Pappers vs Wappalyzer

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.

Wappalyzer turns public website signals into technographic data for prospecting, record enrichment and monitoring market changes. It identifies thousands of technologies across millions of websites using signals such as HTML, scripts, headers, cookies and other fingerprints. Users can upload CSV or TXT files with up to 100,000 URLs for bulk analysis. APIs cover technology lookup, lead lists, subdomain discovery and email verification. Live results count as five lookups each; cached results are verified within the last 30 days. The service offers browser extensions and integrations including Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Gmail, Zapier, Make and an iPhone app. Basic extension detection runs locally, and sharing limited website-level data can be disabled in settings. The free plan includes 50 technology lookups and 50 email verifications per month, five website alerts and sample lead lists. Pro costs $250 a month for one user. Plan-included API credits expire after 60 days, while credits bought in bundles expire after 365 days. Wappalyzer is aimed at sales, marketing, operations, strategy, partnerships and security teams.