Ceartas
Best for: A single established creator who wants a published upgrade path and no cap on manually submitted links.
Pricing reality: Four tiers, all priced per creator per month. Star at $69, capped at 300 manual takedown requests. Elite at $169, with unlimited manual requests. VIP at $349, with an annual option published at $3,120, described on the page as saving $1,068. Platinum at $1,200, positioned for celebrities and A-list talent. Half off the first month is advertised on any plan, which makes Star $34.50 and Elite $84.50 in month one. No multi-creator or agency plan is published.
What it does better: Ceartas publishes what most of this category withholds: the terms, the refund position, the cancellation route and a price at every level of service including the expensive end. A buyer can read the whole commercial relationship before entering it, which is rare here.
What makes people leave: Per-creator pricing with no published roster plan means a manager with ten creators buys ten subscriptions, and the non-refundable terms mean a month that produced nothing is a month you paid for ceartas.io on Ceartas
Verdict: Coherent for one creator, linear for a roster. Judge it in month two rather than month one, because month one is half price and month two is the price.
The objections worth taking seriously
- Will filing put my legal name in front of the people who leaked me?
- A valid notice has to identify a complainant, and openDMCA is the named agent on it rather than your home address. Nothing about your identity handling is left to a promise — the security page describes what openDMCA stores about you and where it goes. How openDMCA handles creator identity and account data
- 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
- 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
How the first-month discount and the non-refundable terms interact
Both of these are ordinary commercial terms. Read together, they change how you should run an evaluation, and that is worth thirty seconds of arithmetic before you subscribe.
Month one is $34.50. Month two is $69. On Elite, month one is $84.50 and month two is $169. Whatever you conclude about value at the end of the trial month, you concluded it at half price. Compare month two against every other price you are weighing, not month one.
The month you cannot get back is month two. Ceartas states that purchases are non-refundable and that you may cancel at any time. Cancelling on day three of a billing period does not return the rest of it. The practical rule is specific: decide before the second renewal, not during it, and if you are unsure, cancel and re-subscribe rather than letting a third month run.
Use the 300-request cap as a measurement, not a limit. If you are on Star and you burn through 300 manual submissions, that is a real signal about your leak volume and it should change what you buy next — from anyone. Write down how long it took you to reach it.
Roster arithmetic, if you manage creators. Ceartas prices per creator with no published multi-creator plan, so ten creators on Star is $690 a month and ten on Elite is $1,690. openDMCA Agency publishes $229 a month with ten creators included, and Pro covers three at $89. Do this on paper before either conversation.
Before you leave. Ceartas publishes no export of takedown history, so copy out your manual submission list by hand. If you have been rationing 300 requests, you already know exactly which links mattered — that list is the asset, and yours is the only copy that survives the cancellation.
What a per-creator price buys, and what it cannot buy at any tier
A per-creator ladder prices attention. More money buys more handling, more manual review and a shorter path to a person, and Ceartas is explicit about that all the way up to $1,200. It is a coherent product design.
What no tier of a per-creator model can buy is the thing that only exists across creators. 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 map is built from resolved takedowns across the entire customer base, so the routing your account gets is a function of every takedown filed for everyone else. A host whose 90-day removal rate sits below 25%, on at least five resolved samples, is skipped past two email rounds and sent straight to search de-listing.
That is why unlimited manual submission and good routing are complements rather than substitutes. Submitting four hundred links to a pipeline that treats every host the same produces four hundred identical notices, and the hosts that were never going to answer do not answer, on schedule.
What openDMCA does not have here. No tier above $229 a month, no concierge relationship, no published unlimited-manual-submission product, and no public review record against Ceartas's 27 reviews — small as that sample is, it is 27 more than openDMCA has. openDMCA's own refund position is also non-refundable, with a good-faith review inside 14 days, which is a softer version of the same term rather than a different one.
The estimate below assumes 220 live copies, roughly what one established creator accumulates across a year of paid sets.