Endole review 2026 — is it worth it?

Endole is a UK data reseller that repackages Companies House filings with a credit score, director timelines and industry benchmarks. It is owned by Endole Ltd (company number 06527714) and has been operating since 2008. It competes with CompanyCheck, DueDil, Creditsafe and Red Flag Alert for SME research spend in the £30–£300/month band.

Endole is legitimate. It is a UK-registered limited company reselling public Companies House data under the Open Government Licence, plus a proprietary credit score. Trustpilot and Reddit complaints focus on subscription auto-renewal and the difficulty of cancelling — not on the accuracy of the underlying company data.

Endole's credit score is derived from filed accounts, county court judgments, filing behaviour and industry norms. For companies that file full accounts, it is a reasonable directional indicator. For micro-entities filing abbreviated accounts, the score is a coarser estimate — any lender or credit committee should treat it as one input, not a decision.

For a one-off due-diligence read on a single UK company, no — Companies House gives you the same underlying record for free. Endole earns its subscription when you need portfolio monitoring, downloadable credit reports for internal files, and director timeline data resolved across multiple companies at once.

Endole's pay-as-you-go single credit report costs £29.95 (per endole.co.uk pricing page, 1970-01-01). Unlimited monthly access sits in the £29–£99/month band depending on export and monitoring features. Annual plans discount by roughly 20%. See our dedicated pricing breakdown for every tier and the hidden costs to watch for.

Companies House is the statutory register — it is where Endole's data comes from. Companies House gives you every filing, every director, every PSC, every charge for free. Endole layers on a credit score, easier UI, group hierarchies and monitoring alerts. If you don't need those layers, use Companies House directly.

CompanyCheck (from £24.99/month) is roughly equivalent to Endole on pricing and feature breadth. CompanyCheck tends to score better on director timeline UX; Endole tends to score better on downloadable credit reports and industry benchmarks. Both are resellers of the same underlying Companies House data.

Trustpilot reviews repeatedly flag Endole's cancellation flow. Subscriptions auto-renew, and cancellation must be actioned before the renewal date via email to support. There is no in-app one-click cancel as of our last check. If you take a paid plan, diary the cancellation window immediately.

No. Endole 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 elected to file a home address as their service address.

6.5/10. The data is accurate, the credit score is directionally useful, and the reports look professional. The pricing is fair against CompanyCheck and cheaper than Red Flag Alert. Marks lost for the cancellation friction and for charging for information that is, at its base, a free statutory record. If you need one lookup, use Companies House. If you need monitoring across a portfolio, Endole is a reasonable pick.

The honest ranking: Companies House for free statutory data; CompanyCheck if you want a like-for-like paid competitor at similar money; Red Flag Alert for credit-focused monitoring; DueDil/FullCircl for B2B onboarding at scale; and Sell Ltd if you also want acquisition-side company research and deal tooling — free at our checker tier.