Comparison · Ellisphere

Ellisphere alternative: registry facts by API, not credit scores on a contract

Ellisphere is a French business-information provider that sells credit scores, financial-statement access and a compliance suite through a demo-led, quote-based contract. Prometiam is a REST API for the official company-registry record, with public pricing and a 14-day free trial and no credit scores; French filed financial statements start at the Scale plan.

Ellisphere figures read from ellisphere.com on 16 September 2026

TL;DR

Ellisphere sells credit scores, default-probability ratings, financial-statement access and a compliance platform (CFB: sanctions, PEP, adverse media, beneficial ownership, Sapin II anti-corruption), on a quote-based contract with no published price. If you want registry facts as JSON — company identity, status and, where the registry publishes them, directors and corporate events, plus French insolvency notices — across every country the API covers in one schema, with public pricing, a 14-day trial and no sales call, Prometiam is the faster path. Prometiam has no credit score; French filed financial statements start at the Scale plan, except for companies that declare their accounts confidential (about 45% of French filers); say so up front.

What Ellisphere sells

Ellisphere groups its offer into three areas: marketing and sales data (data cleaning, lead generation, CRM sync), risk management (ELLIPRO Credit Risk Management — a default-probability score, a recommended credit limit, and solvency scoring combining financial data, payment behaviour and legal events), and compliance (CFB, a due-diligence platform covering sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening, plus a separate KYC product for French beneficial-ownership identification). Company and financial data is delivered through SHARE, described as real-time API integration, batch files over FTP, or database dumps, activated à la carte. Ellisphere states 130-plus years of expertise, 225 million companies referenced, and 230-plus countries and territories covered — the international reach runs through partner networks (BIGnet in Europe, Coface and Global CIS elsewhere), with France as the primary market and the deepest sourcing.

Prometiam in one paragraph

Prometiam is a REST API over official company registries — Spain (BORME), France (BODACC/INPI), the United Kingdom (Companies House), Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS), Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene), Finland (PRH/YTJ), Sweden (Bolagsverket), Croatia (Sudski registar), Belgium (KBO/BCE), Denmark (CVR), Estonia (e-Business Register), Slovakia (RPO) and the United States — in a single response shape, updated daily (every working day for Finland, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, Japan, Israel, Taiwan and the Czech Republic; weekly for Sweden, Australia and the United States; monthly for Cyprus, Romania, Singapore, Colombia and Brazil) except the UK (monthly bulk plus daily delta). It returns company identity and status for every country, directors 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), 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); French insolvency notices sit alongside fourteen other markets on a dedicated endpoint. Sanctions and US export-control screening is included on paid tiers as a beta feature. No credit score, no French beneficial-ownership product. Filed 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) from the Scale plan. Pricing is public from €9.99 a month after a 14-day trial (card required), nothing charged during the trial.

Ellisphere vs Prometiam — at a glance

Prometiam column: /pricing and the API specification, verified 16 September 2026. Ellisphere column: ellisphere.com (homepage), /solution/share, /solution/ellipro-credit-risk-management, /solution/kyc-and-beneficiaires-effectifs-conformite-aml and /solution/compliance-for-business, read 16 September 2026 — none of those pages publish a price.

Who should choose Ellisphere

• You need a credit score or 12-month default-probability rating, or a recommended credit limit, for French (and international, via partners) counterparties.
• You need access to a French company's filed financial statements or annual accounts, or the option to receive a company's shared accounts directly for a faster score recalculation.
• You need French beneficial-ownership identification with capital-structure and ownership-tree mapping, alongside sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening in one compliance platform (CFB) built around Sapin II and AML obligations.
• You can work with a demo-led sales process and a quote-based contract rather than self-serve, published pricing.

Who should choose Prometiam

• You want company-registry facts as JSON — not a score, not a document — across every country the API covers in one response shape.
• You want to sign up and call the API from a 14-day free trial, with no demo or procurement cycle: an rk_live_* key by email, curl working in under 60 seconds.
• You want French insolvency notices, corporate events and sanctions screening behind the same bearer token as the registry lookup (the France company data API guide shows the French record), and can accept that sanctions and PEP screening are beta.
• You're a fintech, lender, or KYB platform where integration speed and predictable, public pricing matter as much as data depth.

Scope limits, stated plainly

• Prometiam has no credit score and no default-probability rating. Filed 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) from the Scale plan, but not for French companies that declare their accounts confidential (about 45% of French filers).
• Insolvency notices are corporate only, across sixteen markets (FR, DE, GB, AT, CH, NO, FI, US, NL, DK, HR, SE, ES, LV, EE, SG).
• Beneficial ownership is the UK PSC register only. Directors and officers returned for France, Spain, Norway and Poland are not beneficial owners.
• Company monitoring (POST /monitor) covers every live country except France and Chile.
• Sanctions screening is beta. PEP screening is beta and Spain only, with no relatives or close associates. 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).

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

Does Prometiam offer credit scores like Ellisphere?
No. Prometiam has no credit score and no default-probability rating. The API returns registry facts — identity, status, directors, events — filed financial statements for France from the Scale plan (except for companies that declare their accounts confidential (about 45% of French filers)) and, on the sanctions endpoint only, a match_score for name matches. If you need a credit score, Ellisphere's ELLIPRO product is built for that.

How much does Ellisphere cost?
Not published. Every Ellisphere solution page we read (SHARE, ELLIPRO Credit Risk Management, KYC / bénéficiaires effectifs, Compliance for Business) ends in "request a demo" or "contact an expert," with no price on the page. Prometiam publishes its pricing: free up to 500 credits over 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99 a month.

Can Prometiam replace Ellisphere for French company checks?
For registry facts and French insolvency notices, yes — GET /companies/search?country=FR and GET /insolvency/search?country=FR cover that. Prometiam has no equivalent to Ellisphere's credit score or French beneficial-ownership product; French filed financial statements are available from the Scale plan, except for companies that declare their accounts confidential (about 45% of French filers).

Does Prometiam identify beneficial owners like Ellisphere's KYC product?
Only for the United Kingdom, via the PSC register. Officer and director data returned for France, Spain, Norway and Poland is not beneficial-ownership data. Ellisphere's KYC / bénéficiaires effectifs solution is built specifically to identify beneficial owners for French companies, with ownership-tree mapping.

Does Prometiam screen sanctions like Ellisphere's CFB platform?
Yes, on GET/POST /sanctions/screen — EU, UN, OFAC, UK, Australia (DFAT), French gels and the US Consolidated Screening List, fuzzy-matched with a threshold you set — but it is a beta feature. PEP screening is also beta and Spain only, with no relatives or close associates. Ellisphere's CFB bundles sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening as part of its compliance platform.

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