OpenCorporates alternatives compared Anyone evaluating OpenCorporates as a company-data source tends to hit the same handful of limits within a couple of weeks: data freshness, missing share register data, and patchy coverage of non-Anglophone registries. The table below compares the alternatives that come up most often in due diligence and KYC work. All facts checked against the products' own pricing pages, API docs, and platform pages. Where the source is unclear, the cell says so. Feature comparison OpenCorporates OpenRegistry Sayari BvD / Orbis D&B Direct+ GLEIF National registry sites Refresh model ingested, varies per registry live call to gov registry on every query full rebuild every 2 weeks + daily delta ingested from 170+ providers configurable INTRA_DAY → MONTHLY, ~5M updates/day 3× daily Golden Copy + delta live Directors / officers ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (entity only, no people) ✓ Shareholders (as a separate filing from directors) ✗ ✓ ( get_shareholders ) ✓ (ownership graph) ✓ partial ✗ varies by…