backlog. After that you are catching new leaks, which arrive at the rate you release content. If you are on Top 1% three months after your backlog cleared, you are paying $150 a month for scan slots you do not fill.
The annual discount cuts both ways. A third off is the best discount published in this comparison, and it is also twelve months of commitment to a service with the weakest review distribution here — 3.7 from 48 reviews, 27% at one star. Run the free DIY tier and a month of Side Hustle before you take the annual price.
Do the whitelist before the first scan, not after. This matters more on Bruqi than anywhere else in this comparison, because of what its review history contains. Your own site, your link-in-bio, every studio and network you have worked with, every platform you licensed content to. Fifteen minutes.
For reference on the other side: openDMCA Starter runs weekly scans at $29 a month for one creator and Pro runs daily at $89 for three, so the frequency comparison at a like-for-like cadence is closer than the headline prices suggest.
Scanning more often does not change what happens to the URL
Frequency decides how quickly a leak enters the queue. Everything after that is routing, and routing is where the outcome is actually decided.
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. Four things sit behind that: a curated map of host to abuse channel, an RDAP resolution cache shared across every customer, an outcome corpus of resolved takedowns, and a scheduler that reads the corpus before it picks a channel. A host below a 25% removal rate over ninety days, on five or more resolved samples, skips two email rounds and goes to search de-listing.
Whitelisting sits in the same pipeline, at the scan step. A creator's declared domains are excluded before a notice is generated, so an authorised URL never enters the takedown queue at all. Scanning hourly against a pipeline with no whitelist step files wrong notices more often, not less — which is the shape of the complaint pattern in Bruqi's public review history, from both creators and the sites receiving the notices.
What openDMCA loses on this page. Price, at every stage-name count above one. Bruqi covers all usernames at $29; openDMCA covers one creator at $29. Bruqi's annual discount is twice as deep. And openDMCA has no public review record at all, where Bruqi has 48 reviews you can read tonight and form your own view from.
The estimate below assumes 110 live copies, roughly what a first weekly scan surfaces for a creator a couple of months into a leak.