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Creditsafe Alternative

A modern, transparent-pricing alternative to Creditsafe for multi-country company data, KYB, and sanctions screening (beta). 14-day free trial, no annual contract.

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TL;DR

Creditsafe is a global credit-data incumbent — strong if you need 240-country coverage, a bureau-style credit score, and a procurement team that can negotiate annual contracts. If your scope is the 36 countries Prometiam covers and you want a REST API with public pricing, daily-fresh data, and sanctions (beta) and US export-control screening (7 sources, live), Prometiam is faster to integrate and published at a fixed price. 14-day free trial, card required, nothing charged for 14 days, no annual minimum.

Why teams look for a Creditsafe alternative

1. Pricing is opaque. Prices are quoted on request (the packages page shows none as at 5 Nov 2026) and require sales engagement. Predictable usage-based pricing is rare.
2. Annual minimums. Creditsafe contracts are typically annual; that's a hard fit for SMBs and mid-market teams who want to pilot integration first.
3. API modernization gap. The Connect API works, but feels enterprise-grade — IP allowlisting, slow approvals, and onboarding friction are common complaints.
4. Scope mismatch. If you only need EU and UK, you're paying for global coverage you don't use.

Prometiam in one paragraph

Prometiam is a REST API that unifies official company-registry data across Europe under one schema, with daily updates (every working day for Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, Japan, Israel, Taiwan, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands; weekly for Sweden, Australia, Ukraine and the United States; monthly for Cyprus, Romania, Singapore, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Serbia, Ecuador and Chile), sanctions (beta) and US export-control screening (EU + UN + OFAC + UK + Australia (DFAT) + FR gels, plus the US Consolidated Screening List), and corporate events for Spain, France and the UK, plus register-change events for every other live country except Chile (none before 14 Oct 2026 for Ireland, Poland and Norway; Argentina is read monthly, none before 28 Oct 2026; Mexico covers its LEI-registered entities only). Officers are served for Spain, France, the UK, Norway, Poland and the Czech Republic (Polish natural persons are masked by the register itself; Czech natural persons are the name and the month and year of birth only); 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 and the United States are company records only. Pricing is public from €9.99/month, 14-day free trial available, card required, nothing charged for 14 days. EU data residency in Frankfurt by default.

Creditsafe vs Prometiam — at a glance

Pricing

Creditsafe's pricing is quote-based and almost always involves an annual commitment. Customers get a quote that depends on usage volume, country footprint, and whether you bundle credit-monitoring features.

Prometiam publishes its pricing:

• Starter trial — 14 days, 500 credits, card required, nothing charged for 14 days.
• Starter — €9.99/mo, 60 rpm and 1,000 credits/month.
• Professional — €29.99/mo, 120 rpm and 10,000 credits/month, full sanctions screening included.
• Enterprise — custom, for high-volume or custom SLA needs.

For most KYB and counterparty-monitoring use cases that fit the multi-country scope, Professional covers the workload at €359.88/year, without losing daily freshness or sanctions screening. If you need 240-country global coverage today, that math changes; Creditsafe is the right tool.

Coverage and freshness

Both vendors draw on official sources daily on their premium offerings. The differences are scope and unification. Creditsafe: 240+ country files, broad but uneven depth — financial statements and group hierarchies are stronger in some markets than others. Prometiam: the live countries — Spain, France and the UK with directors and corporate events, Norway and Poland with companies and directors (Polish natural persons are masked by the register itself), Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Slovakia and the United States at company level — all updated from official registries and gazettes (daily, or every working day for Finland, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, Japan, Israel, Taiwan, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands; weekly for Sweden, Australia, Ukraine and the United States; monthly for Cyprus, Romania, Singapore, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Serbia, Ecuador and Chile) and normalized to a single schema, plus corporate insolvency for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and Finland.

If your portfolio sits inside the countries Prometiam covers today, its depth is comparable on registry data and corporate events. Outside that footprint, Creditsafe wins on coverage.

API and integration

This is where most evaluations turn. Prometiam is API-first by design: one bearer token, one base URL, structured JSON, cursor pagination, predictable rate limits per tier. curl works in 60 seconds after signup; no IP allowlisting required. Open /risk-api/docs and run requests directly from the page.

Creditsafe's Connect API works but is more enterprise-shaped — IP allowlisting, account-manager-led onboarding, longer-running approvals. If you need batch SFTP delivery for legacy systems, Creditsafe has it. Prometiam does not.

Sanctions screening

Sanctions (beta) and US export-control screening (EU consolidated + UN + OFAC + UK + Australia (DFAT) + FR gels, plus the US Consolidated Screening List) is a core endpoint on Prometiam's Professional tier (€29.99/mo). Trigram fuzzy match across all seven sources in a single call. All seven sources are live with daily refresh, scored fuzzy matching, and watchlist monitoring.

Creditsafe sells PEPs/sanctions/adverse-media monitoring as separate modules. They're high-quality, but priced and contracted separately from the core data feed. If your use case is "verify counterparty + screen sanctions in one API call", Prometiam is the simpler shape.

Who should choose Creditsafe

Pick Creditsafe if:

• Your portfolio spans 50+ countries today, including non-EU/UK markets
• You need a bureau-style credit score (probability of default, financial-statement modeling) bundled with the data
• You want bundled credit insurance, recovery services, or trade-credit limits in the same vendor
• Procurement requires a Tier 1 incumbent with multi-year customer references
• You're comfortable with annual contracts and quote-based pricing

Who should choose Prometiam

Pick Prometiam if:

• Your scope is the 36 countries Prometiam covers and you don't need 240-country coverage today
• You want to integrate via REST in <60 seconds, with no procurement cycle
• Predictable, public pricing from €9.99/month matches how you budget
• Sanctions screening, corporate-event monitoring, and registry data should all live behind one API
• You're a fintech, lender, factoring company, supplier-onboarding platform, or compliance-tech vendor where the developer experience and integration speed matter as much as data depth

Migrating from Creditsafe

1. Sign up free at prometiam.com/signup — nothing charged for 14 days. You'll get an rk_live_* key in your inbox.
2. Map endpoints. Creditsafe Connect's company-data calls map to /companies/search and /companies/{id}. Director and officer data lives in the same endpoint; corporate events in /company-events/timeline and /company-events/search.
3. Run a parallel test — pick 100 representative counterparties from your current pipeline, query both APIs, diff the data fields you actually use. Most teams find Prometiam returns the same registry signal with a flatter response shape.
4. Confirm sanctions parity — call /sanctions/screen?name=…&threshold=80 for the same set; verify match counts.
5. Switch over when you're comfortable. Cancel Creditsafe at the next renewal anniversary; there's no migration fee on Prometiam's side.

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

What does Creditsafe cost?
As at 5 Nov 2026 the Creditsafe UK packages page shows no prices, only quote and contact buttons. Prometiam publishes its plans: Starter EUR 9.99 a month with a 14-day trial, Professional EUR 29.99, Scale EUR 99.99, Enterprise custom.

Does Creditsafe have an API, and how is it priced?
Yes. Creditsafe sells a Connect API (REST) with documentation at doc.creditsafe.com. As at 5 Nov 2026 no price is published; it is arranged with sales. Prometiam is a REST API with credits per successful call inside a published plan.

Is there a free option?
Creditsafe offers a free trial form and free company credit report checks on its UK site (read 5 Nov 2026); the trial terms are not stated there. Prometiam has no free plan; its 14-day Starter trial needs a card and charges nothing during it, and the docs demo key is open to try.

Does Prometiam cover the same countries as Creditsafe?
No. Prometiam covers Spain, France, the United Kingdom and Norway today, plus Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS), Finland (Kaupparekisteri), Sweden (Bolagsverket), Croatia (Sudski registar), Belgium (KBO/BCE), Denmark (CVR), Estonia (e-Business Register), Slovakia (RPO), Switzerland (Zefix), Latvia (Register of Enterprises), Cyprus (DRCOR) and Romania (ONRC), plus the United States, Argentina, Ukraine, Serbia, Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, the Netherlands and the other live registers, at company level. Creditsafe covers 240+ countries. If your scope is global, Creditsafe is the right tool.

Can Prometiam replace Creditsafe for KYB onboarding?
For multi-country counterparties, yes. /companies/search + /sanctions/screen covers the registry-verification + sanctions-screen leg of KYB. Prometiam does not include a credit score.

How long does it take to integrate Prometiam?
First successful API call typically takes under 60 seconds from signup.

Does Prometiam offer batch SFTP delivery?
No. Prometiam is REST-only. If your architecture requires nightly bulk file delivery, Creditsafe is a better fit.

Is Prometiam GDPR-compliant?
Yes. Data is hosted in the EU (Frankfurt). Officer data is processed under GDPR Article 6(1)(c) and 6(1)(f).

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