Kompany / Moody's KYB API Alternative for CEE Primary-Source Data

comparison · kyb · kyc · api · cee · 3 min read

TL;DR

Enterprise KYB providers (Kompany/Moody’s, and similar aggregator APIs) sell broad global coverage on enterprise contracts - strong for worldwide reach, heavy for teams that mostly need specific markets
getregdata covers primary-source registries across Europe, the US, UAE, Africa and Latin America - deep in Poland and CEE - pay-per-result from ~$0.004/record, no contract or sales call
Beneficial owners, insolvency, financial statements, land registry and PEP data come from the official registries at query time, with the source attached to every record
Agent-ready: every registry is an MCP tool, so KYB flows run inside AI agents too

Two different shapes of KYB data product

Global KYB APIs aggregate hundreds of registries behind one enterprise contract. That breadth is real value if your onboarding spans fifty countries. The trade-offs are equally real: procurement cycles, per-check pricing negotiated upfront, and - in the long tail of European markets - data that has passed through an aggregation layer before it reaches you.

getregdata takes the opposite shape: fewer jurisdictions, primary sources only, and self-serve pay-per-result billing through Apify. You can run your first live check minutes after reading this page, on free credit.

Where the primary-source approach wins

1. Depth where aggregators are thin. Poland alone: UBO register (CRBR), National Debtor Register (KRZ), court gazette (MSiG), full non-anonymized board names from KRS extracts, parsed financial statements, land registry (EKW), waste registry (BDO), financial-supervision licenses (KNF). Comparable depth for Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Spain and Italy.

2. Audit-traceable answers. Each record names its registry and identifiers (case signature, register number), because it was fetched from that registry at query time - not recalled from a warehouse of unknown freshness.

3. Pricing that matches actual volume. Company records from ~$0.004, UBO results $0.007, a complete Polish KYB check (identity + UBO + insolvency screened against the company and every owner) for a $0.05 orchestration fee plus the component registry lookups - and that fee is charged only when complete. No annual commitment to estimate in advance.

4. Built for agents, not just backends. Every registry ships as an MCP tool (getregdata-mcp on the official MCP Registry, hosted option via mcp.apify.com), so the same data layer serves your API integration and your compliance copilot.

When an enterprise KYB API is the better fit

Global coverage beyond Europe, contractual SLAs, or a single vendor for two hundred markets - that’s what the enterprise products are for. If your onboarding is EU/CEE-heavy, though, you may be paying global-aggregator prices for data whose primary sources are a $0.01 call away.

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