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DeleteMe vs Privacy Bee Comparison

Feature
Overview
Rating6.16.5
Pricing
  • $10.75/moStandard for 1 year
  • $8.71/moStandard for 2 years
  • $15.00/moPremium for 1 year
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  • Standard for 1 year: $129 billed yearly
  • Standard for 2 years: $209 billed every 2 years
  • Premium for 1 year: $180 billed yearly
  • $19.00/moEssentials monthly
  • $8.00/moEssentials for 1 year
  • $39.00/moPro monthly
  • $16.42/moPro for 1 year
  • $66.58/moSignature for 1 year
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  • Essentials for 1 year: $96 billed yearly
  • Pro for 1 year: $197 billed yearly
  • Signature for 1 year: $799 billed yearly
Free tierFree scan, no removalFree scan, no removal
Sold separatelyYesYes
Established2010Not specified
Coverage
Regions covered
United StatesCanadaUnited KingdomAustraliaEuropean UnionOther regions
United StatesCanadaUnited KingdomEuropean UnionAustraliaOther regions
Brokers covered97 (vendor claim)
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The public pricing page sells personal plans for the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. DeleteMe's help center also lists six EU countries, Brazil and Singapore under international plans without a public price, and the EU coverage is small: a few dozen sites, mostly business directories.

1251 (vendor claim)
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Privacy Bee says it removes data from brokers in every country where they operate, using laws such as the GDPR, except countries under US sanctions. Its public broker directory does not label each broker by country, but it includes sites such as 192.com in the UK, Das Örtliche in Germany, Canada 411 and AustraliaLookup. Essentials covers 542 people-search sites and their affiliates; Pro and Signature cover all 1,251 brokers plus custom sites you submit.

Removal methodAutomated + human reviewAutomated + human review
Re-checksQuarterlyMonthly
Proof & verification
Proof of removalStatus only
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Standard plans get four privacy reports a year, Premium six. Reports and the dashboard show a status per site, such as removal in progress or removed; DeleteMe says it checks a listing is gone before marking it removed. The sample report contains no screenshots.

Screenshots
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Each exposure in the dashboard has a status: Discovered, Removal In Progress, Closed, Failed or Clean. Closed can mean removed, the company never answered, or the record did not match you. Privacy Bee says every confirmed removal is documented with a screenshot in the dashboard. A monthly report arrives by email on the first of each month.

Independent testsConsumer Reports (2024)None on record
Process auditNone on recordNone on record
Your data
Data you hand over
NameAddressPhoneEmailDate of birth
NameAddressDate of birthEmailPhone
What they do with itUsed for marketing
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The policy says the data you enter for removal goes to data brokers only to request removal and is stored only in the US. Contact details are used to market DeleteMe, with an opt-out, and other account data can go to business partners and corporate affiliates. Customer data can be transferred in a merger or sale of the company.

Used for marketing
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The privacy policy says Privacy Bee does not sell personal data and uses no third-party analytics or ad trackers, although a cookie banner on its pages says it uses cookies to measure ads. It does use your data to improve its marketing and to send promotional emails, which you can unsubscribe from. Data is kept for up to a year after you leave unless you ask for deletion.

JurisdictionUnited States
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DeleteMe is a trade name of Abine, Inc., a Delaware corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts.

United States
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Privacy Bee, LLC is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia; its terms are governed by Wyoming law, and all listed subprocessors store data in the United States.

OwnerVenture-backed
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Run by Abine, Inc., founded by Rob Shavell, Eugene Kuznetsov and Andrew Sudbury; Abine is venture-backed, with a $5.2 million Series A from Atlas Venture and General Catalyst in 2011, and its policy lets customer data pass to a buyer if the company is sold.

Independent company
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CEO Harry Maugans; Privacy Bee describes itself as fully self-funded, with no venture capital or private equity. In August 2026 it bought the removal service EraseMe.app.

Security audit of the serviceNone on recordNone on record
Past data breachNoNo