The best brand protection companies in 2026

How we compared

Brand protection companies are hard to shop for. Most publish no price, most require a sales call before you learn anything concrete, and every vendor list you find is written by a vendor. This one is too, so it sticks to four questions you can verify yourself: does the company publish a price, how do you buy, what does it actually cover, and who is it built for.

Of the eight companies here, three publish pricing: Red Points, Recon and Knockoff. The other five require a sales conversation before you see a number. That single fact sorts the market faster than any feature chart. If you want the background on what brand protection software does before comparing vendors, start there. If the term itself is new, read what brand protection is first.

The eight vendors, one by one

Red Points

The biggest name in the category and the only enterprise vendor with a published price. The self-serve tier is $938 a month plus $174 a month for your first registered trademark, with marketplace coverage sold as add-ons on top, so the practical floor lands above $1,100 a month. In exchange, detections and takedowns are unlimited at a flat fee, and coverage spans marketplaces, standalone sites, social impersonation, paid ads and app stores. Pick Red Points if you hold registered trademarks, carry a five-figure annual budget, and face copying at a scale where unlimited enforcement pays for itself. The catch for a small store: pricing is per registered trademark. If you do not have one yet, there is nothing to buy. The full checkout ladder, the review split and the court record are in what Red Points costs when you can see the numbers.

MarqVision

A managed service: their team runs detection and enforcement for you across a claimed 1,500+ platforms in 118+ countries, with notably deep coverage of Asian marketplaces. It raised a $48M Series B in 2025 and serves names like Nissan and Lush. Pick MarqVision if you want to hand the entire problem to someone else and your budget matches an enterprise contract. No pricing is published anywhere, and buying starts with a demo call.

BrandShield

Approaches brand protection from the security side: phishing sites, misspelled domains, fake social accounts and fraudulent ads, sold to security teams as much as brand teams. Its site publishes no pricing; the one hard number in public is a $22,000 twelve-month contract for its managed anti-phishing module on AWS Marketplace. Pick BrandShield if impersonation and phishing worry you more than copied marketplace listings do.

Corsearch

The widest scope on this list: trademark screening, clearance and watching alongside enforcement, assembled from a decade of acquisitions. It is the only company here that handles the trademark register and the marketplaces in one product, and it pitches its trademark tools to "IP professionals at every stage of the trademark lifecycle." Take that at face value. Pick Corsearch if you are building a trademark portfolio and want clearance, watching and enforcement from one vendor. No published pricing; demo call.

Podqi

The newest of the sales-led vendors, positioned against the legacy players on automation, and it files takedowns for you. A free scan shows your exposure before any sales conversation, which is more than most of the demo-gated vendors offer. Pick Podqi if you want done-for-you filing with modern tooling. Know going in that pricing is unpublished and its flagship case studies are streetwear brands with enforcement volume far beyond a typical small store.

Bustem

A done-for-you takedown service aimed smaller than the enterprise set. Its founder described the early billing as results-based, paid per confirmed takedown, though public figures in September 2026 show a subscription business and its Terms set a twelve-month default term. Alerts arrive in Slack, which suits a small team. Pick Bustem if you want zero involvement in enforcement and can negotiate a price on a call. The tradeoffs: no published price, a call before you can buy on every tier, and a contract that reads differently from the homepage. The price band, the Terms and the review record are in what Bustem charges and what its contract actually says.

Knockoff. That's us

Knockoff watches your Shopify catalog's product photos across major marketplaces and the open web and confirms every match the hard way: your photo has to appear in the seller's own listing gallery. Each confirmed match arrives with its evidence: an archived copy of the listing, a timestamped screenshot and a side by side. A real person writes the notice and files it as your authorized agent on covered platforms and chases the reply. If the listing comes back, the relist is caught and a follow-up package is opened without you redoing anything. It is $799 a month on the pricing page, with monthly billing, no contract and a 30-day money-back guarantee. The guarantee ends when we file your first notice. Pick Knockoff if you run a Shopify store, want to read the price before you talk to anyone, and want the filing done for you. Where the others beat us: we work with Shopify stores only, agent filing works only on platforms that accept it, and the enterprise vendors cover surfaces we do not, like paid ads and app stores.

Recon

A Shopify app with a genuinely free plan and a paid plan at $24 a month. It catches cloned storefronts by flagging your theme code loading on a domain that is not yours, watches misspelled versions of your domain, audits your email spoofing protection, and hands you DMCA templates plus registrar abuse contacts to file yourself. Pick Recon if clone sites are your only worry and your budget is zero. It does not watch marketplaces, does not match product photos, and the filing labor stays yours.