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Global Database alternative: official European registry data, with public prices and a 14-day free trial

Global Database is broad and sales-led: hundreds of millions of companies worldwide, filed accounts, credit scores and prospecting contacts, priced on request. Prometiam is narrower and self-serve: official European registries behind one key, with published prices and a 14-day free trial. Which one fits depends on what you need to prove.

Global Database figures read from globaldatabase.com on 15 September 2026

TL;DR

Global Database claims 600M+ companies across 200+ countries from 400+ official registries, plus filed accounts, credit scores, ownership-chain and UBO screening, PEP tiers that include relatives and close associates, and sales-prospecting contact data. Paid access is sales-led — monthly, annual or two-year plans priced on export credits, with no rate card published. Prometiam covers the official registries of every live country behind one key, updated daily, with corporate events, portfolio monitoring (every live country except France and Chile) and sanctions screening (beta), and prices you can read today: free for 500 credits over 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99, no contract.

At a glance

Global Database column: globaldatabase.com — homepage, /data-sources, /peps-sanctions, /pricing-products, /api and /regis-api — read 15 September 2026; where no figure was published we wrote "not published". Prometiam column: /pricing.

Who should pick Global Database

• You need company data beyond Europe: Global Database claims 600M+ companies across 200+ countries from 400+ official registries.
• You need filed accounts and credit scores rather than registry facts alone, built from up to 20 years of filing history direct from official registries.
• You screen the full ownership chain: parents, subsidiaries and UBOs from registry filings, with PEP tiers running from heads of state down to regional officials plus a relatives-and-close-associates tier.
• You want sales-prospecting contact data, a browser extension for decision-maker details and CRM integrations, alongside a natural-language query layer ("Regis") over the same registry data, priced per result under its own contract.

Who should pick Prometiam

• Your counterparties are in any country Prometiam covers and you want the official registry record, not a firmographic estimate.
• You want to start today: a 14-day free trial: 500 credits over 14 days with a card required and nothing charged for 14 days, then a published monthly price with no contract — Global Database's paid access is sales-led with no rate card.
• You watch a portfolio with signed webhooks (POST /monitor, every live country except France and Chile) and screen names against sanctions and US export-control lists in the same key.
• You want one price per successful call rather than a credit system charged per exported row.

Scope limits, stated plainly

• 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 (POST /monitor) covers every live country except France and Chile.
• Sanctions screening is beta; PEP screening is beta, Spain only, and carries no relatives or close associates — Global Database's PEP tiers add a relatives-and-close-associates tier across its wider country coverage.
• 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).
• Beneficial ownership is the UK PSC register only; every other registry returns officers or directors, which is not beneficial ownership. GLEIF Level-2 gives parents for entities that hold an LEI.

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 Global Database cost?
Global Database does not publish plan prices. Its pricing page, read on 15 September 2026, describes a monthly membership you can cancel any time, an annual plan with up to 20% off that needs an account manager to cancel, and a two-year contract with up to 40% off, priced on export credits — one credit per exported row of company or contact data. The API itself offers a free trial ("Get your API key") or a sales demo, with no rate published.

Does Prometiam offer financials or credit scores like Global Database?
Partly. Prometiam returns official registry facts, such as status, officers where published, corporate events and previous names, plus filed accounts 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 no credit score. Global Database builds credit scores and recommended credit limits from up to 20 years of filed accounts; Prometiam does not build scores from filed accounts.

Does Prometiam's PEP screening include relatives and close associates like Global Database's?
No. Prometiam's PEP screening is beta and Spain only, built from Wikidata occupation data, and carries no relatives or close associates. Global Database's PEP tiers add a relatives-and-close-associates tier across its wider country coverage.

Can I switch from Global Database to Prometiam?
For counterparties in any country Prometiam covers, yes: sign up and the registry record, plus officer and event data where the registry publishes them, covers most registry-verification lookups. Global Database's other coverage, plus its credit scores, sales-prospecting data and filed accounts outside 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), have no Prometiam equivalent, so most teams keep both rather than switching outright.

Which is cheaper to start?
Prometiam: a free trial of 500 credits over 14 days with a card required and nothing charged for 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99 a month with no contract. Global Database does not publish a starting price; it offers a free trial or a sales demo, with paid access sold through sales-led monthly, annual or two-year plans on export credits.

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