{
 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "optery",
 "name": "Optery",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "optery.com",
 "category": "Security",
 "task": "Security, backup & privacy",
 "summary": "Personal data removal service that scans people-search sites and data brokers for your name and address and files opt-out requests, from a free self-service report to managed removals with a human agent.",
 "best_for": "people in the US who want their home address and phone number off people-search sites, from a free self-service scan up to a managed service with a human agent",
 "skip_if": "you only have one current address and are willing to file opt-outs yourself with the free report, or you need protection outside the countries Optery serves",
 "honest_knock": "Core automates removals for one name and one city and state only, with no human handling exceptions; past addresses and name variations need Extended at $12.42 a month yearly. The advertised site counts assume Expanded Reach is enabled; without it Core covers 150+ sites instead of 380+. Custom removal requests on Ultimate only start after 30 days. Removals from data brokers take time and listings can reappear, which is why every paid plan rescans monthly. We have not used Optery ourselves.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$3.25",
  "entry_price_terms": "Core · per month billed yearly ($39 a year)",
  "from_price_usd_month": 3.25,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-10 on optery.com/pricing, US view, USD, monthly and yearly figures) Optery sells personal data-broker removal in four tiers. Free Basic costs nothing and needs no card: a personalised exposure report with screenshots, a scan of your Google and Bing results, and self-service removal tools, but no automated removals. Core is $3.99 a month, or $3.25 a month billed yearly ($39 a year): automated monthly removals from 380+ sites (150+ without enabling Expanded Reach), for at most one name and one city and state per user, fully automated with no human Privacy Agent. Extended is $14.99 a month, or $12.42 billed yearly ($149): 555+ sites (325+ without Expanded Reach), unlimited name variations and past cities, an assigned human Privacy Agent, removal reports with before-and-after screenshots about every 90 days, and blurring your home on Google Maps and Apple Maps. Ultimate, marked most popular, is $24.99 a month, or $20.70 billed yearly ($249): 630+ sites (405+ without Expanded Reach), unlimited custom removal requests across 945+ sites once you have been a customer for 30 days, outdated-content removal submissions to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo, and priority email support. Yearly billing saves 17%. Individual accounts have a 'No Questions Asked' 30-day money-back guarantee. On that reading a site banner offered promo code FALL2026 for 20% off at checkout, with no end date shown. Family and business plans are priced on separate pages that we did not read for this review.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-10",
  "source_url": "https://www.optery.com/pricing/"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "per_seat",
   "label": "Per-seat pricing",
   "evidence": "Core is $3.99 a month, or $3.25 a month billed yearly ($39 a year): automated monthly removals from 380+ sites (150+ without enabling Expanded Reach), for at most one name and one city and state per user, fully automated with no human Privacy Agent.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-10",
   "source_url": "https://www.optery.com/pricing/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "NordVPN",
  "why": "NordVPN is in our dossiers too, but it hides your traffic and location while you browse; Optery removes the records data brokers already hold about you. They solve different privacy problems and are often used together."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/optery.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/optery-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/optery/",
  "vendor_site": "https://optery.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.optery.com/3gu29232hquk",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "optery:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "optery:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "optery:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "optery:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}