BIG InfoMonitor alternative: the KRS company record via API, not a debtor register

TL;DR

BIG InfoMonitor, part of the BIK group, runs Poland's shared debtor registry and sells payment-credibility products on companies and consumers: contractor verification reports with a recommendation, a full BIK credit history for your own company, an invoice payment-reminder tool called Bezpieczna Faktura BIK, a formal payment demand, and an entry in the debtor registry. These are bundled through a business account from PLN 189 net per six months, and no public, self-serve API was found on its pages. Prometiam is a REST API for the official KRS company record, alongside five more European registries, updated daily, with monitoring webhooks and sanctions screening on the same key — and holds no payment-default data of its own, so it is often used alongside a debtor register rather than instead of one.

Pick BIG InfoMonitor if

You need to check whether a Polish company or consumer already has unpaid debts on record, want to enter a non-paying contractor in the shared debtor registry to press for repayment, or want your own company's full BIK credit history and debtor-registry status alongside a contractor-verification report, all in one account.

Pick Prometiam if

You verify that a Polish company legally exists as part of a programmatic onboarding flow, your counterparties span more than Poland, and you want a signed webhook on status changes plus sanctions screening behind the same key, starting from a free tier with no card and no contract.

Scope limits on the Prometiam side

Poland is company-level: no officers, no CRBR beneficial ownership, no KRZ insolvency feed. Prometiam holds no payment-default, debtor-registry or credit-history data of any kind. Monitoring covers Spain, Ireland and Poland; sanctions screening is beta; PEP screening is beta and Spain only.

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Beyond the registry record

Two derived signals on the Prometiam side, neither of them a rating: registry_compliance, which marks companies still on the register that stopped meeting their filing duties (Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway), and public procurement — Spanish contract awards by supplier, buyer, tax id, CPV code and date, plus a beta score for the contracting body itself in Spain and France. Both are dated facts with their source, on the published price and in the free tier; a score is a prompt to look, never a finding of wrongdoing. Public-buyer risk · Procurement screening

At a glance

PrometiamBIG InfoMonitor
CountriesES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO (official registries)Poland (through the BIK group)
DataKRS company record for Poland (company-level), plus officers and events elsewhere; no payment-default dataDebtor-registry entries, contractor verification reports, BIK credit history; not a company registry
UpdatesDailyNot stated on the public pages
Entry price€0 for 1,000 calls/month, no cardNo free tier found; business bundle from PLN 189 net / 6 months
Paid plans€9.99 · €29.99 · €99.99 /month, cancel any timeNot published beyond the starting bundle price; corporate volumes on request
ContractNone, cancel any timeNot stated beyond the six-month bundle price
MonitoringPOST /monitor with signed webhooks (ES, IE, PL)Alerty BIK Moja Firma and Alerty o Kontrahencie (debtor-registry and credit alerts)
Sanctions screeningSame key, betaNot offered
Beneficial ownershipUK PSC register onlyNot offered
Data residencyEU (Frankfurt)Poland (Warsaw-registered)

Frequently asked questions

Does Prometiam have payment-default or debtor data like BIG InfoMonitor?
No. Prometiam returns the official KRS company record — legal name, KRS number, NIP, REGON, legal form, PKD activity code, registered address and share capital — not payment history, debtor-registry entries or credit history. It answers whether a company exists and is active, not whether it pays on time.
How much does BIG InfoMonitor cost?
As published on big.pl/firma on 16 September 2026, the BIK-for-business bundle (Raport BIK Moja Firma, Raport Weryfikacja Kontrahenta, Bezpieczna Faktura BIK and one debtor-registry entry) starts at PLN 189 net per six months. Pricing for higher volumes or system integration is not published; BIG InfoMonitor directs those requests to duzefirmy@big.pl.
Does BIG InfoMonitor have a public API?
No self-serve API or developer page was found on big.pl or bik.pl as of 16 September 2026. Access is through a BIK business account, and larger clients are told to contact BIG InfoMonitor directly about integration. Prometiam is a REST API from the first call: one key, an OpenAPI spec, and an MCP server for AI agents.
Can I use BIG InfoMonitor and Prometiam together?
Yes. Teams commonly use BIG InfoMonitor's debtor registry and credit-history reports to see whether a Polish counterparty has already defaulted, and Prometiam's KRS record and monitoring webhook to confirm the company exists, watch its status, and screen its name against sanctions lists as part of the same onboarding flow.
Which countries does each cover?
BIG InfoMonitor's debtor-registry and credit-history products cover Poland, through the BIK group. Prometiam covers six official company registries under one key — Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway — with Poland at company level: no officers, no CRBR beneficial ownership, no KRZ insolvency feed yet.