You can’t unleak a breach.
You can take away what it’s
worth.
What you can change is how many companies are still handing out your address, and whether anyone checks again when it reappears. Here is the honest arithmetic, using each company’s own published numbers.
What a year actually costs, per site covered
| 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 | 642 | one-time | No subscription. Nobody else offers this. |
| GalaxyWarden Protection | $129 | 642 | $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 642 sites across 637 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. 45 of the companies are sites where anyone can type your name and see your address — you can go and check those yourself. The other 592 are companies that buy and sell personal information behind the scenes, which is where the sites get it from. Our coverage math shows the working. “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.
Prefer them one at a time? GalaxyWarden vs DeleteMe · GalaxyWarden vs Incogni · all of them side by side.
Half the job isn’t the job
What every service here does
Sends legal requests to the sites that publish you, so your name, address, phone and relatives stop turning up when someone searches for you. Real, useful work — and genuinely worth paying for.
What happens next, and why it repeats
These companies rebuild their profiles from whatever source they can find. If your details are sitting in a leaked file, that file is a permanent supply line: the page comes back, and you pay again next year for the same removal.
GalaxyWarden scans the breach side as well as the broker side, so you can see the record that is feeding the listings and fix what is actually fixable — rotate the exposed password, retire the burned identifier — 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.
The sheet stays. What it was worth does not.
The leak is permanent and nobody can pull it back. The listings it feeds are not, and the password it burned can be retired tonight.
The honest column
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
Cost per site is the number we lead with on this page, so here is the part of it that 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 our own headline 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.
You can try us without subscribing to us
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 637 companies that collect and sell your details, 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.
One slip ends. The other keeps printing.
Deep Sweep is one payment, and nothing auto-renews. The three services compared above are subscription-only.
“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