Top Kyckr Alternatives in 2026: Best Platforms for KYB, UBO Discovery & Company Verification
Last updated: 27 October 2026 · Reviewed against Kyckr's own site and developer documentation, and each alternative's own product and pricing pages (all checked 27 October 2026)
Kyckr built something genuinely useful. Live connections to 300+ official registries, normalised data formats, audit-ready timestamps. For compliance teams that spent years navigating foreign-language portals and stale PDFs, it was a step change.
But Kyckr was built to solve a 2016 problem. Registry access. Clean data retrieval. Document collection. That was the hard part then.
In 2026, that's table stakes. The hard part now is resolving UBO chains that span 8 jurisdictions, triggering re-verification automatically when ownership changes, and doing all of it through an API that doesn't require a 6-week integration sprint.
This article compares Kyckr against seven alternatives — Zavia.ai, Global Database, Moody's Orbis, The KYB, Kompany, Dun & Bradstreet, and OpenCorporates. We go deep on features, pricing, and what each platform is actually built for.
In This Article
- What is Kyckr?
- Kyckr: Core Features & Limitations
- Kyckr Pricing
- How We Compared
- 7 Kyckr Alternatives Compared
- 1. Zavia.ai — Best for UBO Resolution with Published Pricing
- 2. Global Database — Best for Registry Coverage at Scale
- 3. Moody's Orbis — Best for Financial Due Diligence
- 4. The KYB — Best for KYB Automation
- 5. Kompany (a Moody's company) — Best for EU Registry Documents
- 6. Dun & Bradstreet — Best for Credit & Risk Scoring
- 7. OpenCorporates — Best for Open Data Research
- Full Feature Comparison Table
- FAQ
What is Kyckr?
Kyckr is an Irish KYB data provider that connects compliance teams to official company registers through a single API and web portal. It was founded in Waterford in 2007 as Global Business Register, rebranded as Kyckr, and in 2022 was acquired by Realwise, an Australian investment firm. Its site describes the business as profitable, with 100 enterprise clients and 50 distribution partners.
Kyckr's core proposition is live registry access. Rather than storing a static database of company records, Kyckr connects to official registers at the point of request and returns normalised, time-stamped data. By its own figures it reaches 300+ registers and 200 million companies in 100+ countries.
Its data is also embedded in third-party platforms: Kyckr names LexisNexis, Strise, Alloy, S&P Global, Dotfile and Spektr as integration partners.
Status as of October 2026
- Coverage: 300+ registers, 200M companies, 100+ countries, including all 50 US states, all 27 EU member states and the UK (Kyckr country coverage).
- Gaps Kyckr names itself: Middle East and Africa coverage is "currently limited" and South America is "patchy", because many registers there still need manual retrieval.
- UBO product: UBO Verify, now marketed as Ownership Discovery, unwraps ownership across 100 countries where registers publish shareholders, with a threshold you set from 1% to 100%.
- Pricing: usage-based, "pay per call, no usage minimums", but no public price list; kyckr.com has no pricing page.
- Screening: Kyckr does not provide PEP, sanctions or adverse-media screening; its FAQ points customers to partners.
Note on naming: Kyckr (kyckr.com) is the company registry and KYB data platform. Do not confuse with "Kycker" (kycker.net), a separate unrelated platform.
Kyckr: Core Features & Limitations
Kyckr positions itself as a live, legally-authoritative company data layer — not a KYB workflow platform. Here's what it actually does well, and where it falls short.
✓ Strengths
- Live registry connections — data retrieved at point of request, not cached
- Time and date-stamped with named source registry — audit-ready by default
- Normalised JSON output — one data model across 300+ registers
- Original registry documents — 3,000+ document types, delivered in 15 minutes or less on average (Kyckr filings)
- REST API with public developer documentation
- Event-driven change notifications through the API (ongoing monitoring)
- Covers offshore financial centres (Cayman Islands, BVI, Jersey, Guernsey)
✗ Limitations
- No published prices — usage-based billing, quoted per customer
- Structured shareholder and UBO data only where the register publishes it; coverage varies by jurisdiction
- Middle East, Africa and South America coverage limited by Kyckr's own account
- No built-in sanctions, PEP, or adverse media screening
- No financial data or credit scoring capability
Kyckr Pricing
Kyckr does not publish prices. Its homepage promises "usage-based billing — pay per call, no usage minimums", and its API documentation confirms that every request draws down credits, with the credit cost varying by country and by what you request. But there is no rate card on kyckr.com, and the old pricing URL returns a 404.
That is the catch. A credit model priced per country is easy to start and hard to forecast: the same onboarding volume costs different amounts depending on which registers your customers sit in. Ask for the credit charge per country for your top ten jurisdictions before signing, and model your actual mix.
Earlier versions of this guide printed a Kyckr euro rate card. We could not find it on any Kyckr page in October 2026, so we removed it. If you hold a current Kyckr quote, compare it line by line with the published plans below.
Kyckr Coverage: What the Headline Number Means
Kyckr's headline numbers (300+ registers, 100+ countries) describe its connections, not what each register returns. Basic identity data — name, number, status, address — is broadly available. Directors, shareholders and UBO data depend on what each register publishes, and Kyckr's own FAQ says some registers "publish neither".
| Region | Kyckr's own description (developer docs, October 2026) |
|---|---|
| Europe | All 27 EU member states plus the UK |
| United States | All 50 states, via each Secretary of State register |
| Offshore centres | Cayman Islands, BVI, Jersey, Guernsey |
| Asia-Pacific | Key markets including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, China |
| Middle East & Africa | "Currently limited"; select jurisdictions only |
| South America | "Patchy"; uneven register digitalisation |
If a compliance team is verifying entities in the Gulf, Africa or Latin America, Kyckr's own documentation says to check its coverage portal first. Our Global Ownership Data Index shows which of 173 countries publish ownership data at all — the ceiling for any registry-based provider.
How We Compared
Every vendor fact in this guide comes from that vendor's own website — product pages, pricing pages, developer documentation or its own newsroom — read on 27 October 2026. We did not use review sites, analyst estimates or third-party price lists, and where a vendor publishes no price we say so rather than estimate one. Coverage figures are the vendor's own, in the vendor's own unit, and are not independently audited.
Zavia.ai publishes this comparison, so read its entry as a vendor claim too, checkable against its pricing page. For a wider field, see our UBO data providers comparison; for the investigation-platform end of the market, our Sayari alternatives guide.
7 Kyckr Alternatives Compared
Each platform below was evaluated on the same dimensions: data coverage, UBO resolution capability, pricing transparency, API quality, and fit for automated KYB pipelines.
1. Zavia.ai
UBO Discovery & KYB Verification
Zavia.ai is built for one thing: resolving beneficial ownership. While Kyckr retrieves what is on each register, Zavia.ai maps the ownership chain across layered corporate structures, from the entity in front of you to the people who control it.
Where Kyckr connects to 300+ registers in 100+ countries, Zavia.ai connects directly to government ownership registries in 173 countries. Every data point carries a timestamp and source attribution, meeting the same audit standard as Kyckr, with an ownership-mapping layer on top.
Key Features
- UBO resolution — maps ownership chains across multi-layer structures from registry filings
- Direct registry connections in 173 countries
- Every plan includes basic registry data, directors and officers, shareholders and group structure
- REST API on every plan, with published documentation
- Ownership-change monitoring on the Corporate and Enterprise plans
- Bulk data exports from Corporate; white-label option on Enterprise
- Published pricing — no "call for a quote" step
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Checks / Month | Monitoring |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99/month | 200 checks | — |
| Growth | $199/month | 600 checks | — |
| Corporate | $499/month | 3,000 checks | Included |
| Enterprise | $999/month | 10,000 checks | Included |
From the Zavia.ai pricing page; 15% off on annual billing. Free trial with limited checks, no credit card. Higher volumes and bulk licensing by contract.
✓ Pros
- Built around UBO resolution, not bolted onto document retrieval
- Published pricing — no sales call required to get started
- Fixed monthly check allowance makes cost predictable
- Directors, shareholders and group structure on every plan
- White-label option for platform builders (Enterprise)
✗ Cons
- Monitoring only on Corporate and Enterprise plans
- No financial data or credit scoring
- Newer brand — less name recognition than Kyckr in Tier 1 banks
Zavia.ai vs Kyckr — Head to Head
| Dimension | Zavia.ai | Kyckr |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage (vendor figure) | WIN 173 countries | 100+ countries, 300+ registers, 200M companies |
| UBO resolution | TIE Ownership mapping on every plan | TIE UBO Verify, 100 countries, 1–100% threshold |
| Pricing transparency | WIN Published from $99/mo | MISS Usage-based, no public rate card |
| Cost predictability | WIN Fixed monthly check allowance | Credits vary by country |
| Monitoring | TIE Corporate plan and up | TIE Event-driven API notifications |
| Audit-ready sourcing | TIE Time-stamped + named source | TIE Time-stamped + named source |
| Document retrieval | Registry data | WIN 3,000+ document types |
| Sanctions & PEP screening | WIN Corporate and Enterprise plans | MISS Partners only |
| Financial data | MISS Not available | MISS Not available |
2. Global Database
Government-Sourced B2B Intelligence at Enterprise Scale
Global Database is a B2B company-data platform built on government registry sources. Its data page describes 400+ registries, 200+ countries and 600M+ companies, delivering registry data, filed financials, UBO and ownership chains, corporate linkage, director and shareholder information, and KYB verification.
Unlike Kyckr, which focuses on registry access and documents, Global Database bundles the wider company-intelligence stack — firmographics, financials, ownership trees, PEP and sanctions screening and portfolio monitoring — under one roof. Its customer stories include Experian, Trustpair, Allianz Italy and WNS.
Key Features
- 600M+ companies from 400+ official government registries (Global Database figures)
- UBO and ownership graph, resolved to the natural person at the threshold you set
- Filed financial statements, with up to 20+ years of history where available
- Director and shareholder profiles, corporate linkage to the global ultimate parent
- PEP and sanctions screening, and registry-alert monitoring
- Redistribution licensing — worldwide territory, perpetual licence on delivered records
- Source attribution on every record
- REST API, bulk feeds and an MCP server for AI agents
Pricing
| Use Case | Model | Published Price |
|---|---|---|
| KYB checks and API | Quoted by volume | Not published |
| Data licensing / redistribution | Licence | Not published |
| Trial | Free trial | Free |
✓ Pros
- Broad government-sourced coverage — 600M+ companies
- Full data stack: ownership + financials + directors + screening
- Redistribution rights — rare in this market
- Named enterprise customers (Experian, Allianz Italy, WNS)
✗ Cons
- No published price list — volumes are quoted
- No case-management workflow
- Heavier integration effort than plug-and-play KYB tools
3. Moody's Orbis (formerly Bureau van Dijk)
Deep Financial Due Diligence & Corporate Group Analysis
Moody's Orbis is the dominant platform for deep financial due diligence. Formerly Bureau van Dijk, it now sits inside Moody's. Moody's describes Orbis as covering more than 600 million companies, with data from 170+ providers plus its own sources and over 2 billion ownership links — balance sheets, P&L, shareholder structures, and group linkage. For registry retrieval, Moody's sells a separate Entity Verification API covering 200+ countries and jurisdictions with original documents.
Orbis is not a Kyckr replacement in any functional sense. Kyckr is registry retrieval. Orbis is financial analysis. But they share a buyer — the compliance analyst who needs both registry data and financial context to make an onboarding decision.
Pricing
| Product | Coverage (Moody's figure) | Published Price |
|---|---|---|
| Orbis | 600M+ companies | Not published — enterprise contract |
| Entity Verification API | 200+ countries and jurisdictions | Not published |
| Kompany (Moody's company) | Register documents and reports | Published per-item tier list, €0.27–€150 |
4. The KYB
KYB Automation for Compliance Pipelines
The KYB is a verification platform focused on automating KYB processes end to end. It claims official registry data across 250+ countries and states, 300M+ companies and 2,000+ data sources, with a strong focus on eliminating manual verification. It includes document retrieval, AML checks on businesses and individuals, and an offline registry backup to avoid outages during registry downtime.
Unlike Kyckr (pure data layer), The KYB positions more as a workflow tool — it includes a back-office UI for managing due diligence alongside the API. Unlike Kyckr, it publishes prices: the Plus plan starts at $3 per verification (minimum 100), AML screening is $3, official documents are billed at registry cost plus 25%, and perpetual KYB monitoring adds $0.50 per verification.
✓ Pros
- AML checks on business entities and their people — in one platform
- Offline registry backup reduces verification outages
- Back-office UI for due diligence teams, not just API-first
- Published per-verification pricing from $3
✗ Cons
- Per-verification costs add up: KYB + AML + monitoring is $6.50 per entity at list price
- No AI UBO resolution for complex multi-jurisdiction chains
- Enterprise volume pricing is custom
5. Kompany (a Moody's company)
EU Registry Depth & Standardised Company Records
Kompany is an Austrian-founded business verification platform built on direct EU registry connections. In March 2022, kompany joined Moody's, and its registry API is now also sold as Moody's Entity Verification API.
Kompany carved a niche in standardised, real-time EU registry data, with particular depth in DACH markets. Kompany.com still runs its own sign-in and publishes a commercial price tier list per document or product, from €0.27 to €150 per item excluding VAT.
6. Dun & Bradstreet
Credit Risk, Identity Verification & Master Data
D&B is the oldest name in business intelligence. Its D-U-N-S number system is the de facto global business identifier embedded in government procurement, financial services, and enterprise supply chain workflows. D&B.AI, launched on 16 October 2025, adds AI agents across its data products; D&B describes its data as covering more than 600 million public and private businesses across 200+ countries.
D&B is not a registry-first platform. Its data includes proprietary enrichment, modelled credit risk scores, and a global entity resolution layer (the D-U-N-S graph) that is useful for MDM and supplier risk. For pure KYB/UBO compliance with audit-grade sourcing, the registry-first platforms outperform it.
Pricing
| Product | Starting Price |
|---|---|
| D&B Hoovers Essentials | $49/month (150 company + 150 contact credits) or $529/year |
| D&B Finance Analytics | Custom enterprise |
| D&B Risk Analytics | Custom enterprise |
7. OpenCorporates
Open Company Data for Research & Investigation
OpenCorporates is the largest open database of company information, publishing records direct from official primary sources across 140+ jurisdictions. It's used by investigative journalists, NGOs, academic researchers, and compliance teams for basic entity lookups and cross-border research.
It is not a KYB compliance platform. There is no UBO resolution, no monitoring, and no AML integration. Website search is free; API plans start at £2,250 a year for 500 calls a month, rising to £12,000 a year for 5,000.
✓ Pros
- Free website search — useful for ad hoc research
- Broad jurisdictional coverage
- Good for cross-referencing in investigative workflows
✗ Cons
- Not built to resolve UBOs
- No free API tier — from £2,250/year
- No monitoring or alerting
- No AML, sanctions, or PEP screening
Full Feature Comparison: Kyckr vs All 7 Alternatives
Figures are each vendor's own, checked 27 October 2026. Kompany is covered under Moody's.
| Feature | Kyckr | Zavia.ai | Global DB | Moody's Orbis | The KYB | D&B | OpenCorp. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registry connections | 300+ registers | 173 countries | 400+ registries | 170+ providers | 250+ countries & states | Proprietary | 140+ jurisdictions |
| Company coverage | 200M | Not stated | 600M+ | 600M+ | 300M+ | 600M+ | Not stated |
| Live registry data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✗ | ~ |
| UBO resolution | UBO Verify, 100 countries | Every plan | Ownership graph | Group linkage | Registry only | D-U-N-S graph | ✗ |
| Financial data | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ Deep | ✗ | ✓ Credit focus | ✗ |
| AML screening | ✗ | Corporate plan + | ✓ PEP & sanctions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Published pricing | ✗ | ✓ From $99/mo | Not published | Custom | ✓ From $3/check | From $49/mo (SMB) | ✓ API from £2,250/yr |
| Monitoring | Event-driven | Corporate plan + | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Document retrieval | ✓ 3,000+ types | Registry data | Select jurisdictions | ✓ | ✓ | Limited | ✗ |
| REST API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reseller / white-label | ✓ Reseller programme | ✓ Enterprise plan | ✓ Redistribution | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Audit-ready sourcing | ✓ Time-stamped | ✓ Time-stamped | ✓ Source-cited | ✓ | ✓ | Modelled data | Source shown |
| Offshore coverage (BVI, Cayman) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Best for | Registry data retrieval + audit trail | UBO resolution + published pricing | Data licensing + full data stack | Financial DD + group structure | KYB workflow + AML combo | Credit risk + MDM | Open research |
Frequently Asked Questions
Kyckr is a KYB data provider that gives compliance teams live access to company registry data from 300+ official registers across 100+ countries. It's used primarily for entity verification, document retrieval, and UBO identification during onboarding and ongoing due diligence. It connects to registries in real time and returns normalised, time-stamped data — making it suitable for AML-regulated businesses that need audit-ready sourcing.
Kyckr does not publish prices. It bills on usage — "pay per call, no usage minimums" — with credits whose cost varies by country and by what you request, so the only way to get a number is a quote. For comparison, Zavia.ai publishes plans from $99/month for 200 checks, Global Database quotes KYB and licensing volumes after a free trial, The KYB from $3 per verification, and Kompany a per-item tier list from €0.27.
Both platforms provide registry-sourced company and UBO data with timestamps. The key differences: (1) Zavia.ai is built around UBO resolution, while Kyckr is built around registry retrieval and original documents; (2) Zavia.ai publishes four plans from $99 to $999 a month, while Kyckr quotes usage-based credits; (3) Zavia.ai covers 173 countries, Kyckr 100+ countries through 300+ registers; (4) Kyckr offers 3,000+ original document types.
Kyckr's own timeline says it was acquired in 2022 by Realwise, an Australian investment firm, after launching a revamped API and portal with UBO discovery. As a private company it no longer publishes financial reports, so customers see less of its finances than they did when it was listed. Its site describes the business as profitable, with 100 enterprise clients.
Yes. UBO Verify, now marketed as Ownership Discovery, retrieves Enhanced Profiles layer by layer and calculates beneficial ownership against a threshold you set between 1% and 100% (25% by default). Kyckr's developer docs say it works across 100 countries, but its FAQ adds the catch: registers publish different things, and some publish neither shareholders nor beneficial owners, so results depend on the jurisdiction.
Kyckr offers a REST API and developer documentation, making it technically suitable for integration into automated KYB pipelines. However, it's primarily a data retrieval layer — it doesn't include workflow orchestration, case management, AML screening, or AI-assisted risk decisioning out of the box. Teams that want a full KYB workflow platform typically combine Kyckr with a separate AML/workflow tool, or use platforms like The KYB that bundle screening, or Zavia.ai for the ownership step.
Kyckr connects to 300+ registers in 100+ countries: all 27 EU member states plus the UK, all 50 US states, the main offshore centres (Cayman, BVI, Jersey, Guernsey) and key Asia-Pacific markets. By its own account, Middle East and Africa coverage is limited and South America is patchy. What each register returns varies — basic identity data is broad, while directors, shareholders and UBOs depend on local disclosure rules. Kyckr's coverage portal lists the current position per country. Zavia.ai (173 countries) and Global Database (200+ countries, 400+ registries) cover a broader footprint for global compliance teams.
No. Kyckr provides registry data — legal entity information, ownership structures, and corporate documents from official government sources. It does not include built-in sanctions lists, PEP screening, or adverse media monitoring. For a complete AML workflow, you need to combine Kyckr with a dedicated screening platform. Platforms like The KYB bundle AML checks and entity verification together if you want both in one place.
For fintechs that need to move fast and don't want to negotiate a custom contract before seeing pricing, Zavia.ai is the strongest Kyckr alternative. It offers published pricing from $99/month for 200 checks, a REST API on every plan, and UBO resolution across 173 countries. For fintechs that need bundled AML screening alongside entity verification, The KYB is worth evaluating.
Four of the seven in this guide do. Zavia.ai lists four plans from $99 to $999 a month; The KYB charges from $3 per verification; Kompany publishes a per-item tier list from €0.27 to €150; OpenCorporates sells API plans from £2,250 a year. Global Database, Moody's Orbis and D&B's compliance products are quoted on contract.
Yes. Kyckr offers a REST API (documented at developer.kyckr.com) that returns machine-readable JSON/XML company data alongside original PDF registry documents. It supports both live retrieval and document downloads in a normalised format across its 300+ registers. Billing is usage-based per call, with no published price list.
