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Foldout vs Pappers

A capability-by-capability read for solopreneurs, freelancers, content creators and marketers. Every Pappers fact links to its source.

The short answer

Pappers is a French company and legal data service, sold by API credits or per-user licences. Foldout is a one-person business OS you pay for once, with the AI running on your own plan.

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Capability by capability

Foldout vs Pappers: capability by capability

Foldout covers all 21 capabilities compared. Pappers states 5 of them on its public pages.

Foldout and Pappers, capability by capability. Pappers facts cite their public source.
CapabilityFoldoutPappers
StartGetting the whole business into one system.
One database behind every domain
Contacts, companies, tasks and notes
A knowledge graph you can search
French company registry search
SellKnowing who will buy, and why.
Buying signals and buying stage
Enrichment and scoring, grounded in research
A meeting brief before each call
CreateMaking the content, then getting it out.
Drafts in your own voice
Carousels, newsletters and landing pages
Scripts and a content calendar
X, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit and YouTube in one read
Competitor ads from the Meta Ad Library
AI video, voiceover and avatars
RunLetting the busywork run itself, on your approval.
Playbooks run with approval gates
Scheduled runs, around the clock
Content traced to pipeline, then revenue
Any App Store app tracked daily
PlatformWhether the tool fits how you already work.
A native macOS app
Your own AI plan, no second bill
An MCP server and client
A perpetual licence, updates included
Terms, side by side

The commercial facts, row by row.

Foldout and Pappers compared, one topic per row. Pappers facts cite their public source.
TopicFoldoutPappers
Pricing modelPay once. A perpetual licence.Pappers sells credits: the API tariff selector offers an Abonnement — monthly, or annual with -20% — or a Pay as you go option, and each credit is spent on a defined unit of data (0,1 credit per search result, 1 credit per fiche entreprise, 3 credits per document).Source: Pappers pricing page
PriceFounder Edition 4,539 USD, all 14 modules. Core Edition 1,150 USD at general release.The API tariff selector prints, on the Abonnement, '500 crédits' at 30 € / mois, '2K crédits' at 75 € / mois, '5K crédits' at 150 € / mois, '15K crédits' at 300 € / mois, '35K crédits' at 600 € / mois, '50K crédits' at 800 € / mois, '75K crédits' at 1 100 € / mois and '100K crédits' at 1 400 € / mois; on Pay as you go those steps print 60 €, 150 €, 300 €, 600 €, 1 200 €, 1 600 €, 2 200 € and 2 800 €, with '200K crédits' at 4 000 €.Source: Pappers pricing page
UpdatesLifetime updates, included in the licence.Pappers states its data is updated once a day from the official bases (INSEE, INPI, BODACC), that the API is available 99,9% 24h/24 et 7j/7, and that an alerts system will be released soon.Source: Pappers pricing page
ExpansionModules, one by one, from 290 to 2,350 USD at general release.Access grows by credit volume, up to the 100K crédits Abonnement at 1 400 € / mois, and Pappers states the MCP only gives access to Pappers Justice from abonnements API de 5K crédits / mois.Source: Pappers product page
AIRuns on the AI plan you already pay for. No second AI bill.Pappers states its MCP server branches your AI onto data from more than 100 official sources, covers 35 tools across data, investigation and law, and adds an exclusive Stratégie tool that structures the AI's financial and legal analysis.Source: Pappers product page
DataOne database behind every domain: prospects, content, deals and revenue.Pappers states it is connected to the organisations that publish French companies' legal data — BODACC, INSEE, INPI and others — and that its data is updated daily from all the directories it is connected to.Source: Pappers pricing page
ControlPlaybooks run with approval gates. You approve, it runs.Pappers states you can connect its data to your tools with the Zapier connector and automate your different tasks.Source: Pappers pricing page
Built forOne person: solopreneurs, freelancers, content creators and marketers.Pappers lists the work it is built for on its MCP page: analyse financière, sourcing B2B, audit juridique, assistant M&A / investissement, prospection immo, jurisprudence and politique.Source: Pappers product page
PlatformA native app for macOS 26 and later.Pappers is a website whose data is also reachable with an API key and through an MCP server that installs by adding its server URL in your AI interface — Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Mistral, HuggingChat, Claude.ai, Cursor, VS Code or n8n.Source: Pappers product page
The other side

What is Pappers?

Pappers states it gives all the information on companies, free, intelligent and complete: you can collect all the legal, judicial and financial information on the companies of your choice — statuts, comptes sociaux, marques, dirigeants, actionnaires — and refine your analysis with its advanced search engine.

Source: Pappers product page

How does Pappers work?

  1. 01

    Pappers prices its API in credits, with an Abonnement (monthly, or annual with -20%) or a Pay as you go option, and a pack of 100 credits is credited automatically when an API account is created from a professional email address.

    Source: Pappers pricing page
  2. 02

    Each credit buys a defined unit: 1 credit for a fiche entreprise, 0,1 credit per search result, 3 credits for a PDF/XLSX document, 2 credits for comptes in text or JSON, 30 credits for scoring alone and 50 credits for a scoring report.

    Source: Pappers pricing page
  3. 03

    Pappers' MCP server gives your AI models direct access to the whole Pappers ecosystem — Entreprises, Justice, Immo and Politique — in real time and inside your own workflows, and is compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Mistral and HuggingChat.

    Source: Pappers product page
  4. 04

    Pappers states the API gives access to all the data contained in its company profiles, all the results of its search engine, and all the documents (actes and comptes) attached to them.

    Source: Pappers pricing page
Why Foldout

What Foldout does differently from Pappers

Foldout is built around one job: the whole business of one person, in one window. Here is where that shows.

  • One database

    Prospects, content, deals and revenue sit in one database, not five apps held together by exports.

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  • You approve, it runs

    Playbooks run the same steps every week and stop for your approval before anything ships.

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  • AI on your own plan

    Foldout runs on the AI subscription you already pay for. No second AI bill, ever.

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  • Pay once

    A perpetual licence with lifetime updates. No seat, no monthly line item.

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Your call

Who should pick which.

Pick Foldout if
  • You run the whole business yourself.
  • You would rather pay once and own the licence.
  • You already pay for an AI plan.
  • You work on a Mac with macOS 26 or later.
Where Pappers is the better pick
  • You want the French company registry — SIRENE, RNE, BODACC, comptes annuels — behind one API key.
  • You want to clean and enrich your own database with SIREN/SIRET identifiers, dirigeants and financial data.
  • You want your own AI client to query official French company, property, justice and political data in natural language.
Source: Pappers pricing page, Pappers product page
FAQ

Questions, answered.

01What happens after I pay once?

The licence is yours for good, with every update, for life.

02Do I need to pay for AI?

No. Foldout runs on the AI plan you already pay for. We never bill you for AI.

03Does it run on Windows or in a browser?

No. Foldout is a native app for macOS 26 and later.

Pappers is a trademark of its owner. Foldout is not affiliated with or endorsed by Pappers. Pappers facts come from Pappers’s own public pages, cited above.

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From one person. To every job.

Foldout is built for people who run the whole business themselves.

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Founder Edition · 4,539 USD · 100 seats