6 Best BrandShield alternatives and competitors in 2026

In this article, we’ll review BrandShield for its brand protection services in comparison to six alternative providers. BrandShield offers counterfeit removal, trademark protection, phishing detection, and impersonation protection to help brands fight online threats. We’ll consider companies with similar services, including Red Points, Corsearch, MarqVision, Bolster, CSC, and OpSec, so you can decide which is best.

The right brand protection partner matters now more than ever

In a world where any bad actor can copy a branded site with AI almost instantly, working with the right brand protection provider is more important than ever. Our data shows that standalone website infringements jumped by 59% from 2023 to 2024, and we project they’ll grow by 70% by the end of 2025. If you’ve started noticing a few counterfeits in the market, there’s a good chance they’ll multiply in the months to come.

Fakes don’t only steal sales, they affect your company’s reputation. About one in three shoppers who bought a fake on accident would simply stop buying from a brand, according to Red Points survey data. That’s a huge portion of customers.

What makes us qualified to guide you

Our analysis draws on one of the largest datasets in the brand-protection industry. Over the past decade, we’ve reviewed more than 100 vendors across core dimensions such as detection technology, automation maturity, platform coverage, takedown success rates, operational models, reporting depth, pricing structure, and scalability.

Red Points currently works with over 1,300 brands, but this guide is not based solely on our experience. It also incorporates insights from the 100+ companies that switched to Red Points from another provider in the last two years. These teams consistently shared what their previous solutions did well, where they fell short, and which capabilities became essential as their businesses grew.

This gives us a unique evidence base:

• Cross-vendor feature comparisons from real implementation experience
  
• Market-level performance benchmarks across channels and geographies
  
• First-hand accounts of what brands wished they had known before choosing a provider
  
• Visibility into how solutions evolve over time
  

With nearly 15 years of experience, we have observed shifts in counterfeiting tactics, enforcement protocols, and platform policies, we have a rare view of how this industry operates beneath the surface. That perspective allows us to differentiate between marketing claims and capabilities that genuinely reduce risk.

Our company comparison data

Here’s a snapshot of the data that backs our company comparisons:

• Data points: 3,025
• Companies included: 151 companies
• Company groupings by service focus: Brand protection, seller tracking, impersonations, anti-piracy, cybersecurity
• Database categories include: Pricing, business offering, services, tech features, channel coverage
• Customer reviews: Real customer reviews highlighting positives and negatives
• SWOT analysis: Objective analysis of strengths and weaknesses of leading companies

Compare top brand-protection companies at a glance

Before jumping into this review, we’ve summarized BrandShield’s main competitors and their differences in the table below.

Comparison table of the top 6 BrandShield alternatives

* Former Marqvision clients report slow, inconsistent takedowns revealing manual bottlenecks & scalability issues. We’ve seen reported listings being live 5+ months.

BrandShield: Features, strengths, and limitations

BrandShield is a brand protection platform with offices in Israel that has been in business since 2014. It offers a wide range of features, like protection against counterfeits, impersonation, phishing, and piracy. Our research shows that BrandShield offers competitive pricing, and each account gets an enforcement manager. However, there are some downsides compared to other options on the market, like requiring more oversight from the client to prioritize takedowns. Let’s cover some features and limitations of BrandShield below.

BrandShield Features

Core features of BrandShield include:

• AI-powered detection: BrandShield’s system uses AI to detect counterfeits, phishing, piracy, lookalike domains, and gray market sales on a regular basis.
• Monitoring on marketplaces and social media: Track counterfeits, impersonation, and unauthorized sellers on Amazon, eBay, Instagram, Facebook, and more.
• BrandShield Resolve: The Resolve program provides external cybersecurity monitoring and takedowns through AI.
• Intelligence dashboards: See incidents, takedowns, and ROI of brand protection efforts in an online dashboard.
• Enforcement support: BrandShield provides an enforcement manager to help with complex takedowns and escalation.
• Wider brand threat monitoring: The platform can monitor the dark web, fake apps, paid ads, and cluster threats with AI.

Overall, BrandShield excels in phishing and lookalike domain detection. All customers get access to AI.ClusterX, which clusters threats and uncovers networks of infringement. The platform works on mobile devices, so you can review takedowns or monitor progress on the go.

BrandShield Limitations

BrandShield may or may not be the best option for your business depending on some of its limitations. Here are a few things to consider.

• Scan frequency limitations: Standard coverage includes a limited number of detection scans per month, while more frequent scans require an upgrade.
• Time consuming: Some client reviews say the process of focusing on high-risk threats can be time consuming without automated prioritization tools.
• Limited or slow takedowns: Takedowns aren’t unlimited, and some infringements can take a while to resolve or stay live on marketplaces or social media.
• Package model limitations: Services are sold in packs, so there is less flexibility in service and pricing customization compared to some other companies.

6 BrandShield alternatives you should know about in 2026

Now, let’s talk about a few alternatives to BrandShield that are worth looking into. Comparison shopping is always a good approach to finding the right service, and here are some of the best to compare:

1. Red Points
2. Corsearch
3. MarqVision
4. Bolster
5. CSC
6. OpSec

We’ll take a closer look at each one below.

1. Red Points

The first alternative we’ll dive deep into is our software solution. Red Points combines operational maturity with scalable technology for consistent results and protection for brands of all sizes: SMEs (35% of its client base), Mid Market (35% of its client base) companies and large enterprises (30% of its client base).

While many brand protection companies offer AI integration, Red Points’ AI is trained on 2.7 billion risk data points every month, and a database of more than 50 million infringers. We integrate AI and automation (like incident prediction based on a brand’s history and seller risk score for high-risk seller prioritization) to make the process scalable, but have our experts control critical tasks, like enforcement push-back management or test purchases. Red Points customers can benefit from 24/7 detection and unlimited takedowns, which not all competitors offer.

Pros

• Largest online brand protection customer base in the market, with existing knowledge, playbooks, and trained data models for every industry and region 
• Unlimited detections and takedowns (not capped nor limited by analyst hours), always-on
• Infringement confirmation can be done by the customer, via automation rules, by Red Points’ Service Excellence team, or by a combination of the aforementioned
• Coverage across all digital channels, including Domestic China marketplaces and social media (those not accessible from outside Mainland China)
• An enforcement team with more than 15 years of experience, priority escalation paths for complex cases and API connections for fast reporting

Cons

• Provides test purchases but comprehensive offline investigations are offered through partners
• Can be more expensive than BrandShield

Main features

Main features of Red Points include:

• Unlimited takedowns: Unlimited takedowns on marketplaces, websites, social media, domains, app stores, and search engines, deep web, ads, AI shopping experiences, including fake sites blocked by region or device.
• Wide coverage: Counterfeit, impersonation, piracy, and gray market protection plus domain management and social video protection.
• Intuitive dashboard: The dashboard provides granular information on infringement and seller trends and ROI.
• Revenue Recovery Program: A unique program to recover tangible revenue through high-scale, self-funded litigation and permanently disrupt hundreds of infringing sellers.
• Clear tracking: Real-time granular tracking of detected and enforced incidents, even after removal.

Pricing

Red Points uses a flat fee model that includes unlimited takedowns by channel. Plans come with an implementation manager and a customer success manager without an extra cost.

2. Corsearch

Corsearch is a longstanding trademark protection company having been in business since 1949. It offers full trademark lifecycle management, from registration to offline investigations and raids overseas, and it focuses on mid-market to enterprise companies. Corsearch traditionally operated with a service model instead of SaaS, so its packages and pricing are more dependent on analyst hours. It recently launched Corsearch Zeal 2.0, the second version of its brand protection platform (the first was launched in 2024), which follows after the merge of several brand protection companies acquired in the last 5 years (YellowBP, PointerBP, Incropro, Navee).

Pros

• Good option for enterprise companies with large product catalogs focusing on trademark protection and offline legal action
• Client can change the scope of the work if the problem tends to move often from a region to another instead of expanding
• Offers a wide range of services (trademark registration, anti-counterfeiting, anti-piracy, offline investigations, etc.)
• Recently released a Revenue Recovery Program
• Can provide reports formatted to use in offline investigations

Cons

• Reviews suggest the SaaS platform can have detection gaps
• Enforcement has caps depending on number of review days or analyst hours consumed
• Relies on heavy manual approach that compromises quality of detections, enforcement and scale

Main features

Main features of Corsearch include:

• Trademark solutions: Screen potential trademarks, clear a trademark for viability, and monitor similar trademark registrations.
• Brand protection: Remove counterfeits, stop impersonation, and deter gray market sellers.
• Domain protection: Register and protect domain names from cybersquating and misuse.
• Investigations 360: Coresearch can take offline action to stop counterfeiters through investigation, raids, and more.
• Anti-piracy: Protect books, games, digital content, and more from piracy.

Pricing

Corsearch uses custom pricing depending on the scope. Pricing can be based on analyst hours, intelligence hours, or service package.

3. Marqvision

Marqvision is a brand protection company founded in 2020. Its platform integrates AI more intuitively than some competitors, which provides their SaaS platform with high usability. Marqvision removes fakes on over 1,500 marketplaces with a particular focus on Asia, though it doesn’t cover as many channels outside e-commerce as BrandShield and some other options. Overall, it’s a good choice for trademark services and marketplace counterfeit protection.

Pros

• Can create smart rules to customize automated enforcement
• Provides investigative services and domestic China coverage
• Strong image protection capabilities
• Offers trademark registration

Cons

• Missing channel coverage for fake apps
• Enforcement actions can be slow or capped during spikes

Main features

Main features of MarqVision include:

• Brand protection: Uses AI detection and clustering to remove fakes on marketplaces, social media, and standalone sites.
• Content protection: Protects images, software, videos etc. in search listings, social media, and more.
• Impersonation removal: Takes down fake websites, spoofed domains, phishing sites, and social profiles.
• Gray market visibility: Stops unauthorized sales and supports compliance.
• Trademark management: Register, manage, and monitor trademark IP.
• Offline services: Supports field investigation, raids, collaboration with law firms.

Pricing

Marqvision pricing is based on plan level, and plans are separated by the number of detections or enforcements. Marqvision tends to offer strong discounts according to our research.

4. Bolster

Bolster offers a range of solutions to combat phishing sites, fake online stores, brand impersonation, and fraudulent domains. Our research shows Bolster offers fast onboarding and takedowns. However, right now Bolster doesn’t offer a plug-and-play marketplace monitoring solution. Since it focuses on standalone sites, social media, apps, and the dark web, it’s a good option for fighting scams but not necessarily counterfeit products in e-commerce, unauthorized sellers, or complex infringer networks.

Pros

• Fast average takedown time of 12 hours as stated by Bolster
• Collaborates with domain partners like GoDaddy and Namecheap
• Can monitor the dark web for risks like phishing kits and exposed credentials
• Offers automatic takedowns for phishing and scams

Cons

• Takedowns are capped and can require extra purchases once limits are hit
• No counterfeit takedown option for marketplaces yet
• Some channels require manual takedowns
• Reported to be notably more expensive than BrandShield

Main features

The main features of Bolster include:

• Phishing detection with AI: Uses machine learning and AI tools to identify phishing and spoof pages.
• Monitoring and takedowns: Can monitor across social media, domains, and app stores and remove threats (like phishing and impersonation).
• Email security: Bolster uses AI to detect phishing in emails and allows customers to report phishing instances.
• Risk scoring: Bolster’s system scores risk for different threats so you can choose which require immediate attention.
• Bolster Signals: A unique threat intelligence feed that scores global threat data to provide insight before risks appear.

Pricing

Bolster has a variety of plans, and pricing is dependent on the number of annual takedowns.

5. CSC

Corporation Service Company (CSC) offers brand protection services for enterprise clients, and it focuses on things like domain security and DNS management. CSC has been around since 1899 and works with the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies to secure domain names and digital certificates. Within its brand protection scope, CSC offers a range of enforcement actions to remove fakes on marketplaces, standalone sites, social media, and app stores.

Pros

• Offers a DomainSec dashboard featuring AI and clustering tools
• Strong domain security tools for enterprise companies
• Monitors fraudulent domain registrations, phishing, and impersonation worldwide
• Integrates domain security and brand protection in a single platform

Cons

• May not be the best choice for small or mid-tier businesses
• Doesn’t offer a revenue recovery path

Main features

Main features of CSC include:

• Brand enforcement services: Monitors marketplaces, registrars, ISPs, social media, and app sites to take down scams and fake products.
• Comprehensive domain security: Protects against DNS hijacking, DNS cache poisoning, domain infringements, DDoS attacks, and more.
• Domain portfolio management: CSC helps multinational companies manage large portfolios of domains.
• Combines platform with team: Experienced enforcement teams work with intelligence data to defend client assets.
• 3D Domain Security: Provides a multidimensional view of threats with daily alerts and weekly reports.

Pricing

CSC pricing depends on the scope, though it might not be the most affordable for smaller brands.

6. OpSec

OpSec Security is another brand protection company focused on enterprise clients. It offers a huge range of services, from anti counterfeiting and piracy to trademark management. Beyond brand protection, it offers things like product traceability and authentication services. Given this, OpSec may be best for larger brands with extensive catalogs needing multiple services beyond brand protection. The company acquired MarkMonitor legacy brand protection capabilities from Clarivate Analytics, who had acquired MarkMonitor four years prior. OpSec itself has recently been acquired by Crane NXT.

Pros

• Broader cybersecurity offering
• Great for hybrid brand protection tools, whith strong offline investigations capabilities
• Strong experience with enterprise clients and governmental agencies
• Monitors over 1,000 marketplaces and 30 social media sites

Cons

• Onboarding and services may be too complex and long for smaller brands
• Enforcement platform may not include as much AI conveniences as competitors

Main features

Here are the main features of OpSec:

• Wide detection net: OpSec detects counterfeits and fraud on marketplaces, app stores, and domains.
• Automated enforcement: Uses tools like direct enforcement APIs to take down threats at scale.
• IT security tool integration: OpSec can integrate with existing security tools so alerts and monitoring data live inside company platforms.
• Visual AI: The platform uses visual AI tools to recognize fakes through logos, product images, and trademarked text.
• Early Warning System: EWS provides daily reports on suspicious domain registrations to locate fraud and infringements early.

Pricing

Our research shows OpSec’s pricing can be on the higher side, though it can be a good fit for complex enterprise needs.