Why leave BeenVerified in the first place?
Three reasons, and they point at three different replacements.
The price. BeenVerified's own plans page showed $36.89 a month on the one-month membership, or $71.94 charged every three months — $23.98 a month — when it was read on 2 August 2026. Both plans cap you at 100 reports a month.
The scope. The subscription is one bundle. If the only thing you ever ran was a phone number, you are paying for criminal records, property data and address history you never open.
The records. The category is built on United States county, state and telephone data, so a report on somebody in the UK, the EU or Brazil comes back thin because the underlying records were never there.
None of that makes it a bad service. It makes it a specific one, and which swap works depends on which of the three sent you looking.
The sites that are BeenVerified under another name
Several of the obvious swaps are the same company.
The Lifetime Value Company publishes BeenVerified, and its own brands page listed nine consumer sites when it was read on 2 August 2026. Moving between them changes the logo, the checkout and the price. It does not change who holds the records or who bills you.
| Brand under the same parent | What its own page says it does |
|---|---|
| BeenVerified | Public records: people, property, vehicles, emails |
| PeopleLooker | Online background reports |
| ReversePhone | Reverse phone lookup and spam reporting |
| NumberGuru | Who is behind an unknown phone number |
| NeighborWho | Property record data |
| PeopleSmart | Contact data for sales professionals |
PeopleConnect, a separate group, named Classmates, Intelius, TruthFinder, US Search and Instant Checkmate as its own brands on its site the same day. A ten-item comparison of this category is frequently two owners and a couple of independents.
The six alternatives, ranked and priced
Ranked by what the money buys for the job you were doing, not by report length. Every price was read on the vendor's own page on 2 August 2026.
WhitepagesBest if what you wanted was contact details
The cheapest published entry point here. Premium Contact Info was priced at $5.99 a month when the plans page was read on 2 August 2026, and it buys complete contact information — all phones and addresses — and nothing else. Background reports sit two tiers up, on the $35.99 a month All-Access plan, which included 20 of them. If BeenVerified was mostly how you found a number, this is the swap that costs a sixth as much.
- Records
- Names, phones, addresses, emails
- Price
- $5.99 a month, read 2 August 2026
- Background reports
- $35.99 a month tier, 20 included
- Coverage
- United States
Good at
- Cheapest published price on this list
- Every plan card states cancel anytime
- The strongest start when you hold a number
Weak at
- Background reports cost six times the entry tier
- Higher tiers meter you at 20 to 1,000 lookups
- Nothing outside United States records
TruthFinderClosest like-for-like on record breadth
The nearest match to what a BeenVerified report contains. Its pricing page, itself dated 2 August 2026, said a membership costs between $4.99 and $29.73 a month and listed people search at $28.33, reverse phone at $4.99 and reverse email at $29.73. Those are three separate subscriptions rather than one bundle, so matching BeenVerified's coverage means stacking them and paying for each.
- Records
- Contact, criminal, traffic, court, social
- People search
- $28.33 a month, read 2 August 2026
- Phone only
- $4.99 a month
- On record
- FTC, $5.8m, September 2023
Good at
- Publishes a dated price for each product
- The phone plan at $4.99 is the cheapest single job here
- Unlimited reports within each subscription
Weak at
- Settled FTC charges for $5.8 million in September 2023
- Per-product plans stack rather than bundle
- Downloadable reports are a further $4.99 a month
Instant CheckmateBest three-month rate in its group
The same product family as the entry above, priced differently. Its pricing page showed people search at $35.47 a month on one month, or $28.38 a month taken as three ($85.13 charged at signup), and reverse phone at $5.99 a month, all read on 2 August 2026. Worth knowing before you treat it as an independent alternative: PeopleConnect lists it and TruthFinder as its own brands.
- Records
- Contact, criminal, traffic, court
- People search
- $28.38 a month on three, read 2 August 2026
- Phone only
- $5.99 a month
- Owner
- PeopleConnect
Good at
- Three-month rate undercuts its own sister brand
- Dark web monitoring offered at $1.99 a month
- Publishes a sample report before signup
Weak at
- Same owner as TruthFinder, so not an independent swap
- Covered by the same $5.8 million FTC order
- One-month rate is the highest here at $35.47
DetectiveCheckBest for the question public records cannot answer
Ours, and fourth rather than first because it is not a people search site and never will be. It holds no addresses, no relatives, no property and no criminal records. It answers which accounts exist for an email address, a handle, a name or a number, checking 71 sources on an address and 71 platforms on a handle, and it lists every source in the report including the ones that errored or came back empty.
- Identifiers
- Email, phone, username, name, photo, password
- Sources
- 71 email, 71 username, 13 name, 8 phone
- Price
- $15 a month, published on the page
- Free tier
- Sample report, no account
Good at
- The price is readable before you search
- Every source shown, failures included
- Works the same way outside the United States
Weak at
- No addresses, relatives, property or criminal records
- Phone coverage is thin — 8 sources against 71 for email
- Not usable for employment or tenancy decisions under the FCRA
PACERBest for the court records the rest resell
Not a competitor so much as the wholesaler. Federal case records live here, run by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, and its fee page read on 2 August 2026 sets $0.10 a page with a $3.00 cap per document and waives the bill entirely when a quarter's charges come to $30 or less. Most people using it never pay anything.
- Records
- Federal court dockets and filings
- Price
- $0.10 a page, read 2 August 2026
- Cap
- $3.00 per document
- Waiver
- Quarterly charges of $30 or less
Good at
- The primary record rather than a copy of it
- Free in practice for occasional use
- Court opinions carry no fee at all
Weak at
- Federal courts only, not state or county
- Nothing is matched to a person for you
- You need to know which court heard the case
InteliusCheapest bi-monthly rate, priciest after the trial
Last because it carries the highest rate once a trial converts and the oldest settlement on this list. Its pricing page showed a $0.95 five-day trial converting to $35.30 a month, a $0.95 seven-day trial converting to $34.95, and a people search plan at $21.35 a month billed as $42.69 for two, all read on 2 August 2026. It is a PeopleConnect brand, like the two above.
- Records
- Contact, criminal, traffic, address
- Entry
- $0.95 trial, read 2 August 2026
- After trial
- $35.30 a month
- On record
- Washington AG, $1.3m, 2010
Good at
- Cheapest bi-monthly people search rate found here
- Publishes what each trial converts to
- Long-established United States record coverage
Weak at
- Settled with Washington's attorney general in 2010 for $1.3 million
- Highest post-trial monthly rate on this list
- Shares an owner with two other entries here
Different signs, one doorway. Several of the obvious swaps in this category are the same company under another name.
What do these actually cost?
Every figure below was read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2 August 2026. Prices in this category change without notice.
| Service | Published price | What that buys |
|---|---|---|
| BeenVerified | $23.98 a month on three | 100 reports a month |
| Whitepages | $5.99 a month | Contact details only |
| TruthFinder | $28.33 a month | People search, unlimited |
| Instant Checkmate | $28.38 a month on three | People search, unlimited |
| DetectiveCheck | $15 a month | 30 lookups, any identifier |
| PACER | $0.10 a page | Federal court filings |
| Intelius | $21.35 a month on two | People search, unlimited |
One thing falls straight out of that table. Only Intelius' bi-monthly plan undercut BeenVerified's three-month rate, so leaving for a like-for-like product mostly costs more rather than less.
Spokeo is not in the table because no price could be read from its own pages on 2 August 2026. What it charges, and how, is covered in our piece on Spokeo.
Is there a free BeenVerified alternative?
Not one that reproduces the report. There are free routes to most of what is inside it.
Nearly everything in a background report started as a court or county filing. Federal cases live in PACER, which charges $0.10 a page, caps a document at $3.00 and waives the bill when a quarter's charges come to $30 or less, per its own fee page read on 2 August 2026.
State and county courts run their own portals, many of them free to search, and they hold the primary record rather than a copy of it. The trade is labour. You have to know which court, and nothing is matched to a person on your behalf.
Free consumer people-search sites are a third thing: funded by upselling you into a subscription, so treat the free result as the teaser it is. If what you actually want is to be out of these databases, start with the opt-out routes.
How hard is each one to cancel?
Read the cancellation route before the price, because that is the part that costs people money.
BeenVerified states three routes on its own plans page: on the web, by email to its support address, or by telephone, all read on 2 August 2026. The same day, Whitepages printed cancel anytime under every plan on its premium page, and TruthFinder's pricing FAQ said a membership can be cancelled online at any time.
The trials are where attention is worth spending. Intelius sold a $0.95 five-day trial that becomes $35.30 a month and a $0.95 seven-day trial that becomes $34.95, both stated on its own pricing page on 2 August 2026. BeenVerified's seven-day trial was capped at 100 reports that day, and the page does not say what the trial itself costs.
A trial is a subscription with a delay. Washington's attorney general settled with Intelius in 2010 for $1.3 million over post-transaction marketing that enrolled people in a monthly service after a trial. Whichever you pick, put the renewal date in a calendar the day you sign up.
What none of them can tell you
Four limits, and every one of them applies to ours as well.
- They cannot decide anything that matters legally. These reports may not be used for employment, housing, credit or insurance decisions. That is the Fair Credit Reporting Act's territory, and none of these services is a consumer reporting agency. BeenVerified says so on its own pricing page.
- Accuracy is inherited, not made. The FTC's September 2023 complaint recorded that the third-party suppliers behind these reports expressly disclaim accuracy.
- An empty report proves nothing. Anybody who has opted out disappears from the results, so absence is not evidence.
- They do not answer the account question. Which platforms hold an account for one address runs on a different mechanism entirely.
The first of those is the one people get wrong, and it is not a formality. The FTC's September 2023 order turned on exactly that boundary, disclaimers notwithstanding.
So which one should you switch to?
By the job you were actually doing, because the reports overlap far more than the marketing does. Prices below are the ones each vendor published on 2 August 2026.
| If you | Switch to | Because |
|---|---|---|
| Mostly looked up numbers | Whitepages | $5.99 a month against $23.98 |
| Want the same breadth of records | TruthFinder | Closest match, at $28.33 a month |
| Take it on three months | Instant Checkmate | $28.38 a month, though the same owner |
| Need which accounts exist | DetectiveCheck | A different mechanism, and every source shown |
| Want a court record itself | PACER | The primary filing, usually at no cost |
| Are searching outside the US | None of the above | The underlying records do not exist |
Two subscriptions is a common and sensible answer. A phone plan at $4.99 for the frequent question, plus one month of something broader when a specific case comes up, beats a standing $36.89 charge for reports nobody opens.
Common questions
What is the cheapest BeenVerified alternative?
Whitepages, at $5.99 a month for its Premium Contact Info plan when the page was read on 2 August 2026. That buys phones and addresses rather than a full background report. For a broader report, Intelius' bi-monthly people search plan at $21.35 a month was, the same day, the only figure found under BeenVerified's own $23.98 three-month rate.
Is there a free alternative to BeenVerified?
Not one that reproduces the report. PACER holds federal court records at $0.10 a page and waives the bill when a quarter comes to $30 or less, per its fee page read on 2 August 2026, and many county courts publish their own free portals. Free consumer search sites exist but are funded by upselling you into a subscription, so the free result is a teaser.
Do these sites tell the person you searched them?
No. BeenVerified states on its own pricing page that searches and purchases are confidential and that nobody is told they were looked up, read on 2 August 2026. The rest of the category works the same way, because it reads assembled public records rather than contacting anybody. What can reach somebody is what you do next.
Which alternative is best for a phone number?
TruthFinder's reverse phone plan at $4.99 a month was the cheapest found on 2 August 2026, with Instant Checkmate's at $5.99 and Whitepages Premium Contact Info also at $5.99. All three are United States products. Our own phone coverage is 8 sources against 71 for an email address, so it is not the module to switch for.
Can I use any of these to screen a tenant or an employee?
No. Employment, housing, credit and insurance decisions fall under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which requires a consumer reporting agency with permissible-purpose checks and a dispute process. None of these services is one, and each says so. The FTC's September 2023 order against TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate turned on that boundary.
Are PeopleLooker and ReversePhone different from BeenVerified?
They share a publisher. The Lifetime Value Company listed BeenVerified, PeopleLooker, ReversePhone, NumberGuru, NeighborWho, Ownerly, PeopleSmart, Bumper and MoneyBot5000 on its own brands page when it was read on 2 August 2026. Moving between them changes the logo and the checkout rather than the records or the billing relationship.
Which of these is easiest to cancel?
BeenVerified publishes the most routes, naming web, email and telephone cancellation on its plans page read on 2 August 2026. Whitepages printed cancel anytime under every plan that day and TruthFinder's FAQ said cancellation is available online. The harder cases are Intelius' $0.95 trials, which convert to $34.95 or $35.30 a month unless stopped first.
Why do two sites return different records for the same person?
Because they buy from different suppliers and refresh on different schedules. The FTC's September 2023 complaint recorded that the third-party sources behind these reports expressly disclaim accuracy, so errors are inherited rather than introduced. Anybody who has opted out of one publisher also vanishes from that one and not the others.
Is it worth subscribing to more than one?
Often, and it is usually cheaper than it sounds. A phone-only plan, $4.99 or $5.99 a month on 2 August 2026, handles the question most people ask weekly, and one month of a broader service covers the occasional case that needs court and property records. Two narrow subscriptions frequently cost less than one bundle nobody fully uses.
Have any of these been fined by a regulator?
Two of the entries have documented settlements. TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate agreed to pay $5.8 million to the FTC in September 2023 over accuracy claims and FCRA compliance, and Washington's attorney general settled with Intelius in 2010 for $1.3 million over post-trial enrolment. Both records are public and linked above.
