Where Kompass wins. Where Kuration wins. Where to choose what. No marketing fluff — just specs and trade-offs.
Kompass is a directory you search. Kuration builds the list of distributors that no directory holds yet.
| Feature | Kompass | Kuration |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Search access to a shared directory | Your own database, built for your brief |
| Where the data comes from | Directory records kept by Kompass | Read at the source on the day you ask |
| Companies missing from directories | Not returned | Found in exhibitor halls, registers, locators, maps |
| Product classification | 56,000+ categories | Your own definition, scored with reasoning |
| Search languages | 26 | 12+ languages and native scripts |
| Brands each distributor carries | Directory profile | Enriched per company |
| Decision maker on each company | Executives in the database | Named decision maker, found per company |
| Scheduled refresh of your own list | Kompass updates its directory | On Pro and Scale |
| Outreach built in | Export to your own tools | Email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, one inbox |
| Same list available to competitors | Yes, a shared directory | No, the database is yours |
| Free to start | 14-day free trial | First list free: 20 companies + 1,500 credits |
| Published price | Not published | From $49/mo |
Use Kompass when…
Use Kuration when…
Kompass collects companies into its own classified directory, through data teams in more than 70 countries. A search can only return the companies that made it into the directory. Kuration starts from where distributors of your product actually show up, such as the exhibitor hall, the licence register, the brand’s dealer locator and the map, and reads it on the day you ask.
Kompass’s classification, with more than 56,000 product and service categories, is a real strength when you browse. Kuration lets you describe the company you want in plain English, for example cosmetics importers that distribute Korean or European skincare brands, scores each row against it and shows the reasoning.
To choose a distributor you need the brands it already carries and the person who signs. Kuration enriches each company with the brands it carries, its size signals, the named decision maker and the channel they answer on.
Kompass sells EasyBusiness as a subscription, with a 14-day free trial; its site does not list a price. With Kuration your first list is free: 20 companies with contacts, plus 1,500 credits, no card. Paid plans start at $49 a month, and the database you build is yours.
They fall into three groups. Other directories and B2B marketplaces, such as Europages, ThomasNet, Global Sources and Alibaba, let you search companies that list themselves. Import and export records, such as Panjiva, ImportGenius and Volza, show who shipped what. Kuration builds the list instead: it reads trade-show exhibitor halls, licence registers, dealer locators, Google Maps and PDFs in 12+ languages, adds the brands each distributor carries and the decision maker, and runs the outreach.
No. Kompass is a directory you search, with more than 57 million companies in one classified database. Kuration has no fixed index. It builds the list for your brief from the sources where those companies show up, scores each one against your own definition, and keeps the database for you, so your competitors do not have the same list.
Kompass sells EasyBusiness as a subscription with a 14-day free trial, and its site does not list a price. With Kuration your first list is free: 20 companies with contacts, plus 1,500 credits, no card. Paid plans start at $49 a month. See https://kurationai.com/pricing.
Yes, that is the core use case. Kuration reads the sources where those companies show up in that country: local registers, trade-show exhibitor lists, dealer locators and local-language directories. Country pages show the sources for each market, for example cosmetics distributors in Mexico or tile distributors in Saudi Arabia.
“Kuration helped us 2x the number of quality sales calls. We went from spending days on research to having enriched lists in minutes.”
Dan Duggan · Co-Founder · Rayda
20 companies with contacts, plus 1,500 credits. No card.
This comparison reflects Kuration AI's views based on publicly available information believed accurate as of October 2026, and is provided for general informational purposes. It describes the job each product is built for. Prices shown are taken from each provider’s public pricing page and change often. Please verify current details with each provider. Kompass and other product names are trademarks of their respective owners, used here for identification and comparison only; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.