Threat research, breach analysis, and practical OSINT guides: email lookup, username search, data breach checking, and infostealer intelligence, from the Revealer.US team.
Spokeo, BeenVerified and TruthFinder compared on search inputs, free previews, full-report prices, cancellation, apps and opt-outs, as of September 2026.
WhatsMyName tells you a username exists, then stops. Six alternatives compared on profile data, linked accounts, price, and API, from each vendor's own pages.
Seven Intelius alternatives compared on price, trial terms, what a report shows, US-only limits, API access and removal, with prices as of September 2026.
Seven Whitepages alternatives compared on free results, reverse phone lookup, price to see a full report, and opt-out steps, with September 2026 prices.
We searched the handle richard on the same day across paid OSINT sites, self-hosted CLIs, and free web checkers. fingerprint.to ranks first. Revealer.US ranks second. The numbers, and the extraction test, explain why.
We signed up for DeHashed, LeakCheck, Snusbase, and Intelligence X on the same day and searched the same selector. Real result counts, real paywalls, and the one thing free tiers never give you.
We searched the exact handle richard on Revealer.US, fingerprint.to, and osint.industries on the same day. The scoreboard was close. The investigation was not.
How a username hit gets confirmed: response-body verification instead of status codes, where false positives come from, and why a match is not a person.
What "800+ sources" really means, which data is public record versus breach-derived, what we deliberately do not return, and how opt-out works.