Onsist review: brand protection firm with an adult plan

Onsist pricing: Lite, Full and Advanced

Lite costs $199, Full $249 and Advanced $399 a month plus VAT, or $159, $199 and $319 a month billed yearly. Onsist’s Spanish site lists the same amounts in euros. Takedowns are unlimited on all three.

• Lite: 1 keyword, 15 minutes of manual work a week, 1 language.
• Full: 1 to 20 keywords, 1 hour a week, 1 or 2 languages.
• Advanced: 1 to 50 keywords, 3 hours a week, up to 3 languages.

Every plan includes 24/7 monitoring, host escalation, Google, Bing and Yahoo delisting and a weekly report. Onsist does not define what counts as a keyword, so ask whether a stage name, a brand and a series title each count as one. Payment is by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or PayPal.

The yearly totals, 1,910, 2,390 and 3,830, are labelled “billed monthly” on the English site and “billed annually” on the Spanish one. Get it in writing how the year is billed and what happens if you stop early. There is no trial, only an analysis or demo on request.

How Onsist finds and removes leaks

Onsist combines crawlers that download known piracy sources around the clock, a database of previously scraped piracy sites, and investigators trained in open-source intelligence for sites a bot cannot crawl. Notices go out automatically to infringing sites, then to their hosts if the sites do not cooperate.

Coverage spans search engines, social media, cyberlockers, video sites and forums, with basic coverage of app stores and marketplaces. Dark web monitoring is an add-on. You follow found and reported infringements in your online account, export the data and get a weekly email report. Onsist claims an average 90% removal rate without explaining the method. OnlyFans and Patreon creator Larkin Love says on its site that Onsist removed more than 500,000 downloads, videos and search results for her over six years.

Is Onsist legit?

Onsist U.A. is an established Dutch company: founded in 2010, with onsist.com registered in April 2010 and a headquarters at Jagerserf 7 in Ermelo. That is the same address as Cam Model Protection. Sales answer at +1 213 257 4606 in the US and +31 85 303 1196 in Europe.

Adult content is one line of business among several: Onsist also handles counterfeits, app piracy and e-learning content, and says it works for more than 700 brands, businesses and law firms. Two weak spots: its pages still say “14 years’ experience” for a company founded sixteen years ago, and both the terms and the privacy policy links, presented as PDF downloads, loop back to the same web page. On REVIEWS.io, Onsist scores 5.0 from 43 reviews, several of them from gambling and finance clients. Automated trust checkers disagree: Scam Detector gives onsist.com 0.8 out of 100, while Gridinsoft scores it 79 out of 100 and ScamAdviser calls it safe. Those scores judge the website alone.

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