Alibaba
Speya vs Alibaba
Alibaba is a vast B2B marketplace. Speya is an AI sourcing engine that finds and vets suppliers for you. Here is how they differ.
By the Speya team
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Side by side
How Speya compares.
Capability
Speya
Alibaba
Supplier discovery
Describe it in plain language
Manual keyword search
Vetting
Every supplier AI-vetted
Limited, buyer-led
Coverage
Millions of suppliers, global
Millions, mostly Asia
Speed to shortlist
Minutes
Days of sifting
Autonomy
Runs the whole case with Speya Auto
None
Built for
Enterprise procurement
Marketplace / SMB trade
Background
The platform, in brief.
Alibaba is one of the largest B2B marketplaces in the world, connecting buyers with millions of suppliers concentrated in China and Asia. Buyers search listings, message suppliers, and often transact on the platform.
The gap
Where it falls short for modern procurement.
Alibaba is a marketplace. You do the searching and the sifting, listing quality and verification vary, and the platform is built to sell. For enterprise sourcing that means slow research and limited assurance about who you are dealing with.
Authority
Why you can trust this comparison.
This comparison comes from the team that builds Speya, used for supplier discovery by IKEA, Roche, Clas Ohlson, Rusta, Ahlsell and STARK Group, plus PwC and Deloitte. We state where we fit and where we do not.
Enterprise procurement
IKEA, Roche, Clas Ohlson, Rusta, Ahlsell and STARK Group source with Speya.
Global consultancies
PwC and Deloitte run client sourcing on the platform.
Independently audited
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, third-party audited.
EU by default
Hosted in the EU. Supplier data never leaves EU borders.
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Speya
The Speya team, building AI supplier discovery for enterprise procurement. We cover sourcing, supplier data, risk and compliance.
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The difference
Why teams choose Speya.
Speya is built for how procurement works now. You describe the need, Speya discovers and AI-vets suppliers across millions worldwide, ranks them into tiers, and can run the whole case on its own. You get a defensible shortlist in minutes, with the evidence beside every name.
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