OSINT Industries Review: Features, Pricing and Alternatives

OSINT Industries is a subscription lookup platform that takes an email address, phone number, username, name or crypto wallet and returns the online accounts and public traces linked to it. Here is what it does, what it costs and where results need a second check.

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Email, phone, username lookups
Plans from £19 a month
Free access for some sectors
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Based on the vendor's documentation, official pricing page and public company records, checked 10 October 2026. No scores, no affiliate links.

Short answer

OSINT Industries is a UK-based web platform and API that searches an email, phone number, username, name or wallet and shows linked online accounts, often as a digital footprint with maps and timelines. It suits investigators, fraud and compliance teams who run many lookups. Pricing is a monthly credit subscription from £19 for 30 searches; enterprise plans are quoted.

What Is OSINT Industries?

A selector-based lookup tool: you enter one identifier, and it queries more than 1,500 sources in real time for accounts and traces tied to it.

The vendor says OSINT Industries compiles a digital footprint from one starting point, drawing on 1,500+ sources in real time rather than from a stored database (OSINT Industries).

The service is operated by OSINT Industries Ltd, registered in England (company number 14974274, incorporated 3 July 2023) at 36-38 Cornhill, London (Companies House). Its privacy policy says it is subject to the UK GDPR and, for EEA operations, the EU GDPR (privacy policy).

Products are the web platform, an API, an enterprise tier, a workspace called Palette, and training. In our OSINT tools catalog it sits under people and identifiers.

Key Features and Outputs

One search box, many selector types, and results you can view as a list, map or timeline and export to common formats.

Selector lookups

Email, phone, username, full name and crypto wallets (ETH, BTC, TRC); the pricing page also lists IP, domain and image.

Output

Digital footprint view

Linked accounts with profile details, a map of online activity and a timeline.

Export

Reports

Export to PDF, JSON, DOC or Excel for a case file or another tool.

Integration

API

Live lookups inside your own systems, included from the Intermediate plan.

Search Types: Email, Phone, Username and Wallets

Email and phone lookups are the core use; username, name and wallet searches extend the same idea to other identifiers.

Email. An OSINT Industries email search checks which services appear to have an account registered to that address and pulls public profile data where it exists. The API page's "every email and phone number in the world" (API page) is marketing, not a measurable figure.

Phone number. The same approach for a number. Results vary by country and by platform privacy settings.

Username, name and wallet. Name searches are noisier than username searches. A matching handle on two sites is a lead, not proof that one person controls both.

See also our phone number and username investigations, where tool output is only the first step.

OSINT Industries Pricing and Plans

Three self-serve monthly plans in British pounds, from £19 for 30 credits to £99 for 300 credits, plus a quoted enterprise tier.

Plan	Price	Credits per month	API	Cloud cases / storage
Basic	£19 a month	30	Not listed	30 / 5 GB
Intermediate	£49 a month	100	Included	100 / 20 GB
Advanced	£99 a month	300	Included	300 / 100 GB
Enterprise	Quoted by sales	Shared credit pool, volume pricing	Included	Custom; team seats, SSO, support manager

Source: OSINT Industries pricing page, checked 10 October 2026. Prices exclude any applicable tax.

Credits are "the total number of searches you can make per month": roughly £0.63 a search on Basic, £0.49 on Intermediate and £0.33 on Advanced. Extra credits cost the subscription rate, do not expire at month end and survive cancellation, though long-inactive accounts may be deleted. Yearly figures on the page sit next to placeholder text in another currency, so we do not quote them.

Free Access, Trials and Promo Codes

There is no free self-serve plan. The vendor offers free trials to eligible parties and free access programs for government, law enforcement, journalists and non-profits.

The site has request pages for law enforcement, government, journalists and non-profits, and its ethics page says free access goes to these groups "where it serves the public interest" (ethics and compliance). A free trial is offered "to eligible parties". Neither has published criteria.

The pricing page lists no promo codes. Codes on coupon sites cannot be checked against the vendor, and a "discount" link to another domain is a phishing risk.

Login, API and the Official Website

The official website is osint.industries and the platform runs on app.osint.industries; check the domain before entering credentials.

The site at www.osint.industries links its "Search Now" and sign-up buttons to app.osint.industries, where the OSINT Industries login lives (official site). Bookmark it: a look-alike login page that captures your password also captures your case history.

The API page says results come in real time from publicly available sources and are never stored. It publishes no endpoints or rate limits; access starts with a sales form (API page).

Is OSINT Industries Legit and Safe?

Yes, it is a real, registered UK company with published terms and privacy policy. Its accuracy claims are marketing and should be tested against your own cases.

The public record is clear: an active company, a registered office, a privacy policy with a data protection officer, and terms under English law. The vendor says it encrypts activity and never stores search results (homepage); the privacy policy describes collecting usage data such as query counts (privacy policy).

The homepage also claims "100% accurate" results and "zero false positives". No lookup tool can guarantee who controls an account, and the terms put verification on the customer.

Who It Suits and Who It Does Not

It suits trained teams with a lawful purpose and frequent identifier lookups; it is a poor fit for one-off personal curiosity or for decisions that need a verified report.

Good fit	Poor fit
Fraud, insurance and AML teams triaging many emails and numbers	Screening job applicants or tenants without an FCRA-compliant process
Investigators who already verify and document findings	Anyone who needs a court-ready, attributed finding from one search
Journalists and NGOs eligible for free access	Personal searches on an ex-partner, neighbor or stranger

Limitations, Accuracy and Legal Risks

Account matches can be wrong, coverage changes as platforms close loopholes, and the user, not the vendor, carries the legal responsibility for each search.

Attribution. An account on an email does not prove who runs it; recycled numbers and reused usernames produce wrong links.
Coverage drift. When a platform changes its sign-up or recovery flows, a module can stop working without notice.
Your legal basis. The terms require a "lawful basis, legitimate authority and proportionate reason" for each search and state that public availability alone does not establish one; they bar stalking, harassment and eligibility decisions for employment, housing, credit or insurance without a lawful basis and required notices (terms).
Data protection. The GDPR requires a legitimate purpose and data minimization; US employment use brings in the FCRA.

OSINT Industries Alternatives

Comparable lookups come from Epieos, the open-source Holehe and Maigret, IntelBase, and leak-focused search such as Intelligence X; Maltego covers link analysis.

Email and phone

Epieos

Email and phone lookups; free Member tier, Osinter plan €29.99 a month for 30 full requests (pricing).

Epieos review →

Open source

Holehe

GPL-3.0 Python tool checking an email against 120+ sites, partly via forgotten-password functions (GitHub).

Holehe review →

Usernames

Maigret

MIT-licensed Python tool checking a username across 3,000+ sites (GitHub).

Maigret review →

Email and username

IntelBase

Checks 230+ email and 580+ username platforms plus breach and infostealer hits; prices not shown on its homepage (IntelBase).

IntelBase review →

Leaks

Intelligence X

Search engine for leaks, darknet content and pastes; paid plans from €2,500 a year.

Intelligence X review →

Link analysis

Maltego

Link analysis with a free Community Edition and paid plans from €3,000 a year.

Maltego review →

Need the Answer, Not the Tool?

If you need a verified conclusion about who is behind an email, number or handle, an analyst-led check is usually faster than learning a new tool.

A lookup platform gives you accounts; a decision needs attribution and a record of how each link was confirmed. Our email address investigations and phone number investigations add manual verification and a senior analyst review. Focused checks start from 10 business days, with a fixed quote after written scoping.

For wider cases, see OSINT investigations or our OSINT services for companies and law firms.

Turn a Lookup Into a Verified Finding

Send us the identifier, the decision it affects and your deadline. We scope it in writing and quote a fixed fee.

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OSINT Industries FAQ

Our fraud team keeps seeing OSINT Industries mentioned in investigator forums — what does it actually do with an email or phone number, and is it worth paying for compared with free tools?

It checks which online services an email, phone number, username or wallet appears to be registered with, in real time, and shows linked accounts as a list, map or timeline. Plans start at £19 a month for 30 searches (pricing). Free tools such as Holehe or Epieos's free tier cover part of the same ground with more manual work, so the paid platform suits teams running lookups every week.

I saw an OSINT Industries promo code on a coupon site promising 50% off the first month — is it real, or is there an official discount I can get instead?

We found no promo code on the official pricing page, so treat coupon-site codes as unverified, and never enter card details or passwords on a domain other than osint.industries or app.osint.industries. The official ways to pay less are free access for law enforcement, government, journalists and non-profits, a free trial for eligible parties, and volume pricing on the enterprise tier.

I'm a freelance journalist with almost no budget — is OSINT Industries free for people like me, or will I have to pay for a subscription to search a few emails?

There is no free self-serve plan, but journalists are one of four groups the vendor lists for free access, which its ethics page says is granted where it serves the public interest. Apply through the journalists page in the site footer; criteria are not published. Otherwise, Basic costs £19 a month for 30 searches, and unused credits do not expire at month end.

We're a small insurer in the US and want to check claimants' emails before paying out — is OSINT Industries legit and safe to use with personal data, and what are our legal limits?

It is a registered UK company with published terms and a privacy policy that references the UK and EU GDPR. The terms require a lawful basis and proportionate reason for each search and bar eligibility decisions on insurance, credit, housing or employment without a lawful basis and required notices (terms). Document why each search is needed, verify matches before acting, and ask counsel about state rules.

We need to plug email and phone lookups into our own KYC system — does OSINT Industries have an API, which plan includes it, and what documentation will we get?

Yes. API access is listed on the Intermediate (£49 a month) and Advanced (£99 a month) plans and on enterprise contracts, not on Basic. The public API page does not publish endpoints, formats or rate limits; you request access through a sales form (API page). Ask for those details and data processing terms before integrating.

Sources and Notes

Sources checked 10 October 2026. This review is based on the vendor's public pages and public records, not on a paid account. OSINT-S has no affiliation with OSINT Industries and does not resell tools.