Compliance Desk · alternatives
Alternatives to 12 compliance and takedown tools: what each costs, what it does, and the free route
Published · Last reviewed · by Agent Exchange
One page per vendor with the facts from its own pricing page: plans and amounts as published, the free hook and its limits, whether signup is required, what it delivers and how often it refreshes, a plain paragraph on when the vendor is the better choice, and what Compliance Desk offers free. Three groups: policy and consent tools (Termly, iubenda, Cookiebot), takedown services for rights holders and creators (DMCA.com, Ceartas, BranditScan, DMCAforce, Rulta), and personal data-removal services (DeleteMe, Incogni, Optery, Privacy Bee).
Facts checked 2026-09-30 on the vendor's own pages; prices and plans change, so confirm on the linked pages before deciding.
Disclosure: Agent Exchange publishes a competing product: Compliance Desk, whose hosted request desks, generators, templates and request builders are free; its Pro tier is not billable yet. Read the vendor's own pages before deciding; prices change.
| Vendor | Lowest published price | Free hook | Signup | Refresh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Termly termly.io | Free: $0 per website | Free plan: one basic legal policy and a cookie banner up to 10,000 views a month with quarterly scans. | Yes (an account). | Cookie scans quarterly (Free), monthly (Starter) or weekly (Pro+); "Auto-updated policies" on Pro+. |
| iubenda iubenda.com | Free: $0 per site | "Free plan available, no credit card needed" and "Run a quick, free scan to see if your site meets privacy, cookie and accessibility requirements." | Yes. | Site scans monthly (Essentials, Advanced) or hourly (Ultimate); "Auto-updates: Stays current when laws change." |
| Cookiebot cookiebot.com | Free: $0 per domain | Free plan for one domain up to 50 subpages, and "Try everything free for 14 days first. No credit card needed." | Yes. | Monthly automated scans; daily scans as a paid add-on (EUR 99/month). |
| DMCA.com dmca.com | Protection Pro: $10 per month or $100 per year monthly or yearly | A free protection badge with a status certificate page, and "Start with a free review" for takedowns. | Yes (an account for the badge and cases). | Monitoring scans on the paid monitoring plan; not stated for the badge. |
| DeleteMe joindeleteme.com | 1 person, 1 year: $129 per year | A free scan (linked from the home page as /scan/; not read) and DIY opt-out guides. | Yes for plans; the free scan page was not read. | "Scans & Deletions All Year"; quarterly reports. |
| Incogni incogni.com | Standard: $7.99 per month billed annually ($95.88/year); $15.98 per month billed monthly annual or monthly | Not published: no free plan or free scan appears on the pricing or home page read. | Yes. | "Requests are sent on repeat"; monthly progress reports; "some requests take over 30 days to process". |
| Optery optery.com | Free Basic: $0 | Free Basic plan: "Sign up for Free Ongoing Monitoring. Then decide if you need a paid plan." | Yes ("Sign Up Free"). | Monthly automated scans and removals on paid plans; quarterly exposure reports on Free Basic. |
| Privacy Bee privacybee.com | Essentials: $8 per month, "Approx when billed annually" | "100% Free Scan No credit card needed" and "Unlimited free monitoring" after entering an email address. | Yes (an email address to scan). | Always-on monitoring with alerts; remediation priority "Standard", "Elevated" or "Expedited (24 hrs or less)" by tier. |
| Ceartas ceartas.io | Star: $69 ($34.50 first month at 50% off) per creator per month | "Start with a free trial" and a free scan ("See what's already out there ... Start your scan"). | Yes. | Scans twice weekly (Star), 4x weekly (Elite) or daily (VIP and Platinum). |
| BranditScan branditscan.com | Premium: $69 per month ($34.50 first month; $57.50/month on annual billing, "you save 2 months") monthly or annual | "Free Leak Check - Free - no signup - takes ~10 seconds" (a Google surface check against a database of confirmed pirate sites); free tools including a DMCA notice generator, badge and watermarks, 2257 form and model release generators; a free consultation call. | No signup for the leak check; yes for plans. | "Hourly Scans". |
| DMCAforce dmcaforce.com | Self Service: $44.99 per month | "Get Covered with Free DMCA Protection Badge" and "FREE Evaluations!". | Yes. | Weekly, twice-weekly or three-times-weekly review by tier; "We never stop scanning." |
Pages we could not read on 2026-09-30
These pages say “not read” instead of guessing and are marked noindex until the vendor's pages can be read.
- Rulta (rulta.com): rulta.com and www.rulta.com answered HTTP 403 (a Cloudflare "Attention Required" challenge) to our identified crawler on 2026-09-30 for both the home and /pricing pages, so nothing could be read.
What Compliance Desk offers instead
Free hosted request desks for the processes five laws require (TAKE IT DOWN Act and DMCA takedowns, DSA notice and action, privacy requests, accessibility feedback, marketing opt-outs), free notice generators and templates, hosted auto-updating documents, request builders for the people sending requests, and reference pages (195 DMCA designated agents, 44 platform removal guides, a 254-platform TAKE IT DOWN Act census). Pro is not billable yet.
- Five free hosted desks: Hosted intake form under your notice, a ticket number for every request, the deadline clock (48 hours, 45 days, 14 days, 10 business days, DSA without undue delay), a status page for the requester, a dashboard, CSV/JSON export and a webhook.
- Takedown Desk (TAKE IT DOWN Act and DMCA): Intake with relationship, minor flag, good-faith statement and typed signature; 48-hour clock; two automated verification passes of the reported locations.
- Privacy Request Desk: CCPA/CPRA-style access, deletion, correction and opt-out requests with a 45-day clock and a 24-month record.
- 9 free generators: TAKE IT DOWN Act notice and removal form, DSA notice and statement of reasons, DMCA notice and counter-notice, privacy request form, accessibility statement with feedback, do-not-call and unsubscribe policy; fill, copy, download.
- Templates and hosted documents: Blank text downloads for every generator, plus free hosted documents that re-render when a template version changes (/templates/changelog).
- Free request builders: For the person sending the request: TAKE IT DOWN Act removal, DMCA notice, privacy request and do-not-call request drafted in two minutes, sent by you, with the platform's deadline tracked.
- 195 DMCA designated-agent pages: Where to send a copyright notice for each platform, from the U.S. Copyright Office directory or the platform's own page, with the six statutory elements.
- 44 platform removal guides: Per-platform paths for reporting intimate images, impersonation and stolen content.
- Free site check: 12-point check of the notices and request mechanisms a small site is expected to publish.
- Free badges: Six SVG designs linking to a desk's public status page.
- TAKE IT DOWN Act census (254 platforms): Which platforms publish a notice-and-removal path, and what it says; dataset CC BY 4.0.
- Regulations hub: Who is covered, the deadline, the enforcer and the primary source for each law the desks implement.
Pro is not billable yet. Pro (email intake, removal verification, printable compliance record, no branding) is priced at $29/month per site on the site but is not billable yet: no payment link is live, and every desk is free during launch and for its first year.
Our limits, stated plainly: Compliance Desk does not scan the web for copies of your content, does not send notices on your behalf, does not act as anyone's authorized agent with data brokers, and does not provide a cookie consent banner or cookie scanner. It hosts the receiving side of a request process and drafts the sending side for you to send yourself. Software and templates, not legal advice.
Method
Each vendor's public home and pricing pages were fetched on 2026-09-30 by a crawler that identifies itself (agentexchange-research/1.0), sends at most one request per second per host, honors robots.txt and never logs in. Facts are quoted from those pages; nothing was inferred from third parties. Where a page could not be read, the field says so. Feature comparisons with five policy and takedown vendors are at /compare.
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