Optery removes your personal info from data brokers and people search sites. Free scan, paid plans from $3.25/month billed yearly. Read our full review.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Optery is a personal information removal service. It looks for profiles about you on data brokers and people search sites, shows you what is exposed, and helps you opt out. The details it targets include home address, phone number and email address, which brokers often sell or publish without the person's knowledge.
The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Its stated mission is to put consumers in control of their data. It reports that PCMag named it Editors' Choice from 2022 through 2025, and that Consumer Reports ranked it the most effective product in a study.
Optery also says it has no affiliation with data brokers, a point it uses to separate itself from competitors that it says have run data brokers or taken affiliate payments from them.
You start by creating a free account with your first name, last name, city, state and birth year. Optery uses these to locate your profile among millions of others. A personalized Exposure Report arrives by email within a few hours, and the dashboard links to profiles on the brokers that list you.
From there you can opt out yourself using the self-service pages, or upgrade so Optery submits removals for you. The automation fills out forms, solves captchas, clicks verification links, delivers legal demands and handles email replies.
Progress updates usually appear within a few days. Some brokers act immediately and others take weeks. Because brokers refresh their databases, paid plans rescan and remove again every month.
The free tier includes a personalized Exposure Report with screenshots, a scan of Google and Bing results, self-service removal tools and a phone and email scan preferences tool. Reports use live screenshots, and paid Extended and Ultimate plans add Removals Reports with before and after screenshots roughly every 90 days.
Paid plans add monthly automated scans and removals, opt outs from newly supported brokers, and an assigned human Privacy Agent on Extended and above. Extended also blurs your home on Google Maps and Apple Maps.
Ultimate adds Unlimited Custom Removal Requests, Outdated Content Removal submissions for Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo, and priority email support. Optery also lists family plans, a Public API, ID verification and multi-factor authentication.
Optery is a service that finds personal information on data brokers and people search sites and removes it. Free accounts get an Exposure Report and self-service opt out tools, while paid plans have Optery submit removals automatically.
Optery has a free Basic plan. Paid plans are Core at $3.99/month, Extended at $14.99/month and Ultimate at $24.99/month, or $39, $149 and $249 per year when billed yearly. Yearly billing saves 17%.
Yes. Free Basic needs no credit card and includes a personalized Exposure Report with screenshots, scans of Google and Bing results, and self-service removal tools. Removals are done by the user on this plan.
It fills out and submits opt out forms, solves captchas, clicks verification links, delivers legal demands, and writes and responds to emails automatically. Paid plans repeat scans and removals monthly.
Optery says progress updates typically appear in the dashboard within a few days. Some data brokers remove profiles immediately, while others take multiple weeks.
Yes, a 30-day, no-questions-asked money-back guarantee applies to individual (consumer) accounts. It is not available for business accounts.
Optery reports completing an AICPA SOC 2 Type II certification through Prescient Assurance and offers multi-factor authentication for account security.
Optery was founded in 2020 by Lawrence Gentilello (CEO), Chen Atlas (CTO) and Dekel Barzilay. It is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and operates as a fully remote team.