A basic check on a Ukrainian company costs $149 and lands within 4 to 24 hours. A full report with ownership structure and beneficial owners is $349 on the same turnaround. Multi-jurisdiction intelligence starts at $799, and a court-ready evidence format starts at $1200 and takes 2 to 5 business days. Where you land in that range depends on three things: how deep the check goes, how tangled the ownership is, and whether the answer sits inside Ukrainian registers or beyond them.
Ask three providers what a counterparty check costs and you can get answers an order of magnitude apart for what sounds like the same thing, a report about a company. The spread is not about greed. It reflects how far down someone actually dug. A cheap check is often a reformatted registry extract that you could have pulled yourself in twenty minutes. An expensive one is a joined-up risk picture that someone signs their name to. Here is how the price is built, so you can see what you are buying at each step.
These are the published levels for a corporate counterparty check. The tiering logic is the same across the market, even where the numbers are not visible.
| Level | Price | Turnaround | What is included | When to take it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Check | $149 | 4–24 hours | Legal status, registration data, sanctions (Ukraine + OFAC / EU / UN), basic OSINT, red flags, written verdict. | A quick deal, a new small supplier. |
| Standard Report | $349 | 4–24 hours | Everything above, plus ultimate beneficial owners (UBO), media and reputation, court records, PDF report with an Argus Score. | A contract of real size, a recurring partner. |
| Premium Intel | $799+ | agreed at the brief | Everything above, plus public offshore-leak datasets, satellite asset verification, hidden connections, several jurisdictions, UBO deep trace. | A complex ownership structure, a large or cross-border deal. |
| Legal-Grade | $1200+ | 2–5 business days | Everything above, plus chain of custody, analyst signature, RFI question set, format built for court and arbitration. | A dispute, M&A, preparation for a claim. |
Checking a person rather than a company is a separate service and starts at $79 for a basic profile. You order it when the risk sits with the individual across the table rather than with the entity on the invoice, which is common with a new contractor or a founder you have only met on a call. The tiers and scope are on the personal check page.
Three factors set the number, and each one pushes it up independently of the others.
Depth. The cheapest layer is a screen: is the company alive, is it sanctioned, are there open court cases or enforcement proceedings against it. The next layer answers who stands behind it, down to the real beneficial owner, and whether the declared picture matches the real one. The most expensive layer is evidentiary: every fact tied to a preserved source with a documented trail, in a form a tribunal will accept.
Complexity of the ownership. One Ukrainian limited company with a visible owner resolves quickly. A chain running through three entities, an offshore link and a nominee director has to be unwound layer by layer, and each layer is analyst hours. The harder a structure is to read, the more it costs to read, which is inconvenient, because opacity is usually where the thing worth finding is hiding. Our guide on checking the ultimate beneficial owner walks through what that unwinding involves.
Reach beyond the registers. Ukrainian sources close part of the picture and no more. Screening a company against sanctions lists in several jurisdictions, pulling foreign corporate filings or property links, searching public offshore-leak datasets, confirming an asset with satellite or archive imagery: each of these is separate work, and it is added to the price rather than bundled into a flat number.
If you are buying from abroad, this is the trap worth naming. Ukraine keeps an unusually open corporate record, and a foreign buyer can confirm within minutes that a counterparty exists, is active and has a registration code. That confirmation feels like due diligence and is not. Registration in Ukraine is a filing procedure, not a vetting procedure. Nobody at the register audited whether the declared owner is the real one, whether the company has the capacity it claims, or whether its money touches a sanctioned party two steps up the chain.
What has changed recently is what the register shows. On 19 January 2026 Ukraine reopened the state company register as open data, and its public dataset again includes ownership structure and the declared beneficial owner. That had been closed since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, so any guidance written between those dates is out of date. The reopening is genuinely useful. It also means the declared beneficial owner is now a self-reported field you can read, and reading a self-reported field is not the same as verifying it.
War changed the access picture in the other direction too. Vehicle records were closed to third parties, and since late 2025 electronic property extracts for legal entities show only the region rather than a precise address. None of this stops a check. It does mean a provider promising you a single instant look-up across everything either has not tried recently or is describing a product that no longer exists.
A useful amount of this is free, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. Company status, the registration code, court records and enforcement proceedings are open, and for a small first order that first layer is a reasonable place to stop. We publish a free basic check for exactly that reason.
The limits show up fast. The register will not tell you the declared owner is a nominee fronting for someone else. It will not run the company and its owners against the OFAC, EU, UN and UK lists, where exposure often arrives through an intermediary rather than the company itself. It will not tell you the financials do not support the contract being discussed, or that a tidy facade sits on an offshore structure. Those layers, not the fact of registration, decide whether the contract is safe to sign, and how the screening layer works in practice is covered in our guide to running an AML check on a company. Free covers the first hour of the work and leaves open precisely the risks that break deals.
There is also a practical cost that a foreign buyer feels and a local one does not. The primary sources are in Ukrainian, the naming conventions are unfamiliar, and the same person can appear under three transliterations. An hour of your own time on a register you cannot read well is not a saving.
The most expensive option is not the deepest report. It is no report. The comparison is never the fee against zero, it is the fee against the cost of being wrong.
A prepayment to a supplier who disappears afterwards costs the whole prepayment. A contract with a sanctioned party costs frozen payments, a bank relationship put under review and your own name entering a compliance file. A deal with a business heading into insolvency costs a debt you will not recover, because by the time judgment arrives the assets are gone. In each case a few hundred dollars stood between you and a loss orders of magnitude larger. A check does not make a deal good. It makes it a decision you took with your eyes open, which is the difference between a priced risk and a surprise billed to you.
Most providers in this market show no price at all. You get "contact us for a quote", which means you cannot compare, cannot budget and cannot even establish the order of magnitude until you have handed over your details and waited for a call. That friction is a sales technique, not a necessity of the work.
Publishing the numbers removes the step. When the levels and prices are visible in advance, you pick the depth that fits your decision instead of the depth that fits someone else's script, and if the answer is that you only need the $149 screen, you can reach that conclusion without a conversation. Our levels sit openly on the pricing page, and you can see what a finished report looks like in the sample gallery before you commit to anything.
Time and price track each other. The Basic Check and the Standard Report are delivered within 4 to 24 hours, because both are focused work against known sources with specific questions in front of them. Premium Intel is scoped at the brief, since the workload depends on how many jurisdictions and ownership layers are actually in play, and quoting a fixed turnaround before seeing the structure would be a guess. The Legal-Grade format takes 2 to 5 business days, because each fact has to be captured with its source trail intact, not merely found. How that sequence runs is set out on our how we work page.
A counterparty check costs from $149 for a basic screen to $1200 and up for an evidentiary report, and that spread measures depth rather than markup: how many layers under the facade someone genuinely lifted. More complexity and more jurisdictions mean a higher number. The cheapest route is to read the open registers yourself, which closes the first layer and only the first. The most expensive route is to skip the question and learn the answer after the money has moved. Before you sign, ask one thing: what do you lose if this counterparty is not who they present themselves to be. If that figure dwarfs the fee, the arithmetic has already been done for you.
Related reading: the full six-step method behind the report, in how to verify a Ukrainian company.
Pick the depth your decision needs: a basic screen, a full report with ownership structure, or a court-ready evidentiary format. Levels and prices are published, with no "contact us for a quote".