Apollo is great for US sales prospecting — but its Norwegian coverage is patchy, employee counts are stale, and there's no authoritative orgnr-keyed identity. Nordic Data is built from Brønnøysund and the rest of Norway's public registers. Authoritative, fresh, and free to start.
Apollo has 100M+ contacts globally — but Norwegian company data is a known weak spot. No Brønnøysund integration, no Aksjonærregisteret, no Doffin/TED public contracts, no sanctions screening, no MCP. For Nordic sales-ops, Nordic Data fills the gap — and stacks beside Apollo rather than replacing it.
| Feature | Nordic Data | Apollo.io |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian company registry (Brønnøysund) | ● 1.4M companies, authoritative source | ○ No Brønnøysund integration |
| Norwegian orgnr-keyed identity | ● Every company keyed on official orgnr | ○ Stitched from third-party sources |
| Employee counts (Norway) | ● Brønnøysund (legal entity figure) | Estimated, often stale |
| Annual accounts + ratios | ● Multi-year, audited filings | ○ Not included |
| Officer / board roles | ● Brønnøysund roles with history | Aggregated from LinkedIn |
| Shareholder registry | ● Aksjonærregisteret | ○ Not included |
| People contact emails | Bulk emails per company + named officers | ● Apollo's core strength — 100M+ contacts |
| Email cadences + outreach tooling | ○ Not included (we're the data layer) | ● Yes — Apollo's product focus |
| Sanctions screening (OFAC + EU + UN) | ● Company + every officer in one call | ○ Not included |
| Public contract awards (TED + Doffin) | ● All Nordic, incl. sub-EU threshold | ○ Not included |
| EU R&D grant participation | ● Per-orgnr with EC contributions | ○ Not included |
| LEI codes (GLEIF) | ● Auto-joined | ○ Not included |
| Bankruptcy webhooks | ● HMAC-signed | ○ Not included |
| Native MCP server (28 tools) | ● Plug into Claude / Cursor in 30s | ○ Not available |
| Refresh cadence | ● 30 min on Brønnøysund | Variable — third-party scraped |
| Free tier | ● 5,000 requests/month, no card | ● Yes (limited) |
| Pricing | ● €0/mo Free · €29/mo Starter · €499/mo Business | ● From $59/user/mo, scales by seats |
If you're evaluating Nordic Data against Apollo, these are the answers most teams ask first.
Alongside, for most Nordic-focused B2B teams. Apollo is unmatched for people-level contact enrichment globally; Nordic Data is unmatched for authoritative Norwegian company data. The common pattern: Apollo for the person and outreach cadence, Nordic Data for the company orgnr, accounts, officers, sanctions, and segmentation. Both stack cleanly.
Apollo's company database is stitched from web sources (LinkedIn, crawled sites) rather than authoritative registries. For US/UK companies that's plenty; for Norway, the orgnr, MVA registration, NACE classification, registered employee count, business address, and annual accounts simply aren't on those sources. Brønnøysund is the only source of truth — and Nordic Data is the only API that exposes it as a developer-grade product.
Nordic Data is per-API-call (€0 free for 5k/mo, scales to €499/mo Business). Apollo is per-user (~$59-149/user/mo). For a 3-person sales team with 20k Nordic enrichments/month, total cost: Nordic Data Pro €149/mo vs. Apollo €177-447/mo per their plan. Nordic Data is cheaper for any volume above a single user.
Yes. POST /companies/bulk accepts up to 100 orgnrs per request and returns enriched JSON in one call. Most Nordic sales-ops teams use this to seed lists in HubSpot, Pipedrive or Salesforce nightly.
Per-company yes (verified business emails: info@, irpost@, kontakt@, sales@, plus named officer emails where publicly documented). Per-person contact email lookup at Apollo's scale ("all VPs of Engineering at Norwegian SaaS companies") is not our focus — use Apollo for that and Nordic Data for the company-level signals that Apollo doesn't have.
Yes — that's the whole point of the native MCP server. An AI sales-research agent in Claude Desktop or Cursor can ask Nordic Data for orgnr, accounts, officers, and sanctions without you writing integration code. Apollo doesn't expose MCP.
5,000 requests/month, all read endpoints, native MCP, no card. Cancel any time via the API or customer portal.
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