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Bolt Solutions vs Verisk

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Bolt Solutions

Insurance

Commercial insurance distribution platform

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
Verisk logo

Verisk

Insurance

Insurance data, ISO forms and rating content that most American P&C products are built on

From
On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Bolt Solutions no transparent pricing published on vendor website; Verisk the ISO content has no real substitute for a carrier writing standard lines, so renewal negotiations start from a position where walking away is not credible.
  • They diverge on capability: Bolt Solutions covers Commercial quoting, Verisk covers ISO forms and rating content.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Bolt Solutions and Verisk actually diverge.

Attributes where Bolt Solutions and Verisk differ
AttributeBolt SolutionsVerisk
Pricing modeltransactionquote
PlatformsWeb, ApiWeb, API, Windows
Founded2007Unknown

Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Insurance).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Bolt Solutions

  • Commercial quoting
  • Multi-carrier marketplace
  • Instant binding
  • Policy issuance
  • Agent portal
  • Carrier connectivity
  • Document generation
  • Analytics dashboard

Only in Verisk

  • ISO forms and rating content
  • ClaimSearch
  • Extreme event models
  • Property data
  • Xactimate
  • Underwriting analytics

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Bolt Solutions

  • Commercial quotingnot Verisk
  • Small business insurancenot Verisk
  • BOP policiesnot Verisk
  • Workers compnot Verisk
  • Multi-carrier accessnot Verisk

Verisk

  • A carrier filing standard commercial lines products that must use recognised forms and loss costsnot Bolt Solutions
  • A claims organisation checking submitted claims against the industry database for prior activitynot Bolt Solutions
  • A property insurer pricing catastrophe exposure for reinsurance placementnot Bolt Solutions
  • An MGA that needs bureau content without building and filing proprietary forms in every statenot Bolt Solutions

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Bolt Solutions

  • No transparent pricing published on vendor website

Verisk

  • The ISO content has no real substitute for a carrier writing standard lines, so renewal negotiations start from a position where walking away is not credible.
  • Pricing is negotiated separately per product and per line, and large insurers routinely find overlapping agreements across underwriting, claims and actuarial that nobody had counted together.
  • Circular updates to forms and loss costs must be loaded into your policy system on a schedule, which is recurring work that carriers with older platforms do partly by hand.
  • The breadth of the portfolio means account management is spread across product teams, so a problem in one service does not necessarily get attention from the people selling you another.
  • Usage-based components such as data prefill and claims searches make annual spend hard to forecast, and the variance lands in the year you grow fastest.

Pricing, plan by plan

Bolt Solutions

On request
  • Agent Portal$undefined/month
    • Commercial quoting
    • Multi-carrier access
    • Policy binding
  • Enterprise$undefined/custom
    • All Agent features
    • API access
    • White-label options

Verisk

On request
  • Verisk Insurance Solutions$undefined/year
    • ISO forms and loss cost licensing
    • Data and analytics services by line
    • API access

Which should you pick?

Choose Bolt Solutions if

  • You need commercial quoting.
  • You work on Web, Api.
  • You also want multi-carrier marketplace.
Bolt Solutions review

Choose Verisk if

  • You need iso forms and rating content.
  • You work on Web, API, Windows.
  • You also want claimsearch.
Verisk review

Questions people ask

Is Bolt Solutions or Verisk better?
Neither clearly leads. Bolt Solutions starts at On request and Verisk at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Bolt Solutions or Verisk?
Bolt Solutions starts at On request and Verisk at On request.
Does Bolt Solutions or Verisk run on more platforms?
Bolt Solutions runs on Web, Api. Verisk runs on Web, API, Windows.
What is Bolt Solutions best used for?
Bolt Solutions is most often used for commercial quoting, small business insurance, bop policies, workers comp. Of those, commercial quoting and small business insurance are not what Verisk is typically brought in for.
What can Bolt Solutions do that Verisk cannot?
Bolt Solutions covers Commercial quoting, Multi-carrier marketplace, Instant binding, Policy issuance. Verisk covers ISO forms and rating content, ClaimSearch, Extreme event models, Property data.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Bolt Solutions: Does Bolt offer a free trial or free tier?

No information about free trial or free options is published on the pricing page. You must contact Bolt's sales team to request a demo or trial.

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Verisk: Can a carrier avoid ISO content entirely?

Only by developing and filing proprietary forms and rates, which a handful of large insurers do. For everyone else the filing and legal cost of independence exceeds the licence.

Verisk: Is Xactimate part of Verisk?

Yes. It came with the Xactware acquisition and is the dominant property claims estimating tool in North America, used by carriers and by the contractors they pay.

Verisk: Did Verisk sell off businesses?

Yes. It divested non-insurance units including its energy research business in 2023 and refocused on insurance data and analytics.

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