The best brand protection companies and services in 2026

Updated 16 Oct 202617 min readMatt Richard, Takedown

TL;DR

The best brand protection companies in 2026 for consumer brands, in our order: Takedown, Brand Protector, IP Moat, StoreLock, Recon, Knockoff, IPzest, Red Points, MarqVision, Corsearch, BrandShield and Bolster. Eight of the twelve publish a price; MarqVision, Corsearch, BrandShield and Bolster quote after a call.
For a brand that wants copies filed for it, Takedown is first: a person checks every match, nothing is filed until you approve the case, its team files with the platform, host and registrar, and it watches US trademark filings in your classes, from $500 a month, month to month.
If you will review and file reports yourself, a self-serve tool from $19 a month (StoreLock, cloned Shopify stores only) to $199 a month (Brand Protector, ten marketplaces plus lookalike domains and USPTO and EUIPO filings) is the cheaper buy; IP Moat files the listings you approve from $105 a month.
For app stores, trademark clearance and watch beyond the US, or partner law firms behind the takedowns, look at Red Points, Corsearch and MarqVision. Every price and feature here is from the vendor's own site, with the date it was read.

Brand protection is the work of finding copies of your brand online, such as counterfeit listings, cloned stores and lookalike domains, and getting them removed through each platform's, host's or registrar's own reporting process. This page is for a consumer brand choosing between software it runs and a service that files for it, ranked with a small or fast-growing team in mind; an established brand with a legal team should read the ranking for established consumer brands, and an Amazon-first seller the Amazon ranking. We run Takedown and rank it first, so this is partisan. Every claim is sourced to the vendor's own site and dated; where we can't back something up, we left it out. Where a vendor does not publish a price, we say so.

What counts as brand protection

A brand protection service finds unauthorised uses of your brand (a counterfeit listing, a store that copied your catalogue, a domain one letter off yours, an ad using your photos) and gets each one removed through the reporting route the platform, host or registrar already runs. Some vendors sell software you run; others are teams that file for you. Four things often get filed under the same name and are not it:

A lawyer's UDRP complaint. Asking a panel to transfer a domain registered in bad faith is a legal proceeding, not a takedown. It is worth asking a solicitor.
A scam checker for shoppers. A site that tells a buyer whether a store looks safe removes nothing. Our own Fake Shopping Website Checker is a free tool, not the service.
Creator piracy removal. Getting pirated video, courses or books out of Google is a different market, served by companies such as Takedown.co, a separate company from Takedown.
Policing your own resellers. A genuine product sold below your price, or by a seller you did not authorise, is not a counterfeit. Most platforms will not act on it as an IP report.

What a small brand needs from it

Before any vendor, these are the questions the rest of this page is ranked against.

The channels your copies are actually on. For most DTC brands that is cloned storefronts and lookalike domains plus one or two marketplaces. Social media accounts matter for some brands and not others. Count first: run your domain through the Lookalike Domain Finder and search your bestsellers on Amazon and TikTok Shop.
A clear answer to who files. Self-serve tools are cheap until you count the hours. If nobody can spend a few hours a week reviewing matches and filing reports, the price that matters is a managed one.
Your approval before anything is sent. A report against a genuine reseller, or a rejected claim, counts against you on platforms such as Amazon.
A price you can see, or a quote before a contract. Monthly terms let you stop when the copies stop.
Evidence in every case and someone to chase refusals. Platforms reject a share of reports. Ask who resubmits them and whether it costs extra.
Your registrations. Counterfeit and trademark claims need a registered trademark in practice. Copied photos and product descriptions can be reported as copyright infringement without one.

The brand protection companies, ranked

Prices from each vendor's own site, read 4 October 2026 and re-read 14 October 2026
Service	Best for	Who files	Published price
Takedown	Copycat stores plus marketplace copies, checked by a person	Our team, after you approve each case	From $500/month
Brand Protector	Founders who will file, on ten marketplaces	You sign off; some filings you finish	$199/month or $1,499/year
IP Moat	Copies on one marketplace, filed for you	IP Moat, after you approve each listing	From $105/month
StoreLock	Shopify clone alerts on a small budget	You; its team on Enterprise	From $19/month plus $0.20 per image
Recon	Free clone and typosquat alerts	You	Free; Pro $50/month
Knockoff	Stolen product photos, large catalogue	Knockoff, as your agent	$799/month
IPzest	A no-card trial across marketplaces, social and ads	You; its team on Enterprise	From $148/month
Red Points	Regional marketplaces, budget above $1,250 a month	You (self-serve) or its team (managed)	Self-serve from $1,250/month; managed quoted
MarqVision	Repeat sellers, with law firms behind the takedowns	MarqVision	Not published
Corsearch	Legal teams that also need trademark clearance	Its analysts and your team	Not published
BrandShield	Phishing and impersonation as well as counterfeits	BrandShield	Not published
Bolster	Security teams removing phishing sites and fake apps	Bolster, mostly automated	Not published

Takedown is first because it is the only service on this list whose own site states all four of these: a person checks every match before you see it; nothing is filed in your name until you approve the case; its own team files, with the platform, the host and the registrar; and new US trademark filings in your goods classes are watched. Brand Protector watches filings but you review every match and finish some filings yourself. Knockoff files for you and lists trademark filings, under a one-time letter of authorisation; approving each case is not described on the pages we read. Each of those is checkable on the vendors' pages listed under sources. The same service covers copycat stores and lookalike domains, Amazon (.com, .co.uk, .de and .fr), eBay, AliExpress, Alibaba, Temu and TikTok Shop listings, Meta ads, and Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Threads accounts, on month-to-month terms with a free 360° report before you pay, and we publish the evidence from real cases with domains, prices and dates. After Takedown the order is by fit for a small DTC brand: how much of the usual problem (cloned stores and marketplace copies) a service covers, then whether you can see the price before a call. Website-only apps rank below services that also cover marketplaces, however cheap they are. Enterprise suites come last because they solve problems a small brand rarely has yet, not because they do the job worse.

Takedown (our service)

trytakedown.com

Best for: A DTC brand whose copies are cloned stores and lookalike domains as much as marketplace listings, which wants a person to check every match and to approve each case before anyone files.
What it does: Searches for copycat stores through domain variants, certificate logs, Google search and reverse image search, scans Amazon (up to nine storefronts), eBay (up to eight), AliExpress, Alibaba, Temu, TikTok Shop, DHgate and Chrono24 listings, plus Google Lens matches for your photos on any marketplace, checks Meta and TikTok ads, searches Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Threads for accounts using your name, and watches US (USPTO) trademark filings in your classes. A person checks every match, you approve each case, and our team files with the platform, host and registrar. See fake website takedown and counterfeit listing removal.
Price: From $500 a month, month to month with no annual lock-in. The quote comes with a free 360° report of what is copying your brand.

The better buy when copycat storefronts are the main problem and you want someone else to file without giving up approval of each case. We publish breakdowns of real copycat operations with the domains, prices and dates, and the same evidence goes into every case before you approve it.

Honest trade-offs: its trademark watch covers US (USPTO) filings only, where Brand Protector also watches the EUIPO and Corsearch sells worldwide clearance. Social accounts are found by searching Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Threads for your brand name, so an account that never uses the name is missed. Etsy, Walmart, DHgate and SHEIN are not scanned directly, only reached through reverse image search. App stores are not covered, and there is no legal arm: it files with platforms, hosts and registrars, and does not litigate the way MarqVision's partner firms do.

Brand Protector

brandprotector.io

Best for: A founder who will review every match and sign off each notice, and wants ten marketplaces, lookalike domains and trademark filings watched for one flat monthly price.
What it does: Daily scans of 16 surfaces: Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Etsy, AliExpress, Flipkart, Meesho, TikTok Shop, Temu, SHEIN, Google Shopping, Google search, AI shopping answers, lookalike domains, USPTO and EUIPO trademark filings, and image clusters. It drafts evidence packs and notices, but 'nothing files itself': a notice goes out only after you approve it, and some platforms need you to finish the filing. MAP price monitoring is included. It was built by the founder of the pet-supplement brand Wuffes.
Price: $199/month or $1,499/year, with 'no per-detection fees' and 'no monthly takedown cap'. 7-day free trial, no card. Read 14 October 2026.

Honest trade-offs: the flat price buys software, not hours. You review every detection, and on some platforms you finish the filing. Social media accounts and app stores are not among its 16 surfaces. Its Shopify App Store listing launched on 14 September 2026 and had no reviews when read on 14 October.

The better buy when someone on your team has a few hours a week for reports. It names more marketplaces than Takedown, watches EUIPO filings as well as the USPTO, where Takedown watches the USPTO only, and covers Flipkart and Meesho for brands selling into India.

Brand Protector alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

IP Moat

ipmoat.ai

Best for: A Shopify brand whose copies sit mostly on one marketplace, which wants to approve each listing and have the removal filed for about $100 a month.
What it does: Scans marketplaces for copies of the products you sync from Shopify. You approve listings in a dashboard; IP Moat's system and team file the removals and handle objections, escalations and resubmissions. Covers Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, Alibaba, Etsy, Walmart, Temu and TikTok Shop (30+ marketplaces on Premium), plus Meta ads, Google Play, and Shopify stores on Premium.
Price: Essential $105/month (one marketplace, up to 40 removals, $35 per extra marketplace); Premium $529/month (30+ marketplaces, up to 200 removals); Enterprise $1,350/month (up to 500 removals). Monthly, cancel any time. Read 4 October, re-read 14 October 2026. Its Shopify listing shows a six-marketplace Essential at $280/month.

Honest trade-offs: removals are capped per plan, and copies spreading past one marketplace push you towards Premium at $529. Its own site and its Shopify listing describe Essential differently, so check which applies when you sign up. Social media accounts and trademark filings are not among its listed channels, and website coverage is limited to Shopify stores on Premium.

The better buy when you would rather approve than file. It is the lowest published price on this page for a service whose team files the removals, which suits a brand whose copies are concentrated on Amazon or one other marketplace.

IP Moat alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

StoreLock

storelock.app

Best for: A Shopify store owner who wants alerts on cloned storefronts and stolen product photos for under $50 a month, and will send the reports.
What it does: A Shopify app that detects store clones, impersonation domains and reuse of your product photos across the web, with ready-made abuse report packages you send from its dashboard. Enterprise adds assisted enforcement, where its team files. Custom websites were listed as coming soon on 4 October 2026.
Price: Premium $19/month plus $0.20 per monitored image (watching 50 photos costs $29/month); Enterprise $399/month with unlimited image monitoring and assisted enforcement. 3-day free trial. Read 14 October 2026.

Honest trade-offs: websites only. There is no marketplace, social media or trademark coverage, so it does nothing about Amazon or TikTok Shop copies. On Premium you send every takedown yourself, and the per-image fee rises with the number of photos you watch.

The better buy when cloned Shopify stores are the whole problem and the budget is small. It is the cheapest paid option on this page, and its Shopify listing dates from 30 June 2023, a longer public record than the other clone apps here.

StoreLock alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

Recon

recon.bot

Best for: A Shopify merchant who wants to know, for nothing, whether anyone has cloned the store, and will send every notice.
What it does: A theme detection block flags when your storefront code turns up on another site, and it checks typosquat domains across 1,500+ top-level domains. It prepares notices and templates you review and send: 'Recon does not automatically send takedowns'. It also checks your SPF, DKIM and DMARC email records.
Price: Free plan $0/month (weekly scans of 10 lookalike domains); Pro $50/month or $480/year (daily checks of 100 lookalike domains, 200 tracked), with a 14-day trial. Billed through Shopify. Read 14 October 2026.

Honest trade-offs: it never sends a takedown, so every notice is your work. It covers websites and domains only. Its Shopify listing launched on 29 December 2025 and had no reviews when read on 14 October.

The better buy when you do not yet know whether you have a clone problem. The free plan answers that before you pay anyone, including us.

Recon alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

Knockoff

knockoff.co

Best for: A Shopify brand with a large catalogue whose own product photos are lifted by copycat stores, which wants the filing done at one published price.
What it does: Rescans the web daily for stolen product photos and copycat Shopify storefronts, builds each case with archived proof, and files as your authorised agent under a one-time letter of authorisation. A match only counts when 'your photo appears in the seller's gallery', and weak cases are not filed. The marketplaces it names are eBay, Walmart and Temu; it also lists trademark filings.
Price: $799/month, billed monthly, unlimited products and daily rescans, 'no contracts or quotes'. Read 14 October 2026.

Honest trade-offs: Amazon is not among the marketplaces it names. Copies that use new photography fall outside its matching rule. Its site does not publish a business address. At $799 it costs more than any self-serve tool above it.

The better buy when photo theft is the problem and the catalogue is big. It files for you at a single published price with no product limit, so 2,000 products cost the same as 20.

Knockoff alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

IPzest

ipzest.app

Best for: A brand with someone in-house to review matches, which wants to trial marketplace, social, domain and ad monitoring this week without a card or a sales call.
What it does: Self-serve monitoring from a dashboard across marketplaces including Amazon, eBay and Etsy, social media, domains and ads. You review and file on the lower plans; managed enforcement is on Enterprise.
Price: Professional $148/month (daily core monitoring), Business $398/month (adds on-demand scans), Intelligence $898/month (6-hour monitoring), Enterprise $2,498/month (managed enforcement, 100 takedowns a month). Annual billing saves about 17%. 14-day trial, no card. Read 14 October 2026.

Honest trade-offs: having reports filed for you costs $2,498 a month on the 14 October pricing page. Monitoring frequency and manual checks have monthly allowances that differ by plan.

The better buy when social media accounts need watching at a published price under $200 a month, which neither Brand Protector nor IP Moat lists.

IPzest alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

Red Points

redpoints.com

Best for: A brand selling across many regional marketplaces, with more than $1,250 a month to spend, that wants to choose between running takedowns itself and handing them to a managed team.
What it does: Detection and takedown across marketplaces (it claims 5,000+, including Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, Walmart, Temu, TikTok Shop, Shopee and MercadoLibre), fake websites and domains, social media, ads and mobile apps. Run it yourself on the self-serve plan, or have it 'fully managed by experts'. Takedowns are flat-fee, not metered.
Price: Self-serve: Brand Protection Plan $938/month, plus $174/month for one trademark and a fee per marketplace (Amazon's 19 domains $285/month; all marketplaces and domains $820/month). Billed monthly, no setup fee; the order form asks for at least $1,250 a month. Re-read 14 October 2026. Managed tiers (Starter, Professional, Enterprise) are quoted on request; Starter covers up to 10 trademarks.

Honest trade-offs: the $938 plan fee sits on top of trademarks and marketplaces, so the self-serve floor is $1,250 a month. Fake website protection is an add-on in the self-serve configurator. On the managed tiers read on 4 October, fake websites and social media were add-ons on Starter, and ads and domains on Professional, so check what your quoted tier includes. Term length is not published.

The better buy when you sell into Latin America or South-East Asia. The configurator prices Shopee, MercadoLibre, Lazada, OLX, Carousell and Flipkart alongside Amazon, and the Enterprise tier adds a revenue recovery programme.

Red Points alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

MarqVision

marqvision.com

Best for: A mid-size consumer brand whose counterfeits keep coming back from the same sellers, which wants partner law firms behind the takedowns.
What it does: Its Marq AI platform detects and enforces across marketplaces, websites and domains, search listings, social media and gaming platforms, alongside trademark management. MarqLaw partner law firms handle litigation, revenue recovery, investigations and offline raids. Published customers include Wella, Panasonic, Nissan and Lush. It offers a free brand scan (MarqRadar).
Price: Not published ('customised pricing based on your specific needs'). Read 14 October 2026.

Honest trade-offs: no public price or contract terms, and its customer list leans towards larger brands than most first-year DTC labels. Paid ads and app stores are not among its listed channels.

The better buy when a seller ignores removals and keeps relisting, and you want litigation, investigations or raids on offline sellers in Asia from the same supplier rather than briefing a separate firm.

MarqVision alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

Corsearch

corsearch.com

Best for: A brand with an in-house legal team that wants trademark screening, clearance and watch from the same supplier as its online enforcement.
What it does: AI detection with expert oversight on its Zeal 2.0 platform, across marketplaces, websites and domains, social media, app stores and search engines. Trademark screening, clearance and watch through TrademarkNow. Investigations 360 and Revenue Recovery 360 go after the people behind repeat infringement. It absorbed Yellow Brand Protection, whose domain now redirects to Corsearch.
Price: Not published; buying starts with a demo request. Read 14 October 2026.

Honest trade-offs: an enterprise suite with an enterprise sales process, and separate products for trademarks, brand protection and content protection to scope. Paid ads are not named as a channel of their own.

The better buy when you need clearance before a launch and enforcement after it. No small-brand tool on this page does trademark clearance.

Corsearch alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

BrandShield

brandshield.com

Best for: A brand whose customers are hit by phishing sites and fake profiles as well as counterfeit listings, with a legal, compliance or security team to run the programme.
What it does: AI detection plus enforcement by its own experts, with a 24/7 security operations centre running takedowns. Covers phishing sites, lookalike domains and copycat websites, counterfeit listings and grey-market sellers, fake social accounts, paid-ad scams, rogue apps, the dark web and AI platforms.
Price: Not published; you request a demo. Read 14 October 2026.

Honest trade-offs: much of the platform (dark web monitoring, executive impersonation, external cybersecurity) is security tooling that a brand focused on counterfeits may not need.

The better buy when scams against your customers spike outside office hours and you want a staffed operations centre on them, not your own team.

BrandShield alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

Bolster

bolster.ai

Best for: A security or fraud team that needs phishing sites and fake apps aimed at its customers taken down within minutes.
What it does: Automated detection and takedown across lookalike domains and fake websites, social media, app stores, marketplaces, fraudulent ads, email and the dark web. It says 75% of digital threats are eliminated in under 60 seconds. It also runs CheckPhish, a free URL scanner.
Price: Not published. Read 14 October 2026.

Honest trade-offs: it is built for security and fraud buyers. Counterfeit marketplace work is one module among domains, apps, social media and the dark web.

The better buy when phishing is the bigger risk than counterfeits, or your customers already report suspicious emails to an abuse mailbox that someone has to triage.

Bolster alternatives, and how Takedown compares →

Decision questions

Do you want someone else to file? Takedown, Knockoff, MarqVision and Red Points' managed tiers: yes. IP Moat: its team files the listings you approve. Brand Protector, Recon, StoreLock Premium and IPzest below Enterprise: you file.

Are your copies stores, marketplace listings, or both? Stores only: StoreLock, Recon, Knockoff. Mainly marketplaces: IP Moat, Brand Protector. Both: Takedown, and Red Points with its website add-on.

Do fake social media accounts matter to you? Red Points, IPzest, MarqVision, Corsearch, BrandShield and Bolster list social media, and Takedown searches Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Threads for accounts using your name. Brand Protector and StoreLock do not.

Do you need trademark filings watched? Brand Protector watches the USPTO and EUIPO, Knockoff lists trademark filings, and Corsearch sells full clearance and watch. Takedown watches US (USPTO) filings that use your brand name in your goods classes; IP Moat and StoreLock do not watch filings.

Do you need to see a price before a call? Published: Takedown (from $500 a month, with the filing done for you), Recon, StoreLock, IP Moat, IPzest, Brand Protector, Knockoff, and Red Points' self-serve plan. Quoted: MarqVision, Corsearch, BrandShield, Bolster.

Do you sell outside the UK, EU and US? Red Points prices Shopee, MercadoLibre, Lazada and other regional marketplaces. Brand Protector lists Flipkart and Meesho for India. The rest name mainly Western platforms.

Summary

Which one to pick

Copycat stores and marketplace copies filed for you, with a person checking each match and your approval on each case → Takedown.
You will file yourself and sell on several marketplaces → Brand Protector.
Your copies sit on one marketplace and you want them filed for about $100 a month → IP Moat.
Only cloned Shopify stores, on a small budget → StoreLock, or Recon's free plan to find out first.
Copycat stores are using your own photos across a large catalogue → Knockoff.
You need marketplaces in Latin America or South-East Asia → Red Points.
Sellers will not stop and you want lawyers behind the takedowns → MarqVision.
You have a legal team and need trademark clearance → Corsearch.
Phishing and fake apps aimed at your customers → BrandShield or Bolster.
A domain registered in bad faith that you want transferred → a solicitor, for a UDRP complaint.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best brand protection company?

It depends on who will do the filing. For a consumer brand that wants copies found, checked by a person and filed for it, with approval on every case, we rank Takedown first, from $500 a month, month to month. If someone on your team will file, Brand Protector ($199 a month) and IP Moat (from $105 a month, its team files what you approve) are the cheapest published options. For trademark clearance beyond the US or law firms behind the takedowns, look at Corsearch and MarqVision.

How much do brand protection services cost?

On the vendors' own sites, read in October 2026: Recon is free with a $50 Pro plan, StoreLock from $19 a month, IP Moat from $105, IPzest from $148, Brand Protector $199, Takedown from $500, Knockoff $799, and Red Points' self-serve plan from $1,250 a month. MarqVision, Corsearch, BrandShield and Bolster do not publish a price.

What is the difference between brand protection software and a brand protection service?

Software finds copies and leaves the reviewing and filing to you. A service has people who check the matches and file the reports with the platform, host or registrar for you. Some vendors sell both, such as Red Points' self-serve and managed tiers.

Is Takedown the same company as Takedown.co?

No. Takedown (trytakedown.com) is a brand protection service for consumer brands, operated by Factory App Inc. Takedown.co is a separate, unaffiliated company that removes pirated creator content.

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