Dun & Bradstreet
Verified, continuously updated business intelligence anchored in the persistent D-U-N-S Number identity
By Dun & Bradstreet · HQ Jacksonville, US · 4.0/5 verified-buyer score
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Compliance, KYB, and third-party risk teams that need continuous monitoring and auditable decisions
- Procurement and supply-chain leaders seeking end-to-end visibility into supplier risk
- Finance and credit teams that need verified financial signals and faster onboarding
- Data and AI teams that need a governed, verified business-context layer for their own agents
- Master-data and analytics teams unifying fragmented business records at enterprise scale
Ideal size: 200+ people · Enterprise with an established compliance, risk, or data-management function
Not for
- Small businesses that only need a free D-U-N-S Number
- Teams wanting a self-serve tool with published list pricing
- Buyers without the data-engineering resources to consume APIs and warehouse feeds
- Companies looking for a turnkey CRM or ERP rather than a data and analytics layer
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Roughly 3 months to first production value
~90 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$25,000/yr
Starts at $0 · Free D-U-N-S Number registration; business intelligence products, APIs, and data feeds are licensed by enterprise contract
Implementation Friction
4/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Buyer Score
out of 5 · verified buyers
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Not publicly published; scoped per enterprise agreement
Add-on costs
- None
Company & support
Who is behind Dun & Bradstreet, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Jacksonville, US
How you get support
We haven’t recorded support channels for Dun & Bradstreet yet. Nothing here means unverified — not absent.
Market position
Where Dun & Bradstreet sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Dun & Bradstreet
- Provenir
- Gatekeeper
- OneTrust
- ETQ Reliance
- Unit21
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Dun & Bradstreet. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Dun & Bradstreet ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Compliance products embed agents, copilots, and natural-language interfaces; a D&B MCP Server and pre-built agentic workflows stream verified context into customer AI platforms. Key-management and audit-logging detail for AI actions is not published.
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Dun & Bradstreet delivers verified business intelligence anchored in the D-U-N-S Number, covering 640M+ entities across 250+ markets. The D&B Commercial Graph feeds compliance, KYB, supplier risk, finance, sales, and master-data workflows through embedded AI products, MCP connectors, and Direct+ APIs and data feeds. Buyers get a governed context layer for enterprise AI, but pricing is contract-based and time-to-value depends on data-engineering effort.
Frequently asked questions
How is Dun & Bradstreet priced?
D&B does not publish list pricing. Registering for a D-U-N-S Number is free, while business intelligence products, AI connectors, and Direct+ API or data-feed delivery are licensed through enterprise contracts scoped by data volume, entity coverage, and use case.
How long does it take to get value?
Embedded products with prebuilt agents and copilots can be stood up inside familiar workflows relatively quickly, while API, batch, and data-warehouse feed integrations are enterprise data projects. Budget roughly three months for first production value, more for broad multi-system rollouts.
Does D&B support AI agents and MCP?
Yes. D&B ships its own MCP Server that connects AI agents to governed business insight, along with pre-built MCP connectors and agentic workflows for supported platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Dynamics 365, Snowflake Cortex, and IBM watsonx Orchestrate.
What security and compliance certifications does D&B hold?
D&B states that an independent auditor certifies a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation annually (available under mutual NDA) and that it annually certifies to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 at multiple locations, alongside PCI and SIG assessments. No HIPAA, FedRAMP, or ISO 42001 claim appears on its security page.
Will D&B replace our existing compliance or CRM platform?
No. D&B positions itself as a context and data layer that integrates with existing compliance platforms, CRMs, and data warehouses, so teams can strengthen onboarding, screening, and monitoring without replacing established systems.