If you are looking for official documents, such as financial outlooks concerning a French company, Legaleo is a solution designed to meet your needs. Yet, does this service live up to all its promises?
In this article, you will find a comprehensive review of Legaleo and the services offered by this company, a description of its main features and how to use this tool, and the subscription options for Legaleo.
What free services are available? Are the paid plans worth the subscription? You will find almost all the answers to your questions, or nearly so, in this Legaleo platform review.
What is Legaleo and who is this service for?
A business-to-business oriented solution
Legaleo is a solution designed for professionals dealing with French companies registered in the RCS.
With more than 25 million documents available and an index of over 12 million company directors, Legaleo provides access to, among other things, a wealth of financial, legal, and regulatory information.
Therefore, it is not surprising to find official sources such as BODACC, data.gouv.fr, INPI, INSEE, Infogreffe, and VIES among the primary sources.
Legaleo, oriented toward B2B, thus targets sales managers, entrepreneurs, independents, and more broadly, any professional profile focused on audit, business, and finance. With its broad range of freely accessible data, it also serves as an easy entry point to these data for a curious audience.
Is Legaleo easy to master?
The answer is yes. Legaleo’s website is organized for smooth navigation, and it succeeds in this regard.
You will find several menus that allow you to directly access the reference lists of Companies, Executives, APIs (to be used under a token-based subscription), as well as all the services Legaleo offers and its pricing terms.
The platform clearly emphasizes clarity, which works well. For example, in the API tab, you get an explanation of the cost of each document in tokens, plus a FAQ addressing the essential questions about this service.
A click on the company logo, located at the top left of the page, returns you to the main page, while a search bar lets you search for a director, or a company, by keyword, or by its SIRET or SIREN number.
This homepage also has the merit of being clear about the services Legaleo provides. A ranking of companies by revenue, gross margin, EBITDA, and net margin is available. This will please the curious before delving deeper into the details of the roughly 25 million referenced structures.
Why choose Legaleo?
Notably because this service is designed to save you time, and it does. Each listed company page functions like a dashboard, with key information and highlighted contacts.
Additionally, in four sections you can obtain a summary of the company and the documents available about it.
The layout is optimized. Right away, you can view the available documents at no cost:
- Sirene status report
- Company contacts; collective agreement
- Legaleo company profile
- RNE extract
- EORI number
- Intra-community VAT number
Followed by other key documents such as:
- Published acts
- Company agreements; legal announcements
- Financial statements
- Trademarks
- Articles of association
A partial financial analysis provides a comparative view of the last three years of activity, aligning with the market average; some profiles allow looking at the last four statements. You will also find the balance sheet (assets and liabilities) and the income statement.
The fourth and final section guides you toward Legaleo’s premium documents. Here you’ll find fairly standard files, along with a few useful documents to enhance the analysis of a company and support decision-making:
- Financial performance comparison
- Scoring comparison
- Paying behavior
- Estimation of banking quotes
- Estimation of financial commitments
- KBIS extract
Finally, Legaleo states that it updates the available information in real time, and, on the cybersecurity side, it meets DSS, GDPR, and SAFE certifications.
How much does Legaleo cost?
Note that access to the offerings is also straightforward thanks to the dedicated menu, avoiding multiple redirects sometimes seen with other service providers.
Legaleo offers a 48-hour trial at €3 excluding tax, which is in line with similar services.
Beyond that, Legaleo provides three professional plans:
- Quarterly contract (3 months commitment) from €188/month
- Semi-annual contract (6 months commitment) from €143/month
- Annual contract (12 months commitment) from €79/month
The sales team must be contacted for quarterly and semi-annual contracts. Note a discount of 23% on the semi-annual plan, and 57% on the annual plan, offered compared to a monthly price of €188 excluding tax.
Legaleo is accessible on computer and smartphone. Multi-account access and an account manager are included with the semi-annual and annual subscriptions, while monthly billing is reserved for the annual subscription.
Some premium documents, such as KBIS extracts, are limited to 30 downloads per month.
There are also API-specific packages available, without commitment. Again, prices align with those of other competitors:
- 20,000 tokens/month from €48/month
- 50,000 tokens/month from €100/month (-17% discount)
- 150,000 tokens/month from €240/month (-33%)
- 350,000 tokens/month from €490/month (-42%)
- 500,000 tokens/month from €600/month (-50%)
- 750,000 tokens/month from €750/month (-58%)
- 1,000,000 tokens/month from €800/month (-67%)
- 5,000,000 tokens/month from €1,500/month (-88%)
Please note that VAT may apply to your purchases depending on your place of residence. Payments are accepted by credit cards (American Express, Mastercard, Visa), Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, and Stripe.
Our take on Legaleo
From a B2B perspective, Legaleo is a highly recommendable platform, both in terms of the services offered and the value for money of its annual contract.
At this stage, no major drawbacks stand out. For instance, the declared number of employees—say 3 to 5 for a group like Carrefour—needs to be put into perspective. Likewise, some services provide figures for one more year (4 years instead of 3 on Legaleo).
Its very clear interface, its 25 million available documents, its intuitive menus, and its straightforward subscription system make it a practical solution for professionals.
Daniel Brooks
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