Tracelight
Tracelight vs. IntelX

One source vs. every source.

IntelX is an excellent dark-web + breach + paste-site search engine. Tracelight is a full investigation platform that uses IntelX as one of its 32 OSINT sources, plus sanctions, court records, corporate registries, social, and 25+ other workers — all consolidated into one cited report.

Scope

Feature
Tracelight
IntelX
Product type
End-to-end OSINT investigation platform — workers, monitoring, reports, audit trail
Search engine for breach + dark-web + paste-site data
Single-subject enrichment
32 workers run automatically, results consolidated into one profile
Single-source query — IntelX index only, you correlate manually
Workflow + report generation
Case + subject + monitor + report all in one workspace
Search results — building a report is your job

Data sources

Feature
Tracelight
IntelX
IntelX dataset
Yes — IntelX is one of the 32 OSINT workers
Yes — IntelX is the product
HIBP / Dehashed / BreachDirectory
Yes
Partial overlap (separate breach corpus)
Sanctions / OFAC / PEP lists
Yes
No
Court records (PACER + state)
Yes
No
Corporate registries (OpenCorporates, Companies House)
Yes
No
Cross-platform username probe
Yes — 30+ platforms
No

Defensibility

Feature
Tracelight
IntelX
Citation-anchored reports
Every claim links to evidence row → raw API response
Search results — citation discipline is yours
Audit log
Every viewer + download recorded
API queries logged on your account; downstream use of results is your problem
FCRA-aware consent capture
Built into report generation
Not a product feature

Pricing

Feature
Tracelight
IntelX
Pricing model
Monthly subscription from $49 (case-volume tiers)
Tiered subscription — Public free, Pro starts at €1500/yr
Cost overlap
$49-$499/mo all-in for everything
€1500+/yr just for IntelX index access; you still need a workflow tool on top

When IntelX wins

If your workflow is dominated by deep dark-web + paste-site investigation and you need direct access to the IntelX corpus with custom queries, IntelX's search UI and bucket-by-bucket exploration is unmatched. Tracelight uses IntelX as one of its workers but exposes it through a structured-finding lens, not a raw search box. Power users sometimes want both.

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Get everything IntelX gives you, plus 31 other OSINT sources, plus the report layer on top — for less than IntelX Pro alone.

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Comparison based on publicly available IntelX product documentation as of May 2026. IntelX is a trademark of Intelligence X.