Kompany alternative UK — free UK company checker

DueDil (FullCircl) or Creditsafe Compliance. Both cover UK & Irish onboarding with proper workflow, screening and audit trails at contract sizes similar to or smaller than Kompany. Companies House Service is the free source of the underlying UK filings — use it if your KYC bar allows self-produced extracts.

Bureau van Dijk / Moody's Orbis (same house, different product — firmographics and analytics), Refinitiv (LSEG) Data & Analytics for sanctions/PEP combined with KYC, and Dun & Bradstreet Compliance. All three are enterprise-only and priced similarly to Kompany's mid tier.

For UK filings, Companies House Service is free and covers the same statutory record. For non-UK jurisdictions, each national business register has its own portal — most publish filings free or at a small per-document fee. The catch is workflow: doing 30 jurisdictions manually costs more in staff time than Kompany's subscription.

No. Since the Moody's acquisition in 2022, all access is sold via enterprise sales with volume commitments. Individual document pulls sit around £30–£90 per certified filing under contract; no consumer-facing 'buy one report' path exists on kompany.com today.

Yes for lower-volume UK-heavy workflows. Combine Companies House Service (free UK), OpenCorporates (paid API, cheaper multi-jurisdiction coverage), The Gazette (free insolvency notices) and a compliance tool like ComplyAdvantage for screening. You lose Kompany's certified documents and audit trail — check whether your regulator accepts the mix before switching.

OpenCorporates aggregates public company data from ~140 jurisdictions with an API and cheaper pricing than Kompany, but its documents are not court-certified originals — it's a database of extracted data, not a live register-pull service. Right tool for research and journalism, not always for regulated KYC.

Kompany itself is a KYC data source, not a credit bureau. Since the Moody's acquisition, credit-adjacent data is available via Moody's broader analytics — but if a credit score is your primary need, Creditsafe or Moody's ratings themselves are the right entry point.

No — Sell Ltd is a UK-focused acquisition and company-research tool. We don't provide certified cross-border KYC documents. Use us for buyer-side research and Companies House lookups; use Kompany, DueDil or Creditsafe for regulated onboarding at scale.

For DACH-region KYC, a local specialist like Bisnode (Dun & Bradstreet Nordic) or Creditreform might beat Kompany on that specific market. For Asia, Refinitiv's regional data feeds often lead. Enterprise KYC teams frequently combine a global tool like Kompany with regional specialists rather than treating it as a single-vendor decision.

For low volumes (10–20 checks a year across 3–4 jurisdictions), manual pulls from national registers can be 60–80% cheaper than a Kompany contract. For higher volumes (100+ checks a year across 10+ jurisdictions), a Kompany-style tool is almost always cheaper once staff time and error rates are priced in. Do the maths on your specific volume before switching.

Genuinely global KYC volume: keep Kompany or negotiate an Orbis-plus-RegHub bundle via Moody's. UK-heavy KYC: DueDil/FullCircl or Creditsafe Compliance. UK-only or low volume: Companies House + a screening tool. Buyer-side research on UK targets: Sell Ltd checker, free. Match the tool to the actual jurisdictional mix.