Company Check alternative: a REST API instead of a UK credit-report website

TL;DR

Company Check is a UK web platform for company and director lookups: a 0-100 company score, an insolvency-risk read, County Court Judgments, mortgages and charges, and director-linked-company views, unlocked per report for £20+VAT or by subscription at £35/month or £350/year. No API is advertised on its pages. Prometiam has no company score and no financial accounts — it is a REST API returning Companies House officer and PSC data plus five more countries, corporate events, insolvency notices across nine markets and sanctions screening (beta), with published prices from a free tier.

Pick Company Check if

You want a human-readable UK credit check in a browser — a 0-100 company score, a recommended credit limit and CCJ history — without writing any code, and you are happy paying per report or by monthly subscription.

Pick Prometiam if

You are integrating company lookups into software: officers, UK PSC beneficial-ownership data, corporate events and sanctions screening across Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway behind one key, with public per-call prices and a free tier to start.

Scope limits on the Prometiam side

Prometiam returns no company score, no credit limit and no financial accounts. Beneficial ownership is the UK PSC register only. Ireland and Poland are company-level with no officers yet; Norway has no corporate-event stream; sanctions screening is beta; insolvency notices are corporate only across nine markets, with Spain served separately on /search.

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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

PrometiamCompany Check
CountriesES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO (official registries)UK (Companies House data); site copy also references Ireland
DataRegistry facts, officers/PSC where published, corporate events, insolvency, sanctionsCompany score, insolvency-risk read, credit limit, CCJs, charges, financial accounts, directors, shareholders, monitoring dashboard, prospecting lists
UpdatesDaily (ES, FR, IE, PL, NO); UK monthly bulk plus daily deltaNot stated on the pages read
Entry price€0 for 1,000 calls/month, no cardFree to browse basic data (advertising-supported); £20+VAT for a single report
Paid plans€9.99 · €29.99 · €99.99 /month, cancel any time£35/month or £350/year, unlimited reports, cancel any time
ContractNone, monthly billing, cancel any timeNone; monthly or prepaid annual, cancel any time
MonitoringPOST /monitor, signed webhooks (ES, IE, PL)Dashboard alerts on tracked companies/directors, subscription only
Sanctions screeningSame key, betaNot offered on the pages read
Beneficial ownershipUK PSC register onlyShareholders/ownership shown from Companies House filings
Data residencyEU (Frankfurt)UK company (Cardiff); no residency claim published

Frequently asked questions

How much does Company Check cost?
As published on companycheck.co.uk on 16 September 2026: a single company report unlocks for £20+VAT, or a Business Monthly subscription is £35/month (cancel any time) and Business Annual is £350/year, both for unlimited reports. Basic company data is free to browse, supported by advertising.
Does Company Check have an API?
No API or developer program was found on its homepage, pricing page or product pages as read on 16 September 2026. It is a browser-based lookup and subscription product, not a machine-readable feed.
Does Prometiam give a company score like Company Check?
No. Prometiam does not return a company score, a credit limit or financial accounts. It returns registry facts (company, officer and UK PSC data), corporate events, insolvency notices and sanctions matches with a match_score for name-matching confidence only.
Does Prometiam cover Ireland the way Company Check does?
Prometiam serves Irish company records from the CRO at company level; officer data for Ireland is not yet available. Company Check is a UK-built platform whose own site copy references Ireland but whose product pages describe UK Companies House data.
Can I get UK beneficial-ownership data from Prometiam?
Yes, from the UK PSC (Persons with Significant Control) register, embedded in the company and person endpoints. That is the only registry on Prometiam that returns true beneficial ownership; every other country returns officers or directors.