Free Alternative to Dun & Bradstreet: 272M Companies, No Enterprise Contract

If you've ever tried to get company data from Dun & Bradstreet, you know the drill: talk to sales, sign an enterprise contract, wait weeks for onboarding, then pay €2–5 per single lookup.

For startups and independent developers, that's not a pricing model — it's a gate.

We built the S.C.A.L.A. Score API as the alternative: 272 million companies across 265 countries, self-service signup, and lookups starting at €0.038 each.

No sales call. No enterprise contract. No minimum commitment.

The Price Comparison

At €19/month for 500 lookups, you get what D&B charges €1,000–2,500 for.

Quick Start with the JavaScript SDK

Install the SDK:

npm install scala-score

Search for companies by name:

const ScalaScore = require('scala-score');

const client = new ScalaScore({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' });

// Search companies by name
const results = await client.search({
  name: 'Tesla',
  country: 'US'
});

console.log(results);
// {
//   total: 47,
//   companies: [
//     {
//       name: "Tesla, Inc.",
//       country: "US",
//       registry_id: "C0197800",
//       status: "active",
//       incorporation_date: "2003-07-01",
//       address: "3500 Deer Creek Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304"
//     },
//     ...
//   ]
// }

Look up a specific company by ID:

const company = await client.company.get('US-C0197800');

console.log(company);
// {
//   name: "Tesla, Inc.",
//   jurisdiction: "us_ca",
//   status: "active",
//   type: "Corporation",
//   officers: [...],
//   filings: [...],
//   registered_address: { ... }
// }

What Data Is Available

Every record in the Score database includes (where available from public registries):

• Company name and legal form
• Registration number and jurisdiction
• Status (active, dissolved, liquidation, etc.)
• Incorporation date
• Registered address
• Officers and directors
• Filing history
• Industry codes (NACE/SIC)

The data comes from official government business registries — not scraped LinkedIn profiles or purchased lead lists.

Pricing That Makes Sense

Compare that to D&B's €2–5 per lookup. At the Scale tier, Score API is 670–1,677x cheaper.

When D&B Still Makes Sense

Let's be honest: if you need D&B's proprietary credit scores, PAYDEX ratings, or deep financial risk assessments, Score API isn't a replacement for that specific data.

But if your use case is:

• Company verification (is this business real and active?)
• KYC/AML compliance checks
• CRM data enrichment
• Lead qualification
• Market research across countries
• Building company directories or search tools

...then you're paying enterprise prices for commodity data. The registry information is public. We just made it searchable.

Get Started

1. Sign up at score.get-scala.com
2. Get your API key instantly
3. Install the SDK: npm install scala-score
4. Start querying 272M+ companies

The free tier gives you 50 lookups/month — enough to evaluate the data quality before committing a cent.

Try the Score API free

Source code: github.com/Alessandro114/scala-score-js