Optery vs Privacy Bee Comparison

• Core for 1 year: $39 billed yearly
• Extended for 1 year: $149 billed yearly
• Ultimate for 1 year: $249 billed yearly

• Essentials for 1 year: $96 billed yearly
• Pro for 1 year: $197 billed yearly
• Signature for 1 year: $799 billed yearly

US figures for the Ultimate plan: 630+ sites, of which 405+ are covered without the optional Expanded Reach setting; Core covers 380+ and Extended 555+. Canadian plans cover 51+ to 69+ sites and Australian plans 35+ to 55+. Personal plans are also sold in New Zealand and South Africa, but not in Quebec, the UK or the EU.

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.

Every paid plan shows a status per site in the dashboard. Extended and Ultimate add a Removals Report with before-and-after screenshots about every 90 days. Sites reached only through Expanded Reach get no verified status.

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.

Account data (name and email) is used to market Optery, and its retargeted ads with vendors such as Google may count as a sale or share under California law, with an opt-out. The policy says data in the removal profile is not used for marketing, and Optery does not sell data for money.

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.

Optery, Inc. is a Delaware C corporation headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area; customer data is hosted on AWS in the United States.

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.

Surfshark acquired a majority stake in September 2026; Optery says it continues as an independent company with its own team, product and technology. Before that it was a venture-backed startup from Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.

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.

SOC 2 Type II audit of Optery's security controls, commissioned and paid for by Optery. Optery says it passed for 2023, 2024 and 2025 and shares the report only with business customers under NDA.