Alternative to Cerved and CRIF: prices and what they include, compared

In short: if you are looking for an alternative to Cerved or CRIF, what matters is understanding what you get for every euro spent. Below you will find the verified public prices of Veryfy, iCRIBIS (CRIF group) and Cerved Credit Direct, band by band, with what each includes. This is not a generic judgement on “which is better”, but a numerical comparison that you can check yourself against the linked sources.

What Cerved and CRIF are, and who they serve

Cerved and CRIF are two of the main Italian and European groups in commercial and credit information: they collect and process data on companies and people for clients such as banks, finance companies, insurers and large companies with structured credit management departments. Their full enterprise product (rating, full dossier, API integrations, large-scale historical datasets) is sold through a negotiated commercial contract, not through a direct online purchase. However, both groups also sell individual documents and reports at a fixed price, with no subscription, through a separate portal: Cerved through Credit Direct, CRIF through iCRIBIS. These two public price lists, together with Veryfy's prices, are the real comparison on this page.

Prices compared: how much a company check costs

The quickest way to understand the difference: how much a report that includes the beneficial owner costs, self-service, with no subscription. On this direct comparison Veryfy is the only one that already includes it in the cheapest band.

The detail, band by band. Table updated to 18 September 2026 (2026-09-18), with a direct source for each row. Veryfy's prices are VAT included; iCRIBIS's prices are declared VAT included by its own website; Cerved Credit Direct's prices come from the official price list published as a PDF (Rev. 1, May 2018 — the most recent version publicly available) and are stated excluding VAT, as specified in the document itself: the total you pay will be higher once 22% VAT is applied (shown in brackets below as an arithmetic conversion, not as a list price).

Sources consulted on 2026-09-18: Veryfy prices from /prezzi; iCRIBIS prices from the public price list on icribis.com (the “Company report price lists” pages and the product sheets for the Report Large, Rating and Anti-Money Laundering Report); Cerved Credit Direct prices from the official “Credit Direct Price List” in PDF published on cerved-online.com, dated Rev. 1 – May 2018 (the most recent version publicly available at the time of consultation — if you have a more up-to-date commercial offer, that prevails over this page). Another known competitor, Creditsafe, does not publish prices for single reports: it only sells packages on request from its sales team, with no price list consultable online.

The most direct comparison, euro for euro: Veryfy's base band (€19) already includes the beneficial owner, while on iCRIBIS's price list the same information appears only in the Anti-Money Laundering Report at €160 — more than eight times the price. On Cerved Credit Direct the public price list does not explicitly state whether, and in which band, the beneficial owner is included: this is information absent from the public source, not a verified “no”, and it must be treated as such.

Cerved or CRIF: which to choose, if you still need an enterprise provider

If your need is really that of an enterprise client — high volumes, API integration into your credit management systems, need for very large historical datasets — the choice between Cerved and CRIF does not depend on which of the two is generically “better”, but on the specific product, the dataset required and the negotiated contract terms: a comparison that goes through a direct request for an offer to both, because for the full enterprise product (unlike the self-service price lists above) there is no comparable public price list.

When Veryfy makes sense, and when a Cerved or CRIF is really needed

Veryfy makes sense when the need is to check a specific company, occasionally or on a recurring but non-massive basis, before a concrete operational decision — invoicing, taking a deposit, granting a credit line, admitting a shareholder, recovering a debt — and when it matters to be able to start right away, without a commercial negotiation, with a price known in advance.

A Cerved or a CRIF remains the right choice when the need is structural and large-scale: a credit institution that must automate thousands of assessments a month, a company that must integrate credit data directly into its internal systems through dedicated APIs, or anyone who needs proprietary datasets (such as the Centrale dei Rischi (Bank of Italy credit register)) that no self-service service can offer, by definition, without that kind of agreement. In these cases an enterprise contract is not an obstacle to be circumvented: it is the right tool for that scale of operations.

What this page is not

It is not a judgement on the quality of Cerved's or CRIF's data, which remain two established groups in the Italian commercial information sector, nor a forecast of which of the two is best in absolute terms for an enterprise contract — that choice depends on specific contract variables that only a direct comparison between offers can clarify. It is a comparison of the activation model and of the content of the base band, to help those looking for a one-off check to understand whether their need fits better with a self-service tool or with an enterprise relationship.