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.

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.

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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.