Data Removal Services Compared

Services in this space get grouped together, and they do quite different things. Before comparing prices it is worth being clear which job you actually need done.

• Seeing your data. A subject access request makes one organisation show you what it holds about you. Use it when the organisation matters and the detail matters, for example in a dispute. This is the right our whole site covers.
• Deleting your data. An erasure request makes one organisation delete what it can lawfully delete. Use it when you want a particular company out of your life.
• Bulk removal. Data brokers and people-search sites trade in basic details about millions of people. Removal services send opt-out requests to hundreds of them at once and keep repeating the process.

The first two are legal rights you can use yourself for free. The third is a volume problem. Paying a subscription makes most sense when volume is the issue, and that is the honest case for services like Incogni.

All five routes below are legitimate. They differ in what they cover, what they cost and how much of the work stays with you.

Prices are the advertised rates on 26 August 2026 and they change often, so check the service’s own pricing page before you buy. We have no affiliate relationship with any service on this page.

A subject access request is how you see what an organisation knows about you. It is free to make, and any organisation covered by UK GDPR has to answer. If you have not made one before, what is a subject access request explains what you get back.

An organisation must respond without undue delay and within one month. It may extend by up to two further months where the request is complex or you have made a number of requests, but it must tell you within the first month that it is doing so, and why.

You can do the whole thing yourself. Our free letter generator produces a properly worded request, and the organisation directory lists verified submission routes for UK organisations.

GetMySAR is the paid version of the same process. For a £20 fixed fee we prepare the request, send it to a verified route, track the deadline and follow up if the response is late or incomplete. The fee buys handling and persistence. It does not buy any extra legal right, and nobody should tell you otherwise.

Erasure is the right to be forgotten in Article 17 of the UK GDPR. It is also free to use. Our guide to the right to be forgotten covers how to make the request and when an organisation can lawfully say no.

YourDigitalRights.org is worth knowing here. It is a free service from Conscious Digital, a registered charity. You search for the organisation, it builds the deletion or access request, and its follow-up assistant helps you chase and escalate if nothing happens. It covers organisations well beyond the UK, which makes it useful when the company holding your data is American.

One caution applies to every deletion route. An organisation only has to erase what nothing else requires it to keep. Banks keep transaction records and employers keep parts of a personnel file, and no service can change that, whatever it charges.

GetMySAR does not currently offer erasure requests. If deletion is the job, start with the free routes above.

Data brokers collect names, addresses, phone numbers and profile data, then sell them on. People-search sites publish some of it where anyone can look you up. The problem is scale. There are hundreds of these companies, each opt-out lives somewhere different, and records reappear after you clear them.

Incogni sends automated removal requests to more than 420 data brokers and people-search sites, then re-scans and sends fresh waves on a cycle. The advertised price is £5.99 a month on the annual plan, £71.88 for the first year. The headline figure needs annual billing, and paying month to month costs roughly double.

DeleteMe has run since 2011 and does the same job with more human handling, from $8.71 a month billed annually. Its coverage centres on American people-search sites, which is where its value sits. For someone in the UK with no US footprint it is usually the wrong tool.

Mine’s consumer app, a common recommendation in older comparison posts for finding out which companies hold your data, is now part of McAfee. Lists in this market go stale quickly, which is why the prices here carry a date.

Before paying for anything, one free step is worth taking. The Telephone Preference Service costs nothing, and UK organisations are not allowed to make live marketing calls to a number registered on it.

• You are in a dispute, or something on your file looks wrong. Make a subject access request first. You cannot argue with a record you have not seen. Free yourself, or £20 with GetMySAR.
• One company should no longer have your data. An erasure request, which is free. YourDigitalRights.org helps you produce and chase it.
• Spam calls, spam post, your address on lookup sites. Register with the Telephone Preference Service first. If the problem keeps coming, a broker-removal subscription like Incogni is built for it.
• You want everything about you gone from the internet. No service can deliver that, whatever the advert implies. Combining the three jobs above gets you most of what is achievable.

GetMySAR does one of these jobs. We prepare, submit and chase UK subject access requests for a fixed £20 fee. The letter generator and the response checker on this site are free to use either way.

We do not sell deletion and we do not sell broker removal. Where those are the job, the services above are the right starting points. This page exists because a reader asked us which service does what, and the honest answer needed more than a sentence.