Top Sayari Alternatives in 2026: Best Platforms for UBO Discovery, KYB & Risk Intelligence
Last updated: 27 October 2026 · Reviewed against Sayari's own platform, World Model, Graph and newsroom pages, Sayari's G-Cloud 14 listing and pricing document on the UK Digital Marketplace, and each alternative's own product and pricing pages (all checked 27 October 2026)
Sayari is powerful. Government agencies trust it. By its own count, more than a quarter of the world's 35 largest banks use it. And on the UK government's G-Cloud 14 marketplace, five analyst seats list at £94,815 a year.
For most commercial compliance teams, that price tag is a deal-breaker. Even where budget exists, Sayari is built for investigators — not automated KYB pipelines. If you need registry-sourced data at scale, a modern API, or pricing that doesn't require an enterprise contract just to get a number, you need to look elsewhere.
This guide covers seven alternatives. We go through what each one does well, where it falls short, how it prices, and exactly how it stacks up against Sayari head-to-head.
Status as of October 2026
- Ownership: TPG Growth made an up to $228 million strategic majority investment in Sayari in January 2024 (Sayari newsroom).
- Coverage: 12B+ records, 550M+ companies and 650M+ individuals across 250+ jurisdictions, per Sayari's platform page.
- Product change: Sayari Map is no longer sold separately. Supply chain mapping is now a premium add-on inside Sayari Graph, with no change to pricing or SKUs.
- Price visibility: Sayari still publishes no commercial price list. The only public rate card is its G-Cloud 14 listing for UK public-sector buyers, dated May 2024.
- What changed among the alternatives: The KYB and AsiaVerify now publish prices; Zavia.ai plans start at $99 a month.
In This Article
What Is Sayari?
Sayari is a commercial risk intelligence platform founded in 2015 in Washington, D.C. It was built by financial crime and counter-threat finance analysts — and it shows. The platform combines corporate ownership data and trade records with graph analytics to map entity relationships and surface hidden risk. In-Q-Tel, the US intelligence community's investment arm, is a named investor.
Its flagship product, Sayari Graph, sits on what Sayari calls its Commercial World Model: 12B+ source records resolved into 2B+ entities, with 4B+ trade records and a bi-weekly release cadence (Sayari World Model). It was originally designed for government agencies, regulators, and law enforcement. Today it serves global banks, multinationals, and supply chain compliance teams too.
Sayari's about page lists a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award for 2025 and roughly $100M in annual recurring revenue. Growth has kept pricing in enterprise-only territory, and the product remains investigation-first, not pipeline-native.
What Sayari Does
- Corporate ownership mapping across 550M+ companies and 650M+ individuals in 250+ jurisdictions
- Graph-based entity relationship visualisation
- Embedded sanctions, OFAC, UK, and EU watchlist screening
- Supply chain mapping and sub-tier supplier risk (a premium add-on inside Graph, formerly Sayari Map)
- Full source provenance — every record traceable to official documents
- Risk factors including ownership by sanctioned individuals (4 levels deep)
- REST API and bulk Global Data File delivery
Pros & Cons
✓ Strengths
- Best-in-class graph UI for manual investigations
- Deep hard-target jurisdiction coverage (Middle East, Africa, CIS)
- Pre-built risk factors including sanctioned ownership chains
- Supply chain mapping add-on inside Graph (formerly Map)
- Full source provenance — every record cites its source document
- SOC 2 Type II; listed on UK G-Cloud 14
✗ Weaknesses
- Expensive — £18,963 per seat per year on its G-Cloud 14 rate card
- No public commercial pricing — "priced to the program"
- Not designed for automated KYB pipelines
- API credits are expensive — 50K calls costs £100,000
- Supply chain mapping is an extra-cost add-on
Sayari Pricing (G-Cloud 14 Rate Card)
Sayari doesn't publish commercial pricing. Its G-Cloud 14 service listing on the UK government's Digital Marketplace (service ID 979830906460919) does: the attached pricing document, dated 3 May 2024, is the full public-sector rate card. These are list prices for UK government buyers, not a commercial quote, but they are the only Sayari prices in the public record.
Graph Analyst Application — Named User Licences
| Users | Per Seat / Year (GBP) | Annual Contract (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| 5 users | £18,963 | £94,815 |
| 10 users | £17,861 | £178,609 |
| 25 users | £16,074 | £401,856 |
| 50 users | £14,467 | £723,366 |
| 100 users | £13,020 | £1,302,000 |
Sayari Map — Supply Chain Platform (now an add-on inside Graph)
| Product | Volume | Annual (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Map Platform Licence | Up to 10 users | £80,000 |
| Tier 1 Supplier Mapping | Up to 1,500 suppliers | £60,000 (£40/supplier) |
| Tier 1 Supplier Mapping | Up to 5,000 suppliers | £88,000 (£18/supplier) |
| Tier 1 Supplier Mapping | Up to 10,000 suppliers | £120,000 (£12/supplier) |
REST API & Data Licences
| Product | Volume | Annual (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| API Annual Licence | Single client | £24,000 |
| API Credits | 50,000 calls | £100,000 |
| API Credits | 100,000 calls | £100,000 |
| API Credits | 500,000 calls | £400,000 |
| API Credits | 1,000,000 calls | £680,000 |
| Global Data File | Enterprise division | £1,200,000 |
Read the rate card carefully: the API credit tiers are not linear — 50,000 and 100,000 calls both list at £100,000 a year, on top of the £24,000 annual API licence. Budget the API licence and the credits together, not the credits alone.
How We Compared
Every vendor fact in this guide comes from that vendor's own website — product pages, pricing pages, documentation or its own newsroom — read on 27 October 2026. Sayari's prices come from the one public source that lists them, its UK G-Cloud 14 pricing document. 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 (companies, entities, records or jurisdictions), 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.
1. Zavia.ai
AI-Powered UBO Discovery & KYB Compliance Intelligence
Zavia.ai is a purpose-built UBO discovery and corporate ownership intelligence platform. It connects directly to government ownership registries in 173 countries and uses an AI ownership-mapping engine to trace ownership chains — including parent companies, subsidiaries, and offshore structures.
Where other platforms treat beneficial ownership as a secondary feature, Zavia.ai makes it the entire product. Every data point is sourced from official government registries with full provenance. Every ownership map is built for AML, FATF, and KYB compliance workflows — with audit-ready evidence trails included.
Key Features
- AI-driven UBO mapping — traces shareholding layers and group structure from registry filings
- Direct registry connections — 173 countries, with source attribution and timestamps on every record
- Every plan includes — basic registry data, directors and officers, shareholders, and group structure
- Ownership monitoring — change alerts on the Corporate and Enterprise plans
- Bulk data exports — from the Corporate plan; white-label option on Enterprise
- REST API on every plan — integrates into existing compliance stacks
Pricing
| Plan | Price / Month | Checks / Month | Monitoring |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99 | 200 | — |
| Growth | $199 | 600 | — |
| Corporate | $499 | 3,000 | Included |
| Enterprise | $999 | 10,000 | Included |
Published on the Zavia.ai pricing page; 15% off on annual billing. Free trial with a limited number of checks, no credit card required. Bulk data and higher volumes by contract.
✓ Pros
- Direct registry connections = verifiable, timestamped data
- Transparent, self-serve pricing from $99/month
- Directors, shareholders and group structure on every plan
- Ownership change monitoring from the Corporate plan
✗ Cons
- Smaller brand recognition vs legacy players
- Coverage in some frontier markets still expanding
- No supply chain mapping module
- Monitoring not included on Starter and Growth
Sayari vs Zavia.ai
| Dimension | Sayari | Zavia.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Data Source | Official source-cited records | Direct registry connections |
| AI Capability | Graph analytics + risk factors | AI ownership mapping for UBO |
| Published Pricing | Public-sector rate card only | Yes — four plans on the pricing page |
| Entry Price | £94,815/year (5 users, G-Cloud list) | $99/month |
| Monitoring | API change monitoring; Graph refreshed twice daily | Ownership change alerts (Corporate plan and up) |
| Supply Chain | Add-on inside Graph | Not offered |
| Govt/LE Pedigree | Strong — built for govt | Commercial focus |
| Free Trial | Listed on G-Cloud 14 | Yes — limited checks, no credit card |
2. Global Database
600M+ Companies from 400+ Government Registries
Global Database is a full-stack B2B company-data platform. Its data page describes 400+ registries, 200+ countries and 600M+ companies, with data that is "primary, government-sourced" and attributed record by record.
The platform covers registry information, filed financials, ownership and UBO data, corporate linkage, directors and shareholders, KYB verification and PEP and sanctions screening. Its customer stories include Experian, Trustpair, Allianz Italy and WNS. Redistribution licensing and an MCP server for AI agents make it a fit for platforms and data teams building their own products on top of the data.
Key Features
- 600M+ company profiles from 400+ official government registries in 200+ countries (Global Database figures)
- UBO & ownership graph — traces owners layer by layer to the natural person, at 25%, 10% or any threshold you set
- Filed financials — P&L, balance sheet and cash flow where filed, with up to 20+ years of history where available
- KYB verification and portfolio monitoring with registry alerts
- PEP & sanctions screening built into the platform
- Redistribution licensing — worldwide territory and a perpetual licence on delivered records
- MCP server for AI agents, plus REST API and bulk data feeds
- Salesforce, HubSpot and Microsoft Dynamics connectors
Pricing
Not published. Free trial available; KYB, API and data-licensing pricing on request.
✓ Pros
- Wide registry coverage: 400+ sources, 200+ countries
- Redistribution rights — rare in this category
- Source attribution on every record
- Filed private-company financials alongside ownership
- MCP server for AI agent workflows
✗ Cons
- Less investigation-focused UI than Sayari Graph
- Supply chain mapping not a dedicated module
- No published price list
Sayari vs Global Database
| Dimension | Sayari | Global Database |
|---|---|---|
| Company Coverage | 550M+ | 600M+ |
| Sources | 250+ jurisdictions, 715+ sources | 400+ registries, 200+ countries |
| Financial Data | Limited | Filed accounts, up to 20+ years |
| Redistribution Rights | Not advertised | Redistribution licences, worldwide |
| Published Pricing | Public-sector rate card only | Not published |
| Investigation Graph UI | Best-in-class | Data platform focus |
| Supply Chain Module | Add-on inside Graph | Via linkage data |
| AI/MCP Integration | APIs and SDKs | MCP server |
3. Moody's Orbis (Bureau van Dijk)
The Global Standard for Private Company Financials & Ownership
Moody's Orbis (formerly Bureau van Dijk) is the most established private company database. Moody's describes it as covering more than 600 million companies, with data from more than 170 providers plus hundreds of its own sources and over 2 billion ownership links. Moody's cites the Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance 50 ranking for 2026, where it was category leader in data technology for entity management.
Orbis is the default choice for financial institutions, M&A teams, academic researchers, and compliance functions that need deep standardised financial data alongside ownership intelligence. It's not built for investigation-style workflows, but for systematic financial due diligence at scale.
Key Features
- 600M+ companies with standardised financial data from 170+ providers
- 2B+ ownership links and corporate hierarchy data
- Registry retrieval and original documents through the Moody's Entity Verification API (200+ countries and jurisdictions, per Moody's)
- Moody's Maxsight™ unified risk platform, launched February 2025
- Chartis FCC50 2026 category leader, data technology for entity management
Pricing
Enterprise only. Moody's publishes no rate card for Orbis; contracts are quoted on scope and user count.
✓ Pros
- Deepest private company financial data globally
- Chartis FCC50 2026 category leader for entity management data
- 30+ year institutional trust with banks and regulators
- Strong data standardisation — comparable across 200+ countries
✗ Cons
- No published pricing — enterprise contracts only
- Data from 170+ mixed providers — not all government-direct
- Weak on hard-target jurisdictions vs Sayari
- No redistribution of data in most licence terms
- Complex onboarding — slow for smaller teams
Sayari vs Moody's Orbis
| Dimension | Sayari | Moody's Orbis |
|---|---|---|
| Financial Data | Limited | Industry-leading private co financials |
| Hard-Target Markets | Core strength | Limited coverage |
| M&A Intelligence | Basic | Zephyr M&A database integrated |
| Brand / Regulatory Trust | Growing | 30+ year global standard |
| Investigation Graph UI | Purpose-built for investigators | Analytics/search focus |
| Reseller Rights | Not available | Typically restricted |
| Entry Price | £94,815/year (G-Cloud list) | Not published |
4. Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
The Oldest Name in Business Intelligence — Now with AI
Founded in 1841, Dun & Bradstreet is one of the oldest and largest business information companies in the world. Its D-U-N-S® Number is a widely used global business identifier. D&B's AI page cites 640M+ verified business records across 250+ global markets.
On 16 October 2025, D&B launched D&B.AI — a suite of enterprise AI capabilities including purpose-built agents for credit risk, supplier evaluation, compliance, sales, and marketing, delivered through MCP servers and Google's open-source Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol.
Key Features
- D-U-N-S® Number — universal business identifier in 250+ markets
- 640M+ business records with credit scores, risk ratings, and financial models
- D&B.AI — generative AI agents for credit, compliance, and sales workflows
- ChatD&B™ — unified natural language interface to D&B data
- D&B Risk Analytics — AI-powered supplier and third-party risk screening
- D&B Hoovers — sales intelligence, 330M+ company profiles
- D&B Connect — master data management and CRM enrichment
Pricing
D&B Hoovers Essentials: $49/month (150 company + 150 contact credits) or $529/year (1,800 + 1,800 credits). That is a sales-prospecting product; compliance and enterprise products are custom quote only.
✓ Pros
- D-U-N-S Number embedded in thousands of enterprise systems globally
- Best-in-class credit risk and master data management
- D&B.AI agents with MCP + A2A (launched October 2025)
- Affordable entry point via D&B Hoovers ($49/month)
- 180+ years of business data history
✗ Cons
- Hard-target jurisdiction coverage very limited vs Sayari
- UBO bundled into broader products — not standalone
- Restrictive licensing; no redistribution rights
Sayari vs D&B
| Dimension | Sayari | Dun & Bradstreet |
|---|---|---|
| Business Identifier | Proprietary | D-U-N-S® — global standard |
| Credit Risk | Limited | Industry-leading credit models |
| Hard-Target Markets | Core capability | Limited |
| AI Features | Graph analytics | D&B.AI agents, MCP, A2A |
| Sales Intelligence | N/A | D&B Hoovers, 330M+ profiles |
| Investigation Graph UI | Purpose-built | Not available |
| Entry Price | £94,815/year (G-Cloud list) | $49/month (Hoovers) |
5. OpenCorporates
World's Largest Open Registry Database
OpenCorporates is the largest open database of companies, publishing records direct from official primary sources across 140+ jurisdictions. It democratised access to corporate registry data for journalists, NGOs, academics, and OSINT analysts. For enterprise compliance teams, it functions as a supplementary data layer — not a standalone platform.
It is not built to resolve UBOs, and it has no financial data, risk scoring, or sanctions screening. Website search is free; API access is sold in annual plans from £2,250 (OpenCorporates pricing).
✓ Pros
- Free public website search; free at-scale access for public-benefit users
- 140+ jurisdictions with basic registration data
- Strong data provenance and source transparency
- Good for journalism and open-source investigation
✗ Cons
- Not built to resolve beneficial owners
- No sanctions, PEP, or adverse media screening
- No free API tier — Essentials is £2,250/year for 500 calls a month
Sayari vs OpenCorporates
| Dimension | Sayari | OpenCorporates |
|---|---|---|
| UBO Intelligence | Core capability | Not available |
| Sanctions Screening | Embedded watchlists | Not available |
| Entry Price | £94,815/year (G-Cloud list) | Free web search; API from £2,250/year |
| Data Model | Resolved graph, bi-weekly releases | Official records as published, source shown |
| Enterprise Compliance | Purpose-built | Not designed for it |
6. AsiaVerify
APAC-Specialist KYB & Compliance Verification
AsiaVerify is a regional specialist for KYB and compliance verification across Asia-Pacific. Its jurisdictions hub lists 14 markets — China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, New Zealand, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, India and Australia — and 450M+ entities sourced from authoritative and government registries. It excels in a region where global platforms are often less localised.
Unlike Sayari, it publishes prices: a $249 one-time starter credit pack, or a Pro subscription at $99 a month or $999 a year (AsiaVerify plans).
✓ Pros
- Unmatched depth in APAC — China, SEA, India registries
- Native translation of local-language filings into English
- Real-time registry connections in key APAC markets
- UBO mapping for complex cross-border APAC structures
✗ Cons
- APAC-only — needs a global platform for non-Asian jurisdictions
- No global graph analytics vs Sayari
- Smaller ecosystem and integration library
Sayari vs AsiaVerify
| Dimension | Sayari | AsiaVerify |
|---|---|---|
| APAC Registry Coverage | Limited localisation | Deep, real-time APAC registries |
| Global Coverage | 250+ jurisdictions | 14 APAC jurisdictions |
| Entry Price | £94,815/year (G-Cloud list) | $99/month or $249 pack |
| Local Language Processing | Translation tools | Native multi-language processing |
| Graph Analytics | Full financial crime graph | Basic |
7. The KYB
Automated Business Verification & Perpetual Risk Monitoring
The KYB is an AI-assisted business verification platform designed for compliance teams running high-volume automated KYB checks. It claims 250+ countries and states, 300M+ companies and 2,000+ data sources, provides AI-assisted UBO identification, and sells perpetual risk monitoring for sanctions, PEP changes, ownership shifts, and adverse media.
Its pricing page is public: the Plus plan starts at $3 per verification with a 100-verification minimum, AML screening is $3, official documents are billed at registry cost plus 25%, and perpetual KYB monitoring adds $0.50 per verification.
✓ Pros
- 250+ countries and states for business verification
- Perpetual KYB monitoring add-on (+$0.50 per verification)
- Sanctions, PEP, and adverse media in one platform
- API and dashboard — flexible deployment
- Published pricing from $3 per verification
✗ Cons
- No deep graph visualisation like Sayari
- Less financial data vs Orbis or D&B
- Hard-target jurisdictions less comprehensive
Sayari vs The KYB
| Dimension | Sayari | The KYB |
|---|---|---|
| KYB Automation | Investigation-first, not pipeline-native | Purpose-built for automated KYB |
| Perpetual Monitoring | API change monitoring | Add-on, +$0.50 per verification |
| Hard-Target Jurisdictions | Core strength | Selective coverage |
| Investigation Graph | Best-in-class | Basic |
| Pricing | £94,815/year (G-Cloud list, 5 seats) | From $3 per verification (published) |
Full Platform Comparison Table
Sayari and six of the alternatives compared across the dimensions that matter most for enterprise compliance, risk intelligence, and due diligence teams. Figures are each vendor's own, checked 27 October 2026.
| Feature | Sayari | Zavia.ai | Global Database | Moody's Orbis | D&B | OpenCorporates | The KYB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Use Case | Financial crime investigation | UBO discovery & KYB | Data licensing & KYB | Financial DD & M&A | Credit risk & MDM | Open company lookup | KYB automation |
| Company Coverage | 550M+ | 173 countries | 600M+ | 600M+ | 640M+ | 140+ jurisdictions | 250+ jurisdictions |
| Data Source | Registries + other sources, resolved | Direct registries | 400+ govt registries | 170+ providers (mixed) | Multi-source | Open registry data | Regulatory authorities |
| UBO Mapping | ✓ Advanced | ✓ AI-powered | ✓ Ownership graph | ✓ Comprehensive | ~ Bundled | ✗ | ✓ AI-assisted |
| Graph Visualisation | ✓ Best-in-class | ✓ Group structure | ~ Hierarchy | ~ Basic | ✗ | ✗ | ~ Basic |
| Financial Data | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Filed accounts | ✓ Industry-leading | ✓ Credit scores | ✗ | ✗ |
| Sanctions / PEP | ✓ Embedded | ~ Corporate plan and up | ✓ Built in | ✓ KYC module | ✓ Risk Analytics | ✗ | ✓ Included |
| Supply Chain | ✓ Graph add-on | ✗ | ~ Linkage data | ~ Basic | ✓ Risk Analytics | ✗ | ✗ |
| API Access | ~ Credit-based | ✓ Full API | ✓ API + MCP | ✓ Available | ✓ D&B Direct | ✓ From £2,250/yr | ✓ API + dashboard |
| Reseller Rights | ✗ | ~ White-label (Enterprise) | ✓ Redistribution | ✗ | ✗ | ~ Limited | ✗ |
| Monitoring | ~ Twice-daily refresh | ✓ Corporate plan and up | ✓ Registry alerts | ~ Periodic | ✓ Alerts | ✗ | ✓ +$0.50 add-on |
| Hard-Target Countries | ✓ Core strength | ✓ Growing | ✓ 200+ countries | ~ Limited | ✗ | ✗ | ~ Selective |
| Entry Price | £94,815/year (G-Cloud) | $99/month | Not published | Not published | $49/month | £2,250/year (API) | $3/verification |
| Free Trial | ~ Listed on G-Cloud 14 | ✓ Limited checks, no card | ✓ Yes | ~ Ask vendor | ~ Ask vendor | ✓ Free web search | ✓ Free verifications |
