Global Database Review

Global Database is a B2B company intelligence platform built around one claim: broader country coverage than most competitors. It sells access to data on more than 600 million companies across 190-plus countries, bundled with buyer prospecting, supplier verification, credit reports, and an API. This review covers what's verifiable from the vendor's own site and what genuinely can't be confirmed — including price.

Verdict at a glance

What is Global Database?

Global Database positions itself less as a pure sales-intelligence tool and more as a company-verification platform that sales teams happen to use for prospecting. The pitch: one dataset serves both a rep building a target list and a compliance analyst checking whether a supplier is still solvent. Its own comparison pages on its site position it against Dun & Bradstreet/Hoovers, ZoomInfo, Cognism, Creditsafe, and OpenCorporates — credit-and-verification names as much as sales-data names, which tells you where it sees its center of gravity.

How it works

Accounts run on an export-credit model: one credit equals one row of exported company or contact data. Outreach is a separate, smaller allotment layered on top — the free trial includes 4 active sequences and 50 outreach credits alongside 50 download/export credits, plus unlimited view credits for public company records. A browser extension pulls company and contact detail while browsing LinkedIn or the open web, and the API is meant for teams who want to pipe the data into their own systems rather than work inside the platform's UI. Billing runs monthly or yearly, with yearly discounts advertised up to 20% and 2-year terms up to 40% — but all quoted, none published as numbers.

Pricing (2026)

Global Database does not publish plan names, tiers, or dollar amounts anywhere we could find, including the dedicated pricing pages on its own site. Every path leads to "request a quote" or "book a demo." What is public:

• A free trial exists, gated behind a form (name, corporate email, work phone) — no credit card mentioned.
• Payment is processed upfront and is described as non-refundable once billed.
• Monthly plans cancel anytime before the next billing date; yearly plans require going through an account manager to cancel.

Because pricing is quote-based and varies by seat count, country coverage, and credit volume, we're not going to guess a number — anyone quoting you a specific starting price for Global Database without knowing your volume is speculating, and we won't do that here either.

What we could and couldn't verify

We could verify the feature set, the free-trial terms, the credit-based model, and the billing/cancellation terms directly from the vendor's own site. We could not verify independent user sentiment: G2, Trustpilot, and TrustRadius all blocked automated access to their review pages during this research, and no cached review summary was reachable through the vendor's own site either. That means we have no rating, no review count, and no documented complaint themes to report — and we're not going to invent any. If you're evaluating Global Database, treat the absence of accessible third-party reviews as a gap to fill yourself (via a live demo and reference calls) rather than as either a red flag or a clean bill of health.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Claims among the broadest country coverage (190+) of any company-data vendor, useful for genuinely international prospecting
• Combines prospecting data with credit reports and supplier monitoring, which most pure sales-intelligence tools don't bundle
• Free trial available without an immediate sales call
• API access for teams that want to build their own workflows on top of the data

Cons

• No public pricing at all — every plan requires a quote, which makes it hard to comparison-shop
• Non-refundable, upfront billing on paid plans
• No accessible independent reviews at the time of this research, so sentiment is unverifiable
• Credit-based export model means real cost depends heavily on your list-building volume, not just the plan tier

Global Database alternatives

• ZoomInfo — larger US-centric database with deeper intent and technographic data, at enterprise pricing.
• Apollo.io — self-serve pricing and a large contact database, weaker on formal credit/compliance reporting.
• Cognism — strong on mobile-verified EU/UK contact data, positioned similarly on international coverage.
• Dun & Bradstreet (Hoovers) — the incumbent in business credit and risk data; Global Database directly compares itself against it.
• Creditsafe — credit-report-first competitor with less emphasis on sales prospecting.
• OpenCorporates — free/low-cost public company registry data, far less enrichment but no quote-gate.

Who should use Global Database — and who shouldn't

Good fit: teams selling or underwriting risk across many countries, where US-centric providers thin out; compliance and finance teams that need supplier credit checks alongside sales data in the same tool.

Poor fit: teams that want to see and compare pricing before booking a call; anyone who needs verified independent reviews before buying, since none are currently accessible; small teams whose prospecting is US-only, where more established, self-serve-priced tools may be simpler to evaluate.