OSINTverse vs OSINT Industries
Keep the people-search modules investigators already trust — run them on a desk that also has everything else.
OSINT Industries is one of the strongest identity engines in commercial OSINT: hundreds of platform modules, found-or-not-found answers, and correlated emails, phones, usernames, and names. OSINTverse is not a copy of that dataset. SearchIn is the prepaid desk that runs OSINT Industries next to breach, WHOIS, host, and image integrations — one wallet, investigations you can reopen, and an API that looks the same for every source.
Keep OSINT Industries. Run it on OSINTverse when you also need the rest of the investigation on the same graph.
What OSINT Industries is great at
- Fanning one identifier across hundreds of consumer and social modules in a single request
- Returning found vs not-found per platform so absence is a real answer, not a timeout
- Correlating emails, phones, usernames, and names into a structured identity footprint
- Surfacing profile fields, activity signals, pictures, and registration metadata where platforms expose them
OSINT Industries vs OSINTverse
Structural access and workflow — not invented list prices for OSINT Industries.
| OSINT Industries directly | Through OSINTverse | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | OSINT Industries is sold as its own account with seat- or credit-based plans, and the API key is tied to that account. | Sign in, top up from $10, and run OSINT Industries the same minute — no vendor contract, seat, or sales call. |
| What a query costs | Plan, credit pack, or contract pricing set by the vendor and paid up front. | Pay per query from your prepaid balance — OSINT Industries starts at $0.60 (optional premium +$1.80) for email lookups, with the exact price shown before you run it. |
| Failed lookups | Handled under the vendor's own credit and refund policy. | Automatically refunded to your wallet — a search that fails upstream after billing is not charged. |
| Output format | A vendor-specific response shape you normalise and render yourself. | Normalised result panels plus the raw JSON, returned by the same POST /v1/search contract as every other integration. |
| Cross-source work | Copy-paste between vendor dashboards to follow a lead into another dataset. | Results join one investigation graph, so you can pivot an entity into any of the other 11 integrations in a click. |
| Running it for a team | Per-seat or per-account access, billed and administered per analyst. | One shared team wallet with roles, provider allowlists, enforced MFA, and audit history — no per-seat fee. |
| Volume work | Script the vendor API yourself, including retries, polling, and rate handling. | Bulk search takes up to 50 queries across selected providers in one submission (max 100 jobs), with per-job status and partial-failure handling. |
What OSINTverse adds
- The same OSINT Industries lookup, billed per query from a prepaid balance that starts at $10 and never expires
- Optional premium modules such as Snapchat and TikTok for $1.80, at search time or after a basic scan completes
- Predicta Search, LeakRadar, DeHashed, Snusbase, WHOIS, Shodan, and image tools on the same identifier without a second login
- Module hits become investigation graph nodes you can pivot into breach or domain sources without retyping
- Failed upstream lookups refund automatically — a module miss is an answer; an upstream error is not a charge
- One POST /v1/search contract and team wallet instead of a per-analyst vendor seat
What every SearchIn query inherits
When to pick which
Stay with OSINT Industries when it is the right tool. Use SearchIn when the desk around it matters.
SearchIn prices for OSINT Industries
USD per query on OSINTverse. Full rates are on pricing.
OSINT Industries
Integration page| Input type | Price |
|---|---|
| Emailemail | $0.60 (optional premium +$1.80) |
| Usernameusername | $0.60 (optional premium +$1.80) |
| Phonephone | $0.60 (optional premium +$1.80) |
| Namename | $0.60 (optional premium +$1.80) |
Frequently asked questions
Is OSINTverse an OSINT Industries alternative?
Not as a dataset. OSINT Industries remains the identity engine. OSINTverse is the desk that runs OSINT Industries pay-per-query alongside other SearchIn integrations, with a shared wallet, refunds, investigations, and one API.
Why run OSINT Industries through OSINTverse?
You keep the same module coverage, then add a prepaid wallet, automatic refunds on failed lookups, normalised cards plus raw JSON, and pivots into breach, WHOIS, host, and image sources without leaving SearchIn.
Do I lose OSINT Industries quality on SearchIn?
No. SearchIn calls OSINT Industries upstream and renders their module results. What changes is billing, normalisation, graph membership, and the other providers sitting next to it.
When should I still use OSINT Industries directly?
When identity is the whole job, you already have a vendor seat, or you need vendor-side workflow that SearchIn does not wrap. Going direct still makes sense at sustained high volume on that one source.
Can I run OSINT Industries premium modules on SearchIn?
Yes. A basic OSINT Industries search is $0.60. Optional premium modules such as Snapchat and TikTok add $1.80 — enable them when you create the search, or run them from the result after the basic scan completes.
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