CompanyCheck review 2026 — is it worth £24.99/month?

CompanyCheck (companycheck.co.uk) is a UK data reseller trading as CompanyCheck.co.uk Ltd. It republishes the free Companies House statutory record — accounts, directors, PSCs, charges — with a proprietary credit score, director timelines and a cleaner UI. It competes directly with Endole, DueDil and Red Flag Alert in the £20–£50/month SME research band.

CompanyCheck is legitimate. It is a UK-registered limited company reselling data it takes from Companies House under the Open Government Licence, layered with its own credit score. Trustpilot complaints centre on subscription auto-renewal and cancellation friction — the same pattern Endole users report — not on data accuracy.

CompanyCheck's headline plan starts at £24.99/month for unlimited web access (companycheck.co.uk, 1970-01-01). Downloadable credit reports and API access sit on higher tiers at roughly £39–£79/month. Annual billing discounts by ~15–20%. The 'free' account gives you name, address, officers and account snippets — anything with a credit score or downloadable PDF is paywalled.

The score is derived from filed accounts, payment behaviour signals, industry norms and any County Court Judgments visible via Registry Trust. For companies filing full accounts it is a reasonable directional indicator. For micro-entities filing abbreviated accounts under FRS 105 it is materially coarser — treat it as one input in a credit decision, never as the decision itself.

CompanyCheck and Endole are close competitors at similar money (£24.99 vs £29–£99). CompanyCheck's UI is slightly quicker for director-timeline research; Endole tends to produce a more polished downloadable PDF report and richer industry benchmarks. Underlying data is the same Companies House record on both.

Companies House is the statutory register and the source of every data point CompanyCheck sells. Companies House gives you every filing, PSC and charge — free — with no credit score, no monitoring and a plain UI. If you need one lookup, Companies House is the honest answer. CompanyCheck is a UX and credit-score layer on top.

Trustpilot 1-star reviews for CompanyCheck repeatedly flag cancellation friction: subscriptions auto-renew and cancellation must be actioned by email before the renewal date. There is no in-app one-click cancel at the time of writing. If you take a paid plan, diary the cancellation window on day one and screenshot your cancellation email.

No. CompanyCheck displays the service addresses filed at Companies House, not residential addresses. Companies House removed director residential addresses from public view under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 unless a director elects to file a home address as their service address.

Only for repeat lookups. For one-off due diligence, Companies House is free and covers the same underlying record. CompanyCheck earns its £24.99/month when you're running dozens of lookups a week or you need a defensible one-number credit score to attach to internal credit files. Otherwise skip it.

6.0/10. Fair pricing, competent UI, credit score is directionally useful, downloadable reports look professional. Marks lost for the same auto-renew friction as Endole, thinner monitoring than Red Flag Alert and no API on the entry tier. If you're picking between CompanyCheck and Endole for SME research, it is close — pick on the specific UX detail your workflow lives inside.

Companies House Service (free, statutory), Endole (£29–£99/mo, like-for-like), Red Flag Alert (~£110/mo, credit-focused monitoring), DueDil/FullCircl (enterprise, B2B onboarding & KYC), Creditsafe (enterprise, global credit) and Sell Ltd's free checker for buyer-side research. Our dedicated CompanyCheck alternative page ranks them by use case.