Looking for a Watershed alternative?

Watershed: US enterprise carbon management platform with high-quality emissions data. If your main job is CSRD/ESRS or VSME reporting, these are the options worth comparing, including when Watershed is still the better choice.

Certigence or Watershed?

Choose Certigence if: You have EU CSRD obligations or operate in the Nordic and European market.
Choose Watershed if: You are a US company focused on voluntary carbon reduction and CDP or SBTi reporting.

Stay with Watershed if this matters most

Heavy investment in emissions factor accuracy and data quality scores.
Well supported for SBTi, CDP and US climate disclosure work.

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Other Watershed alternatives

Each of these is a credible tool for a different job. Pick by the problem you need to solve first.

Sweep: French carbon accounting platform with strong supply chain emissions tracking.
Plan A: German ESG platform with a strong focus on EU regulatory compliance.
Briink: AI-first EU CSRD compliance platform with strong ESRS taxonomy mapping.
Persefoni: US enterprise carbon management platform focused on TCFD and the financial sector.

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Where the Watershed facts come from

Competitor facts in the table come only from Watershed's own public pages, checked in October 2026. Certigence facts come from our pricing, security and developer pages.

https://watershed.com/
https://watershed.com/security
https://trust.watershed.com/

Certigence security facts

Moving from Watershed to Certigence

There is no automated import from other ESG tools. Most teams re-create the materiality outcome and carry over their carbon figures from their latest export.

Create a free account and find your company: Claim your public Certigence profile, or register the company if it is not listed yet.
Run the double materiality assessment: Use the Double Materiality Wizard to record impacts, risks and opportunities. Your previous assessment is the input.
Enter Scope 1, 2 and 3 data: Carry over activity data and totals from your Watershed export into carbon accounting (Professional and Enterprise).
Run the gap analysis and export: See which ESRS disclosures are still missing, then export the statement as PDF or CSV.

Certigence vs Watershed

Based on each vendor's own public pages, checked in October 2026; they may have changed since. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at [email protected].

	Certigence	Watershed
Double Materiality Wizard (ESRS)	Yes	Partial
CSRD compliance suite	Yes	Partial
AI gap analysis	Yes	No
Carbon accounting (Scope 1/2/3)	Yes	Yes
PDF + CSV export	Yes	Yes
Nordic market focus	Yes	No
Free tier / trial	Yes	No
Multi-entity support	Yes	Yes
Pricing (as of October 2026)	Published: Starter €490/month, Professional €990/month; annual billing costs ten months' price	Not published; buyers book a demo
Free plan or trial	Free plan: search ratings and claim your profile, no card	No free plan or trial mentioned on the public site
API	Read-only Data API, signed webhooks and Slack/Teams alerts on Professional and Enterprise	Not described on the public home or security page; ask Watershed
Security certifications and hosting	No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 yet; hosted on Railway in its EU West region (Amsterdam), SCCs for the US provider; DPA on request	Compliance documents available on request through Watershed's trust page (trust.watershed.com)
Onboarding	Self-serve signup; materiality and carbon data entered in the app (no import connector)	Sales-led, aimed at enterprise sustainability teams

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FAQ

Can I import my data from Watershed?

Not automatically. Certigence has no import connector for Watershed; carbon figures and materiality outcomes are entered in Certigence, usually from your latest export.

Is Certigence a good fit for my company?

Certigence fits European, especially Nordic, small and mid-sized companies answering ESG requests or preparing CSRD/VSME reporting without a sustainability team. It is not a fit if: You need iXBRL/ESEF tagging from the reporting tool itself. Certigence exports PDF and CSV; your filing agent does the tagging. Your main job is collecting Scope 3 primary data from thousands of suppliers. You report under US SEC, TCFD or PCAF rather than CSRD/ESRS or VSME. You need assurance. Certigence prepares the evidence trail for your auditor but does not issue assurance. You need to push data in programmatically. The Data API is read-only and starts on Professional.

What does Certigence cost?

Searching ratings and claiming your profile is free. Starter (€490/month) and Professional (€990/month) are self-serve with monthly or annual billing; annual billing costs ten months' price. Enterprise is quoted. Current prices are on the pricing page.