The most useful difference is who takes responsibility for the work. Scrubline currently offers a free manual starting point. Incogni and DeleteMe describe removal services that take on tasks for you. Comparing them as three interchangeable subscriptions would hide the central limitation: you cannot purchase a Scrubline paid removal plan today.
Scrubline: a checklist you act on
Scrubline’s anonymous free scan returns broker search links. It does not fetch the broker pages, verify that a listing belongs to you or provide a confirmed exposure total. You open each relevant link, inspect the result and decide whether there is a record to address. Free DIY guides help you follow a broker’s opt-out process.
This can be a useful beginning if you prefer to handle requests yourself. It also leaves you responsible for the work after discovery: completing any required steps, recording replies and following up. A free search shortcut should not be presented as an automated removal service merely because it appears on a privacy website.
Incogni: recurring request handling
Incogni describes automated recurring requests and an Unlimited tier with custom requests. Source: Incogni pricing and FAQ, checked 2026-10-26. Its workflow is therefore different from Scrubline’s current DIY offering. Read the provider’s scope and reporting definitions before interpreting a status as evidence of a particular outcome.
DeleteMe: managed service and support
DeleteMe’s published plans describe custom requests, automated services and support channels. Source: DeleteMe pricing, checked 2026-10-26. The practical buying question is how that service fits the records and follow-up work you want to delegate. We have not independently tested DeleteMe’s or Incogni’s completion rates, and these descriptions are not performance rankings.
Ask the same questions of every option
Start with one concrete example: a page you can inspect or a broker you have reason to contact. Ask what the service would do with that case. Would it identify a listing, send a request, track a response, or provide evidence of a changed page? If the answer is a broad coverage claim, ask how that claim relates to this particular record.
Next, ask what remains your responsibility. Consider verification steps, unsupported sites, old addresses, ambiguous matches and responses requiring your attention. A provider’s published process can help you decide whether delegation is valuable, but it cannot establish in advance that every request will succeed. Keep request counts, matching records and completed removals conceptually separate.
Finally, compare billing terms in the dated pricing table. An annual monthly equivalent is not the same commitment as paying month to month. Price alone cannot show value when the products perform different tasks, and a free workflow still requires your time.
Choose an initial action you can verify
If you want to start manually, open a broker search link and check the details before requesting anything. If you want to delegate, ask the service what evidence you will receive and how to interpret it. Either approach benefits from keeping your own notes. For a separate comparison of free discovery tools, read Scrubline vs Optery; for the next step, read what a deletion request actually does.