In a category built on taking money for work that never happens, the single most protective thing you can do is refuse to pay until the photo is gone.
Five companies will accept that. Our main guide lists the checks to run on anyone you call; this page is the one check that does most of the work, and the providers who pass it.
Reputation Revivor publishes this page and does not pass this check, which is stated plainly in our entry below rather than buried.
Learn the four billing shapes, because three of them are called the same thing
“Pay on results” covers arrangements that behave very differently when things go wrong.
True pay on success. Nothing is due unless the content comes down. You carry no risk. This is what the phrase should mean and sometimes does.
Refundable fee. You pay first and get it back on failure. Your money is with them for weeks or months, and the refund depends on their solvency and their willingness. Better than nothing, materially worse than the first.
Refundable deposit plus success fee. A smaller amount upfront to start work, the balance on removal. Reasonable in principle. Confirm in writing whether the deposit returns if nothing is removed, because that is the clause that decides what this actually is.
Partial success billing. The one that produces disputes. If they clear eleven copies and the county page stays, what do you owe? Both answers are defensible and only one of them is in your head.
Settle which of the four you are agreeing to before any money moves. That single question eliminates most of the bad outcomes in this category.
Define what counts as success in writing
Ambiguity here is where honest disagreements start and dishonest operators live.
Ask for the specific URLs in scope, listed individually. Ask whether de-indexing a listing counts as removal if the page stays live. Ask what happens to copies discovered after the agreement. And ask whether image results are included, because they are a separate index and routinely excluded by silence rather than by exclusion.
A provider willing to write all four down has effectively converted a promise into a contract. One that will not is telling you which of the four shapes above you are really in.
| Company | Shape | Money upfront | Reported cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Removify |
No win no fee | Deposit may be requested | 500 to 2,500 per removal |
 Guaranteed Removals |
Pay after results | None stated | Quoted per case |
 Reputation Resolutions |
Pay for performance | None on removals | Quoted per case |
 National Security Law Firm |
Refundable fee | 3,000 per item | 3,000 per item, refunded on failure |
 Erase.com |
Pay for success on some work | Varies | Quoted per case |
The five
Removify
Melbourne, founded around 2019, working across 50 or more platforms on genuine no win no fee terms and reporting an 88 percent success rate. Acquired by Software Combined Group in May 2025.
The published success rate is the reason to trust the model. A company willing to say it fails 12 percent of the time is describing a real process rather than a sales promise, and the number is only publishable because they decline cases that do not breach a policy instead of attempting them.
Two cautions. A refundable deposit may be requested before work begins, which moves this toward the third shape above, so get the refund terms in writing. And independent ratings are low and mixed, around 2.3 on Trustpilot from a small sample against 4.9 shown on their own site, with some customers reporting billing and cancellation friction.
Guaranteed Removals
Canadian, since 2009, covering mugshot and criminal record removal alongside search, reviews, news and personal information, with no money upfront and payment after successful removal stated across key service pages.
The strongest signal here has nothing to do with billing: their published guidance tells buyers to attempt self removal before hiring anyone. A company on pay after results terms that also tries to talk you out of the engagement is acting against its own revenue twice, which is rarer than it should be.
Pricing is case dependent, so the partial success question applies directly. Confirm whether a partial removal counts as completion.
Reputation Resolutions
Colorado, founded 2013, accredited with the Better Business Bureau since 2014 with a reported clean complaint history and 24/7 phone answering. Removal work runs pay for performance.
The structural detail worth having is that removals bill on performance while suppression, monitoring and SEO bill conventionally. On a booking record where some copies come down and a live county entry does not, that split is exactly right, and it is also where the confusion happens. Ask what is billed regardless of outcome.
Independent review volume is very thin at roughly three verified Clutch reviews and one on the BBB, so ask for references on cases like yours.
National Security Law Firm
Washington DC, all 50 states, a flat 3,000 dollars per article or listing refunded in full if the content is not removed or de-indexed, with financing over 3 to 24 months.
This is the refundable fee shape rather than true pay on success, and the distinction matters: your money is theirs for the duration. What you get for accepting that is a licensed law firm, attorney client privilege, and a number you know before starting. On one or two stubborn listings it is the cleanest arrangement available. On a photo spread across a dozen aggregators the arithmetic rules it out.
Erase.com
Miami, operating since 2009, covering removal and reputation strategy with a pay for success model referenced on removal pages.
Pricing is quoted per case after a consultation, and the pay for success framing applies to some work rather than all of it, so establish which parts of your engagement it covers. The company is also explicit that outcomes depend on the platform and that some situations move to suppression, which is the honest framing.
Reputation Revivor
Ours, and included here to fail the check rather than to pass it.
We publish no pay on success terms and no refund policy. By the argument this page makes, that is a fair reason to prefer any of the five above for a straightforward removal, and we would rather write that sentence than imply terms we do not offer.
What we do offer is a free case review that tells you which of your listings are removable before anyone quotes anything, which is the information the billing shape is ultimately protecting you from getting wrong.
Protect yourself regardless of who you pick
- Pay by card, never by transfer. Chargeback windows are far shorter than removal timelines, so a card gives you a remedy the others do not.
- Get the URL list, the definition of success, and the refund terms in one email before paying.
- Agree a check-in cadence. Silence from a company that promised fortnightly updates is evidence; silence from one that promised nothing is not.
- Diarize your chargeback deadline the day you pay.
The guides cover building the URL list yourself, which is what makes any of these quotes accurate. A case review costs nothing either way.
Last updated on July 29, 2026