Forestreet vs Thomasnet

Forestreet is vendor and market discovery software for procurement professionals mapping suppliers across categories and geographies. Natural-language searches find suppliers by capability and location, with global supplier coverage listed. RapidReview lets users inspect suggested vendors’ websites within the platform, and results adapt to their review choices. Company and product details can include size, revenue, capability, and location. For supplier comparisons, its AI proposes a capability framework that users can edit without a stated limit. The ESG feature analyzes related articles across 26 risk areas for public and private companies. Forestreet also searches and indexes news sources to surface market stories, sentiment, and analysis. Users can export research data as a market report. The product is available through web and API access; API documentation describes connecting a market to an internal system with an API hook or integrating Forestreet into internal applications using an iFrame. Forestreet technology powers Beroe’s Supplier Discovery module within Beroe Live.ai. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, UK. The site directs prospective customers to request a demo and does not state a price. The demo page lists [email protected] as a contact email.

Thomasnet is a web-based industrial sourcing platform for finding and contacting North American suppliers. Buyers can search profiles for more than 500,000 suppliers and narrow results by location, certifications, and other criteria. Profiles include catalogs, certifications, and capability information. The platform serves industrial buyers seeking OEMs, custom manufacturers, service companies, and distributors. Buyers can save and share supplier shortlists, send requests for information directly to suppliers, and ask multiple suppliers for quotes in one step.

Suppliers can claim a free company profile. The Free Company Profile costs nothing and includes profile-content management, team-member access, activity overview analytics, and classification and basic positioning in limited categories. Separate supplier advertising is offered through a monthly program with a budget chosen by the supplier; no advertising price is listed. Advertisers can select keywords and track campaign performance in real time. Thomasnet was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in New York, New York.