TL;DR
Creditsafe built its position on being the fast, affordable answer to Dun & Bradstreet. It reports 430M+ companies across 200+ countries, over a million updates a day, and describes its database as the largest wholly owned one in the industry. For credit risk and KYB with a consistent A–E international score, it does that job well and cheaply.
The reason teams look elsewhere is scope. Creditsafe is credit-risk-first. If what you actually need is firmographic company data, you are buying a credit product and using a fraction of it. Route by the job: for credit scores and payment risk, stay with Creditsafe or look at Dun & Bradstreet. For ownership depth and comparable financials, Moody's Orbis. For open registry records, OpenCorporates. For firmographic company data across many markets, delivered in bulk or by API, InfobelPRO.
Quick verdict: which provider fits which job
| If you need… | Choose |
|---|---|
| Business credit scores and risk decisioning | Creditsafe |
| A consistent A–E score across countries | Creditsafe |
| Affordable credit reports vs enterprise pricing | Creditsafe |
| Deepest ownership and UBO mapping | Moody's Orbis |
| Open registry records | OpenCorporates |
| Firmographic data for segmentation and enrichment | InfobelPRO |
| Industry classification in NACE and SIC | InfobelPRO |
| Bulk or API delivery priced on volume | InfobelPRO |
What Creditsafe is good at
- Wholly owned database
- Creditsafe reports that it owns its database outright rather than licensing it, which is unusual at this scale and gives it more control over freshness than a pure aggregator.
- Update cadence
- Creditsafe reports over a million updates a day drawn from a reported 13,400 sources.
- A consistent international score
- One A–E scale applied across countries is genuinely useful when you are assessing counterparties in several markets and do not want to reconcile scoring methodologies.
- Affordability
- Creditsafe has positioned against Dun & Bradstreet on price since it was founded in Norway in 1997, and that positioning holds.
- European depth
- Broad global claims, with genuine depth strongest across Europe.
- On-ramp
- Free single reports and trials make it easy to evaluate before committing.
Verdict: Creditsafe. On credit risk at accessible pricing, it is a well-built product and this page does not argue otherwise.
Why teams look for Creditsafe alternatives
- 1. It is a credit product, not a firmographics product
- Everything is organised around risk decisioning. If your use case is market sizing, segmentation, territory planning or CRM enrichment, you are paying for scoring infrastructure you will not use.
- 2. Data sourcing is a blend, not registry-direct
- Creditsafe combines official registries with local partners and proprietary scoring. That is a reasonable architecture for credit, but it means the provenance chain varies by market, and outside its European core, coverage leans on partners.
- 3. Industry classification is not the focus
- If you segment by NACE or SIC and need crosswalks between them, that is not what a credit platform is built to deliver. The industry classification codes hub covers what that mapping involves.
- 4. Delivery is subscription-and-platform shaped
- Connect API and subscription access suit ongoing risk monitoring. They suit bulk ingestion into a data warehouse less well.
Verdict: it turns on what you are buying, not on quality.None of the above is a criticism of Creditsafe's credit data, which is good. It is a question of whether credit is what you need.
The alternatives compared
Seven providers, ordered by the job each is built for. What InfobelPRO actually covers is on the global business database page.
| Provider | Best for | Coverage claimed | Delivery | Key constraint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dun & Bradstreet | The D-U-N-S standard, hierarchy and credit risk | 600M+ entities, 200+ countries | Platform, Direct+ API, bulk | Enterprise contract; bundled scope |
| Moody's Orbis | Comparable financials and ownership depth | 625M+ entities from 170+ sources; ~1.9B ownership links | Platform or API | Expensive, restrictive licensing |
| Creditsafe | Credit risk and KYB at accessible pricing | 430M+ companies, 200+ countries | Platform, Connect API | Credit-first; partner-sourced outside Europe |
| InfobelPRO | Multi-market company data with flexible licensing | 375M+ companies across 200+ markets, refreshed monthly | Bulk flat file, REST API | No credit scores; contact coverage partial |
| Global Database | Registry-direct data with reseller rights | Varies by page: 300M to 600M profiles | API-first, web platform, bulk | Published figures vary across their own pages |
| OpenCorporates | Open registry records for research and transparency work | 200M+ entities, 140–170+ jurisdictions (their pages vary) | API, bulk SFTP | Call caps; depth follows how much each registry publishes openly |
| North Data | European registry depth and network graphs | ~78 to 88M companies, 21 to 24 European countries | Freemium web, API | Europe only; quarterly bulk updates |
| Worldbox | Emerging-market and offshore reach | Figures vary by page; 249 countries claimed | API, S3, online DB | Small operation; inconsistent published figures |
Vendor details verified August 2026. Figures are vendor self-reported. Check each provider's site for current terms.
Verdict: no single winner. Credit and firmographics are different products, and most teams shopping this list need one of them, not both. All coverage figures above are vendor self-reported and not independently verified; several vendors publish inconsistent numbers across their own pages.
InfobelPRO vs Creditsafe
| Dimension | Creditsafe | InfobelPRO | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business credit scores | A–E international score | No | Creditsafe, decisively |
| Risk monitoring and alerts | Core product | No | Creditsafe |
| Database ownership | Reports a wholly owned database | Registry-sourced | Creditsafe on this specific claim |
| Update cadence | 1M+ updates/day reported | Refreshed monthly across 200+ markets | Creditsafe |
| Free trial on-ramp | Free single reports | No | Creditsafe |
| Industry classification | Limited | NACE and SIC with crosswalks | InfobelPRO |
| Corporate linkage as a standard field | Not a stated strength | 42.1M corporate links available | InfobelPRO |
| Bulk delivery for warehousing | Platform and API oriented | Flat file and API | InfobelPRO |
| Redistribution rights | Restricted | Yes | InfobelPRO |
| Pricing transparency | Quote-based | Quote-based | Tie: neither publishes |
| Contact data | Limited | Partial, varies by market | Neither |
Vendor details verified August 2026. Figures are vendor self-reported. Check each provider's site for current terms.
Overall verdict: Creditsafe wins 5, InfobelPRO wins 4, one ties and one goes to neither. The row that decides it is the first one. If you need credit scores, nothing on the InfobelPRO side of the table compensates, and you should stay where you are.
Which one fits
Creditsafe, if you…
- Assess counterparty credit or payment risk
- Need one comparable score across several countries
- Want ongoing monitoring and alerts on a portfolio
- Need a free report to evaluate before committing
- Are replacing Dun & Bradstreet primarily on cost
InfobelPRO, if you…
- Need firmographic company data rather than risk scores
- Segment by NACE or SIC and need crosswalks
- Are loading a warehouse rather than checking accounts one at a time
- Need corporate linkage as a structured field
- Need reseller rights inside your own product
What InfobelPRO cannot replace from Creditsafe
Three Creditsafe capabilities have no InfobelPRO equivalent, and none of them is a roadmap item you should wait for.
- Credit scores and payment-risk analytics
- InfobelPRO does not produce them at any tier.
- Ongoing risk monitoring
- No alerting on portfolio deterioration.
- A consistent international credit score
- The A–E scale has no InfobelPRO equivalent.
Frequently asked questions
Not for credit risk. Creditsafe is built for it and InfobelPRO does not offer it. For firmographic company data across many markets, delivered in bulk or by API, InfobelPRO is the better fit. Many teams use both.
Product category. Creditsafe is a credit-risk business that carries firmographics to support scoring. InfobelPRO is a company-data business with no credit product. If risk decisioning is the job, that decides it.
Creditsafe does not publish standard pricing; access is subscription-based with API access via Connect, and it positions itself as more affordable than Dun & Bradstreet. Free single reports are available as a trial. Verify current terms directly. Verified August 2026.
InfobelPRO for building on company data: bulk flat files and a REST API priced on volume, with redistribution rights available. Creditsafe's Connect API is well suited to embedding credit checks into an onboarding or underwriting flow.
Neither publishes standard pricing, so the honest answer is that it depends on what you are buying. Creditsafe positions itself as the affordable alternative to Dun & Bradstreet for credit reports. InfobelPRO is priced on volume rather than per seat or per report, which usually favours bulk firmographic use. Comparing them on price alone is misleading because they are different products.
Only if credit scoring is not part of what you use. Most teams that move keep a credit provider for risk and use InfobelPRO for the broader firmographic layer.
Dun & Bradstreet for the deepest enterprise risk data and the D-U-N-S standard. Moody's Orbis if you need comparable financials alongside risk. InfobelPRO is not an alternative for this use case.
Test on your own entities. Take 500 real accounts, define the fields that matter, and compare match rate and fill rate per field across vendors. Ask how each field is sourced and how often it refreshes. Vendor record counts are self-reported and not comparable.
Test it on your own records
Send us 500 companies from your current Creditsafe extract and we will return match rates and field fill rates, so you can compare on your own data rather than on published claims.
Weighing several vendors at once? Read how InfobelPRO compares overall, or the Dun & Bradstreet alternatives comparison.
