Anyone searching for an Epieos alternative usually likes Epieos and wants something that covers a different part of the job. Epieos is the tool most OSINT courses teach first for a reason: one input box, an email or a phone number, and a per-module list of the accounts behind it, with a Google module that turns a Gmail address into a display name, avatar and public Maps review history. It is well regarded for Google-account and email reverse lookups, and nothing here argues otherwise.
What follows is a field guide for people who already know Epieos and want to know what sits next to it: OSINTsearch, which runs 203 email modules and 24 phone modules alongside 770 username endpoints and shows every field on the free plan, and two breach-index tools, Intelligence X and Snusbase, for the historical layer. Everything about Epieos comes from its own site and terms, with list prices dated 2026-07-29.
What Epieos does, in its own words
The homepage headline calls it "The ultimate OSINT tool for email and phone reverse lookup" and makes three promises up front: "We do not log your queries", "We do not notify the target", and "We do not show false positives." Those are the first two questions a working investigator asks, answered on the front page. It has operated since 2019, is aimed at business customers, and ships a Maltego transform set for graph-based investigations.
The pricing page lists the modules by name: Google, Email Checker (+200 sites), Skype, LinkedIn, Nike Run Club, Fitbit, GitHub, Duolingo, Asics Runkeeper, Adidas Runtastic, Strava, Vivino, Facebook, Proton Mail, Phone Checker, Etsy, Have I Been Pwned?, Dropbox, Foursquare, Flickr, Chess.com, Substack, Trello, Notion and Gravatar. That is 25 named modules, curated for depth, with one breach source mixed in. The advertised inputs are email and phone; usernames appear as output fields rather than as a query type.
List prices as of 2026-07-29: the member plan at EUR 0.00 a month covers Google, Email Checker and Skype with clickable links, eased captcha and a heavy watermark. The Osinter plan at EUR 29.99 a month covers all modules including LinkedIn, 30 full-access requests a month, the lightest captcha and a light watermark. The custom plan adds increased request limits, API access and private modules through a contact form. There is also a Visitor tier, a trial search with no account at all. The free tier is watermarked rather than hidden, so an evaluator sees the true shape of a result before paying, which is a point in its favor.
Epieos alternative for email and phone: OSINTsearch
OSINTsearch takes the same two inputs and adds a third. An email runs through 203 modules, a phone number through 24, and a username through 770 endpoints, 997 in total on 2026-09-05. Each email or phone module answers one question silently: is this identifier registered here. Where a platform publishes more, the card carries more.
- Registration confirmations across 203 email services and 24 phone services, with the profile URL where one exists.
- Recovery hints as platforms publish them. A masked phone or partially hidden recovery address, recorded exactly as the platform shows it; nothing is sent to the target.
- Username pivot. Every display name and handle on a profile hit can be swept across 770 username endpoints in the same session.
- Identity dossier. Names, avatars, locations, bios and outbound links from every hit, gathered into one section with the platforms that agree.
- Former usernames and banned accounts. The Instagram module resolves banned accounts by numeric id and lists former usernames.
- CSV and JSON export on Starter and Pro, with breach sources and cross-references in their own sections.
The plan shape is the other difference. Free shows every field on every card, 15 searches a week, no card required. Starter at $20 a month gives 50 a week, export, and breach names and dates. Pro at $49.99 a month gives 500 a week, deep search at depths 1 to 4, and full breach records. You pay for volume, export, breach records and depth; the data itself is free. The anonymous landing-page demo is a masked preview; a signed-in free account sees the full result. Quotas reset Monday 00:00 UTC, and the pricing page lists every entitlement.
What a real sweep returns
Numbers from a real export, taken on 2026-09-05 for the handle of a public figure, davidbombal, on the username corpus. The scan checked all 770 endpoints in 29.2 seconds and returned 59 live profiles. Across those 59 cards the export carried 47 display names, 41 profile pictures, 41 user ids, 26 join dates, 23 bios, 15 follower counts, 14 locations and 16 outbound links. Eight of the hits had their own list of linked accounts parsed out.
{
"search": { "endpoints_scanned": 770, "found": 59, "duration_ms": 29164 },
"identity": {
"probable_name": { "value": "David Bombal", "sources": 18 },
"probable_location": { "value": "United Kingdom" },
"profile_pictures": 8, "profile_links": 8, "username_variants": 2
}
}The identity dossier is where an email or phone case usually turns. Eighteen platforms agreed on the display name, three on the country, and the dossier picked the longest bio, from Odysee, which by itself listed a Discord invite, an X handle, an Instagram, a LinkedIn, a Facebook page, a website and a YouTube channel, plus a sponsorship contact address. That is one card yielding six pivots and an email, before any breach data is touched. The GitHub card carried the bio "Author, Instructor and YouTuber", 8,284 followers and an outbound YouTube link; the Twitter card linked the personal website. Follower counts ran from 3,100,000 on YouTube to 1 on Gettr.
That is depth per hit: the sweep does not just say "registered on GitHub", it brings back the bio, the count and the link, on the free plan, so the next identifier is already on the page.
Side by side
| Epieos (list, 2026-07-29) | OSINTsearch (2026-09-05) | |
|---|---|---|
| Inputs | Email, phone | Email, phone, username |
| Modules | 25 named, including Email Checker (+200 sites) | 203 email, 24 phone, 770 username |
| Free plan | Google, Email Checker, Skype; heavy watermark | Full sweep, every field, 15 a week |
| Self-serve paid | Osinter EUR 29.99 a month, 30 full-access requests | Starter $20 (50 a week), Pro $49.99 (500 a week) |
| Export | API on custom plan, Maltego transforms | CSV and JSON on Starter and Pro |
| Breach data | Have I Been Pwned? module | Names and dates on Starter, full records on Pro |
| Signature strength | Google account module, no-account visitor search | Username pivot, identity dossier, former usernames, free full results |
| Target contact | "We do not notify the target" | Silent modules only; no reset mail or code is sent |
Breach-index alternatives: Intelligence X and Snusbase
Intelligence X is a search engine and archive over pastes, darknet, stealer logs, WHOIS history, DNS and archived public web, queried by selector: email, domain, IP, phone, wallet address and more. Its product page says it searches more than 200 billion records. An anonymous search on 2026-09-05 returned "Found 37 Text Files, 12 CSV Files, 10 Email Files" with source filenames and index dates visible. Anonymous visitors get 2 selector searches a day, a signed-up free account gets 50, and the Researcher license is EUR 2,500 a year for 200 a day with CSV and ZIP export at 25 a day. Every result is a named file with a bucket, a date and a system id.
Snusbase calls itself "The longest-standing data breach search engine" and has run since 2016. Its API documentation is fully public, and its unauthenticated stats endpoint returned 18,139,576,413 rows across 2,218 tables on 2026-09-05, each table name encoding source, region, size, category and date. Plan prices are shown after registration. Its count endpoint confirms exposure and names the datasets without returning a record, and the search API is included for paying members at 2,048 requests per window.
Both answer "where has this identifier appeared in collected data", not "where is it a live login today". The DeHashed free breach check post draws that line with a third breach index.
Choosing by the question
- Start from a Gmail address and want everything Google publishes about it: Epieos.
- Start from an email, phone or handle and want every live account with every field, free: OSINTsearch, then pivot the display names into a username sweep.
- Need the historical layer with citations: Intelligence X for archive files and dates, Snusbase for record-level rows behind a login.
- Need an export to hand on: OSINTsearch on Starter or Pro, or Intelligence X at its daily export quota.
The best email OSINT tool post ranks the wider field, what's behind the email explains how to read each result class, and who is behind a phone number covers the 24-module phone sweep on its own.
FAQ
Is there a free Epieos alternative?
OSINTsearch's free plan runs the full email, phone or username sweep and shows every field on every card, 15 times a week, with no card required. Export, breach lookups and deep search are on the paid plans.
Does Epieos search usernames?
Its advertised inputs are email and phone. Usernames appear in its results rather than as a query type. OSINTsearch takes a username as a first-class input across 770 endpoints.
What does Epieos cost?
List prices dated 2026-07-29: the member plan is EUR 0.00 a month, Osinter is EUR 29.99 a month for 30 full-access requests, and the custom plan is priced on request.
Which tool notifies the target?
Epieos states on its homepage that it does not notify the target. OSINTsearch runs silent modules only and never sends a reset mail or one-time code.
Depth in one place, breadth in the other
Epieos earned its reputation with a focused module set and a Google lookup that stands on its own. An Epieos alternative is the wider sweep that runs next to it, takes a handle as well as an address, brings back the bio and the links on every hit, and shows every field before you pay. When the case matters, use both.
