The 7 Best B2B Data Providers in India: MCA, GST and a KYB Boom (2026)

Indian company data runs on two engines and a soup of identifiers. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs registry, MCA21, holds the company record, but you pay per document to pull filings and financials, and its move to a new portal in 2025 was bumpy enough that a professional body formally complained. Alongside it, the GST system has become a parallel, unusually rich data source that a whole sub-market of verification APIs is built on.

Then there are the identifiers: a company has a corporate number, its directors have their own IDs, and every business carries a tax number and a GST registration, with no single key tying them together. That fragmentation, plus a fast-growing fintech-infrastructure sector, is why India has both classic registry aggregators, four regulated credit bureaus, and a wave of modern KYB players. This guide sorts them out.

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1. Tofler: the company-research standard

The go-to for researching an Indian company from its MCA filings, clean and widely used.

Founded in 2013, Tofler turns Ministry of Corporate Affairs electronic records into structured company reports, covering financials, directors, filings and charges on private and public Indian companies. It is a common first stop for supplier, customer and competitor due diligence, and its reports are the familiar way to read an Indian company without wrestling the registry portal directly.

Gurugram, India · Paid, tiered · Built on: MCA21, Public filings

3. Zaubacorp: the free MCA lookup

The free-tier way to browse Indian company and director data, popular for quick checks.

Operated by Zauba Technologies, Zaubacorp publishes company details, directors and financials from MCA records, with a free-tier browse that is its main draw, alongside a sister site historically known for trade data. For a quick, no-cost look at an Indian company's basics and directorships, it is the convenient option, with paid documents for depth.

Bengaluru, India · Free tier, paid documents · Built on: MCA21, Public filings

4. Probe42: the lenders' data platform

The choice of banks and lenders for deep unlisted-company data, delivered by API.

Independent and privately held, Probe42 assembles hundreds of data points on millions of Indian companies and directors from hundreds of validated public sources, with particular strength in unlisted-company coverage, delivered through a self-serve portal and APIs. Banks and non-bank lenders use it for credit, risk and compliance, which is exactly where India's fragmented filings are hardest to assemble by hand.

Bengaluru, India · Subscription and API · Built on: MCA21, 743 public sources, GST

5. TransUnion CIBIL: the credit-rank standard

India's oldest and largest bureau, and the CIBIL Rank lenders know by name.

TransUnion CIBIL is the oldest and largest of India's four RBI-licensed credit bureaus. Its commercial products, the Company Credit Report and the CIBIL Rank, built from lender submissions, are the reference for assessing a borrowing business's creditworthiness. For a bank or supplier weighing credit exposure to an Indian company, this is the standard, alongside the other three regulated bureaus.

Mumbai, India · Paid, tiered · Built on: Lender submissions, MCA21

6. CRIF High Mark: the commercial credit bureau

A full-service RBI bureau, strong on MSME risk, and part of the CRIF group.

Licensed in 2010 and majority-owned by the Italian CRIF group since 2014, CRIF High Mark is a full-service Indian credit bureau. Its commercial products include a company credit report with a commercial credit score and an MSME rank, which is a genuine strength given how much of India's economy is small and medium businesses. A credible alternative to CIBIL for commercial credit, with an international parent behind it.

Mumbai, India · Paid, tiered · Built on: Lender submissions, MCA21

7. Perfios: the KYB infrastructure

The fintech-infrastructure heavyweight for verification, having absorbed Karza's KYB stack.

Founded in 2008 and now a unicorn, Perfios is India's financial-data-aggregation and verification heavyweight, and it acquired the KYB specialist Karza in 2022, folding in business due-diligence and onboarding tools. Its KYB stack runs checks across hundreds of official sources, MCA, GST, PAN and more, through one set of APIs, which is exactly what India's identifier fragmentation demands. The infrastructure layer beneath a lot of Indian fintech onboarding.

Bengaluru, India · API, quoted · Built on: MCA21, GST, 800+ official sources

How India's data market took shape

India digitised its registry, built a GST data layer, and grew a KYB industry on top:

The Indian data landscape

The registry aggregators and KYB players are Indian; the credit bureaus mostly answer to global groups:

One registry, many identifiers

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs registry, MCA21, is where Indian companies file, and while master data such as the corporate number, directors and status is partly open, the actual documents and financials are paid per view. The registry's 2025 migration to a new portal was troubled enough to draw a formal complaint over failed filings, a reminder that the official source is not always smooth to work with.

The bigger challenge is fragmentation. A company has a corporate number, its directors have separate IDs, and every business carries a tax number and a GST registration, with no single key linking them, and GST has itself become a rich parallel data source. That is why India's providers exist: to consolidate the identifiers and filings, and to verify them. Check the registry here:

• MCA21 : The Ministry of Corporate Affairs registry. Master data partly open; documents and financials paid per view.
• GST portal : The GST system, a parallel and unusually rich data source that many verification APIs build on.
• GSTIN verification : GST registration lookup, the basis of a whole sub-market of Indian KYB verification tools.

Four questions before you sign anything

1. Do you need filings, credit, or verification? Three different buys. For MCA filings and company research, Tofler, Zaubacorp or Probe42. For a credit score, the RBI bureaus. For onboarding checks across MCA, GST and PAN, a KYB platform like Perfios.

2. Listed, unlisted, or the informal tail? Coverage thins as you go down. Listed and larger private companies file useful data; the vast small and informal segment files little. Providers strong on unlisted coverage, like Probe42, matter if that is your market.

3. Is GST your real key? For verifying operating businesses, especially smaller ones, GST data is often richer and fresher than MCA filings. If your use case is vendor or merchant verification, prioritise providers with strong GST coverage.

4. Are you keying on the right identifier? With separate corporate, director, tax and GST numbers and no single link, decide early which identifier you match on, and pick a provider that resolves across them cleanly.

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