BuiltWith vs Pappers

BuiltWith profiles websites to help users research technology adoption, ecommerce activity, web usage trends, and potential sales leads. The platform says it tracks 127,671 web technologies and provides usage lists covering more than 370 million active domains, with over 18 years of usage history available through its plans. Users can find ecommerce websites and products, filter reports by category, region, or technology, and export results. Uploaded website lists can be analyzed, with report metadata and technology-use matrices exportable to Excel or CSV. Future Customers uses technology overlap to recommend potential leads. BuiltWith offers API access with XML and JSON feeds, browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, and CRM integrations including Salesforce, HubSpot, Pardot, Zoho CRM, Close.io, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Individual website lookups are free; the Free plan permits 10 detailed lookups per day. Advanced costs $144 a year. Monthly plans have a one-month minimum and yearly plans a one-year minimum, and plans can be canceled at any time. The maker was founded in 2007 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Pappers is a web service and API for looking up legal, corporate and financial information about French companies. Records can include statutes, accounts, brands, executives and shareholders. Search filters cover companies, executives, beneficial owners, documents and BODACC publications, with text search inside legal documents; results can be downloaded in Excel format. The API provides company records, search results and documents, and includes a Zapier connector. New API accounts created with a professional email receive 100 free credits, but API access stops when those credits are used. Pappers also offers customizable email or webhook monitoring alerts for companies and executives, with Zapier and Make integrations. Its MCP connects with Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Mistral and HuggingChat, and can work alongside other MCP servers. Pappers Pro combines monitoring and exports with an AI assistant, solvency reports, credit limits and beneficial-owner information for companies in 14 European countries. Surveillance plans include a free tier, €200 a year and €480 a year options. Pappers says its data is updated daily, but does not guarantee its information is exhaustive, accurate, current, error-free or complete.