Global Database vs Pappers

Global Database is a company intelligence platform for understanding and verifying businesses worldwide. It says its coverage includes more than 600 million companies across 200+ countries, drawing on 400+ official sources. Records show a source registry, a link to the filing, and the retrieval date. Company information includes identity, directors, financials, shareholders, ownership structures, and corporate relationships; filed financial history extends up to 20 years where available. The platform monitors registries and can notify customers when filings change. Listed capabilities include direct-dial data, technographic filters, and API access, along with Salesforce and HubSpot CRM push, Claude and ChatGPT connections, REST API, and webhooks. Regis lets users ask company questions in plain language and returns answers with source attribution and timestamps. Regis Corporate lists SSO, DPA, and SLA for compliance teams and regulated industries. The main platform is paid with pricing on request; a free plan and trial are also available. Trial access includes 50 prospecting credits, though availability may depend on market size or other market-specific criteria. Global Database was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Northampton, United Kingdom.

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.