Bizzy vs Qantara: which one answers your question?
Qantara and Bizzy both work with official Belgian company data, and both are sold to people who want to know something about a company before they act. That is where the overlap ends.
Qantara turns filed annual accounts into a financial verdict on one company. Bizzy finds the companies worth contacting and tells you why now. If you pick on the wrong axis you will be disappointed by whichever one you choose.
60-second summary
Choose Qantara if your question is "how healthy is this specific company, and how does it compare with its sector?" It scores companies A to E from their annual accounts, benchmarks them against peers, runs what-if simulations and produces a report you can hand to a client or a bank.
Choose Bizzy if your question is "which companies should my team contact this month, and what do I say?" It works across the full Belgian register with signals such as hiring and web presence, and pushes lists into your CRM.
Use both if you sell into a market where financial health is a buying criterion. They answer different halves of the same account.
What are Bizzy and Qantara?
Qantara is a Belgian financial analysis platform. It reads the annual accounts companies file with the National Bank of Belgium and converts them into scores, ratios, sector benchmarks, action plans and cash-flow projections, with an AI advisor that explains the figures in plain language. It covers 626,000 Belgian companies and draws on the NBB and the KBO. Reports cost €99 one-off, or €39 a month for ongoing monitoring.
Bizzy is a European B2B prospecting platform. It combines registry data with contact details, buying signals and CRM integrations, so sales and marketing teams can build target lists and act on them.
Qantara's own comparison page puts it alongside Companyweb, Trends Top, the NBB and Staatsbladmonitor. That is the right neighbourhood: those are all tools for looking up a company. Bizzy is not on that list, and that is the point.
Coverage, and why the numbers differ
This is the comparison most people get wrong, so it is worth being precise.
Qantara | Bizzy | |
Belgian companies covered | 626,000 | 2,027,758 |
What the number counts | companies with annual accounts filed at the NBB | entities registered in the KBO |
Primary sources | NBB annual accounts, KBO | KBO and other official registers |
Refresh | tied to the annual filing cycle | continuous for signals |
The gap is not a quality difference. It is definitional.
Only companies with limited liability are required to file annual accounts with the National Bank. Sole traders, most partnerships and many small associations never file, so they cannot appear in any dataset built on annual accounts, no matter how good that dataset is.
That matters in one specific case. If your ideal customer is a small Belgian business, a sole trader, a practice or a local operator, a large share of your market is structurally invisible in an accounts-based tool. If you sell to established limited companies, the 626,000 is most of what you care about and the gap is irrelevant.
Our own guide to Belgian company data sources sets out which register carries what, and the company register guide explains how the KBO is structured.
What each one is actually for
Qantara: depth on one company
Qantara does something Bizzy does not attempt. It reads a full set of accounts and gives you a graded verdict: an A to E score, margin and debt ratios, a benchmark against direct competitors in the same sector, a 30-day cash-flow projection and a what-if simulation. The AI advisor answers questions about the figures in Dutch or French.
If you are assessing whether to extend credit, take on a client, or advise a business owner, that depth is the product. Bizzy does not produce it, and we would not pretend otherwise. Our own financial health guide explains how to read those ratios yourself, which is a different thing from having them scored for you.
Bizzy: breadth across companies to contact
Bizzy starts from the opposite end. Rather than analysing one company deeply, it filters the whole register down to the companies worth a conversation, then tells you what changed.
Practically, that means filtering on activity, location and size, then layering signals that indicate timing. A company that is hiring is changing something. A company that just appeared in the register is making decisions. Those signals do not come from annual accounts, which are filed once a year and describe a period that ended months ago.
That timing difference is the real distinction. Annual accounts are the most reliable data in Belgium and also the slowest. For a credit decision that is fine. For deciding who to call this week it is not.
Integrations and workflow fit
Qantara integrates with accounting software: Odoo, BOB, Sage and Winbooks. That follows from who uses it, which is finance teams, accountants and advisors.
Bizzy integrates with CRMs. We have written up the practical setup for HubSpot, Teamleader Focus and Odoo.
Odoo is the one name on both lists, and even there the direction differs: Qantara feeds analysis into the books, Bizzy feeds prospects into the pipeline.
Pricing
Qantara prices per report: €99 for a one-off annual report, or €39 a month for continuous monitoring, with no commitment. That is straightforward and cheap if you need a handful of assessments a year.
Bizzy is priced as a platform rather than per company, because the use case is continuous list building rather than occasional lookups. Current plans are on our pricing page.
The models suit their jobs. Per-report pricing is sensible when you assess a few companies deliberately. It is the wrong shape when you want to work through several hundred prospects a quarter.
Which should you choose?
Finance, credit or advisory work on named companies: Qantara. It is purpose-built for it, the pricing is low for the depth, and Bizzy does not compete on scored financial analysis.
Building pipeline: Bizzy. Qantara can tell you a company is healthy, but it will not tell you which 200 companies to approach, when, or hand them to your CRM.
Both, if financial health is a qualification criterion in your sales process. Use Bizzy to decide who to approach and Qantara to check the ones that matter before you commit real time.
If you are comparing more broadly, our Belgian prospecting tools comparison covers Companyweb, Trends Top and others side by side.
Frequently asked questions
Is Qantara a prospecting tool?
Only secondarily. Its core is financial analysis of filed annual accounts: scoring, ratios, sector benchmarking and projections. It offers filters that can be used to build lists, but the product is built around assessing companies rather than finding them.
Why does Qantara cover 626,000 companies when Belgium has around two million registered?
Because annual accounts are only filed by companies with limited liability. Sole traders, most partnerships and many small associations are not required to file, so they do not appear in a dataset built on accounts. It is a consequence of Belgian filing law, not a gap in their data.
Can Qantara replace Companyweb or Trends Top?
For financial analysis it is a direct alternative and considerably cheaper per report. For prospecting it is a weaker fit than either, because neither list building nor buying signals is what it is designed around.
Does Bizzy provide financial scores like Qantara's A to E rating?
No. Bizzy does not issue a credit rating or a financial score. We surface official data and buying signals; interpreting a company's finances is a separate job, and tools like Qantara do it properly.
Which is better value?
They are not comparable on price because they are not priced for the same job. At €99 a report Qantara is inexpensive for occasional in-depth assessments. If you need to work through hundreds of companies a quarter, per-report pricing stops making sense and a prospecting platform does.
