Yes, OSINTsearch is free, and the free plan is more than a teaser. As of September 9, 2026, the OSINTsearch pricing page lists Free at $0 for 15 searches a week, with PDF, JSON and CSV export included and, per its own plan post, "Nothing on a card is withheld from a signed-in free user." Paid starts at Starter, $20/mo for 50 searches a week, then Pro, $49.99/mo for 500 a week, and an Enterprise tier priced on contract. Quotas reset every Monday at 00:00 UTC with no rollover, yearly billing saves up to 17%, and there is a 7-day full refund window on a first purchase.
This is the pricing companion to our OSINTsearch review and the OSINTsearch vs osint.industries comparison: the plan wording as published on osintsearch.org, a walk through what a free user gets on a real handle, and a per-search cost line for the two self-serve paid plans.
Disclosure up front: we build Revealer.US. OSINTsearch is a competitor with no relationship to us, and we quote its prices from the public page on a stated date. Prices change; check the page before you pay.
What we looked at
Two OSINTsearch pages, read on 2026-09-09: the pricing page and the blog post "Free vs Pro plan results", which uses a 31-result srhoe run to show what a free account sees. One export of our own: the deadcatx3 username run of 2026-09-05 at 09:32, a schema 2 JSON file with 21 profiles, opened field by field. Competitor prices are the plan lines already published on this blog, each with its own as-of date.
OSINTsearch pricing: the full plan table
Quoted from the pricing page as of September 9, 2026, minus the plus signs the page prints before each feature.
| Free | Starter | Pro | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $20/mo | $49.99/mo | Custom, billed on contract |
| Searches per week | 15 | 50 | 500 | Unlimited |
| Per search at full use (site's figure) | $0 | $0.092 | $0.023 | Not stated |
| Profile fields | Not listed on the page; the plan post says every field is shown | "Full profiles: handle, link, bio, location, counts, user id" | Everything in Starter | "Every field and full breach records" |
| Former usernames and last active | Not listed on the page | Listed | Listed | Listed |
| Breach records | Not listed on the page | "Partial: source, date and categories, no identifiers" | "Full breach records, with the identifiers found" | Full |
| AI summaries | Held at this tier | "AI summaries for PDF reports" | Yes | Yes |
| Deep search | No | No | "Depths 1 to 4" | Depths 1 to 4 |
| Exports | PDF, JSON and CSV, PDF evidence only | PDF, JSON and CSV | PDF, JSON and CSV | PDF, JSON and CSV |
| REST API | No | No | No | "REST API with whitelisted IPs" |
| Team access | No | No | No | Yes, per the site feature list |
| Support | None listed | Standard | Priority | "Dedicated account manager, 24/7 support, SLA" |
| Custom integrations | No | No | No | Yes |
Three policy lines apply to every tier:
- "Quotas reset Monday 00:00 UTC. Unused units do not carry over." An unused Friday search is gone on Monday.
- "Yearly billing saves up to 17%." The page did not print yearly dollar figures in the copy we fetched, so we do not print them. 17% off $20 is $16.60 a month and 17% off $49.99 is $41.49, if the maximum applies to both.
- "You can request a full refund within 7 calendar days of your initial purchase." First purchase only, not renewals.
One caveat: the older plan post of Sep 5 answers "No" to CSV or JSON export on Free and prices deep search at 1, 2, 4 and 8 units, while the pricing page as of September 9, 2026 says "Every account, including Free, can export JSON, CSV and PDF reports" and lists depths 1 to 4 at 3, 6, 12 and 24 units plus 5 units per breach reveal, so we quote the pricing page, since checkout runs from it.
Is OSINTsearch free? What the plan post says a free user sees
OSINTsearch's plan post claims the free tier masks nothing. On its srhoe example a free account saw "31 profile URLs and 31 usernames", "25 numeric user ids", "24 display names and 23 profile pictures", joined dates, follower counts, bios, locations, outbound links and last-active dates where available, plus the identity block. Masking, it says, happens only on the anonymous demo landing page, not on a signed-in free account.
Our deadcatx3 export from 2026-09-05, run from our own account (the schema 2 file does not record the plan tier), shows what those fields hold in practice: 21 profiles found on the username corpus. Field by field:
| Field | Rows filled (of 21) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| profile_url and username | 21 | Every row has a link and the handle as found |
| platform_label | 21 | Hackerone, Periscope, Archiveorg, Minecraft, Haloinfinite, Twitch, Hugging Face, Scratch, eBay, xHamster, MySpace, Telegram, Levelblue, Fragment, Malpediaactors, Xbox, Twitter (X), XVideos, NameMC, Instagram, and an Instagram last-active module |
| created_at | 21, of which 9 are real dates | 12 rows carry the placeholder 0001-01-01 rather than a join date |
| last_active | 21, of which 1 is a real date | Instagram only; the other 20 rows carry the 0001-01-01 placeholder |
| display_name | 16 | |
| user_id | 14 | Numeric or platform id |
| avatar_url | 14 | |
| location | 6 | Scratch, eBay, Twitter (X), Instagram, XVideos and one source that says "Earth" |
| bio | 5 | Periscope, archive.org, Twitch, Telegram, Malpedia actors |
| followers greater than zero | 3 | Twitch 1, Telegram 2, Twitter (X) 7 |
| verified | 0 | No row carries a verified flag |
| former_usernames | 0 | None of the 21 sources returned one for this handle |
| raw source payload | 19 | Periscope and MySpace rows have an empty raw block |
The identity block above the rows is what the free CLI tools do not produce. It lists two username_variants: deadcatx3, agreed by 20 source entries, and nervequake, reported by archive.org alone. It sets a probable_location of Australia at confidence 0.14, sourced from Scratch, eBay and Instagram, and a probable_name at confidence 0.05 from a single source, which is the tool's own way of saying "do not trust this." platforms_agreeing is 21. We print none of the name values, and the handle is discussed as a handle only.
A 0.05 name from one platform is a lead to discard, and OSINTsearch says so numerically rather than hiding the weakness behind a bold name. Its case-file export takes the same line: "A shared email, phone number or username is an investigative lead. It does not establish that records belong to the same person."
Nothing in the export marks a field as withheld, and 19 of 21 rows keep their untouched source payload in raw.
Same day, same handle: fingerprint.to returned 22 rows on deadcatx3 on 2026-09-05, and our own Revealer advanced export is from 2026-09-04. On this narrow handle the engines land within a few rows of each other.
The paid gates: Starter, Pro and Enterprise
If Free shows every profile field, as the plan post says, the paid tiers sell four things: quota, breach identifiers, deep search and the API.
Quota. 15 a week is 60 to 65 searches a month: a hobbyist, a journalist checking a handful of handles, or an analyst validating one alias. Not a caseload. Starter's 50 a week is the first plan that supports daily use, and Pro's 500 a week the first that supports batches by hand.
Breach identifiers. The plan post says Free sees no breach lookups. Starter shows "source, date and categories, no identifiers": a handle's associated data appears in a named breach on a date, with the data classes, without the values. Pro adds "full breach records, with the identifiers found", metered at 5 units per reveal.
Deep search. Pro and Enterprise only, depths 1 to 4. The feature "follows usernames found in your results", so a depth 2 run on deadcatx3 would also run nervequake and any handle found in the bios, at 3, 6, 12 or 24 units per run. It is the feature most likely to justify the jump from $20 to $49.99, and the one you cannot try on Free.
AI summaries. Starter and up, PDF only. JSON and CSV carry no summary on any tier.
API and teams. Enterprise only: "The REST API and whitelisted IPs are on Enterprise only", alongside team access, an account manager, 24/7 support, an SLA and custom integrations. There is no self-serve API key on OSINTsearch Pro, the clearest difference from the tools priced below.
What a search costs on Starter and Pro
The pricing page prints $0.092 per search on Starter and $0.023 on Pro, and the figures reproduce. Assumption: every weekly search used, monthly billing, 52 weeks spread across 12 months, so 50 a week is 216.67 a month and 500 a week is 2,166.67.
| Plan | Monthly price | Searches a month at full use | Cost per search |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 65 | $0 |
| Starter | $20 | 216.67 | $0.092 |
| Pro | $49.99 | 2,166.67 | $0.023 |
At full use Pro is four times cheaper per search than Starter, 10 times the volume for 2.5 times the money. At low use the gap flips: 20 searches a week on Pro costs $0.577 each. Decide by weekly volume, then by breach identifiers or deep search, and only then by the per-search line.
How the other tools price
The plan lines this blog has already published, with their dates, not re-checked.
- osint.industries: no free plan on the pricing page, £19/mo for 30 credits, API from the £49/mo plan for 100 credits, credits do not expire monthly, as of September 2026. At £19 for 30 credits that is £0.63 per search, roughly seven times OSINTsearch Starter at full use, before exchange rate.
- Revealer.US: a free plan of 10 social lookups, 10 breach lookups and 50 people lookups a day, all as redacted previews, no card. Paid plans start at $12.99/mo (Starter), then Basic at $29.99/mo and Pro at $79.99/mo, which adds 500 social lookups a day, unlimited breach lookups and API access with three whitelisted IPs, as of September 2026. Bigger free tier by count, smaller by content: Revealer redacts on Free, and OSINTsearch's plan post says it does not.
- fingerprint.to: our published posts carry its result counts (22 rows on deadcatx3, 483 of 620 on richard) but no price line, so we do not quote one. Check its site directly.
OSINTsearch stands out on the shape of its free tier: fewer searches than Revealer Free, every field shown per its plan post, exports on per its pricing page. Revealer stands out on a daily quota, a $12.99 entry point and a self-serve API at $79.99 instead of an Enterprise contract. osint.industries stands out on a capability, mailbox-existence checks, and you pay per credit for it.
Which plan for which reader
| You are | Weekly volume | Need breach identifiers | Need API or team seats | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checking your own handles, or verifying a few accounts a month | Under 15 | No | No | Free |
| An analyst validating aliases most days | 15 to 50 | No, exposure facts are enough | No | Starter, $20/mo |
| Anyone who needs the identifiers behind a breach hit | Any | Yes | No | Pro, $49.99/mo |
| Anyone who wants deep search to follow found handles | Any | Either | No | Pro, $49.99/mo |
| A team running searches by hand, one login each | 50 to 500 per person | Either | No | Pro per seat, or Enterprise |
| A product or SOC integrating username search into a pipeline | Unlimited | Either | Yes | Enterprise |
One edge case: if your volume is bursty, a 200-search week then three quiet ones, no rollover means Pro fits and Starter does not, whatever the monthly average.
On opt-out: the pricing page has no removal clause. OSINTsearch presents itself as a live OSINT search engine over public profiles rather than a holder of copies, so if a profile of yours appears, the fix is at the platform that publishes it, the same answer every live username engine gives, including ours.
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The short version
OSINTsearch Free is a real plan: 15 searches a week, every profile field shown per its plan post, the identity block with confidence scores, and PDF, JSON and CSV export per the pricing page. Starter at $20/mo buys quota and PDF AI summaries. Pro at $49.99/mo buys breach identifiers and deep search, at $0.023 a search if you use all 500 a week. Enterprise is where the API and team access live. Confirm the numbers on the OSINTsearch pricing page, and run your own handle on Free first; it costs nothing and tells you more than any table.
Frequently asked questions
Is OSINTsearch free? Yes. Free is $0 for 15 searches a week, and as of September 9, 2026 the pricing page says every account including Free can export JSON, CSV and PDF. OSINTsearch's plan post says nothing on a card is withheld from a signed-in free user; only the anonymous demo page masks results. Quotas reset Monday 00:00 UTC, no rollover.
What does OSINTsearch Pro add over Starter? 500 searches a week instead of 50, full breach records with the identifiers found (5 units per reveal), deep search at depths 1 to 4, and priority support. At full weekly use Pro costs $0.023 a search against Starter's $0.092.
How much is OSINTsearch a year? The page says yearly billing saves up to 17%. It did not print the yearly totals in the copy we fetched, so we do not print them. If the full 17% applies, Starter works out near $16.60 a month and Pro near $41.49, but confirm at checkout.
Does OSINTsearch have an API? Only on Enterprise, priced on contract, with whitelisted IPs. There is no self-serve key on Free, Starter or Pro. Revealer's API comes with Pro at $79.99/mo and osint.industries turns its API on at £49/mo, both without a sales call.
Can I get a refund? The pricing page says you can request a full refund within 7 calendar days of your initial purchase. That applies to the first purchase, not to renewals.
What did a search return on a real handle? On deadcatx3 on 2026-09-05: 21 profiles, real join dates on 9, display names on 16, user ids and avatars on 14, locations on 6, bios on 5, plus an identity block adding the variant nervequake from archive.org. No field was marked as withheld.