Intelligence X

What Is Intelligence X?

You usually learn your data was exposed after an account takeover, a fraud incident, or a journalist emails you a screenshot. Intelligence X is built for the opposite workflow: search and monitor hard-to-index sources (paste sites, darknet collections, leaks, and more) so you can find exposures early, confirm what’s real, and respond.

The core product most people mean when they say “IntelX” is the intelx.io search engine and archive. It’s geared toward security researchers, investigators, and security teams that need to run selector searches (email, domain, IP ranges, crypto addresses, etc.) across multiple datasets, then view archived content safely inside the platform. Intelligence X also offers a separate “Identity Portal” UI on identity.intelx.io that uses the same underlying dataset but focuses on line-by-line views and exporting leaked accounts—useful when you’re doing incident response or exposure assessments at scale. (intelx.io)

If you came here expecting a consumer-grade “dark web monitoring + data broker removal bundle,” Intelligence X is not that. It’s closer to a professional OSINT/threat-intel search engine with optional alerting and APIs. It does offer takedown / content removal from its own search results and cache, but it explicitly does not remove data from third-party sites. (intelx.io)

Intelligence X Features and Performance

Intelligence X is organized around selector-based search. The vendor lists supported selector types including email addresses, domains (including wildcards like *.example.com), URLs, IPv4/IPv6 and CIDR ranges, phone numbers, Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses, MAC addresses, IPFS hashes, credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, IBANs, and additional internal identifiers. (intelx.io)

Those selectors can be searched across categories the vendor lists as: paste sites (including historical ones), darknet (Tor and I2P), Wikileaks & Cryptome, certain government sites (North Korea and Russia), data leaks, WHOIS data, a “Dumpster” catch-all category, and the public web. (intelx.io) This scope is broader than “dark web monitoring” in the narrow sense; it’s a mixed OSINT archive that happens to include darknet-relevant collections.

For workflow, Intelligence X highlights a few practical tools:

• Inline viewing of archived content (HTML pages, PDFs, Word files, and other file types) “without leaving the site,” which matters when you’re trying not to click through to risky sources directly. (intelx.io)
• Filters and inline statistics to narrow results by source, type, or date. (intelx.io)
• Historical copies of content—explicitly positioned as “similar to the Wayback Machine,” letting you go back in time and search older copies of sites/documents. (intelx.io)

There’s also a “Phonebook” feature meant to help you find a “strong selector” when you don’t know the full identifier. The vendor describes it as a way to discover the full selector before running deeper searches. (intelx.io)

Alerts and monitoring

Intelligence X supports alerts (with quotas varying by plan). The product page lists alerts included per plan (for example, 10 included on the Researcher plan and 100 included on the API/Identity Portal plans), and indicates “Unlimited” for Enterprise. (intelx.io) That means you can set monitoring up, but it’s not presented like a consumer “set-and-forget” identity monitoring product; it’s quota-based and oriented toward investigation.

Separately, Intelligence X’s corporate site promotes DARKX, described as a dark web monitoring platform with continuous monitoring across TOR and I2P and paste sites, plus “AI-powered threat analysis” and “SOC-validated alerts.” (intelligencex.org) DARKX looks positioned for security teams rather than individual consumers.

API access and practical limits

Intelligence X offers two distinct APIs: a Search API (used by intelx.io) and a separate Leaks API (used by identity.intelx.io / Identity Portal). On the product page, Search API access exists across paid tiers (with different allowances), while the Leaks API is only listed for the Identity Portal and Enterprise tiers. (intelx.io)

The vendor publishes concrete platform limits (useful if you care about “performance” in the operational sense). For example, the help docs list different caps for free vs paid accounts on intelx.io: maximum results per bucket (200 free vs 1000 paid), search timeout (1 minute free vs 2 minutes paid), and how long results are kept (3 minutes free vs 10 minutes paid). (help.intelx.io) These aren’t speed benchmarks, but they are hard constraints that shape how usable the tool feels when you’re doing real work.

Bottom line on performance: Intelligence X is not trying to be “fast streaming-friendly” (it’s not a VPN). The “speed” you’ll notice is (1) whether your searches time out, (2) how many results you can retrieve per bucket, and (3) how many searches/exports you can run per day—limits that increase significantly on paid plans. (help.intelx.io)

Pricing and Plans

Your database flag (“freemium”) matches what the vendor publishes: there’s a free tier and paid tiers.

Free access + trial

The product page states you can sign up and receive a free 7-day trial account, after which the account is downgraded to a “Free” account. (intelx.io) The Terms of Service also describe limited free access with restrictions, and note the vendor can terminate or limit free access at any time. (intelx.io)

The product page shows multiple “free” modes (public not logged in; free signed up; academia; and a 7-day trial) with different daily quotas (for example, “Free (signed up)” lists 50 selector searches/day). (intelx.io)

Paid plans (yearly subscriptions)

Intelligence X’s own help docs are explicit: no monthly subscriptions; they “only offer yearly subscriptions.” (help.intelx.io) The Terms of Service also refer to “yearly subscriptions” and “yearly subscription fees.” (intelx.io)

On the official product page, the vendor lists these yearly prices:

• Researcher: €2,500 / year
• API: €7,000 / year
• Identity Portal: €10,000 / year
• Enterprise: €20,000 / year

These are shown directly in the comparison table, along with per-plan quotas such as selector searches/day (e.g., 200/day for Researcher, 500/day for API/Identity Portal, and “5000+ /day” for Enterprise) and phonebook lookups/day. (intelx.io)

A historical note: Intelligence X published a “Price Increase 2023” blog post describing tier changes starting Dec 1, 2022, including the introduction of a €2,500/year Researcher license and an API license requirement for API/OEM integration. (blog.intelx.io) (The product page now reflects updated pricing and tiers, so treat the blog post as background—not today’s authoritative price list.)

Refunds

Intelligence X’s Terms of Service excerpts available in the page view do not clearly state a refund window or refund policy section in what we retrieved. (intelx.io) Because the refund terms aren’t confirmed in the sources above, this review does not claim a refund guarantee.

Privacy and Security Assessment

Jurisdiction / operator

Intelligence X’s Terms of Service identify the operator as Kleissner Investments s.r.o. with a registered office in Prague, Czech Republic. (intelx.io) Jurisdiction matters because legal demands and data handling obligations depend on where the company is established.

What “data removal” actually means here

If you’re evaluating Intelligence X as a “data removal” tool, here’s the no-BS version: Intelligence X offers a content removal workflow that removes items from Intelligence X search results and its cache, but it explicitly says it cannot remove content from third-party websites and services. (intelx.io)

So this is not a DeleteMe/Incogni-style broker removal service. It’s a search engine/archive that will delist and remove cached copies under certain conditions.

Free-tier caveats

The Terms of Service are unusually blunt about free usage: Intelligence X provides limited free access with restrictions; it does not provide free users any warranty/uptime/accuracy guarantees; and it prohibits bulk requests or implementing the API without prior written consent. (intelx.io) If you plan to build workflows around the platform, you should assume the free tier can change or be restricted.

Audit / open-source posture / incidents

In the sources reviewed here, there is no confirmed public claim of an independent no-logs audit (and “no logs” isn’t even the relevant concept for this category the way it is for VPNs). Similarly, nothing in the cited official pages indicates Intelligence X is open source.

We also did not find a vendor-confirmed public incident disclosure in the sources we used. Because this review is constrained to confirmed facts, it does not speculate.

Strengths and Limitations

Strengths

• Serious selector search coverage. IntelX supports a wide range of selectors (from domains/IP ranges to crypto addresses and SSNs/IBANs) across multiple dataset categories, including Tor/I2P and paste sources. (intelx.io)
• Investigation-oriented UI features. Inline viewing, filters/statistics, and historical copies are built for analysts who need context and safe handling of questionable sources. (intelx.io)
• Clear, published quotas and technical limits. The vendor documents limits like results per bucket, timeouts, and export size constraints—useful for planning workflows. (help.intelx.io)
• Separate Identity Portal interface for leak-oriented workflows. The Identity Portal is positioned for line-by-line review and exporting leaked accounts, using the same dataset but a different UI. (intelx.io)

Limitations

• Not consumer “data broker removal.” Content removal only applies to IntelX search results/cache; it does not remove third-party content. (intelx.io)
• Pricing is enterprise-style, not casual. The official published yearly pricing starts at €2,500/year for the Researcher plan, with higher tiers at €7,000–€20,000/year. (intelx.io)
• Yearly-only subscriptions (no monthly). If you want month-to-month flexibility, IntelX explicitly says it doesn’t offer it. (help.intelx.io)
• Free tier is intentionally limited and not guaranteed. The ToS allows IntelX to terminate or limit free access and provides no warranty/uptime commitments for free users. (intelx.io)

Who Should Use Intelligence X?

Good fit if you are:

1. A security researcher or investigator who needs to run selector searches (domains, IP ranges, emails, crypto addresses) across paste/leak/darknet-adjacent sources and preserve evidence context with historical copies. (intelx.io)
2. A security team doing exposure discovery and wanting alerting plus the ability to review results inside the platform, with an upgrade path to higher quotas and APIs. (intelx.io)
3. An organization building integrations that needs official API access (and is prepared for the “API integration” licensing model called out on the product page). (intelx.io)

Not a great fit if you are:

1. An individual looking for cheap dark web monitoring. The paid tiers are priced for professional use and sold yearly. (intelx.io)
2. Someone who wants hands-off data broker removal. IntelX can delist from its own index/cache, but it can’t remove your data from other sites. (intelx.io)
3. A buyer who needs a vendor-stated refund window up front. We did not find a clear refund policy in the cited materials, so you’ll need to confirm directly before purchasing. (intelx.io)