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Dun & Bradstreet alternative: official multi-country registry data with prices you can read

D&B Direct+ is a global master-data platform keyed on the D-U-N-S Number, with hierarchies and analytics, bought through a sales conversation. Prometiam is the official registry record for European countries behind one key, from a 14-day free trial. Which one fits depends on whether you need the world or the record.

Dun & Bradstreet figures read from dnb.com on 15 September 2026

TL;DR

Dun & Bradstreet's Direct+ API delivers D-U-N-S-keyed firmographics, corporate hierarchies and analytics on 600M+ businesses worldwide; no price is published on dnb.com and every product page ends in "Request more information". Prometiam serves the official registries of every country it covers — company facts, officers where the registry publishes them, corporate events, corporate insolvency notices and sanctions screening (beta) — updated daily, from a free trial of 500 credits over 14 days with no contract, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99.

At a glance

Dun & Bradstreet column: dnb.com/en-us/products/dnb-direct-plus.html and dnb.com/en-us/products.html, read 15 September 2026. Prometiam column: /pricing and the API reference.

Who should pick Dun & Bradstreet

• You need one identifier for businesses everywhere. The D-U-N-S Number is the key your suppliers, customers and master-data platform already carry, and Prometiam has no equivalent outside its live registries.
• You need corporate family trees at global scale. D&B states 54M+ linkages; Prometiam gives you UK Persons with Significant Control and GLEIF Level-2 parents for companies that hold an LEI, nothing broader.
• You need credit and risk analytics, supplier-intelligence products or fraud-risk scoring. Prometiam publishes no score or rating, and its financial statements cover GB, FR, DK, SE, NO and SEC filers in the United States, for Finland (digitally filed statements, about one filer in twenty) and, for listed companies only, ES, PL, HR and BE.
• You already run an MDM platform that D&B connects to and you buy data on an enterprise contract with a procurement cycle.

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 attribute.
• 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 corporate events as typed records — capital changes, director changes, dissolutions, insolvency — for Spain, France and the UK, 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 D-U-N-S Number, no credit score, no global hierarchies. Company financial statements are available 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) on the Scale plan and above. Beneficial ownership is the UK PSC register only.
• Ireland, Poland, 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 D&B Direct+ cost?
Dun & Bradstreet does not publish a price for Direct+ or for any other product on dnb.com; each product page ends in "Request more information" (read 15 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 provide a D-U-N-S Number?
No. The D-U-N-S Number is Dun & Bradstreet's proprietary identifier. Prometiam keys every company on its official registry number — NIF in Spain, SIREN in France, the Companies House number in the UK, the CRO number in Ireland, KRS in Poland, the organisation number in Norway, the Y-tunnus in Finland, the organisationsnummer in Sweden, the MBS or OIB in Croatia, the enterprise number in Belgium and the CVR number in Denmark, the registry code in Estonia, the IČO in Slovakia, the UID in Switzerland, the registration number in Latvia, Cyprus and Romania, the legal entity code in Lithuania, the corporation number in Canada, the ACN or ARBN in Australia, the corporate number in Japan, the company number in Israel, the UEN in Singapore, the NIT in Colombia, the unified business number in Taiwan, the IČO in the Czech Republic, the CNPJ in Brazil, the LEI in Germany, the state-prefixed number in the United States (such as NY-4424185) — and cross-references the Legal Entity Identifier through GLEIF where a company holds one.

Does Prometiam have credit scores like Dun & Bradstreet?
No. Prometiam returns registry facts, corporate events, corporate insolvency notices across sixteen markets and a sanctions match_score. It publishes no credit score or rating; its filed financial statements cover GB, FR, DK, SE, NO and SEC filers in the United States, for Finland (digitally filed statements, about one filer in twenty) and, for listed companies only, ES, PL, HR and BE, from the Scale plan. D&B sells those through separate products such as D&B Finance Analytics Credit Intelligence and D&B Credit Insights.

Can I use Dun & Bradstreet and Prometiam together?
Yes, and many teams should: Dun & Bradstreet for the global key and corporate hierarchies, Prometiam as the daily-updated registry record for every country it covers and the corporate-event feed for Spain, France and the UK.

Which is faster to integrate?
Prometiam: one REST API with an OpenAPI 3.0 specification, a Postman collection and an MCP server, and a key issued at sign-up with nothing charged for 14 days. D&B Direct+ integrates through its developer portal and master-data-platform connectors once a commercial conversation is done.

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