Thomasnet vs Veridion

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.

Veridion is a supplier discovery and data service for procurement teams, available through web and API access. Users can search for suppliers by product, geography, and certification across a company graph covering 1.3 billion normalized products and services. Products are classified to UNSPSC and enriched with 22 or more attributes. Veridion describes 173 million supplier locations, organized by a three-level facility taxonomy with building-level detail. About 9 million products carry sustainability certifications such as ISO 14001, B Corp, Fair Trade, FSC, OEKO-TEX, and GRS. Search API V4 supports boolean filter trees, while Match & Enrich V6 can resolve results against an existing supplier master. The graph refreshes continuously, with volatile details such as certifications, plants, product lines, and ownership refreshed daily. Refreshed supplier data can be delivered as a flat file or warehouse share for loading into Coupa, Ariba, Jaggaer, or an existing master-data platform. Match and Search are free to try in the Playground. Paid pricing is on request and scoped to use case, coverage needs, and integration depth.