Mine alternatives: 9 options compared
Free inbox-based privacy discovery (Israeli startup). Here's how it stacks up against every major alternative on price, broker coverage and what each one can actually see — including the cases where Mine is still the right buy.
Disclosure: Footprint Finder is our own product and appears in this comparison. The capability table is generated from one shared data file, so we are scored on the same criteria as everyone else. Pricing last verified 2026-07-29.
The short answer
| Service | Best for | Price |
|---|---|---|
| DeleteMe | People who want humans, not scripts, filing removals | $129/yr |
| Incogni | Hands-off broker removal at scale | $95.88/yr Standard · $179.88/yr Unlimited |
| Optery | Seeing your exposure before paying anything | $39–$249/yr |
| Kanary | Search-result and reputation cleanup | $179.88/yr |
| OneRep | Wide automated coverage with clear progress tracking | $99.96/yr |
| Privacy Bee | Proactive opt-outs beyond people-search sites | $197/yr |
| EasyOptOuts | The cheapest credible automated removal | $19.99/yr |
| Aura | One bill for identity, credit and security | $144/yr |
| Footprint Finder (ours) | Finding forgotten accounts in your inbox | $79/yr+ |
Why people look for Mine alternatives
- It doesn't do data-broker removal at all, which is what most people want from this category.
- Generic deletion requests get lower response rates than targeted ones.
- No breach monitoring.
- The free tier is limited and the upgrade prompts are persistent.
What Mine genuinely does better
Mine got to the right idea before most of the category: your inbox is the definitive record of which companies hold your data. Order confirmations, password resets and marketing mail are each proof that a specific company has something of yours, and no amount of scanning public databases surfaces that.
The execution is clean. The interface is the nicest in this comparison, the free tier genuinely works, and the GDPR framing is well-suited to European users, where the legal footing behind a deletion request is strongest.
As a way to spend an afternoon getting a sense of your own footprint at zero cost, it's a good product and we'd rather say so than pretend otherwise.
The gap: sending requests isn't removal
Mine's model is to identify companies and send them deletion requests. The gap is what happens next. A request sent to a generic support address gets a materially different response rate than one sent to the specific privacy contact a company is obliged to monitor, and finding that contact is genuinely hard work — it's often buried several clicks deep in a legal page, or only in a privacy policy footer.
The other gap is scope. Mine doesn't do data-broker removal. If your concern is that a stranger can look up your home address and phone number on a people-search site, Mine doesn't address it — that's a different mechanism entirely, and it's the mechanism most of this category exists to handle.
Mine vs the inbox-scanning approach generally
This is the most direct comparison on our list, because Footprint Finder starts from the same premise: read the inbox, find the accounts, act on them. We should be clear that we're describing our own product here.
The differences are depth and scope. On depth, the work is in contact discovery — probing a company's sitemap, footer and legal pages to find the address that actually gets read, rather than defaulting to a generic inbox. On scope, our Complete plan adds broker removal and breach monitoring alongside the inbox work, so the public-database side is covered by the same subscription.
If Mine's free tier does what you need and broker listings aren't your worry, Mine is a perfectly good place to stop, and it costs nothing. The case for paying is if you want the requests to land and the public-records side handled too.
Footprint Finder vs Mine
Footprint Finder removes you from 25+ broker sites on the Complete ($129/yr) plan; Mine covers No direct broker removal.
| Capability | Footprint Finder | Mine |
|---|---|---|
| Inbox scan for forgotten accounts | Yes | Yes |
| Data-broker removal | Yes | No |
| Data-breach monitoring | Yes | No |
| GDPR / CCPA data requests | Yes | Yes |
| Account & subscription deletion help | Yes | Yes |
| Ongoing re-scans & alerts | Yes | No |
- Real broker removal (not just emails to companies)
- HaveIBeenPwned-powered breach checks
- Higher response rates with US/EU-specific templates
- Clear tiers, no drip upsells — $79/yr Pro, or $129/yr Complete with broker removal
The best Mine alternatives
DeleteMe
$129/yr · ~100 sites + custom requests. The category's original, with human reviewers filing removals by hand. Premium price, narrow scope.
Incogni
$95.88/yr Standard · $179.88/yr Unlimited · 420+ broker sites. Surfshark-backed, heavily automated, one of the widest broker lists in the category.
Optery
$39–$249/yr · 90–615 brokers (by tier). Free exposure report plus tiered removal. Genuinely useful free tier, meaningful upsell path.
Kanary
$179.88/yr · 300+ broker sites. Reputation-focused, covering search results and court records alongside broker listings.
OneRep
$99.96/yr · 200+ broker sites. Broad automated coverage with a clean progress dashboard. Past ownership questions are worth reading up on.
Privacy Bee
$197/yr · 150+ broker sites. The broadest scope of the broker-only services — it contacts ordinary companies too, not just people-search sites.
EasyOptOuts
$19.99/yr · 145+ broker sites. The budget pick, and genuinely good value. No dashboard, no frills, just automated removals.
Aura
$144/yr · Limited broker removal (add-on). An identity-theft suite with removal bundled in. Great bundle, secondary removal product.
How we compare these services
Broker counts are the headline number every vendor advertises and the least useful one. Counts are self-reported, defined differently by each company, and padded with obscure sites nobody searches. A service covering the 30 brokers that actually surface in Google results beats one covering 300 that don't.
So we weigh four things instead: what the service can see (broker listings only, or your accounts and breaches too), whether it keeps working after the first sweep, what it costs at the tier that actually includes the feature you want, and whether you can see your exposure before paying.
Footprint Finder is our product, so treat our placement with the scepticism it deserves — we've tried to be specific about the cases where a competitor is the better buy, and every page here names at least one. The capability tables are built from the same data file, so the same standard is applied to us as to everyone else.
How data-removal services actually work
Every service in this category does roughly the same thing under the hood. You give them your name, address history and date of birth. They search people-search sites for records matching you, then submit each site's opt-out form or send a legally-backed deletion request on your behalf. Some automate the whole loop; some have staff file requests by hand.
Two things follow from that. First, you have to hand over personal data to get personal data removed — there is no way around it, so how a vendor stores and retains that data matters more than its marketing. Second, removal is not permanent. Brokers rebuild their databases from public records, marketing lists and each other, so a profile you deleted often reappears within a few months. Any service worth paying for re-checks continuously; a one-time sweep is close to worthless.
What to check before you switch from Mine
- Mine's free tier is worth keeping around even if you move — it costs nothing.
- Deletion requests already sent stay sent; responses may keep arriving after you stop using it.
- Mine has changed its pricing more than once, so verify current rates before comparing.
- Request deletion of the data Mine holds if you close the account entirely.
Frequently asked questions
Does Mine remove you from data brokers?
No. Mine identifies companies from your inbox and sends them deletion requests. People-search sites and data brokers work through a different mechanism — they compile records from public sources rather than from a signup — and Mine doesn't address that side. If broker listings are your concern, you need a removal service.
Is Mine free?
There's a genuinely functional free tier that scans your inbox and surfaces the services holding your data, with paid tiers above it. The free tier is worth running regardless of what else you use.
What is the best Mine alternative?
Footprint Finder (our product) is the closest structural match — same inbox-scanning premise, with deeper privacy-contact discovery, plus broker removal and breach monitoring on the Complete plan. If you want broker removal specifically and don't care about inbox accounts, Incogni, OneRep or EasyOptOuts are the ones to look at.
Do GDPR deletion requests actually work?
They do when they reach the right recipient. Companies subject to GDPR — and to CCPA/CPRA and its state equivalents in the US — are legally obliged to respond within a set window. The failure mode is almost never the law; it's the request landing in a generic support queue instead of with whoever handles privacy requests.
Is it safe to give an app access to my email?
It depends entirely on the access requested. Read-only metadata access — sender, subject and date, never message bodies — is a much smaller grant than full mailbox read access, and any service asking for more than it needs deserves scrutiny. Check the specific OAuth scopes at the consent screen rather than trusting the marketing copy, and revoke access from your Google or Microsoft account settings the moment you stop using a service.
The verdict
Mine had the right idea first and the free tier is genuinely worth using. It stops short of removal — no broker listings, and requests that don't always reach the right desk. Good starting point, incomplete finish.