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Username Search Benchmark 2026: meme, cia, richard on 11 Engines

We ran the handles meme, cia and richard through 11 username OSINT engines. Up to 547 profiles from one query, a 726-platform union across the top three, and a live breach and stealer-log corpus alongside.

Sep 3, 202615 min read
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The 9 Best People Search Sites in 2026 (Free & Paid)

A practitioner's ranking of the best people search sites in 2026 — free public-records lookups, paid aggregators, and where each one actually earns its fee.

Aug 25, 2026Read
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Background Check Sites in 2026: FCRA Screening vs. Public-Records People Search

The two categories people confuse when they ask for a background check site: FCRA-regulated consumer reporting agencies, and public-records people search.

Aug 25, 2026Read
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Reverse Phone Lookup: How It Works and the Best Tools in 2026

How reverse phone lookup actually works — public records, breach data, and directory sources — plus free vs paid tools and lawful investigation use cases.

Aug 25, 2026Read
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How to Check If Your Email Is in a Data Breach

Check whether your email or password leaked in a data breach, why credential stuffing makes reused passwords dangerous, and what to do next.

May 27, 2026Read
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How to Remove Yourself from People Search Sites (Opt-Out Guide)

A practitioner's opt-out guide: find which people search sites list you, submit removals in the right order, and keep the records from coming back.

Aug 25, 2026Read
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What Are Stealer Logs? Infostealer Malware & Exposure Check

Stealer logs are the passwords, session cookies, and autofill data that infostealer malware copies off a device. Check your own email against the ones already in circulation.

May 26, 2026Read
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The 10 Best Username OSINT Tools in 2026 (Free & Paid)

A practitioner's ranking of ten username OSINT tools — Sherlock, Maigret, WhatsMyName, SpiderFoot and hosted platforms — with honest pros and cons.

Aug 25, 2026Read
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The 12 Best Free OSINT Tools in 2026 (and When Free Is Not Enough)

Twelve genuinely free OSINT tools — username search, email pivots, breach lookups — plus an honest look at where free stops and a paid layer earns its keep.

Aug 25, 2026Read
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Is OSINT Legal? What Open-Source Intelligence Can and Can't Do

OSINT is legal in most jurisdictions when you collect public information without bypassing access controls. The boundaries that actually matter sit below.

Aug 25, 2026Read
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The 9 Best Email OSINT Tools in 2026 (Free & Paid)

A practitioner's ranking of the nine email OSINT tools worth keeping in rotation in 2026, and the order to chain them in.

Aug 25, 2026Read
Industry Insights11 min read

The Best osint.industries Alternatives in 2026

We ran the username richard through osint.industries, Revealer, fingerprint.to, infobreach.net, and the free checkers on the same day. Every number is real, plus the enrichment test most of them failed.

Aug 26, 2026Read

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Best Free OSINT Tools, September 2026: 14 Ranked, 6 Run on One Handle

Fourteen free OSINT tools ranked for September 2026. OSINTsearch Free returned 329 profiles across 317 services on cia inside a 34-second window; Maigret, Sherlock, Blackbird, WhatsMyName, GoSearch and socialscan ran on the same handle.

Sep 14, 2026
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OSINTsearch vs Epieos (2026): Free Plans, Prices and Cost Per Search

OSINTsearch Free: 20 searches a week with JSON, CSV and PDF export; Epieos Member is free but watermarked, its card listing Google, Email Checker and Skype. Starter $20 vs Osinter €29.99 for 30 requests, about €1.00 each (September 2026).

Sep 14, 2026
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Behind The Email Alternative 2026: OSINTsearch Pricing, Free Tier, Exports

Behind The Email sells 100 email lookups a day for $14.99. OSINTsearch gives 20 searches a week free with JSON, CSV and PDF export, takes usernames and phones too, and exports former handles and status flags. Prices as of September 2026.

Sep 14, 2026
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EmailOSINT Alternative (2026): OSINTsearch vs EmailOSINT, Cost Per Search

EmailOSINT is email-only: Free redacts results, Pro is $29/mo for 500 lookups, Business $149/mo adds stealer logs and an API. OSINTsearch takes username, email and phone, Free is 20 a week with exports, Pro $49.99/mo, as of September 2026.

Sep 14, 2026
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osint.industries Pricing 2026: Credit Cost vs the OSINTsearch Free Plan

osint.industries charges £19 for 30 credits, £49 for 100 with API and £99 for 300, with no free plan on the page. OSINTsearch runs 20 searches a week free, then $20 and $49.99 a month. Per-search cost and three worked volumes compared.

Sep 14, 2026
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Email OSINT Tools Compared (2026): OSINTsearch, Epieos and Three More

Five email OSINT tools compared: OSINTsearch, Epieos, osint.industries, Behind The Email and EmailOSINT. Free tiers, entry plans at $14.99, $20, $29, £19 and €29.99, quota shapes, cost per search at full use, exports and refunds, dated.

Sep 14, 2026
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OSINTsearch Review (2026): The osint.industries Rival Built on History

547 profiles on richard, 446 on meme, 329 on cia, 770 endpoints in 29.2 seconds. We opened every OSINTsearch export from a Sep 5 run to see what it adds to the username search field.

Sep 9, 2026
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Former Usernames in OSINT: How OSINTsearch Surfaces Old Handles

6 former handles pulled from 6 username subjects run on 2026-09-05, with the exact field each came from. Why previous usernames matter, which platforms publish name history, and how OSINTsearch exports it.

Sep 9, 2026
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Banned and Deleted Accounts Still Talk: OSINTsearch Metadata Guide

4 confirmed ban or deletion flags across 1,322 OSINTsearch rows on Sep 5, a banned Instagram handle that still returned user ID 78250918300, and the fields to read when the profile page says unavailable.

Sep 9, 2026