Cheaterbuster alternative: CheckMate.bio vs Cheaterbuster on what they search, price and billing
A Cheaterbuster alternative for when you have the email address: $0.99 once against $19.99 plus tax per person, what each one searches, and how the billing differs.
CheckMate.bio is a Cheaterbuster alternative for when you know the person's email address: a full report costs $0.99 once, needs no account and checks 2,500+ sites, dating sites, porn sites and sex communities among them. Cheaterbuster starts from a first name, age and city and costs $19.99 plus tax per person, as a subscription. Cheaterbuster is the better pick when you have no email address.
We make CheckMate.bio, so read our numbers with that in mind. What we say about Cheaterbuster comes from its own pages. The two tools start from different inputs: one takes a first name, age and city, the other an email address.
CheckMate.bio vs Cheaterbuster at a glance
| CheckMate.bio | Cheaterbuster | |
|---|---|---|
| You need | Email address | First name, age, city |
| Searches | Accounts on 2,500+ sites | Public profiles on dating networks |
| Dating sites | 17 | ✓ |
| Porn sites | 60 | – |
| Free search | 3/week | – |
| 1 person | $0.99 | $19.99 + tax |
| Billing | Once | Subscription per person |
| Renews | ✗ | ✓ |
| Account | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time per search | 20 s–2 min 19 s | "within minutes" |
| Monitoring | ✗ | ✓ weekly |
How Cheaterbuster works, and what each tool searches
Cheaterbuster asks for a first name, an approximate age and a likely location, then looks for "active, public profiles across dating networks". Its FAQ lists a facial recognition search and a dating app search, and names photos among its data points.
What Cheaterbuster says about its search
The home page says: "Type in their first name, age, and city. That's all we need to start your search." The FAQ page words it this way: "Core fields are first name, approximate age, and likely location. Better input quality generally improves match quality."
On what you get, the FAQ says: "Your search subscription gives you active monitoring for one person, including facial recognition search, dating app search, social analysis, and date safe monitoring." On accuracy, the home page says "We use multiple data points including photos, names, and locations to ensure you get the right results" and gives no figure. The home page names no dating app.
On monitoring, the home page says: "Receive automated updates on new public matches". Asked whether the service is anonymous, its FAQ answers: "Yes. All searches are run strictly through public records and are kept secure."
The footer describes the service: "Cheaterbuster is a public records search engine. We only aggregate publicly available information and do not scrape private data, hack accounts, or provide real-time device tracking." It also lists a Reverse Image Search, Reverse Phone Lookup, Reverse Name Lookup, Reverse Email Lookup and Reverse Address Lookup.
CheckMate.bio starts from an email address and checks 2,500+ sites, about 300 by the address itself and the rest by the username before the @. Among them are 17 dating sites, 2 checked by email and 15 by username, Tinder and Badoo among the 15. It also checks 60 porn sites: Pornhub, XVideos and XNXX by the email address, and cam and creator platforms such as Chaturbate, Stripchat and Fansly by username. Sex communities such as FabSwingers and BDSMLR are covered too.
CheckMate.bio does not search by first name, age and city, and it does not use face recognition or show a dating profile's photos.
The dating sites, porn sites and sex communities CheckMate.bio checks, and its limits
Dating sites checked by the email address: LatinAmericanCupid and MeetOutside.
Dating sites checked by username: Tinder, Badoo, FriendFinder, FabSwingers, DateInAsia, Datezone, Fotka, Sentimente, Waytohey, Yazawaj, Naijaplanet, Newmeet, ChatBlink, Chatujme and BDSM Singles. The username is the part of the address before the @, plus usernames found on linked accounts.
Porn sites, 60 in all, are listed in the report under 'Porn'. Nine are checked by the email address: Pornhub, XVideos, XNXX, Tube8, LetsPorn, SuperPorn, FapFolder, FapRoulette and flirtbate. 56 are checked by username, 5 of them both ways. They include tube sites (xHamster, RedTube, YouPorn, SpankBang, TNAFlix), cam sites (Chaturbate, Stripchat, BongaCams, CAM4, LiveJasmin, MyFreeCams, Camsoda, Flirt4Free, Streamate) and creator platforms (Fansly, Fancentro, JustFor.Fans, Modelhub, Admireme).
Sex communities are checked by username: FabSwingers and BDSM Singles, listed under 'Dating', and BDSMLR, adultism and Zbiornik, listed under 'Porn'.
The report lists dating sites under 'Dating'. A username match can belong to someone else, and the report marks matches below 50% confidence as 'Possible matches'. CheckMate.bio does not look at photos, does not show a dating profile's last location and does not monitor a person over time.
A cheaper Cheaterbuster alternative: price per person
Cheaterbuster's FAQ puts a search at $19.99 plus tax and says one subscription covers one person. CheckMate.bio charges $0.99 for one report, $2.99 for 5 or $4.99 for 10.
| 1 person | 10 people | |
|---|---|---|
| CheckMate.bio | $0.99 | $4.99 |
| Cheaterbuster | $19.99 | $199.90 |
How the totals are worked out
Cheaterbuster: 5 x $19.99 = $99.95 and 10 x $19.99 = $199.90, before tax and before any renewal. Its home page FAQ says: "Searching for a profile with Cheaterbuster costs $19.99 + tax." Its FAQ page says: "Your subscription gives you one person search. If you'd like to search another person, you can purchase another subscription."
CheckMate.bio: $0.99 for one full report, $2.99 for a pack of 5 or $4.99 for a pack of 10. A pack works on any emails and is valid for 90 days. The free search, up to 3 a week, shows how many accounts the address has in each category and names three of them.
The prices buy different things: weekly updates on one person from Cheaterbuster, one search of one address from CheckMate.bio.
Billing: subscription, renewal and cancelling
Cheaterbuster bills a subscription per searched person, and its terms say it renews automatically "at the renewal price shown at checkout, until you cancel". Its public pages do not state that price or how often it renews, and it needs an account with an email and password. CheckMate.bio takes one payment, with no account and no subscription.
Billing, refund and cancellation terms
From Cheaterbuster's terms: "Pricing shown at checkout. Before you pay, checkout shows what you pay today, the date of your next charge, the renewal price, and how often it renews." And: "Automatic renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the renewal price shown at checkout, until you cancel." On add-on reports the terms say: "Add-ons are sold as either a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription." The terms name the operator: "Cheaterbuster is operated by Magnus Technology LLC".
From its FAQ, on commitment: "Current plans run as subscriptions with weekly updates for active searches, and you can cancel from your account." On the account: "You only need email and password."
On refunds: "If your first search finds no matching profiles, we refund you in full (ask within 30 days). We also refund duplicate charges, charges after a confirmed cancellation, and anything we failed to deliver. Renewals aren't refunded, so cancel before your renewal date."
On cancelling: "Log in, open Subscription Management in your account, and choose Cancel Subscription. Or email support@cheaterbuster.email from the address you signed up with and we'll cancel it within 24 hours."
CheckMate.bio is paid once through PayPal, whose buttons cover PayPal, Venmo, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Speed
Cheaterbuster's FAQ says "Most searches complete within minutes". A CheckMate.bio full report took 20 seconds to 2 minutes 19 seconds in our benchmark.
More on timing
Cheaterbuster's home page FAQ says in full: "Most searches complete within minutes. You'll receive your results via email as soon as we find a match." Its FAQ page adds: "Most searches finish quickly, but runtime can vary by area density and system load."
The CheckMate.bio site says about a minute for the free search and up to 5 minutes for the full report.
CheckMate.bio vs Cheaterbuster: conclusions
This comparison rests on published terms. A CheckMate.bio report costs $0.99 per person against Cheaterbuster's $19.99 plus tax; for 10 people that is $4.99 against $199.90 before tax and renewals. CheckMate.bio needs no account and nothing renews, while Cheaterbuster needs one and renews automatically until you cancel. CheckMate.bio also checks 60 porn sites and several sex communities.
Cheaterbuster needs no email address: it searches by first name, age and city, uses photos and facial recognition, and sends weekly updates.
When Cheaterbuster is the better choice
- You have a first name, age and city, and no email address.
- You want a dating search that uses photos and facial recognition.
- You want weekly updates on one person.
- You want a refund when the first search finds no matching profiles (ask within 30 days).
Other Cheaterbuster alternatives
- CheaterScanner, which we ran on one of our own inboxes: what it reported.
- Spokeo, a US people search sold by membership: CheckMate.bio vs Spokeo.
- Our benchmark of people-search sites and email lookups: the overall comparison.
Questions people ask
What is the best Cheaterbuster alternative?
With the person's email address, CheckMate.bio: it checks 2,500+ sites, 17 dating sites and 60 porn sites among them, for $0.99 a report. With only a first name, age and city, a search like Cheaterbuster's fits.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Cheaterbuster?
Yes, if you have the person's email address. A CheckMate.bio report costs $0.99, or $4.99 for 10. Cheaterbuster's FAQ puts a search at $19.99 plus tax per person.
How much does Cheaterbuster cost?
Its FAQ says: "Searching for a profile with Cheaterbuster costs $19.99 + tax." One subscription covers one person, and the renewal price and period are shown at checkout.
Is Cheaterbuster free?
Not according to its FAQ, which prices a search at $19.99 plus tax. CheckMate.bio has a free search, up to 3 a week.
Is Cheaterbuster a subscription and how do I cancel?
Yes: its terms say subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. To cancel, log in, open Subscription Management and choose Cancel Subscription, or email support@cheaterbuster.email from the address you signed up with. Renewals aren't refunded.
Can I find a Tinder profile by email?
Only through a username. CheckMate.bio checks Tinder for a profile under the username before the @, so a match can belong to someone else, and it does not show the profile's photos.
What a report can't tell you, and what the law says
A CheckMate.bio report shows accounts linked to an email address and the public details those sites expose. It can't show messages, browsing history or location, and it misses accounts made with another email, deleted profiles and sites it doesn't check. Results come from third-party sources, including breach records, and can be incomplete, outdated or wrong. Treat every match as a lead to verify, not as proof.
A note on the law, as general information rather than legal advice: getting into someone else's phone or online accounts without permission, reading their messages that way, secretly recording their calls with other people, or installing tracking or spy apps on their phone can be a crime, even between spouses or partners, and can also get you sued. CheckMate.bio's Terms of Use forbid using it to stalk, harass, threaten or intimidate anyone. Stick to what is public or what you're allowed to see.
If you're afraid for your safety, call your local emergency number (911 in the US). In the US, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788. If you think someone is tracking your phone, talk to an advocate there before you remove anything: removing it can alert the person who installed it.
What the results actually mean
CheckMate.bio groups findings into categories ('Social Media', 'Gaming', 'Dating', 'Finance', 'Business' and more) and attaches a confidence score to every match. A score of 80% or higher means the email is almost certainly linked to that service. A score between 50% and 80% is a likely match. Anything below 50% lands in the 'Possible matches' section and should be treated as a weak signal, not a verdict.
- Categories show the kind of accounts that exist: the shape of someone's online footprint.
- Per-service fields (usernames, display names, bio text, last active dates) help you confirm whether the match is really the person you care about.
- Confidence scores help you separate solid matches from noise. Treat low-confidence hits as leads to investigate, not as proof.
A note on ethics
CheckMate.bio indexes public and breach-derived data. It does not grant access to private messages or full passwords (passwords from breach records are always masked), or to anything you wouldn't be able to find with enough patience and the right search queries. Use it for the same reasons you'd Google someone: safety, due diligence, re-connecting with people, or simply knowing what a public profile says about you. Be honest about your reasons, and respect the answer you get.
Sources
- Cheaterbuster homepage, Cheaterbuster
- Cheaterbuster FAQ, Cheaterbuster
- Cheaterbuster terms and conditions, Cheaterbuster
- 18 U.S. Code § 1030 — Fraud and related activity in connection with computers, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
- 18 U.S. Code § 2511 — Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
- 18 U.S. Code § 2520 — Recovery of civil damages authorized, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
- Glazner v. Glazner, No. 02-11799 (2003, en banc): no spousal exception to the Wiretap Act, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Man Pleads Guilty for Selling "StealthGenie" Spyware App and Ordered to Pay $500,000 Fine, U.S. Department of Justice
- Stalkerware: What To Know, Federal Trade Commission
- National Domestic Violence Hotline, National Domestic Violence Hotline