| ProfileBolt | BeenVerified | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 5 free searches; $9 one-off pack of 3 searches; $29/month for 20 searches (about $1.45 each); Team $79/50, Professional $139/100 | $36.89/month plus tax (1-month membership), or $23.98/month paid as $71.94 every 3 months; limited to 100 reports a month |
| Free trial | 5 free searches, no card | 7-day trial named on the pricing page; its price isn’t shown there ($1 appears on an offers page: unverified) |
| Auto-renewing subscription | Only the monthly plans (cancel any time in Manage billing). The 3-search pack never renews and does not expire | Yes: “renews monthly until cancelled” / “renews every 3 months until cancelled” |
| One-off check without a subscription | Yes: 3 searches for $9 | None seen on the pricing page |
| What a report is built from | Public APIs and pages (Wikipedia/Wikidata, GitHub, GitLab, Stack Overflow, YouTube, X), username and email checks, news, CourtListener court records. No data-broker files. | Aggregated public-records and data-broker style records (addresses, phones, relatives, records) per the company’s own descriptions |
| How matches are made | Only sources tied by a shared identifier are added; same-name hits are listed as “not added” | Not published |
| Every claim linked to its source | Yes | Not as a rule |
| Not-a-CRA / FCRA statement | Yes: not a consumer reporting agency; not for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions | Has an FCRA help article; a not-a-CRA statement was not found on the pages we read (unverified) |
| Opt-out / removal | Removal form for people in results | BeenVerified opt-out |
BeenVerified prices and terms as shown on its official pages on October 26, 2026: BeenVerified pricing. Prices change; check their site before you buy. Items marked unverified could not be confirmed on an official page.
Where BeenVerified is the better choice
For contact details, address history and broker-style records on a private individual, BeenVerified will usually return more. ProfileBolt does not use data-broker files.
Where ProfileBolt is the better choice
- Lower cost for occasional use. $9 for 3 searches once, or $29/month for 20, against a $36.89 monthly membership that renews until cancelled.
- Source-linked, identifier-based matching. Same-name results are shown separately and never counted.
- Team features. Shared library, private comments and weekly monitoring of saved profiles on Team plans.
Other people-search sites, for context
- TruthFinder: People Search $29.99/month, auto-renewing until cancelled (official pricing, checked October 26, 2026)
- Intelius: $0.95 5- or 7-day trial, then about $35/month; People Search bi-monthly $21.35/month ($42.69) (official pricing, checked October 26, 2026)
Try it on one person
Start with 5 free searches, see a sample report, or read how confidence is scored.
5 free searches to start. Then $29 a month for 20 searches, or a one-off 3-search pack for $9 with no subscription.
Not for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions (ProfileBolt is not a consumer reporting agency). Need FCRA screening for hiring or tenancy? Use a licensed background-screening company (a consumer reporting agency).