OpenCorporates covers 140+ countries with basic registry records. Companexia covers the UK and Switzerland with financial analysis, ownership networks, official documents, and structured timelines. All free, no account needed. New countries coming soon.
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OpenCorporates is the widest open company database on the web. Companexia is built for a different job: understanding a company in depth.
Both platforms serve company data. The difference is what happens after you find the company you're looking for.
| Feature | OpenCorporates | Companexia |
|---|---|---|
| Company registration data | ||
| Company status & legal form | ||
| Directors & officers data | ||
| Financial data & annual accounts | ||
| Calculated financial ratios | ||
| Financial trend charts | ||
| Ownership network graph | ||
| Official document viewer | ||
| Company event timeline | ||
| Person search & linked entities | ||
| Document previews & ZIP download | ||
| Full free access (no query limits) |
OpenCorporates is strong for registry discovery. Companexia adds the financial layer that registry aggregation alone does not provide.
OpenCorporates helps you find the company, but it does not calculate financial health from filed accounts. Companexia does, so liquidity, capital structure, and growth can be reviewed immediately.
Raw registry access is not the same as a financial view. Companexia extracts the figures, structures them across years, and turns annual accounts into a usable operating record.
Ownership review is stronger when financial condition sits beside it. Companexia lets teams read control structure and company performance together, rather than split that work across separate tools.
The source filing stays attached to the profile, chart, and relationship view. That keeps registry evidence close while adding the financial layer OpenCorporates does not provide.
Incorporations, officer changes, address updates, and filings, organized chronologically with context.
Registered office locations plotted on a map. Useful for verifying addresses and understanding geographic clustering.
Find every company a director or shareholder is linked to, both current and historical, UK and Switzerland.
Teams that need more than a company name and address for UK and Swiss entities.
Verify company status, trace beneficial ownership, and pull official documents in one search. No need to switch between registry sites.
Evaluate a private UK or Swiss company's financial health using calculated ratios and multi-year trends. No expensive data terminal needed.
Pull a company's full filing history, ownership changes, and director appointments in minutes. Structured and downloadable.
Map corporate ownership networks, identify shared directors, and trace company connections across UK and Swiss entities.
Every record comes directly from official registries. No scraped data, no guesswork. New countries coming soon.
OpenCorporates built the world's largest open company database with over 220 million records across 140+ jurisdictions. For transparency advocates and journalists, it remains an important resource for confirming that a company exists, checking its registered address, or identifying its officers.
But for teams doing structured due diligence, KYC verification, or financial analysis on specific companies, basic registry data creates more work than it saves. The problem isn't what OpenCorporates has. It's what's missing: parsed financial statements, calculated ratios, ownership network visualization, official document hosting, and structured company timelines.
For teams focused on UK and Swiss companies, these aren't nice-to-haves. They're the difference between a company lookup and actual intelligence.
Companexia extracts financial figures from filed annual accounts (iXBRL for UK, SOGC publications for Switzerland) and calculates key ratios automatically: current ratio, equity ratio, return on assets, year-over-year growth in profit/loss and total assets, and compound annual growth rate. These are grouped into four categories (growth, efficiency, liquidity, and capital structure) and displayed alongside raw figures for every available filing year.
OpenCorporates does not parse financial filings and does not calculate any financial metrics.
OpenCorporates lists company officers in a table. Companexia renders ownership structures as interactive network graphs that show shareholders, directors, PSCs, and related entities with adjustable depth from 2 to 10 levels. This matters for UBO analysis, group structure mapping, and identifying shared directorships across entities.
If you need to confirm whether a company exists in a jurisdiction Companexia doesn't yet cover, such as Nigeria, Australia, or Japan, OpenCorporates is the faster path. Its breadth is unmatched. Companexia's advantage is depth for the countries it supports: richer data, better visualization, and more actionable output for UK and Swiss entities specifically. New countries are coming soon.
Companexia sources UK data directly from Companies House and Swiss data from Zefix (the official Swiss commercial register). Financial figures are extracted from filed annual accounts. Ratios and health scores are calculated by Companexia's analysis engine. Every company profile displays a "Last updated" timestamp tied to the most recent registry sync.
Common questions about using Companexia as an OpenCorporates alternative.
No. OpenCorporates is much broader geographically. Companexia focuses on the UK and Switzerland, with the trade-off that the data is presented in much greater analytical depth for those jurisdictions.
Yes. Companexia extracts figures from filed accounts and calculates ratios such as current ratio, equity ratio, ROA, and growth metrics. That financial layer is a major difference between the two platforms.
For UK and Swiss companies, yes, within the limits of public registry disclosure. Companexia is particularly useful when you need to inspect PSCs, shareholders, linked entities, and relationship depth visually.
This page is about the Companexia web platform. If your main requirement is a registry API across many jurisdictions, OpenCorporates is usually the closer fit, while Companexia is aimed at direct research and review workflows.
Currently Companexia covers the United Kingdom and Switzerland. It is designed for deeper company intelligence in those markets rather than broad global aggregation.
No. Company profiles, financial analysis, ownership views, and documents are available without registration or sign-up.
Companexia syncs with its source registries regularly. Each company profile shows a last updated date tied to the most recent registry sync.
Search UK and Swiss companies with financial analysis, control mapping, and filings structured for direct review.