TL;DR
Worldbox is a Swiss company-information provider that sells KYB data, credit and investigation reports, UBO identification and an onboarding verification API. According to its Datarade profile (retrieved October 2026), its data comes from official company registrars, chambers of commerce and local tax offices, it claims 240 countries, and a single company can be bought from €5. For a report on a named company, with a 24-hour research cycle behind it, Worldbox does that job well.
Teams look elsewhere when the job is volume rather than one company at a time. Route by the job: for credit risk at accessible pricing, Creditsafe. For ownership depth and comparable financials, Moody's Orbis. For open registry records, OpenCorporates. For registry data with reseller rights, Global Database, which describes its data as sourced directly from official government registries. For company data across many markets, delivered in bulk or by API and refreshed monthly, InfobelPRO.
Quick verdict: which provider fits which job
| If you need… | Choose |
|---|---|
| A credit or investigation report on one company | Worldbox |
| Research on a company with no record on file | Worldbox |
| UBO identification on a single named company | Worldbox |
| Business credit scores and risk decisioning | Creditsafe |
| Deepest ownership and UBO mapping | Moody's Orbis |
| Open registry records | OpenCorporates |
| Company data in bulk across many markets | InfobelPRO |
| Points of interest alongside company records | InfobelPRO |
| NACE industry classification | InfobelPRO |
What Worldbox is good at
- Per-company reports and research
- Worldbox sells credit and investigation reports on individual companies from €100 a report, and advertises a 24-hour research cycle for companies that are not already on file with any provider, according to its Datarade profile (retrieved 27 October 2026).
- Full coverage in named markets
- Worldbox's Datarade profile (retrieved 27 October 2026) states "full company coverage in Switzerland, Hong Kong, New Zealand as well as countries in Africa such as South Africa, Mauritius, Kenya and Nigeria".
- Its own offices
- Worldbox's Datarade profile (retrieved 27 October 2026) states that it has "offices located in Europe, India, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong", which Worldbox says keeps data quality from being diluted by third-party vendors.
- Stated sources
- Worldbox states that all its data is collected from official company registrars, chambers of commerce and local tax offices (Datarade profile, retrieved 27 October 2026).
- Low-cost entry
- Worldbox prices KYB data from €5 per company, so a team can check one counterparty without committing to a dataset, and offers a B2B onboarding verification API at €20,000 a year for checks inside its own flow.
- UBO identification
- Worldbox sells beneficial-owner identification on a named company from €150, and its Datarade profile lists 5.8 million ownership links.
Verdict: Worldbox. For a researched report on one named company, bought one at a time, Worldbox is a well-shaped product and this page does not argue otherwise.
Why teams look for Worldbox alternatives
- 1. Worldbox is priced and shaped per company
- Per-company pricing suits checking counterparties one at a time. It suits loading a whole market into a warehouse, scoring a CRM or sizing a territory less well, and Worldbox quotes volume terms rather than publishing them.
- 2. Worldbox publishes three company counts on one listing
- Worldbox's Datarade profile, retrieved 27 October 2026, says "We have over 220 million companies in the database" in its description, shows "300m Companies in the database" in its stat block, and lists "500M+" in its product titles. worldbox.net says "over 500 million companies". A buyer sizing a project has to ask which figure applies to the data being licensed.
- 3. Worldbox does not publish a refresh cadence
- For a report bought today, freshness is the date of the report. For a dataset you hold, you need to know how often each field is refreshed, and Worldbox's listings do not say.
- 4. Worldbox's data layer is registry, KYB and credit
- Worldbox's listed products centre on registry, KYB, credit and UBO data. Points of interest, published industry classification and financial statements as a bulk dataset are not among them.
Verdict: it turns on volume, not on quality.None of the above is a criticism of Worldbox's reports. It is a question of whether you need one company or a whole market.
The alternatives compared
Seven alternatives alongside Worldbox, each described by the job it is built for. Coverage figures are each vendor's own published claim.
| 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 | Self-described 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 | Per-company KYB, credit and UBO reports | 220M, 300M and 500M+ companies on one listing; 240 countries | API; XML, JSON, CSV files | Priced per company; three company counts on one listing |
Vendor details verified August 2026; Worldbox row re-verified October 2026. Figures are vendor self-reported. Check each provider's site for current terms.
Verdict: no single winner. Per-company reports and bulk company data are different purchases, and most teams shopping this list need one of them, not both. All coverage figures above are vendor self-reported and not independently verified.
InfobelPRO vs Worldbox
Grouped by theme: reports and research first, then the bulk data layer, then delivery. Worldbox figures come from its Datarade profile and worldbox.net, retrieved October 2026.
| Dimension | Worldbox | InfobelPRO | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credit and investigation reports | From €100 a report | No | Worldbox |
| Research on a company not yet on file | 24-hour research cycle advertised | No | Worldbox |
| UBO identification on one named company | From €150 a company | UBO data in bulk, no per-company research | Worldbox |
| Published entry price | From €5 a company | Quote-based, not published | Worldbox |
| Points of interest | Not among listed products | Points-of-interest dataset alongside company records | InfobelPRO |
| Corporate group structure | 5.8M ownership links listed | Group structure as its own dataset, parent to subsidiary | InfobelPRO |
| Published refresh cadence | Not published | Monthly | InfobelPRO |
| Industry classification | Scheme not published | NACE, up to six codes per company | InfobelPRO |
| Financial statements in bulk | Not published as a dataset | Filed statements as reported, with a ratio suite | InfobelPRO |
| File delivery | XML, JSON, CSV | CSV, JSON or Parquet files | Tie |
| API access | Onboarding verification API, €20,000 a year | REST API | Tie |
Vendor details verified October 2026. Figures are vendor self-reported. Check each provider's site for current terms.
Worldbox wins 4, InfobelPRO wins 5, and two tie. Three of InfobelPRO's five rows rest on Worldbox not publishing the field, which is not the same as Worldbox lacking it. The rows that decide most purchases are the first two: if you need a report or fresh research on a named company, nothing on the InfobelPRO side of the table compensates, and Worldbox is the better buy.
Which one fits
Worldbox, if you…
- Need a credit or investigation report on a named company
- Need research on a company no provider has on file
- Check counterparties one at a time rather than in bulk
- Want to buy a single company without an annual contract
- Need UBO identification on a specific entity
InfobelPRO, if you…
- Need company data for a whole market, not one company
- Are loading a warehouse or enriching a CRM
- Need points of interest alongside company records
- Segment by NACE codes
- Need a published monthly refresh on the data you hold
What InfobelPRO cannot replace from Worldbox
Four Worldbox capabilities have no InfobelPRO equivalent. InfobelPRO is a company-data provider, not a credit-reporting or investigation business.
- Credit and investigation reports
- InfobelPRO does not produce reports on individual companies at any tier.
- On-demand research
- InfobelPRO does not research a company on request. If a record is not in the dataset, InfobelPRO cannot produce one within 24 hours.
- Per-company UBO identification
- InfobelPRO delivers beneficial-owner data as a dataset, not as a researched answer on one named entity.
- Single-company purchase at a published price
- InfobelPRO does not sell one company at a time from a public price.
Frequently asked questions
Worldbox is a Swiss company-information provider that sells KYB and registry data, credit and investigation reports, UBO identification and an onboarding verification API, according to its Datarade profile (retrieved October 2026). It delivers data by API and in XML, JSON or CSV files.
Worldbox states that all its data is collected from official company registrars, chambers of commerce and local tax offices, according to its Datarade profile (retrieved October 2026). For its credit and investigation reports, Worldbox advertises a 24-hour research cycle.
Worldbox's Datarade profile states that its APIs and datasets range from €5 per company to €20,000 per year, with credit and investigation reports from €100 and UBO identification from €150 per company (retrieved October 2026). Worldbox does not publish a full rate card, so volume terms are quoted.
Worldbox's Datarade profile gives three figures on one page: "over 220 million companies" in its description, "300m Companies in the database" in its stat block and "500M+" in its product titles (retrieved 27 October 2026). The same profile claims 240 countries covered, and worldbox.net says over 500 million companies.
Creditsafe for credit risk at accessible pricing, Moody's Orbis for ownership depth and comparable financials, OpenCorporates for open registry records, and Global Database for registry data with reseller rights, which it describes as sourced directly from official government registries. InfobelPRO fits company data across many markets, delivered in bulk or by API.
Worldbox fits per-company KYB checks well: it sells KYB data from €5 per company, claims 240 countries and advertises a 24-hour research cycle (Datarade, retrieved October 2026). If you need ownership chains across many jurisdictions at depth, Moody's Orbis is the stronger choice.
Worldbox sells reports and research on named companies, while InfobelPRO sells company data in bulk for segmentation, enrichment and KYB screening, with no credit reports. If you need a report on one company within a day, choose Worldbox; if you need a dataset across many markets refreshed monthly, choose InfobelPRO.
Test it on your own records
Send us 500 companies you currently check with Worldbox and we will return match rates and field fill rates, so you can compare on your own records rather than on published claims.
Weighing several vendors at once? Read the InfobelPRO alternatives overview, or the Creditsafe alternatives comparison if credit risk is part of the job.
