Comparison · Altares

Altares alternative: the French registry record as an API with public prices

Altares is Dun & Bradstreet's partner for France: scores, financials, the D-U-N-S Number and a compliance suite, sold as named products through a sales conversation. Prometiam is the official registry record for France and more European countries behind one key, from a 14-day free trial, with no scores; filed financial statements for France start at the Scale plan. Which one fits depends on whether you need a judgement on the company, or the record itself.

Altares figures read from altares.com on 16 September 2026

TL;DR

Altares sells intuiz+ for French company risk evaluation, D&B Finance Analytics and Direct+ Data Blocks for global firmographics keyed on the D-U-N-S Number, DunTrade for payment-behaviour scoring, D&B Hoovers for sales intelligence, and a compliance suite — indueD, UBO Factory, inDoc, AnaCredit, DUNS 4 LEI — as separate named products; none of the pages read on altares.com shows a price, and each routes to a sales contact. Prometiam is a REST API for the official registry record of every country it covers — company facts, officers where the registry publishes them, corporate events, corporate insolvency notices and sanctions screening (beta) — from a free trial of 500 credits over 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99, no contract. No scores, no D-U-N-S Number; filed financial statements for GB, FR, DK, SE, NO and SEC filers in the United States (plus digitally filed statements for Finland, about one filer in twenty, and listed companies in ES, PL, HR and BE) from the Scale plan.

At a glance

Altares column: altares.com/, altares.com/solutions/ and altares.com/conformite/, read 16 September 2026. Prometiam column: /pricing and the API reference.

Who should pick Altares

• You need a French credit score or solvency rating on a counterparty — intuiz+ is built for exactly that, and Prometiam has no equivalent.
• You need payment-behaviour data. DunTrade draws on "175 million+" payment experiences to score how a company pays; Prometiam returns no payment history.
• You need financial statement analysis or a D-U-N-S Number for global firmographics — D&B Finance Analytics and D&B Direct+ cover "550 million" enterprises across 240 countries, keyed on Dun & Bradstreet's own identifier.
• You want a compliance suite as a product — indueD for KYC workflow, UBO Factory for beneficial-owner lists, inDoc for official documents, AnaCredit for ECB reporting, DUNS 4 LEI for MiFID II — bought through a sales conversation with the vendor doing the integration work.

Who should pick Prometiam

• Your counterparties are in any country Prometiam covers and you want the registry record as published — legal name, status, registered address, capital, activity code, officers where the registry publishes them — rather than a modelled score.
• You want to start today: a key in a minute, 500 free credits over 14 days, card required, nothing charged for 14 days, no contract, public prices, and the same response shape in all live countries.
• You need French corporate events and corporate insolvency notices as typed records alongside other countries, or signed webhooks for every live country except France and Chile through POST /monitor.
• You screen names against the EU, UN, OFAC, UK, Australia (DFAT) and French lists plus the US Consolidated Screening List in the same integration (beta), with a match_score and a threshold you set.

Scope limits, stated plainly

• No credit score, no D-U-N-S Number, no ESG rating. Filed financial statements are available for France on the Scale plan and above, except for companies that declare their accounts confidential (about 45% of French filers). Beneficial ownership is the UK PSC register only; French officer data is not a beneficial-ownership register.
• Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Cyprus, Romania, Lithuania, Canada, Australia, Japan, Israel, Singapore, Colombia, Taiwan, Germany, Ukraine, Serbia, Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, the Netherlands, Brazil, Argentina and the United States are company-level: no officers. Norway has register-change events only, from 14 Oct 2026 (no gazette).
• Insolvency notices are corporate only, across sixteen markets (FR, DE, GB, AT, CH, NO, FI, US, NL, DK, HR, SE, ES, LV, EE, SG). Monitoring is every live country except France and Chile.
• Sanctions screening is beta; PEP is beta, Spain only, with no relatives or close associates.

Beyond the registry record

Two derived signals, neither of them a rating. Both are dated facts carrying the source they came from, so whoever reviews your file can check them.

• Companies that stopped filing. A company that quietly stops trading rarely dissolves; the register notices first. The registry_compliance flag returns that state in one shape for Spain (provisional closure of the registry sheet), the United Kingdom (a strike-off proposal, or annual accounts overdue), Ireland (the strike-off list) and Norway (compulsory liquidation). Read it on GET /companies/{id}?include=risk_flags, or list those companies with risk_flag_type=registry_compliance. It is a compliance signal, not an insolvency: read it together with status.
• Public contracts, and the buyer behind them. GET /procurement/awards returns public-contract awards from Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway by supplier, buyer, identifier, CPV code and date, linked to the supplier’s registry record where the identifier resolves. GET /procurement/buyer/{id} scores the contracting body itself: the probability that its next award draws a single bid, and the probability that a supplier it awards to enters insolvency within two years.

Both are ordinary REST calls on the published price and included in the 14-day trial. Procurement awards cover Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway (Ireland, Poland and Norway above the EU thresholds only), the buyer scores are Spain and France and in beta, and a score is a prompt to look, never a finding of wrongdoing.

FAQ

How much does Altares cost?
Altares does not publish a price for intuiz+, D&B Finance Analytics, D&B Direct+, DunTrade, indueD, UBO Factory or any other product on altares.com; each solution page directs the visitor to a sales contact (read 16 September 2026). Prometiam publishes its prices: free for 500 credits over 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99 a month with no contract.

Does Prometiam give a credit score or a D-U-N-S Number?
No. Altares scores and assigns a D-U-N-S Number as the Dun & Bradstreet partner for France. Prometiam returns the registry record as published, keyed on the French SIREN (and the equivalent national number in each other country), with no score or rating; filed financial statements for France are a separate Scale-plan endpoint, except for companies that declare their accounts confidential (about 45% of French filers).

Does Prometiam cover compliance and KYC like Altares?
Partially. Prometiam runs sanctions screening (beta) against the EU, UN, OFAC, UK, Australia (DFAT) and French lists plus the US Consolidated Screening List, and PEP screening (beta, Spain only). It has no equivalent to indueD's KYC workflow, UBO Factory's beneficial-owner lists (except the UK PSC register), inDoc's official-document delivery or AnaCredit reporting.

Can I use Altares and Prometiam together?
Yes. Altares for French credit scoring, payment-behaviour data and compliance workflow tools bought as named products; Prometiam as the daily-updated registry record, corporate-event feed and sanctions screen behind one key across all live countries.

Which is faster to start with?
Prometiam: sign up, get a key, call the API from a 14-day free trial with a card required and nothing charged for 14 days and no sales conversation. Altares product pages route every next step to a sales contact, with no self-serve sign-up shown on the pages read 16 September 2026.

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