Price to check a builder
- BuilderVet this site Free
- Government registers do it yourself Free extracts A$9+
- TrustSignal per-report PDF A$199 to 250
- TradieVerify free lookup Free
- iCIRT Equifax rating Free search
- Report shops manual reports A$227 to 495
How BuilderVet compares to licence checks, credit reports, and paid alternatives.
Time to an answer
- BuilderVet this site Instant
- Government registers do it yourself 4 to 5 site visits
- TrustSignal per-report PDF Minutes
- TradieVerify free lookup Instant
- iCIRT Equifax rating Instant
- Report shops manual reports 1 to 4 business days
NSW licence status
- BuilderVet this site Yes re-verified daily
- Government registers do it yourself Yes
- TrustSignal per-report PDF Yes
- TradieVerify free lookup Yes re-synced monthly
- iCIRT Equifax rating — name and ABN only
- Report shops manual reports Yes
ASIC company and insolvency status
- BuilderVet this site Yes
- Government registers do it yourself Yes separate search
- TrustSignal per-report PDF Yes
- TradieVerify free lookup —
- iCIRT Equifax rating — feeds a private score
- Report shops manual reports Yes
Disciplinary and enforcement records
- BuilderVet this site Yes
- Government registers do it yourself Yes scattered across registers
- TrustSignal per-report PDF Yes
- TradieVerify free lookup —
- iCIRT Equifax rating — feeds a private score
- Report shops manual reports Yes
One dated timeline across registers
- BuilderVet this site Yes
- Government registers do it yourself —
- TrustSignal per-report PDF Yes as of order date
- TradieVerify free lookup —
- iCIRT Equifax rating —
- Report shops manual reports —
Re-checked automatically every day
- BuilderVet this site Yes
- Government registers do it yourself — you re-run each search
- TrustSignal per-report PDF — point-in-time report
- TradieVerify free lookup — monthly
- iCIRT Equifax rating —
- Report shops manual reports —
Keeps records the register later removes
- BuilderVet this site Yes dated snapshots
- Government registers do it yourself — purged on schedule
- TrustSignal per-report PDF —
- TradieVerify free lookup —
- iCIRT Equifax rating —
- Report shops manual reports —
Covers every NSW licence, no opt-in
- BuilderVet this site Yes 178,900 licences
- Government registers do it yourself Yes
- TrustSignal per-report PDF Yes
- TradieVerify free lookup Yes
- iCIRT Equifax rating — opt-in firms, builder pays
- Report shops manual reports Yes one builder per order
Free profile page for every builder
- BuilderVet this site Yes
- Government registers do it yourself —
- TrustSignal per-report PDF —
- TradieVerify free lookup — trade and state pages
- iCIRT Equifax rating —
- Report shops manual reports —
Alerts after you check
- BuilderVet this site Free address watch
- Government registers do it yourself — ASIC lodgement alerts only
- TrustSignal per-report PDF —
- TradieVerify free lookup —
- iCIRT Equifax rating —
- Report shops manual reports — on request
Public API
- BuilderVet this site Yes
- Government registers do it yourself —
- TrustSignal per-report PDF —
- TradieVerify free lookup —
- iCIRT Equifax rating —
- Report shops manual reports —
Works inside AI assistants (MCP)
- BuilderVet this site Yes
- Government registers do it yourself —
- TrustSignal per-report PDF —
- TradieVerify free lookup —
- iCIRT Equifax rating —
- Report shops manual reports —
Compiled from each provider's public website and published pricing, July 2026. A dash means the provider does not offer it or does not publish it. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
What only BuilderVet does
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Keeps a record even after the register deletes it
Public registers purge on a schedule: penalty notices can drop off after 12 months, the NSW complaints register holds about 24 months and only lists businesses with 10 or more complaints in a single month. If a record is removed after you check, most lookups quietly show a cleaner history from then on. We keep the original entry and the date we last saw it live.
- 2
One join, five registers, every day
Licence, ASIC, disciplinary, rectification and DA data merged into one profile and re-verified daily, not at the moment somebody paid for a report.
- 3
Free at the core
Licence status, ASIC flag and the risk-signal summary are free for every one of the 178,900 NSW licences we track. No report purchase required to get the answer.
- 4
Built for agents, not just browsers
A public API and Model Context Protocol server mean an AI assistant can look a builder up directly, with the same sourced facts a person sees on the page.
See it on a real builder
No demo data. Every profile is built from the live register join.