# Dun & Bradstreet **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dun-and-bradstreet/ **Website:** https://www.dnb.com/ **APIs profiled:** 16 Dun & Bradstreet is a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, anchored by the D-U-N-S Number — a unique nine-digit identifier assigned to more than 500 million businesses worldwide. Founded in 1841 as The Mercantile Agency in New York City and now headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, D&B operates the D&B Data Cloud, a master commercial database used by enterprises and governments for credit, risk, supply, master data, sales, marketing, compliance, and third-party due diligence. Its primary developer surface is D&B Direct+, a RESTful API platform that lets customers match, enrich, monitor, and stream company data programmatically using OAuth 2.0 access tokens. D&B was taken private by Clearlake Capital in August 2025 for approximately $7.7 billion (including debt). ## Kin Score — 68.5 / 100 (exemplar) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 68.5). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 87.0 | | Contract Quality | 79.3 | | Governance | 100.0 | | Contract Governance | 100.0 | | Operational Transparency | 34.2 | | Developer Ergonomics | 28.0 | | Commercial Clarity | 89.5 | | Access Clarity | 89.5 | ## Agent readiness — 42.8 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | documented | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | documented | | OpenAPI Examples | no | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | yes | | Agent Skills | derived | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (16) - **D&B Risk Analytics MCP Server** — Dun & Bradstreet's remote Model Context Protocol server for D&B Risk Analytics, exposing KYC/KYB onboarding, entity resolution, sanctions and adverse-media screening, alert tria... - **D&B Direct+ Identity Resolution API** — The Identity Resolution surface of D&B Direct+ matches an input business record — name, address, phone, email, registration number — to a single authoritative D-U-N-S Number. Th... - **D&B Direct+ Search API** — The Search surface of D&B Direct+ lets applications find businesses, principals, and related entities using flexible criteria such as company name, address, registration number,... - **D&B Direct+ Enrich (Data Blocks) API** — The Enrich surface returns standardized "data blocks" for a given D-U-N-S Number. Blocks group attributes by domain — Company Information, Principals & Contacts, Hierarchy & Con... - **D&B Direct+ Multi-Process API** — Multi-Process combines Identity Resolution and Enrich into a single request: the caller submits a candidate input record plus a set of desired data blocks, D&B resolves the inpu... - **D&B Direct+ Data File (Batch) API** — The Data File (Batch) surface lets customers submit large input files and receive matched, enriched output files asynchronously. The workflow is upload → process → poll status →... - **D&B Direct+ Monitoring API** — The Monitoring surface lets customers register a portfolio of D-U-N-S Numbers and subscribe to change events. When D&B detects an update to a monitored attribute — address, owne... - **D&B Direct+ Research API** — The Research surface lets customers retrieve historical responses Direct+ has previously returned, supporting audit, dispute, and reconciliation use cases where the application ... - **Dun & Bradstreet Authentication API** — OAuth 2.0 token issuance for Direct+. - **Dun & Bradstreet Data File API** — Asynchronous batch file submission, status, and download. - **Dun & Bradstreet Enrich API** — Retrieve Data Blocks for a known D-U-N-S Number. - **Dun & Bradstreet Identity Resolution API** — Match an input record to a D-U-N-S Number. - **Dun & Bradstreet Monitoring API** — Subscribe to and consume change notifications on a portfolio. - **Dun & Bradstreet Multi-Process API** — Combined match plus enrich in a single call. - **Dun & Bradstreet Research API** — Retrieve historical responses for audit and reconciliation. - **Dun & Bradstreet Search API** — Find companies, principals, and related entities. ## MCP servers (1) - **Dun & Bradstreet MCP Server** — Dun & Bradstreet ships production Model Context Protocol servers as part of the D&B.AI suite. Two distinct servers were confirmed. The D&B Risk Analytics server is a remote, OAu... ## Agentic access (1) - **Dun And Bradstreet Agentic Access** — 14 operations · 6 acting ## Security (4) - **Dun And Bradstreet Authentication** — http/oauth2/apiKey · 4 schemes - **Dun And Bradstreet Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC - **Dun And Bradstreet Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published - **Dun And Bradstreet Trust Center** — SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27701, ISO 22301, PCI DSS, SIG, HIPAA, GDPR ## Plans (1) - **Dun And Bradstreet Plans Pricing** ## Use cases (7) - **Customer Onboarding (KYB)** — Resolve a prospective customer's name and address to a D-U-N-S Number, then enrich with financial, ownership, and compliance data before extending credit or signing a contract. - **Supplier Master Data Management** — Use Multi-Process and Monitoring to keep an internal supplier master synchronized with D&B's authoritative company records, automatically flagging mergers, dissolutions, address... - **Third-Party Risk Management** — Combine Enrich blocks for compliance, beneficial ownership, ESG, and financial stress to score third parties continuously against a policy. - **Credit Decisioning** — Retrieve PAYDEX scores, financial-strength indicators, and trade payment history to automate credit limit decisions in lending and B2B trade. - **Sales and Marketing Intelligence** — Search and Enrich power lead scoring, total-addressable-market modeling, and account-based marketing by attaching firmographic data to CRM records. - **Compliance and Sanctions Screening** — Use compliance and beneficial-ownership blocks to satisfy AML, KYB, and sanctions-screening obligations. - **Government and Grants Eligibility** — The D-U-N-S Number remains widely used as a registration identifier for procurement, grants, and supplier qualification programs. ## Tags Business Data, Company Data, D-U-N-S Number, Credit, Risk, Master Data, Data Enrichment, Identity Resolution, Compliance, Supply Chain, Sales Intelligence, Monitoring --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/dun-and-bradstreet/). 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