BranditScan
Best for: A creator with two or three stage names whose leaks sit on the open web, Instagram, X and Reddit, who wants facial recognition bundled at one low monthly price and wants to try it without entering a card.
Pricing reality: BranditScan publishes two tiers: Premium at $69/mo or $690/year covering three stagenames, and White Glove at $149/mo or $1,490/year covering unlimited stagenames. The page advertises 50% off the first month at $34.50. Both tiers advertise the same core feature set, so the upgrade buys stagenames and a concierge rather than capability.
What it does better: BranditScan removes the two frictions that stop a creator comparing anything at all: a free leak check that needs no signup, and a seven-day trial that BranditScan states needs no credit card to start. Three stagenames on the $69 entry plan is a genuinely better shape than any per-username competitor offers, and "Doxing & Stalking Protection" and an "Identity Shield" are named features rather than a support policy.
What makes people leave: The recurring complaint in BranditScan's low-star reviews is de-listing standing in for removal, in a seven-month subscriber's words: all they do is get the links delisted from Google, since 90% of the content isn't actually removed — with manual submissions usually ignored trustpilot.com on BranditScan
Verdict: BranditScan is the cheapest credible way to cover three names and the easiest to try. Two questions to take into the trial: whether the dashboard's removed count survives you checking the links yourself a week later, and where your Telegram mirrors go, because Telegram appears nowhere in what BranditScan publishes.
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
- 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
- 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
Moving from BranditScan without losing the week you already paid for
A BranditScan subscription is month-to-month, so the switch is a calendar problem rather than a contract one. Budget an hour, and do the boring part first.
Check the charge before you cancel. At least one BranditScan reviewer reports being billed $96 against a published price of $69, after cancelling. Whatever the explanation, the lesson generalises: cancel in the dashboard, then confirm in your card or PayPal statement, and keep the confirmation email. Do that before you start anything new, not after.
What carries over. Your stagenames, your official domains, and every URL in your own records. If you have been keeping a list — and if you have been paying for seven months you almost certainly have, because that is what people do when the dashboard and reality stop agreeing — that list is the useful artefact. Paste it in as manual submissions.
What does not carry over. BranditScan publishes no export path, so its record of what was submitted and what was removed stays there. Screenshot the counts you care about before the account closes. It is a poor substitute for an export and it is better than nothing.
The parallel run that costs nothing. BranditScan's free leak check and openDMCA's free scan can both be run on the same stagename in the same ten minutes. Compare the counts. Then re-check ten of the URLs each one reports as handled. That second step is the one nobody does and the one that answers the actual question.
The step-by-step version of this, with the timing and the export order: how to migrate from BranditScan.
Why openDMCA separates de-listed from removed, and reports both
A de-listing takes a URL out of Google's results. A removal takes the file off the server. Reporting the two as one number is how a dashboard reaches an impressive figure while a creator's content stays online for anyone with the direct link — and it is the single complaint that recurs most often in low-star reviews across this entire category, not only BranditScan's.
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. Two of those paths are checked rather than assumed. A Google de-listing is re-queried against the live index and only then marked verified. A URL marked removed is re-checked on a daily sweep, and anything that came back is reopened as a new leak rather than quietly left closed.
That is also why openDMCA fast-paths a stubborn host. When a host's 90-day removal rate sits below 25% across at least five resolved samples, spending two more email rounds on it is theatre. The URL goes to search de-listing instead, and the record says de-listed, because that is what happened.
Line-by-line pricing, including the tiers and caps this page does not have room for: what BranditScan's two tiers actually differ on, and the month-two price.
The estimate below uses a creator with 140 live copies, which is a typical count for two stagenames a few months into a leak.