Every service here searches for the details you hand over.
We find
the ones you didn’t.
GalaxyWarden against DeleteMe, Incogni and Optery — on how each one actually searches, what a year costs, and where they beat us. Every figure below is that company’s own published number, dated.
One email finds the phone. The phone finds the address.
You do not have to know what to look for. That is the part that changes.
- The email address you type in
The only thing we ask you for.
- The phone number it is paired with in a leaked
file
A number you may not have thought of, and did not give us.
- The home address listed against that phone
Including addresses you moved out of years ago.
- The names published at that address
Yours, and often the people you live with.
Each step is found from the one before it, which is why one email is enough to start. A search that begins and ends with the details you were able to remember cannot reach the third line, because nothing on the first line points at it.
Here is what each of the others asks you for first, in their own words.
DeleteMe
“Submit your personal information for removal from search engines and data broker sites.”
Their experts then search the broker and people-search sites for the details you submitted.
joindeleteme.com · read 2026-08-11
Incogni
“We'll need your name, email address, and home address to help us match your profile with records in data broker databases.”
Removal requests then go out to the brokers holding records that match what you entered.
incogni.com · read 2026-08-11
Optery
“your first name, last name, city, state, and birth year to locate your profile among the millions of others out there”
They then find and screenshot the people-search profiles built on that name.
www.optery.com · read 2026-08-11
Quoted verbatim from each company’s own site on the date shown. All three describe the same shape of service and it is a real one: you supply your details, they search the broker and people-search sites for them and file the removals. We are not saying they do that badly. We are saying the search starts from what you were able to hand over, and ours does not have to.
Prefer them one at a time? GalaxyWarden vs DeleteMe · GalaxyWarden vs Incogni · all of them side by side.
Nobody can delete a leak. Not us either.
Once a file of stolen records is out, it is copied, traded and archived, and no company on this page can pull it back. What that file does is keep supplying the people-search sites: they rebuild your profile from whatever source they can find, so the listing you paid to remove last year comes back and you pay to remove it again.
GalaxyWarden checks the leak side as well as the listing side, so you can see the record that is feeding the listings and deal with what is actually fixable — change the exposed password, stop using the burned email — while we file the removals.
Said plainly, because it matters: leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you. Broker listings can be removed, and we remove them. That distinction is the whole product.
Everyone here bills you every year. Ours is one payment.
As of July 2026, DeleteMe, Incogni and Optery are subscription-only — there is no way to buy a removal from any of them without starting a recurring plan. Deep Sweep is $29, once. One sweep across 582 data-broker companies, no subscription, nothing auto-renews. It is the cheapest way to find out whether any of this works for you, from anyone in the category.
It is backed in writing: a majority (51%+) of what the plan files in its first 14 days, or the $29 comes back — where the shortfall is for a reason within our control. We guarantee our filing, not a broker’s decision; CCPA gives them up to 45 days. Full terms, which govern over anything else on this site.
The table is wider than a phone screen. Scroll it sideways to see cost per site and the notes column.
| Plan | Per year | Sites | Cost / site | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optery Free Basic | $0 | report only | — | Shows exposure. Removes nothing. |
| Optery Core | $39 | 380+ | $0.10 | Automated only |
| Optery Extended | $149 | 555+ | $0.27 | Adds a human agent |
| Optery Ultimate | $249 | 635+ | $0.39 | Unlimited custom requests |
| Incogni Standard | $95.88 | 420 | $0.23 | Broad automated coverage |
| Incogni Unlimited | $179.88 | 420 + custom | — | Adds custom removals |
| DeleteMe Standard (1 person, 1 yr) | ~$129 | ~100 | $1.29 | Most expensive per site |
| GalaxyWarden Deep Sweep | $29 once | 634 | one-time | No subscription. Nobody else offers this. |
| GalaxyWarden Protection | $129 | 634 | $0.20 | Re-filed every time you reappear |
Every competitor figure above is that company’s own published claim as of July 2026, taken from their pricing pages and public comparison listings; each company counts its own way, so treat the column as indicative rather than like-for-like. We have not independently audited anyone’s coverage count. Ours is 634 sites across 582 companies — some companies run several sites, so one letter can clear more than one, and where a company had registered twice we write once instead of twice. Both figures are counted from our own published list on 30 July 2026 and deliberately not rounded up. The column above is the site count, because that is what “cost per site” divides by. 28 of those 634 sites are ones where anyone can type your name and see your address — you can go and check those yourself. The other 606 are run by companies that buy and sell personal information behind the scenes, which is where the look-up sites get it from. You can read how we count, arithmetic included. “Cost per site” is annual price divided by claimed automated coverage: a rough like-for-like proxy, not a judgement of removal quality. Prices change; if you spot one that has moved, tell us and we will fix it.
Where the others beat us.
Incogni asks for less money
$95.88 a year against our $129. We cover more sites for the money — $0.20 each against their $0.23 — but if the number you are comparing is the one on the invoice, theirs is smaller, and that is a fair reason to pick them.
Incogni’s family plan is better value per person
$38.38 per person per year against our $49.80 across 5 seats. A seat here does get something theirs does not — we ask that person to authorize us in their own name, because one adult cannot sign that away for another — but that yes only records permission: the sweep and the monitoring still run at the account level, and adding a member does not yet add either. We would rather charge more and say so than undercut them on a promise we cannot keep yet.
Optery Core is cheaper per site than we are
The table above carries a cost-per-site column, so here is the part of that column which does not flatter us. Optery Core works out at $0.10 a site against our $0.20. It is a narrower service — fewer sites, no breach-side scan — but on that measure we do not win, and the arithmetic further up should not talk you into assuming we do.
Optery has a genuinely free tier
Create a free account and they show you your actual people-search listings, with screenshots, no card. It removes nothing — removals start at $39/yr — but seeing your own listings for nothing is real, and we do not match it: our free scan covers the breach side, not the broker side. It asks for an email and no account, and a free reader account keeps those results and goes on rechecking that address.
We would rather you find that here than feel misled later. A comparison page that pretends the competition has no advantages is an advertisement wearing a lab coat.
“I wrote this page myself, including the part where Incogni beats us on price. If I hid that, you would find it in ten minutes and stop believing the rest of it.”
Brandon Audeh · Founder, GalaxyWarden · penetration tester