BlackCloak vs Optery (2026): which should you pick?

Pick BlackCloak if

• Fits if you're a company covering executives' and families' personal digital lives
• Works for an executive whose employer buys protection for them

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want to buy for yourself, as it is sold through sales to companies
• Skip it if you only want data broker removal, which isn't sold alone as far as we read
• Watch out: no price anywhere, only a demo request
• Watch out: the site's research figures and the $5 million identity theft insurance terms weren't checked by us

Pick Optery if

• Fits if you want to see where you're listed, with screenshots, before paying anything
• Works for one adult with one name and one city, on Core at $39 a year

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you've lived in several places, as Core covers one name and one city only; more starts at $149 a year
• Not for you if you live outside the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, or in Quebec
• Skip it if you want to try removals for free: there's no trial, only a 30-day money-back guarantee, and none on business accounts
• Pricey if you're buying for a family: each member needs a plan, and the discount reaches 30% only at 4 plans
• Watch out: the free plan removes nothing and rescans only about every 3 months

BlackCloak

• No prices are published; the site routes visitors to a demo request, and the sales-led setup is aimed at executives and companies.
• Data broker removal is one module of a wider platform and is not sold on its own, as far as the pages we read show.
• The vendor says its figures on executive risk come from Techstrong Research and Ponemon Institute studies; these are marketing claims, not checked by us.
• The product page says identity theft insurance reimburses losses up to $5 million; the terms were not read.

Optery

• Personal plans are for residents of the US, Canada (excluding Quebec), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and only for adults aged 18 and over.
• Core removes profiles for one name and one city and state only; unlimited name variations, past cities and a human agent start on Extended.
• There is no free trial; Optery offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on individual accounts instead, not on business accounts.
• Each account covers one person, so a family buys a plan for each member; the family discount reaches 30% only at 4 plans or more.

BlackCloak

Data broker removal

Detects exposed data from known executive details, automates takedown requests and says it adapts as brokers change their opt-out steps.

Re-removal of republished data

Says data that is published again is identified and removed on a continuing basis, with progress shown in a live feed in the BlackCloak app.

Privacy and identity defense

Also lists dark web monitoring, search suppression, home blurring, credit monitoring and identity restoration.

Impersonation protection

Lets an executive authenticate calls, texts, video chats and emails from their trusted circle to counter deepfake attacks.

Threat intelligence reports

Provides physical risk reports, executive threat assessments and travel advisories drawn from open, deep and dark web sources.

Concierge team and SOC

On-demand support from a concierge team and a US-based security operations center.

Optery

Exposure report with screenshots

The free account gets a report of where your name, address and phone number appear, with a screenshot and link for each profile found and a scan of Google and Bing results.

Monthly automated removals

Paid plans scan and file opt-outs at least once every 30 days, Optery says, and are opted out of newly supported brokers automatically. Core says it covers 375+ sites, Extended 555+ and Ultimate 625+.

Removals reports

Extended and Ultimate send a report about every 90 days with before-and-after screenshots showing which profiles were taken down, and assign a human Privacy Agent for cases the automation cannot handle.

Custom removal requests

Ultimate accepts unlimited requests for sites outside the automated list, 940+ sites in all by Optery's count, after your first 30 days. It also submits outdated pages to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo.

Map blurring

Extended and Ultimate request that your home be blurred on Google Maps and Apple Maps street imagery.

Family administration

One administrator can invite relatives and friends, see each person's exposure and removal counts, and manage their plans and billing, while each person's detailed reports stay private to them.

BlackCloak

Pricing could not be confirmed. See blackcloak.io.

Optery

• Free Basic$0

  Exposure report with screenshots and self-service removal tools, with unlimited name variations and past cities for doing it yourself.

• Core$3.25

  per month, billed yearly at $39 ($3.99 billed monthly)

  Automated monthly removals from 375+ sites by Optery's count (150+ without Expanded Reach), for one name and one city and state, with no human agent.

• Extended$12.42

  per month, billed yearly at $149 ($14.99 billed monthly)

  Says it covers 555+ sites, with unlimited name variations and past cities, an assigned human Privacy Agent, removal reports about every 90 days and map blurring.

• Ultimate$20.70

  per month, billed yearly at $249 ($24.99 billed monthly)

  Says it covers 625+ sites automatically, plus unlimited custom removal requests for 940+ sites in all after 30 days, and priority email support.

BlackCloak

No public discounts listed.

Optery

• Annual discount

  About 17% off with yearly billing

  Optery's pricing page says switching to yearly saves 17%: Core is $39 a year against $3.99 a month, and Ultimate $249 a year against $24.99 a month.

• Other savings

  Family discount of up to 30% off all plans

  Optery for Family lowers the price of every plan the more people you cover, reaching 30% off all plans at 4 plans or more, according to its help desk.