Predicta Search Alternative: Username and Email Search With Every Field Free

Most people looking for a Predicta Search alternative are not unhappy with Predicta. They want to see what a username or an email actually returns, on their own handle, before they commit to a plan. This post takes Predicta's own stated coverage and pricing as they stood on 2026-09-05, then puts three tools beside it that show their work on a free plan: OSINTsearch, FootprintIQ and DigitalFootprintCheck. All three were run on the same handle the same day, so the counts below are observed, not marketed.

The short version: Predicta is a polished report builder for casework, and if you want sanctions screening and a PDF for the file, it is worth its Basic price. If you want to see every account and every field behind a handle right now, on a free plan, with no card, OSINTsearch is the one to open. The other two are good free checkers with narrower output.

What Predicta Search says about itself

Predicta Search, run by Predicta Lab in the EU, takes an email, phone number, username or full name and builds a cross-referenced report. Its homepage says it searches "100+ social networks and websites from a single email, phone number, name or username, in one click", and a feature grid lower on the same page says "400+ supported networks".

What it says goes into a report is attractive: linked accounts, profile pictures, creation dates, usernames and emails, cross-referenced with breach data, dark web forums, OpenSanctions screening and WHOIS records. There is a companion product, Predicta Graph, for link analysis, and a self-serve API. The scope statement is well drafted too: "Predicta Search aggregates publicly available information from open sources; we do not access private accounts, hack, or scrape protected content."

Pricing on 2026-09-05, in euros, from predictasearch.com/pricing:

The meter is the interesting design choice. Searches are unlimited on every tier, including Free; what is rationed is the detailed report. You can look freely and pay for depth. That is genuinely user friendly for triage-heavy work, and a €7.99 entry price makes evaluation cheap.

Reports versus searches: two ways to meter the same job

Predicta meters the report. OSINTsearch meters the search and puts everything a search returns on the screen. On a free OSINTsearch account that is 15 searches a week with every field on every card, unmasked, no card required; the quota resets every Monday at 00:00 UTC. If you discard most leads and write up three a month, Predicta's meter fits. If you want to open fifteen handles and read the bio, the user id, the joined date and the outbound links on each one, the OSINTsearch free plan fits, and it costs nothing to find out.

The best Predicta Search alternative for seeing everything free

OSINTsearch runs a username against 770 live endpoints, an email against 203 modules and a phone number against 24 modules. On the free plan you get 15 searches a week and every field on every card, with no card required. The paid plans on the pricing page buy volume, export, breach records and depth: Starter at $20 a month for 50 searches a week with CSV and JSON export and breach name and date, Pro at $49.99 for 500 a week with deep search and full breach records.

The davidbombal run took 29.2 seconds and returned 59 accounts. What makes it different from a link list is what each card carries. Counted straight from the export:

A few real cards show what that means. The X account carries the platform id 56191110, a verified flag, 183,324 followers, a location of England and a creation date of 12 July 2009. YouTube gives the channel id, a creation date of 6 February 2008, 3.1 million subscribers and a bio that lists the owner's Discord, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and website. GitHub gives id 22679022, 8,284 followers, the bio "Author, Instructor and YouTuber" and an outbound link to the YouTube channel. Instagram gives id 4942626039, 526,041 followers and a March 2017 creation date. Those ids and dates are what let you say two hits are the same person.

Above the cards sits an identity block. For this handle it resolved a probable name of David Bombal from 18 agreeing platforms, two websites (davidbombal.com and a tap.bio page), a second username variant (davidbombal.eth, from ENS) and eight profile pictures to compare by eye. On Instagram the module also resolves banned accounts by their numeric id and exposes former usernames where the platform lists them, which is how a dead handle turns into new seeds; the old usernames guide walks that trail.

{
  "platform_label": "GitHub",
  "username": "davidbombal",
  "user_id": "22679022",
  "display_name": "David Bombal",
  "followers": "8284",
  "bio": "Author, Instructor and YouTuber",
  "website": "https://www.youtube.com/davidbombal",
  "linked_socials": [{"platform": "twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/davidbombal"}]
}

FootprintIQ: a free scan with a confidence score on every match

FootprintIQ (footprintiq.app, a UK company) positions itself as a self-audit tool rather than a people-search site, and its free username scan is real: no signup, no card, two free scans a day. On davidbombal it reported "27 / ~100 sites", finished in 22 seconds and listed 26 accounts across 26 platforms, every one labeled "High" confidence with the honest footnote "This reflects consistency of public signals, not confirmed ownership." That epistemic care is the best thing about it.

Each free result shows the platform, the handle, a "Username match" label, the source domain and a one-line description; bios, join dates and follower counts are not part of the free view. The free scan reported checking about 100 sites; the "500+ platforms" figure on its pages is where the paid Deep Scan goes. Prices are in pounds: the Monitor plan is £119 a year for 100 scans a month with PDF and CSV export, and a one-time Deep Scan report is £24.99.

DigitalFootprintCheck: transparent, client-side, existence only

DigitalFootprintCheck (digitalfootprintcheck.com) deserves credit for how open it is. Its free Profile Checker runs in your browser against the open-source WhatsMyName dataset, sends nothing to its own servers, needs no email and no account, and says so plainly on the page: "Powered by WhatsMyName: This tool uses the open-source WhatsMyName database to check 500+ platforms." On davidbombal it returned "41 profiles found", grouped into clean category chips: social (15), gaming (5), coding (3), finance (3), and so on.

Each hit carries four things: the platform name, a Found badge, one category tag and the candidate URL with a View Profile button. That is an existence check, and a good one; it is not an account record. The paid side adds breach and dark-web monitoring, gaming-profile detection and a documented API at $10 a month for 30 searches, $25 for 60, or pay-as-you-go packs from $5 for two searches. No export format is documented on the site.

Side by side

Read it by job. Predicta is the right tool when the deliverable is a case report that has to mention sanctions lists and stealer logs, and when you have a full name rather than a handle. FootprintIQ is the right tool when a client wants a scored exposure report about themselves. DigitalFootprintCheck is the right tool for a private, no-account existence check. OSINTsearch is the right tool when you want the widest live sweep and the deepest card for free, and a JSON export when you go paid. The best username OSINT tools roundup goes wider than these four, and who is behind a username shows how to read a result set once you have one.

The same logic holds for email. OSINTsearch's 203 email modules return registration confirmations and masked recovery hints on the free plan, which is covered in what's behind the email. And if what you actually have is a person's name rather than an identifier, a people-search index is a different category; the PeekYou alternative post explains where those fit.

FAQ

Is Predicta Search free?

There is a free plan at €0 with unlimited basic searches and three detailed reports a month, no card required. Export is not included on Free or Basic; it starts on the €23.99 Expert plan.

What does OSINTsearch show on the free plan?

Every field on every card for 15 searches a week: user ids, display names, bios, joined dates, follower counts, locations, outbound links and the identity block. Free does not include CSV or JSON export, breach lookups or deep search.

Which alternative needs no account at all?

DigitalFootprintCheck's Profile Checker and FootprintIQ's free scan both run without an account.

Why do the three tools find different counts for the same handle?

Each checks its own pool of sites with its own detection rules, so the pools overlap without matching. For a complete picture run two and merge on the profile URL.

Pick by what you need to see first

If the first thing you need is a report, Predicta earns its Basic price. If the first thing you need is the data, open a free OSINTsearch account and run the handle: you will see every field before you decide whether volume, export or breach records are worth paying for.