A practical comparison for professional investigators, agencies, and teams evaluating web evidence capture tools.
Court-ready web evidence capture built for case work — at transparent per-investigator pricing, with volume discounts for agencies and teams.
Digitally signed. Timestamped.
Court-defensible by default.
Page Freezer is excellent at continuous compliance archiving across an organization. ELITE is built for the investigator preserving evidence in active cases — with the professional capability you need, without the enterprise contract.
Court-ready signed PDFs at the moment of capture, full-page scrolling captures up to 500 screens, unlimited video evidence with continuity reports, advanced capture for closed and dynamic platforms, and centralized search across every case.
ELITE is published, per-investigator, and self-serve. No enterprise contract. No procurement cycle. No quote-and-wait. Sign up online and start capturing court-ready evidence today.
20+ ELITE licenses qualify for agency volume pricing. One conversation with our team — no enterprise platform commitment, no IT deployment cycle, no compliance-archive overhead you don't need.
Page Freezer is a category leader at what it's designed for — continuous compliance archiving across an entire organization. For investigators preserving evidence in active cases, ELITE delivers professional capability at investigator-sized pricing.
Volume discounts on 20+ ELITE licenses. Replace your Page Freezer evaluation with a tool sized for case work.
For investigators comparing Page Freezer and Forensic OSINT
Page Freezer is a category leader in enterprise compliance archiving — automated, scheduled crawling for organizational records retention. Forensic OSINT ELITE is a different category: professional investigator capture for active cases, with court-ready output sized for case-by-case work.
Example of a digitally signed, timestamped PDF generated at capture time.
Every capture is immediately preserved as a digitally signed, timestamped PDF with embedded metadata.
No exporting, assembling, or manual verification required.
Where Page Freezer archives sites on a schedule for retention, ELITE captures the moment that matters in your case — with court-ready output ready immediately.
Social media pages are automatically scrolled and comments expanded to capture full context.
Forensic OSINT is built for modern, dynamic platforms. Expanded comments, nested threads, long-scroll pages, embedded media, and visible profile elements such as usernames and profile images are captured exactly as viewed, preserving full visual context for court and future analysis.
Once content is captured, relevant data must be extracted for analysis.
Key identifiers like usernames, IDs, and URLs are automatically extracted from captures.
Usernames, account IDs, links, and other identifiers are extracted directly from captures without bookmarklets, scraping tools, or manual setup.
Video content requires documented continuity from source to storage.
Videos are downloaded with comprehensive continuity reports documenting provenance and metadata.
Videos are downloaded directly from supported platforms and paired with a Video Evidence Continuity Report documenting provenance, timestamps, and metadata. ELITE includes unlimited video downloads.
Effective investigation requires understanding platform-specific collection methods.
Platform-specific investigative tips and best practices are built directly into the workflow.
Platform-specific investigative tips and best practices are available inside the tool, helping analysts work with confidence.
Page Freezer's archive search operates at organization scope. ELITE's case-centric search connects evidence across investigations.
Subject Dossier links identities, aliases, timelines, and evidence across captures and cases.
Intelligence tools like the Subject Dossier link identities, aliases, timelines, and evidence across captures and cases. ELITE adds search-across-all-cases — the case-work analog to Page Freezer's archive search, built for investigators.
Used by criminal and civil investigators, agencies, and professional units who require defensible evidence, auditability, and repeatable capture workflows.
Page Freezer is an enterprise compliance-archiving platform. Its core purpose is automated, scheduled crawling for organizational records retention — built for FINRA, SEC, legal-hold, and public-records obligations across whole organizations.
Forensic OSINT ELITE serves a different purpose: professional investigator capture for active cases. Court-ready, digitally signed PDFs at the moment of capture; full-page scrolling captures with expanded comments and dynamic content; advanced capture for closed and dynamic platforms; unlimited video evidence with continuity reports; and search across every case in your investigative workload.
Both preserve web content. They diverge sharply on workflow, audience, output format, and pricing model — they're solving different jobs at different price points.
Enterprise compliance archiving platform
Scheduled, automated crawling at organizational scale
Sales-quoted enterprise contract
Designed for regulated org records retention
Requires IT deployment, onboarding, procurement cycle
Professional investigator capture for active cases
On-demand, investigator-driven capture
Transparent per-investigator pricing — agency volume discounts on 20+ seats
Designed for court-defensible evidence in cases
Browser-based — provisioned in minutes, not months
Forensic OSINT ELITE is the professional investigator's tool — court-ready capture, advanced workflows, and case-centric intelligence in one system, at investigator pricing.
Q: Does Forensic OSINT replace Page Freezer for compliance archiving?
No, and it isn't trying to. If your organization needs FINRA/SEC-grade automated retention across all communications and websites, Page Freezer is built for that. ELITE replaces the case-by-case investigative capture work that Page Freezer wasn't designed for.
Q: Why is Forensic OSINT ELITE so much less expensive than Page Freezer?
Different product class. Page Freezer prices for enterprise records-retention platforms covering whole organizations. ELITE prices per investigator for professional case work — with team volume discounts available for agencies. You're not getting less; you're getting the right tool for the job.
Q: We're a team — does ELITE scale?
Yes. ELITE includes team features — user management, shared captures, and team sync. Twenty or more licenses qualify for agency volume pricing. Contact sales for a quote.
Designed for criminal and civil investigators, agencies, and professional teams who must preserve evidence integrity and explain their process in court.
| Feature | Page Freezer | Forensic OSINT ELITE |
|---|---|---|
| Per-investigator transparent pricing | ✖ (enterprise contract) | ✔ |
| Self-serve provisioning, no sales call | ✖ | ✔ |
| Agency / team volume discount path | Custom contract | ✔ 20+ ELITE licenses |
| Digitally signed court-ready PDFs at capture | Limited | ✔ |
| Full-page scrolling capture (up to 500 screens) | ✖ | ✔ |
| Unlimited video evidence + continuity reports | ✖ | ✔ |
| Advanced capture for closed / dynamic platforms | ✖ | ✔ |
| Search across all cases & captures | Archive search (org scope) | ✔ Case scope |
| Designed for case-by-case investigations | ✖ (compliance retention) | ✔ |
*Page Freezer pricing is sales-quoted and not publicly disclosed. Comparisons reflect customer-reported enterprise contract characteristics.
Many investigators work inside organizations that subscribe to Page Freezer for compliance reasons. ELITE runs alongside it as the investigator's case toolkit — without burning a Page Freezer seat or waiting on IT to provision archive access for case-specific work.
Every capture within Forensic OSINT is automatically hashed, digitally signed, and stored securely — but it doesn't stop there. Captures sync into a central intelligence store, creating a growing, searchable archive of evidence across all OSINT investigations.
ELITE unlocks search across all cases and captures — the case-work analog to Page Freezer's archive search, built for investigators. Investigative leads can analyze previously captured data months or years later, uncover new connections, and strengthen future cases without redoing work.
Whether you deploy a single ELITE license or roll out across an investigative team, your evidence is preserved and ready for deeper analysis whenever the case demands it.
| Feature / Level | Hunchly | Essential | ELITE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👤 Account & Access | |||
| ⭐ Forensic Captures | Hashed Only — No Signed or Timestamped Reports | ||
| ⭐ Team Features (Includes User Management, Shared Captures & Team Sync) | Requires ELITE Add-On (Min. Licenses) | ||
| 📸 Capture Features | |||
| Number of Captures (per year) | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| ⭐ Full-Page Scrolling Screenshot Automatically scrolls the page to capture up to 20 (Essential) or 500 (ELITE) screen-length images — creating a full-page visual record of what the investigator saw, including expanded comments and media. | 20 | 500 | |
| Current-Screen Screenshot Instantly captures the visible on-screen view — ideal for dynamic or short-lived content. | Manually via note feature. | ||
| Continuous Auto-Capture | |||
| Download Images | |||
| Hash All Files | |||
| MHTML (source code) | |||
| Video Downloads (per year) | 50 | Unlimited | |
| Advanced Capture FB Marketplace, Groups, IG Stories, Chat Apps | |||
| Focused Captures Targeted Instagram Captures (Focused Mode) | |||
| 🧾 Reporting & Evidence | |||
| Video Evidence Continuity Report | |||
| ⭐ PDF Reports Digitally Signed & Timestamped for Court Use | |||
| OCR + Searchable PDF Screenshots | |||
| PDF Redaction (search & redact text from screenshots) | Coming Winter 2026 | ||
| PDF Print Options Simple per page • Embedded metadata on images | |||
| Custom PDF Filenames | |||
| MS Word Draft Export | |||
| 🧠 Investigation Tools | |||
| Data Insights Key Value Extractions(userIDs, likes, followers, etc.) | Limited - No Social IDs | ||
| Comment Auto Expansion (auto-expands comments on YouTube, Facebook & Instagram) | |||
| Keyword Alerts | |||
| Annotation & Tagging | |||
| Search Individual Capture (including screen captures) | Coming Winter 2026 | Coming Winter 2026 | |
| ⭐ Search Across All Cases & Captures (including screen captures) | |||
| AI IntegrationOptional – On-Prem or Cloud | Coming Winter 2026 | ||
| 🔍 OSINT Tools | |||
| ⭐ IP Lookup Tool Forensic IP reports with VPN/proxy detection, geolocation & court-ready PDF exports | 100/month | 10,000/month | |
| Username Search Search 600+ platforms for matching usernames | 100/month | 1,000/month | |
| Email Header Analyzer Spoofing detection, sender tracing & routing intelligence — 100% client-side | 1,000/month | Unlimited | |
| Domain-to-IP Lookup DNS resolution, security scoring, tech stack detection & email deliverability | 1,000/month | Unlimited | |
| Image EXIF Reader GPS, edit history, anomaly detection & duplicate finder — 100% client-side | 1,000/month | Unlimited | |
| Timestamp Decoder Extract & decode hidden timestamps from URLs, APIs & page source — 100% client-side | 1,000/month | Unlimited | |
| 🗂️ Case Management | |||
| Case Management | ✔️ Limited | ✔️ Limited | ✔️ |
| ⭐ Subject Dossier Centralized Dossiers for People of Interest | |||
| 🖥️ Platform & Backend | |||
| OSINT Knowledgebase Integration | |||
| Custom Branding | |||
| External Integrations (JSON, CSV) | Maltego | Coming Winter 2026 | |
| On-Prem Capable | |||
| Single-Tenant Cloud Backend | Add-on | Add-on | |
| 📝 Forensic Notes Add-ons | |||
| ⭐ Electronic Notetaking (Forensic Notes) | |||
| Forensic Witness | |||
| Forensic Notes Professional Subscription | ✔️ value: $588 | ||
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Clients and courts must be able to trust that what you present accurately reflects what you observed at the time of capture.
Forensic OSINT ensures that every page, image, comment, and video is preserved exactly as it appeared, with timestamps, digital signatures, and continuity built in.
When evidence is challenged, you can demonstrate not just what was captured, but how and when it was captured.
One of my biggest challenges with Facebook captures was that traditional capture tools often missed key visuals, especially profile photos and embedded images.
With Forensic OSINT, what you see is what's captured.
Every image, every scroll, every comment is preserved exactly as it appeared, so months or years later we can present in court precisely what was visible at the time.
As a full time OSINT investigator, I am regularly asked to present evidence in court in support of investigations.
The biggest sticking point with respect to OSINT evidence is continuity and preservation of online sourced data, particularly social media and multi media.
I'm absolutely thrilled with the capabilities of Forensic OSINT and use it almost daily in my investigations.
Forensic OSINT is a fantastic collection and preservation tool built by two OSINT powerhouses.
I highly recommend it for your next investigation. On a recent case I had to capture long pages, embedded media, and source code with timestamps.
Forensic OSINT handled it cleanly and the timestamps became a valuable record of my work. It exceeded my expectations and is now my go-to for documenting OSINT.
Professional-tier annual pricing — see options below. Agencies and teams of 20+ qualify for volume pricing.
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Is Forensic OSINT meant to replace Page Freezer?
For investigator case work, yes — ELITE is the professional choice. For enterprise compliance retention across an organization, no — Page Freezer is purpose-built for that. They serve different jobs.
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