Tracelight
Tracelight vs. Cybercheck.ai

Same job. Built for the people you actually are.

Cybercheck.ai is purpose-built for law enforcement and ICAC units, sold via demos and quote-based contracts. Tracelight is purpose-built for civilian investigators — private PIs, M&A diligence teams, insurance SIUs, and investigative journalists — sold for $49/mo with a public price list and a 7-day trial.

Self-serve signup
Sign up at trytracelight.com and run your first investigation in 60 seconds. No demo call, no procurement cycle, no contract.
Citation-anchored reports
Every claim in the narrative links to a stored evidence row, which links to the raw API response. Reproducible months later when it ends up in a deposition.
Public pricing from $49
Starter $49/mo (25 cases). Pro $149/mo. Agency tier for shops with multiple books of business. No quote-based pricing games.
The question every serious buyer should ask

When this finding ends up in a deposition, will the evidence chain survive cross-examination?

OSINT findings get challenged. A subject's lawyer will demand to know how you reached every conclusion. Black-box scoring, unauditable AI inference, and proprietary "secret sauce" modules are great in a sales demo and disastrous in a deposition. The difference between a defensible investigation platform and a marketing platform isn't the feature list — it's the architecture underneath.

What Tracelight does
  • ✓Every claim cites a specific evidence row by ID
  • ✓Every evidence row preserves the raw upstream API response
  • ✓Reports are content-hashed at generation; immutable after sign-off
  • ✓Every viewer + download + re-run is recorded in an audit log
  • ✓Methodology is disclosable — there's no secret model
  • ✓We explicitly do not claim physical-location placement via Wi-Fi inference or device telemetry
What to ask any OSINT vendor
  • ?Can I see the raw API response that produced this finding?
  • ?Is your scoring model documented + disclosable to opposing counsel?
  • ?Has your evidence chain been challenged in any state or federal court — and what was the outcome?
  • ?If I run the same search 90 days later, can I prove the original report wasn't edited?
  • ?How is physical-location placement done — and would your engineers testify to the methodology under oath?

Tracelight is built around the answers to these questions. The architecture is the product. If the answers your current vendor gives don't hold up, no feature list does either.

Pricing & access

Feature
Tracelight
Cybercheck.ai
Free trial
7-day free trial on every plan, no credit card
Demo only, no self-serve trial
Self-serve signup
Sign up + first lookup in under 60 seconds
Sales-led, demo required before access
Pricing transparency
Public pricing from $49/mo (Starter) through Agency tier
Pricing not published — quote-based
Public REST API
Full /api/v1 surface, Bearer token auth, rate-limited per plan
API integration mentioned for Detect; not documented publicly

Investigation core

Feature
Tracelight
Cybercheck.ai
Parallel OSINT workers
32 workers run in parallel; full report in <60s
Multi-source aggregation; processing time not published
Citation-anchored reports
Every claim links to evidence row → raw API response
3-layer verification; raw evidence access not described
Cross-platform identity correlation
Username probe, alias resolution, network graph
Alternate aliases & identifiers (CyberDNA)
Patterns of life / activity heatmap
Per-subject activity heatmap + timeline
Patterns of life (CyberDNA)
Location signals
IP + domain + geo evidence per subject, mapped over time
Location signals (CyberDNA)
Network mapping
Linked subjects, cross-case intelligence, force-graph view
Digital connections (CyberDNA)

Defensibility

Feature
Tracelight
Cybercheck.ai
Reproducible findings
Re-run any individual lookup; raw API response stored
Layered verification, but raw evidence access not surfaced
Read-only share links
Signed URLs with token expiry + download tracking
Reports delivered, share mechanism not described
Audit log
Every viewer + download recorded; queryable
Mentioned for security, not user-visible
Snapshotted evidence
Original sources preserved at access time (Wayback-style)
Real-time + historical data; snapshot model not described

Compliance

Feature
Tracelight
Cybercheck.ai
FCRA-aware consent capture
Consent timestamp + evidence link required before FCRA-flagged report
Not specifically documented
GDPR / DSAR export
Per-subject JSON export endpoint
Not specifically documented
Data retention controls
Per-workspace retention window with auto-purge cron
Not specifically documented

Integration & workflow

Feature
Tracelight
Cybercheck.ai
Slack / Discord / Teams alerts
Native, signed via HMAC, configurable per event
Email + SMS notifications
Zapier / n8n / generic webhook
First-class, with HMAC signing
API integration mentioned
Inbound email → case
Forward to inbox+slug@trytracelight.com → auto-create subject
Not described
In-Slack lookup bot
/tracelight slash command
Not described

Target market

Feature
Tracelight
Cybercheck.ai
Private investigators
Primary segment — pricing + workflow built for solo + small shops
Yes (Cybercheck PI)
Corporate diligence (M&A)
Dedicated workflow + use-case page
Not a primary segment
Investigative journalism
Dedicated workflow + use-case page
Not a primary segment
Insurance fraud / SIUs
Dedicated workflow + cross-case pattern detection
Not a primary segment
Law enforcement / ICAC
Not the primary focus — civilian-investigator-first
Yes — Major Crimes + ICAC products are flagship

Where Cybercheck wins

We're not pretending to be everything to everyone. Cybercheck has a specialized ICAC / CSAM tip-triage product (Cybercheck Tag) and a sports-team reputation product (Cybercheck Scout) that Tracelight doesn't ship. They also have a 24/7 human Real-Time Operations Center for live event support — that's a service tier we don't currently offer. If you're a county sheriff's office running a manhunt at 3 AM and need a human on the other end of a phone, that's their lane.

Try it yourself.

7 days, full feature set, no credit card. The 60-second test is whether the citation trail on your first generated report is actually useful in court — that's the only comparison that matters.

Start free trial See the demo

Comparison based on publicly available product documentation as of May 2026. Cybercheck is a registered trademark of Global Intelligence Inc. Comparison is for product identification only.