Aura alternative
Deindex vs Aura: a Aura alternative that proves removal
Aura (aura.com) charges All-in-one Individual around $12/mo billed yearly (about $15/mo month to month), Couple around $22/mo, Family around $30/mo. A standalone Privacy Protection plan runs about $1.67/mo for the first year, then roughly $8/mo. Plans bundle a VPN, antivirus, password manager, dark-web monitoring and up to $1M in identity-theft insurance, with a 14-day trial and a 60-day money-back guarantee on annual billing. Deindex is from $19/mo billed yearly ($29 monthly), shows a free unblurred scan, and attaches a cited legal basis and a dated before/after screenshot to every removal, not just a completed-removal count.
The honest picture
What Aura actually is
Pricing
All-in-one Individual around $12/mo billed yearly (about $15/mo month to month), Couple around $22/mo, Family around $30/mo. A standalone Privacy Protection plan runs about $1.67/mo for the first year, then roughly $8/mo. Plans bundle a VPN, antivirus, password manager, dark-web monitoring and up to $1M in identity-theft insurance, with a 14-day trial and a 60-day money-back guarantee on annual billing.
Where Aura is strong
A polished all-in-one identity suite: automated recurring removals from 200-plus data brokers and people-search sites at a reported 90 percent removal rate, plus a VPN, antivirus, password manager and $1M identity-theft insurance in one subscription.
Where it falls short
Data removal is one feature inside a broad security bundle, so you pay for the VPN, antivirus and insurance whether you need them or not, and the removal side reports a completed status rather than a dated before-and-after screenshot or a cited legal basis. The headline privacy price is a first-year promotion that roughly doubles on renewal.
Compared, honestly
Deindex vs Aura
Every row below is something you can verify yourself on each provider's own site. Where a fact is not published anywhere we could find it, the table says so instead of guessing.
| Feature | Deindex | Aura |
|---|---|---|
| Free, unblurred exposure scan | Yes | No Scan sits behind account signup as part of the trial. |
| Legal basis cited per request (GDPR Art. 17 / CCPA §1798.105) | Yes | No Removals report a status, not a cited statute per request. |
| Before/after evidence locker (dated screenshots) | Yes | No Dashboard shows a completed count, not a dated before-and-after screenshot. |
| Monthly billing option | Yes | Yes Monthly available, but the annual rate is much cheaper. |
| Family coverage (multiple people, one plan) | Yes | Yes Couple and Family plans available on the all-in-one bundle. |
| Evidence attached per removal | Yes | No Not standard; see evidence-locker row above. |
Results depend on each site's policy. Some removals are not guaranteed, by Deindex or by any provider in this category. See the full honest scope on our terms page.
Why people switch
Why people move from Aura to Deindex
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You want a focused data-removal tool, not to pay for a VPN, antivirus and password manager you may already have.
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You want a dated before-and-after screenshot for every removal, not a dashboard that only shows a completed count.
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You want each request filed under a named legal basis (CCPA and CPRA delete, or GDPR Article 17 erasure) rather than a generic removal status.
If you are still shortlisting, our ranked breakdown of the best data removal service puts Aura next to every other option on price and legal basis. Want to try the free route first? The data broker opt out list covers what Aura and Deindex both file on your behalf, and the wider guide to removing your information from the internet explains what no provider can take down.
Our differentiator
We sell proof and legal standing, not a count.
Every provider in this category, Aura included, will tell you how many opt-out requests it sent. Deindex tells you which legal mechanism each request was filed under, GDPR Article 17, CCPA §1798.105, the broker's own opt-out policy, or Google's personal-information removal tool, and attaches a dated before-and-after screenshot to every resolution. That is what you hand a security team or a lawyer, a number on a dashboard is not evidence.
We also tell you what we cannot remove. Court records, news articles, and anything outside legal removal scope stay published, and we say so upfront rather than take your money for a promise we cannot keep. Currently 50+ data brokers and people-search sites are in the catalog.
Aura alternative FAQ
Before you switch
Compare the numbers yourself: Aura charges All-in-one Individual around $12/mo billed yearly (about $15/mo month to month), Couple around $22/mo, Family around $30/mo. A standalone Privacy Protection plan runs about $1.67/mo for the first year, then roughly $8/mo. Plans bundle a VPN, antivirus, password manager, dark-web monitoring and up to $1M in identity-theft insurance, with a 14-day trial and a 60-day money-back guarantee on annual billing. Deindex Personal is from $19/mo billed yearly ($29 monthly). We are not always the cheapest option in the category, EasyOptOuts and Incogni both undercut us, and we say so. What we add is a cited legal basis and dated evidence on every removal.
Yes, and it is unblurred: the free exposure scan shows every site we found, the data each one publishes, with no email gate and no blur, before you pay anything. Start it from the homepage.
Neither service can remove news reporting, court filings, or other lawfully published public records, and any provider claiming otherwise is not being straight with you. See the honest scope on our terms page.