Experian is a credit bureau: you buy a credit report on a UK or international company and get a score. Prometiam is a REST API for register facts. This page sets out what each one gives you, as read on 5 November 2026.
Facts about Experian read on 5 November 2026
If you need a credit score, credit limit and credit rating on a UK business, Experian is the better tool: Prometiam has no score.
If you need register facts, insolvency notices and a sanctions screen (beta) inside your own onboarding flow, with published prices, an API such as Prometiam is the better shape.
| Prometiam | Experian | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A REST API: company records from official registers, one JSON schema for every live country | Business credit reports (Business Express) with credit scores, current and previous directors, credit limits and ratings, and monitoring alerts |
| Credit assessment | None: no score, no rating, no credit limit, no payment behaviour | Credit score, credit limit and rating in the report |
| Published prices (as at 5 Nov 2026) | Starter EUR 9.99 a month with a 14-day trial (card required, nothing charged during it); Professional EUR 29.99; Scale EUR 99.99 | No price per report on the Business Express page: "Subscription package or one-off credit reports available". Only the My Business Profile subscription for your own company is priced: first 2 months free, then GBP 24.99 + VAT a month |
| API | Yes: REST and JSON, bearer key issued at signup, OpenAPI documentation | The Business Express page read does not mention an API: ask Experian whether and how a business-data API is offered for your use case |
| Coverage | UK: Companies House register records, officers, persons with significant control, filed accounts and Gazette insolvency notices; company records for the other live countries | Credit checks on "any UK or International company", according to the page read |
| Monitoring | Watchlists for status change, dissolution, sanctions match and corporate events (Companies House filings and Gazette notices for GB) | Regular monitoring alerts in Business Express |
Prometiam publishes its prices. Free trial: 14 days, card required, nothing charged during it, 500 credits. Starter EUR 9.99 a month (1,000 credits a month, 60 requests a minute), Professional EUR 29.99 (10,000 credits, 120 requests a minute), Scale EUR 99.99 (50,000 credits, 300 requests a minute), Enterprise on request. A successful call costs credits: 1 for a company search or record, 2 for events, officers or insolvency notices, 3 for a sanctions screen (beta); errors are free. Annual accounts cost 25 credits per company and need Scale or above (Starter, Professional and trial keys: 10 calls a month).
GB on Prometiam is the Companies House register: company records with the date of creation as the founding date, officers, persons with significant control, filed accounts (Scale plan and above for the financial statements), Gazette insolvency notices (corporate only), monitoring and an indicative EU size class. There is no credit score, rating or payment behaviour, and no natural-person identity verification. Sanctions screening is in beta. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Companies House, UK.
Statements about Experian come from its own public pages, read on the dates in the sources list; they can change, so check Experian's current terms before you decide. Experian and the other product names belong to their owners, and Prometiam is not affiliated with Experian. Prometiam facts are as at 5 November 2026.