Bruqi
Best for: A price-sensitive creator with several stage names who wants one flat bill and does not need an API, a roster plan, or a published record of how outcomes are measured.
Pricing reality: Bruqi publishes four tiers: a permanent free DIY tier with no automatic removals, Side Hustle at $29/mo or $232/year, Creator Pro at $99/mo or $792/year, and Top 1% at $249/mo or $1,992/year. Every paid tier states it covers all usernames. What separates them is scan frequency — weekly, daily, hourly — and the surfaces covered.
What it does better: Bruqi's pricing model is the flattest in this comparison and the easiest to reason about. Adding a stage name costs nothing on any paid tier, and the free DIY tier survives past a trial window rather than expiring, which makes Bruqi the cheapest way in the category to keep an account open while you evaluate someone else.
What makes people leave: Two failure modes recur across Bruqi's low-star reviews: de-listing counted as removal, in one creator's words, they say 399 links are delisted but when i google them they still come up — and notices filed against content the creator authorised, including a paying customer's own previous studio collaborations trustpilot.com on Bruqi
Verdict: Bruqi wins on price and loses on precision. Its 3.7 rating across 48 Trustpilot reviews is the lowest of the five services compared here, with 27% at one star, and an unusual share of those are filed by site operators who received notices rather than by creators who bought the product. Read that distribution before you read the price.
The objections worth taking seriously
- 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
- 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
Moving from Bruqi, and the one thing to do before you cancel
Bruqi is the easiest migration in this set for one reason: its free DIY tier never expires. You do not have to cancel to leave. Downgrade to DIY, keep the account, and run openDMCA alongside it for a month at no extra cost. Nobody else in this comparison lets you do that.
Do the whitelist first, before anything else. Write down every domain that is legitimately yours or your collaborators': your own site, your link-in-bio host, the studios and networks you have worked with, any platform you licensed content to. Bruqi's review history includes a paying creator whose own previous studio work was taken down alongside the leaks, and a network operator who received notices for a site already on a whitelist. Load that list into openDMCA before your first scan, not after the first mistaken notice.
What carries over. Your usernames, your whitelist, and your own record of found URLs. Bruqi's paid tiers cover all usernames, so you may be protecting more names than you remember — check the account and write them all down before you downgrade.
What does not. Bruqi publishes no export of takedown history. If your Bruqi dashboard shows a de-listed count you care about, screenshot it, then spot-check ten of those URLs in a private window. Whatever that check returns is the real starting position, and it is the number worth carrying forward rather than the dashboard's.
What it costs. Nothing, if you downgrade rather than cancel. That is unusual and it is worth using.
The step-by-step version of this, with the timing and the export order: how to migrate from Bruqi.
Scan frequency is throughput. The Removal Graph is direction
Bruqi's upgrade path is frequency: weekly, then daily, then hourly. Frequency is a real variable — a leak found on Tuesday rather than Sunday is five days less exposure — but it changes how often the same decision gets made, not how good the decision is.
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 concrete pieces sit behind that sentence: a curated map of host to abuse channel, an RDAP resolution cache shared across the whole customer base, 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 90 days, on five or more resolved samples, skips two email rounds and goes straight to search de-listing.
Whitelisting sits in the same place in the pipeline and matters for the same reason. In openDMCA a creator's own domains are excluded during the scan, before a notice is ever generated, so an authorised URL never enters the takedown queue. That is a filter rather than an apology, and the difference shows up in whose inbox a wrong notice does not land.
Line-by-line pricing, including the tiers and caps this page does not have room for: how Bruqi's frequency ladder and annual discount price out.
The estimate below assumes 90 live copies, the sort of count a weekly scan surfaces for a creator who has been leaked recently rather than persistently.