Kompass vs Pappers

Kompass provides B2B company data and tools for prospecting, market analysis, digital visibility, and international expansion. It says its global database covers over 60 million companies and over 148 million decision-makers. EasyBusiness offers advanced targeting and analytics, while KSales is aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses seeking prospecting with lower data volumes. KSales includes worldwide data, 200 monthly credits, and a maximum of 500 results per search; its listed prices are €49 a year or €59 a month. Kompass advertises a 14-day EasyBusiness trial without payment or a credit card. CRM connectors include Salesforce, Zoho, Pipedrive, HubSpot, and Dynamics, with APIs for custom integrations. Its Kompass Data Salesforce app can search Kompass data, create accounts, update company information automatically, and deduplicate records. Kompass says it follows applicable data-protection rules, including GDPR, and collects data locally through data-integrity teams. It serves sales and marketing teams, exporters, procurement professionals, business developers, and executives. The company lists its founding year as 1944, while its UK about page gives 1947.

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.