Optery Review 2026

Data removal services all promise the same thing, so the useful questions are how many sites they cover, how they count them, and what you give up to reach that number. Optery publishes all three, including the smaller count you get if you skip its riskier opt-in, and that openness is the main reason to shortlist it over a vendor that quotes one big figure.

Toolradar data: among the 23 privacy management tools with a verified price that Toolradar, the software directory we run, tracks, the median entry paid plan is $7.99 a month as of 19 October 2026 (privacy management statistics). Optery Core on yearly billing works out to $3.25 a month, well under half that median.

Methodology: on 19 October 2026 we read Optery's pricing page, its family page and its help article on Expanded Reach, then the pricing pages of DeleteMe, Incogni, Aura and EasyOptOuts. Every figure below is the vendor's own, and nothing here comes from a test account.

Optery is a personal data removal service. It scans people-search sites and data brokers for your name, shows you where your profile appears with screenshots, then files opt-out requests and re-checks the sites on a schedule. The free plan stops at the report and self-service tools; the paid plans automate the removals.

It also sells business plans for removing employees' data and a family option with discounts that rise with the number of people covered, up to 30% off. Higher-risk buyers are an explicit market: Optery's pricing page describes Ultimate customers as executives, officials, journalists and judges.

You sign up free, enter your name and locations, and receive an exposure report showing which sites list you, including a scan of Google and Bing results. On Free Basic you work through the opt-outs yourself, with view links and tools that speed up each request.

Paid plans scan and remove every month, opt you out of newly supported brokers automatically, and send progress reports. Extended adds an assigned human Privacy Agent for special cases, unlimited name variations and past addresses, removal reports with before and after screenshots about every 90 days, and blurring of your home on Google Maps and Apple Maps.

The headline site counts assume Expanded Reach, a free, opt-in add-on for paying customers. Optery's help center says it requires signing a limited power of attorney and may send your name, city and state to brokers that did not have them, because those brokers cannot be checked beforehand. Without it, Core covers 150+ sites, Extended 325+ and Ultimate 400+.

Prices were read on 19 October 2026 on Optery's pricing page, with the Expanded Reach terms from its help center and family discounts from Optery for Family. The page shows monthly prices by default; the yearly toggle shows the per-month equivalent and the yearly charge.

Yearly billing is cheaper on every tier. Month to month, Core costs $47.88 over a year, Extended $179.88 and Ultimate $299.88 (12 monthly bills, our arithmetic), so yearly billing saves $8.88 on Core and about $31 to $51 on the upper plans.

Year-one cost for one person, each vendor's cheapest yearly plan as listed on its own pricing page that day: EasyOptOuts $19.99, Optery Core $39, Incogni Standard $95.88, DeleteMe $129 and Aura Individual $144 ($12 a month billed annually, our arithmetic). Coverage is not equal: EasyOptOuts lists 200+ sites and Incogni 420+ brokers, and Aura is an identity theft bundle rather than a removal-only service.

Optery fits someone who wants to see the problem before paying, then automate removals cheaply. Start on Free Basic, read the exposure report, and buy Core yearly if your listings sit under one name and one current address. If you have moved, married or use variations of your name, Extended is the realistic plan, because Core will not touch the others.

Ultimate is for people with a real safety concern, such as journalists, public officials or anyone being harassed, who need custom requests and search engine clean-up. If you also want credit monitoring and identity theft insurance, compare our Aura review and the identity theft protection ranking instead.