Ceartas
Best for: A single established creator who submits a lot of links by hand and wants a published upgrade path that reaches genuinely high-touch service.
Pricing reality: Ceartas publishes four tiers, priced per creator per month: Star at $69 with manual takedown requests capped at 300, Elite at $169 with unlimited manual requests, VIP at $349 (with an annual option published at $3,120), and Platinum at $1,200. The page advertises 50% off the first month on any plan, which puts Star at $34.50 and Elite at $84.50 for month one.
What it does better: Ceartas removes the cap on manual submissions from $169 upward, and publishes a ladder that keeps climbing after every competitor here has stopped. It also publishes its legal terms, refund position and cancellation route, which is a form of respect for the buyer that the rest of this category mostly withholds.
What makes people leave: Ceartas states in its terms that all purchases are non-refundable, and prices per creator on every tier with no published multi-creator plan, so a manager running ten creators pays ten subscriptions and cannot get a month back if one produces nothing ceartas.io on Ceartas
Verdict: The right ladder for one creator, the wrong arithmetic for a roster. Its 4.3 Trustpilot score comes from 27 reviews, which is too small a sample to weight in either direction, and its single low review is disputed by the company — so judge Ceartas on its published structure rather than on its score.
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
- 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
Timing a move away from Ceartas, because the refund position makes timing matter
One thing sets a Ceartas switch apart from every other migration in this comparison: Ceartas states that purchases are non-refundable. That turns the move from a decision into a date.
Move at renewal, never mid-cycle. A mid-cycle cancellation on a non-refundable plan buys you nothing but an earlier end. Note your renewal date, run your comparison in the two weeks before it, and cancel in the last few days. This is the single most valuable sentence on this page and it is worth about $69 to $349.
Export your manual submissions first. If you have been on Star, you have been rationing 300 manual takedown requests, which means you have been keeping a list of what to spend them on. That list is the thing to carry. Ceartas publishes no takedown-history export, so copy the URLs out by hand before the account closes — yours is the only copy that will exist afterwards.
What carries over. Stage names, your own domains and collaborators' domains, and that submission list. What does not: the case history, and the 50% first-month discount, which applies once.
What the roster arithmetic looks like. Ceartas prices per creator. If you manage several, price each one separately and add them up, then compare against a plan that bundles creators — openDMCA Pro covers three at $89 a month and Agency covers ten at $229, with each extra creator beyond a quota at $15 a month. Do this on paper before you talk to anyone. It is the number that decides it.
The step-by-step version of this, with the timing and the export order: how to migrate from Ceartas.
Unlimited manual submissions solve throughput. They do not solve which channel
Removing the cap on manual takedown requests is a genuine improvement and Ceartas is right to sell it. It answers a real question: what happens when I find more than the service does. It does not answer the question underneath, which is what happens to each of those URLs after you submit it.
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. A submitted URL inherits that routing whether you found it or a scan did. The escalation ladder runs host DMCA, then an escalation template, then the provider or CDN, then search de-listing; a host whose 90-day removal rate sits below 25% across at least five resolved samples skips the first two rungs entirely.
The same corpus is what makes a submitted URL worth submitting. Handing four hundred links to a service that treats every host identically produces four hundred identical notices, and the hosts that were always going to ignore them ignore them on schedule.
For the per-notice end of this market, where the arithmetic is different again, the comparison is at openDMCA and DMCA.com on per-notice pricing.
Line-by-line pricing, including the tiers and caps this page does not have room for: how the Ceartas first-month discount and non-refundable terms interact.
The estimate below uses 260 live copies, roughly what an established single creator accumulates across a year of paid sets.