DMCA.com
Best for: A website owner, a business with a single dispute, or a host that needs compliance tooling rather than a creator with a recurring leak problem.
Pricing reality: Four lines. Protection: badge at $10 a month or $100 a year for a regular site, $20 for publishers, $50 for user-generated-content sites, with a Protect Business tier at $15, $30 and $90; multi-domain rates fall from $9 per domain a month at seven domains to $4 at five hundred. Takedowns: DIY unlimited at $10 a month or $100 a year, where you file them; full service at Standard $199 for 1-9 notices, $179 each at 10-25 and $165 each at 26-50, with Premium at $399 / $359 / $330 and Platinum at $599 / $539 / $497. Monitoring: from $10 a month, text packages at $10, $20 and $30, image monitoring at $1 per image per month. Compliance: $10 a month, $50 for a business tier at 150 cases, $500 for enterprise at 1,000 cases.
What it does better: DMCA.com is the only service in this comparison that will sell you exactly one takedown and then leave you alone, and the only one selling the compliance side at all. For a business that buys per matter rather than per month, that is the correct shape and no subscription competes with it.
What makes people leave: Per-notice pricing scales against a leak problem rather than with it, and buyers of the full-service tier describe rounds of unanswered notices ending in, in one reviewer's words, time's up trustpilot.com on DMCA.com
Verdict: Priced correctly for its actual market, which is not creators. At $165 per notice even in the largest published block, a scan returning 300 URLs is a five-figure quote.
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
- 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
- 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
The arithmetic, done once, in about ninety seconds
Everything on this page reduces to one calculation, and almost nobody does it before buying. Do it now.
Count the URLs in your last scan. Not the sites — the URLs. A single leaked set typically appears as dozens of separate links across aggregators, file hosts, forum threads and mirrors.
Divide by the block size and multiply. At the Standard tier, 1-9 notices is $199, so ten to twenty-five notices is $179 each and twenty-six to fifty is $165 each. Fifty notices at the best published Standard rate is $8,250. That is the largest block DMCA.com publishes a rate for; beyond fifty you are asking for a quote.
Now compare a year. openDMCA Agency is $229 a month — $2290 for a year covering ten creators — and Starter is $29 a month for one. The comparison is not close in either direction, which is the point: these are two different products and the number makes that obvious faster than any argument.
Which line are you actually looking at? Most confusion about DMCA.com pricing comes from mixing the lines up. The $10 badge is not a takedown service. The $10 DIY takedown plan is unlimited because you write and send the notices. The $199 is the one where DMCA.com does the work. If you were comparing $10 against a creator subscription, you were comparing a badge against a takedown engine.
What carries over if you switch. Nothing has to be cancelled — a notice block is a purchase. Keep the badge if you have one; it does not conflict with anything. Copy your submitted URLs and any correspondence out of the case log first, because DMCA.com publishes no export.
Why the marginal URL costs openDMCA almost nothing and costs a per-notice service $22
At the best published Standard rate of $165 per notice in a block of twenty-six to fifty, each additional URL has a real, visible price. That is not a criticism of DMCA.com's pricing — it reflects a workflow with a person in it — but it is the whole structural difference between the two products.
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 expensive part of a takedown is resolving the host to a working abuse channel and deciding which channel to use. openDMCA does that once per host across the entire customer base, via a curated handler table and an RDAP resolution cache, so the four-hundredth URL on a host already in the graph costs essentially nothing to route.
The same corpus decides when to stop. A host whose 90-day removal rate sits below 25% across at least five resolved samples is fast-pathed to search de-listing rather than absorbing two more email rounds — which on a per-notice product would be two more charges for the same nothing.
Where openDMCA loses to DMCA.com outright. No one-off purchase, no badge product, no compliance tooling, no agent designation service, and no brand recognition remotely comparable. If any of those is what you came for, nothing above changes the answer.
The estimate below assumes 300 live copies — the volume at which per-notice pricing stops being a purchase decision and becomes a budget conversation.