Deal One Alternative: Price Comparison and Differences for Insolvency Buyers

Deal One (deal-one.de) is a cross-industry DACH marketplace for buying and selling businesses: trades/crafts, medical practices, pharmacies, restaurants, construction and dozens more categories. Insolvencies are one category among many there (/suchergebnisse/unternehmen-kaufen/insolvenzen/), not the product's core.

The mechanism: buyers set up a search profile, an AI assistant continuously scans new listings and emails matching hits ("AI deal alerts", hourly, daily or weekly). That's a solid model for broad, occasional business search — but a listing is not an official record, and its freshness depends on when a seller or broker posts it.

Emptera does the opposite: only insolvency proceedings (amtliche Insolvenzveröffentlichungen InsO announcements, self-administration, owner-led sale signals), sourced directly from official records rather than seller listings.

All Deal One prices below come directly from deal-one.de/abonnement-auswaehlen/, net plus 19% German VAT — prices can change, check their page directly if in doubt:

Deal One — Einsteiger (entry): €39/month (seller contacts up to €1M revenue, 1 search profile, no CSV export; company insolvencies are not listed as included). Professional: €59/month (up to €5M revenue, 3 search profiles, German company insolvencies up to €5M included). Profi Investor: €119/month (insolvencies with no revenue cap, 10 search profiles, CSV/Excel export, AI deal briefing, dedicated contact). Commitments of 3, 6 or 12 months lower the effective monthly rate (e.g. Professional €38.25/month at 12 months, Profi Investor €77.42/month).

Emptera — Free: €0. Pro: €180/month or €1,800/year (full database access, AI matching against your acquisition thesis, 25 alerts). Platform: €360/month (team access, 100 alerts, full export). Enterprise: from €999/month, demo-led. Full detail at /preise.

To be candid: on pure entry price, Deal One's Profi Investor tier (€119/month, insolvencies with no revenue cap) is cheaper than our Pro entry (€180/month). If price is your only lens, that's worth acknowledging rather than glossing over — the next section is about what the difference buys.

Deal One covers dozens of industries; insolvency is one filter among many. The product is built around saved search profiles and email alerts about new listings — per-case data depth stays at listing level.

Emptera syncs amtliche Insolvenzveröffentlichungen InsO announcements hourly directly against the official source (methodology at Why freshness matters) and enriches every case with commercial-register and veröffentlichte Jahresabschlüsse data instead of relying on a third-party-authored listing. From those facts, each case gets an AI deal playbook with concrete next steps for administrator outreach (see Deal Playbook explained) — not just a contact address.

This isn't a blanket "better" — it's a different shape: broad reach across many industries versus specialist depth in exactly one segment.

Deal One fits well if you're searching across industries for a single business (a trades company or medical practice, say) and insolvency is only one of several criteria — the lower entry price is a genuine argument there.

Emptera fits well if you repeatedly and actively source asset deals out of insolvency proceedings specifically, and need register data, case history and a structured approach to administrator outreach rather than a plain listing feed. For that use case, the higher Pro price buys specialization, not the same output under a different label.

The two aren't mutually exclusive — some buyers reasonably run several sources in parallel.