Top 5 Dun & Bradstreet Competitors for 2026: Business Credit & Risk Data
Explore key D&B competitors in business credit and risk intelligence, and see how Compliancely can be used alongside bureau data, KYB, KYC, and tax verification in a single workflow.
Why D&B-Style Data Providers Face New Competition
For many years, Dun & Bradstreet has been one of the largest business credit bureaus and data providers that corporations and other lenders have relied on for business identifiers, credit scores, and risk indicators. And while business credit reporting agencies like D&B are still widely used for trade credit and supplier risk decisions, teams now validate more than credit signals.
Nonetheless, in today’s environment, corporations evaluating business risks have several options. Providers like Experian Business, Equifax Business, Creditsafe, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions offer some of the same information and some different information such as credit reports, ownership details, fraud indicators, and negative news. So, many companies now use more than one provider instead of relying on a single source.
Onboarding and compliance requirements, too, have increased teams evaluating D&B data alternatives for KYB and risk often find that a credit report alone isn’t enough anymore because teams also need to confirm the legal entity, who owns it, whether it appears on sanctions lists, whether tax IDs are valid, etc. And, more often than not, teams need those checks tied directly into onboarding and approval steps.
This is why more companies are looking for tools that bring KYB, KYC, and tax verification into one auditable workflow.
Top 5 Dun & Bradstreet Competitors for 2026
1. Compliancely (Editor’s Pick – Unified Business Verification & Risk Platform)
Compliancely is an aggregated verification platform for business identity checks, KYB, KYC, TIN/EIN validation, and sanctions screening. It doesn’t replace business credit bureaus instead, it is used alongside providers like D&B, Experian, and Equifax as part of a much broader credit and risk process.
Key features
- Checks business details and ownership (KYB), plus TIN/EIN validation
- Sanctions and watchlist screening, along with optional ongoing monitoring
- APIs for high-volume checks
- Has clear dashboards and maintains decision logs and audit trails
- Is a part of Zenwork’s broader tax and compliance solutions
Pros
- Combines KYB, KYC, sanctions, address, and tax ID checks in one place
- Works well for high-volume onboarding (vendors, customers, partners, grantees)
- Rules help reduce duplicate work, manual reviews, and errors
- Helps cut down on too many vendors/tools and supports audit readiness
Cons
- Best for teams that want API integration or a more structured onboarding workflow
- May be more than needed for very small or low-volume teams
2. Experian Business – Global Business Credit Bureau
Experian Business is a well-known alternative to Dun & Bradstreet. It provides business credit reports and scores, and helps teams assess a company’s credit risk using data from multiple sources.
Key features
- Business credit reports and scores based on trade, banking, and public-record data
- Monitoring and alerts so you can track changes in a business’s credit profile over time
- Tools that help evaluate risk across a portfolio of vendors, customers, or borrowers
Pros
- Widely recognized by lenders and suppliers
- Helpful if you want both consumer and commercial credit data from one provider
Cons
- Focused mainly on credit risk, not full KYB or sanctions workflows
- API setup can seem to be too complex for small teams
- Different scoring/models than D&B, so results may not be an exact match one-to-one when you compare providers
3. Equifax Business – Commercial Credit & Risk Intelligence
Equifax Business is a major commercial credit data provider. It’s a tool you use when you need to review a company’s credit profile before you extend trade credit or approve vendors. It’s also useful for helping you set risk rules.
Key features
- Business credit reports with credit and public-record signals to support risk decisions
- Risk scoring to estimate the likelihood of delinquency or credit stress
- Monitoring and alerts so you’re notified when a business shows negative changes over time
- Identity and fraud solutions that can complement credit checks when fraud risk is part of the review
Pros
- A good match if you already use Equifax for consumer data
- A broad set of credit and risk products that work across many industries
Cons
- Coverage and KYB-related depth can vary by country or region
- No end-to-end vendor IRS tax reporting workflows, so there is still a need to use separate tax tools
4. Creditsafe – Business Credit Reports & Monitoring
Creditsafe combines business credit reporting with monitoring and notifications and aims to be easier to adopt than classic bureaus, often at a lower price point. It has a strong global coverage of businesses.
Key features
- Company credit reports, scores, and alerts
- APIs and integrations for CRM, ERP, and onboarding solutions
Pros
- Transparent pricing and easy-to-understand packages
- Easy-to-use APIs for integrating credit checks into workflows
Cons
- Has relatively lower brand recognition in some markets
- Teams will need separate tools for specialised tax reporting workflows
- Not ideal if teams lack internal governance and audit controls to support consistent decisions
5. LexisNexis Risk Solutions – Business & Third-Party Risk Data
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is built for higher-scrutiny reviews it helps teams look past basic credit signals and check who’s behind an entity, whether it appears on sanctions/watchlists, and what public risk signals may exist. It’s mostly used alongside bureau data for cases where decisions carry significant compliance risk.
Key features
- Business and UBO data, sanctions screening, and negative news monitoring
- Configurable screening workflows and investigation support
Pros
- Strong coverage for complex ownership structures and higher-risk industries
- Can be a good fit for regulated institutions that have a need for consistent screening and defensible review processes
Cons
- Resource-intensive implementation, which includes ongoing maintenance
- Is not focused on IRS tax information reporting workflows (such as 1099 tax reporting), so teams typically pair it with other tools for tax reporting and specialised TIN/EIN validation
- Workflow can feel heavier than necessary if business credit checks are the main focus
Key Factors to Consider While Picking a Platform for Replacing or Supplementing D&B
Choosing the right mix of bureau data and verification tools comes down to a few practical factors:
Review regulatory fit and workflow scope
Business credit data supports different decisions lending, vendor onboarding, marketplaces, grants, and trade credit. The primary question to ask yourself while picking between D&B competitor tools for vendor due diligence is whether a bureau score is enough, or whether KYB, sanctions screening, and tax ID verification are equally important, and you want them in the same workflow.
Check volume, refresh cadence, and turnaround time
Onboarding volume and how often records change are two important factors that can drive provider choice. For instance, if approvals or payments depend on fast decisions in your workflow, high-throughput APIs and frequent refresh cycles can hold much more weightage than “nice-to-have” reporting features.
Pick unified layer vs. separate tools as the operating model
Some teams prefer a single verification backbone (for example, Compliancely) paired with one or more bureaus while others can seamlessly run multiple point solutions. You need to select a tool that works for the model you want to operate. With separate tools, the trade-off is mostly in the integration effort, a high level of ongoing maintenance, and the risk of inconsistent decisions across teams.
Seek proof through pilot results
Vendor demos can look good, but they may not be able to fully show how the tool performs with real data. What reveals gaps that demos can miss is running a small pilot using past customer and vendor records. Once you run a pilot on your shortlisted tools, you’ll be able to compare what really matters wrong matches, missed risks, review time, and whether you can clearly document decisions for audits.
Making Compliancely the Identity Backbone Around D&B and Its Peers
D&B is useful, but it shouldn’t be your only lens on a business. Compliancely works next to D&B and other bureaus as the place where you run KYB, KYC, TIN/EIN checks, sanctions screening, and address validation. You can also bring bureau outputs into the same governed onboarding and credit steps your teams already use by feeding those results into Compliancely alongside its own checks.
What Compliancely does is:
- Act as a practical “home base” for risk, finance, tax, and onboarding teams that need one audit-ready record per entity
- Help cut down on overlapping data vendors while improving controls, reporting, and exam readiness
Conclusion
Business credit and risk data still matter for extending credit, onboarding vendors, and running B2B programs but D&B is no longer the only option. Adding Compliancely to the stack helps you use the sources more effectively by centralizing KYB, KYC, sanctions screening, and tax identity verification in one governed platform. When paired with bureau data, it works to move teams away from one-off checks and toward a more consistent, audit-ready process.
Book a Compliancely demo to see how data from D&B and its competitors can sit alongside Compliancely’s KYB, KYC, sanctions, and tax identity checks in a single unified workflow.
