01 · Product name
UserSearch
Free username search on .org, paid modules and credits on .com.
Published by UserSearch.
In short
UserSearch is two sites. UserSearch.org runs a free reverse username search across a large list of social, dating, gaming, and forum sites, with no account required. UserSearch.com is the paid platform: the pricing page lists Premium at $18.97 a month or $159.97 a year, with a monthly credit for metered modules. Some modules are free. A profile hit still has to be opened. Two handles that match are not automatically one person.
Product pricing strategy
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Free and paid
UserSearch is free to start and paid when you need more. The free tier is the on-ramp. Volume, locked filters, private scans, or an API are what paid plans usually add. Confirm the current split on the vendor site. This listing does not invent a dollar amount.
The username search on usersearch.org is free and does not require an account. UserSearch.com has a free account and a Premium plan listed at $18.97 a month. Many modules on .com cost extra credits.
Utility and features
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UserSearch.org is the free page. It takes a username and checks it across a directory the site describes as 3,000 or more social, dating, gaming, forum, and crypto destinations. The site says the check is live, that you do not create an account, and that you do not enter a credit card. Email search is not on that page anymore: the .org site tells you to go to UserSearch.com for an email. The about page says the project has been online for more than 18 years and began as a spare-time experiment by a digital forensics practitioner in a UK law-enforcement office. That is the site’s account of its own history.
- UserSearch.org. Free reverse username search. No signup. The site points email lookups at UserSearch.com instead of running them here.
- UserSearch.com. Accounts, cases, and modules. Premium is listed at $18.97 a month or $159.97 a year, with $10 of module credit each month.
- Credits. Free modules and paid modules share one screen. The cost is shown before a search. Outside data, including OSINT Industries and Pipl, is billed this way.
- What a hit is. A profile to open. Not proof that two accounts are one person, and not a reason to contact a stranger.
UserSearch.com is the professional platform. The pricing page lists a free plan you can open an account on, and Premium at $18.97 a month or $159.97 billed yearly. Premium includes what the page calls 18 search types — email, phone, images, username, vehicle, and others — plus “100+ premium third-party data sources,” a monthly $10 credit, bulk search, cases and reports, and something they name SargeBot. API access is listed as a waiting list, so this directory does not mark UserSearch as an API you can call today. Some modules cost nothing. Others draw on an outside dataset and debit the credit balance. The platform shows the cost before you run the module. That is the right place to read a price. The public module catalogue is a second place, and it moves.
The catalogue is specific enough to quote as an example, not as a rate card. A broad username search across the site’s own 3,000-site list is marked free. A username module attributed to OSINT Industries was listed at $0.70. A Predicta username module was listed at $0.50. A OneScan username run, which fires several sources at once, was listed at $1.20. Pipl appears as a social and a business module. Those figures were on the documentation page when this listing was written. They are an illustration of the model: UserSearch is partly a search engine and partly a checkout in front of other vendors, including OSINT Industries. If you already pay OSINT Industries directly, you do not need to buy the same module twice.
Dating-site coverage is part of the .org marketing. That does not make a username search a background check on a private person for sport. Use it where you have a reason: your own handles, a report you are allowed to work, a fraud question, a consenting subject. A hit means the site returned a profile URL. Open it. Usernames are reused by strangers. A photo, a city, or a writing style is what tells you whether to keep the lead, and even then it is a lead.
Sherlock, Maigret, and Blackbird do the free username job from your own machine, with a list you can read. UserSearch.org does a version of it in the browser. UserSearch.com is the paid layer when you want email, phone, image, and resold datasets in one account. ShadowDragon and OSINT Industries are the other paid neighbors, with their own contracts and their own credit or seat math.
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For a handle, start on usersearch.org or with Sherlock. You do not need an account to see whether the free check returns anything.
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Open every profile URL before you record it. Drop hits that are the wrong person or a dead page.
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Move to usersearch.com only when you need a selector or a dataset the free page does not run. Read the module price first.
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If a module is OSINT Industries, Pipl, or another vendor you already license, use the license you have.
Caveats
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UserSearch.org is the free username page. UserSearch.com is the paid platform, with more selector types. They are easy to confuse, and email search is not the free page.
Username hits have the usual false positives. Paid modules and the Premium price change. Read the pricing page at the time you buy. A report export is not more reliable than the profile URL you failed to open.
Screenshots
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Potential use cases
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- Start on UserSearch.org with a username, before anyone spends money. The site describes a live check across a large directory of social, dating, gaming, forum, and crypto sites, without an account. The output is that free list. Open the URLs. Pivot the same handle to Sherlock or Maigret. A hit on the free page is the same kind of heuristic those tools use, not an identity.
- The selector is an email or a phone number, which the .org page sends you to UserSearch.com to run. Use the paid product only for that reason. The output is whatever modules your plan includes. Compare a username result with the free page and with Maigret so you can see what the subscription added. The pricing page has listed a Premium price. Quote the page you load, not a number remembered from this listing, if you cite it.
- You want the case and the report inside their platform instead of a folder of screenshots. That is a storage choice. The report is still a list of leads. Strip it to the profiles you opened. The about page’s history of the project is the site’s own account. It is not a testimonial this directory is repeating as fact beyond that.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
The free page and the paid page disagree
UserSearch.org shows a profile the paid search omits, or the reverse. Open the URL. If the page is real, cite the URL and note which UserSearch property surfaced it. If the page is a soft miss, drop both hits. Do not average the two products into a confidence score. They are different checks with different site lists.
Questions
Is UserSearch free?
The username search on usersearch.org is free and does not require an account. UserSearch.com has a free account and a Premium plan listed at $18.97 a month. Many modules on .com cost extra credits.
Are UserSearch.org and UserSearch.com the same tool?
They are the same project and not the same product. The .org site is the free username check. The .com site is the broader platform, with paid data modules.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
UserSearch.com
https://usersearch.com/Pricing
UserSearch pricing
https://usersearch.com/pricing/Documentation
UserSearch platform features
https://usersearch.com/resources/getting-started/platform-features/Documentation
Search type and module catalogue
https://usersearch.com/resources/documentation/reference/module-catalogue/Product
UserSearch.org username search
https://www.usersearch.org/