vs. Bisnode

The modern alternative to Bisnode.

Same Brønnøysund foundation, no annual contract, no sales call. Self-serve from €0/month. Nordic Data delivers the company-data signals Norwegian B2B teams actually use — plus sanctions screening, public-contract awards, EU R&D grants, AI summaries, and native MCP support that Bisnode doesn't offer.

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— Side by side

Same registry. More signals. Self-serve.

Bisnode (now part of Dun & Bradstreet) sells enterprise contracts starting at €12,000–€500,000/year. Nordic Data delivers the same Norwegian company foundation as a self-serve API from €0/mo, with broader Nordic-public-data coverage on top.

Feature Nordic Data Bisnode
Norwegian company registry (Brønnøysund) 1.4M companies, refreshed every 30 min Yes
Annual accounts + financial ratios Multi-year history, computed ratios Yes
Officers with change tracking 12-month churn signals Yes
Shareholder registry (Aksjonærregisteret) Annual snapshots, reverse lookup Yes
Credit rating + payment remarks Not yet (commercial licence required) Yes — Bisnode's core strength
Sanctions screening (OFAC + EU + UN) Company + every officer in one call Separate product (Bisnode Compliance)
Public contract awards (TED + Doffin) All Nordic, incl. sub-EU threshold Not included
EU R&D grant participation (Horizon) Per-orgnr, with EC contributions Not included
LEI codes (GLEIF) Auto-joined Not auto-joined
Logos, descriptions, founding date For all major companies (Wikidata) Not included
Bankruptcy webhooks HMAC-signed Email/CSV alerts only
AI-generated company narrative Cached per company Not included
Native MCP server (28 tools) Plug into Claude / Cursor in 30s Not available
Officer-network graph traversal Shortest-path between two orgnrs Not included
Self-serve signup 60 seconds, no sales call Sales call + annual contract
Free tier 5,000 requests/month, no card No free tier
Refresh cadence 30 min on Brønnøysund Monthly to quarterly
Pricing €0/mo Free · €29/mo Starter · €499/mo Business From €12,000/yr per seat, annual contract
— FAQ

Common questions

If you're evaluating Nordic Data against Bisnode, these are the answers most teams ask first.

How does Nordic Data differ from Bisnode?

Bisnode (now D&B) sells enterprise contracts with annual commitments, sales calls, and procurement cycles. Nordic Data is self-serve: API key in 60 seconds, free tier from €0/mo, all data exposed as REST + native MCP. We also include sanctions screening, all Norwegian public-contract awards (including sub-EU threshold), EU R&D grants, and AI summaries — none of which Bisnode ships.

What does Nordic Data cost vs. Bisnode?

Nordic Data starts at €0 (5,000 requests/month). Pro €149/mo, Business €499/mo. Bisnode's cheapest credit-risk subscriptions start at €12,000/year, require annual contracts, and scale to €500,000+ for enterprise deployments. For most KYB, sales-ops, and research use cases, Nordic Data is 90–99% cheaper at equivalent data depth.

Does Nordic Data have credit rating data like Bisnode?

No, not yet. Credit rating and payment remarks require commercial data licences from Experian/Bisnode/Creditreform that we don't carry. Everything else — identity, accounts, officers, shareholders, sanctions, public-contracts, R&D funding, LEI codes — Nordic Data delivers, often more comprehensively than Bisnode.

Why is Nordic Data faster to integrate than Bisnode?

No procurement cycle. Sign up with email, get a key in 60 seconds, paste it as X-API-Key header, hit the REST endpoints. Or install the MCP server in Claude Desktop with one click — your AI agent calls the same data without writing client code. Most teams have us in production same-day.

Can I migrate from Bisnode to Nordic Data?

If your Bisnode use is identity + accounts + officers + shareholders, you can replace the API surface in a day. We provide a migration script that maps Bisnode field names to ours. If you depend on Bisnode's credit rating or payment-remarks data specifically, keep them for that and use Nordic Data for everything else — most teams end up halving their Bisnode bill within a quarter.

Does Nordic Data work for AML / KYB onboarding?

Yes. The /companies/{orgnr}/contact snapshot returns identity, officers, beneficial owners (from Aksjonærregisteret), sanctions hits across OFAC SDN + EU consolidated + UN, and LEI codes in one sub-200 ms call. Production-ready for AML5/6 onboarding flows.

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