Global Database is a broad business-intelligence platform: 600M+ companies across 200+ countries from 400+ official registries, with 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, one credit per exported row, with no rate card published. Prometiam is narrower and self-serve: the official registries of Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway behind one key and one response shape, updated daily, with corporate events, portfolio monitoring (Spain, Ireland, Poland) and sanctions screening (beta), priced from a free tier of 1,000 calls a month with no card and no contract.
You need company data beyond Europe, filed accounts and credit scores built from up to 20 years of history, ownership-chain and ultimate-beneficial-owner screening across the corporate tree, PEP coverage that includes relatives and close associates, or sales-prospecting contact data — and a sales-led contract is not a problem.
Your counterparties sit in Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland or Norway, you want the official registry record rather than a firmographic estimate, and you want to start today: a free key in a minute, no card, no sales call, then a fixed monthly price with no contract.
Ireland and Poland are company-level (no officers yet); Norway has no corporate-event stream; beneficial ownership is the UK PSC register only; sanctions screening is beta and PEP screening is beta, Spain only, with no relatives or close associates; insolvency notices are corporate only, across nine markets, with Spain's concursal proceedings served separately.
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Two derived signals on the Prometiam side, neither of them a rating: registry_compliance, which marks companies still on the register that stopped meeting their filing duties (Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway), and public procurement — Spanish contract awards by supplier, buyer, tax id, CPV code and date, plus a beta score for the contracting body itself in Spain and France. Both are dated facts with their source, on the published price and in the free tier; a score is a prompt to look, never a finding of wrongdoing. Public-buyer risk · Procurement screening
| Prometiam | Global Database | |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | ES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO (official registries) | 200+ countries claimed, 600M+ companies, 400+ registries |
| Data | Registry facts, officers (ES/FR/GB/NO), corporate events, insolvency, sanctions | Firmographics, filed accounts, credit scores, ownership/UBO chains, decision-maker contacts, natural-language lookup ("Regis") |
| Updates | Daily (ES, FR, IE, PL, NO); UK monthly bulk plus daily delta | "Daily Refresh" claimed; weekly or monthly in some jurisdictions |
| Entry price | €0 for 1,000 calls/month, no card | Not published; free trial via API key |
| Paid plans | €9.99 · €29.99 · €99.99 /month, cancel any time | Not published / on request — sales-led monthly, annual or two-year plans on export credits (1 credit = 1 exported row) |
| Contract | None — cancel any time | Monthly is cancellable; annual (~20% off) or two-year (~40% off) need an account manager to cancel |
| Monitoring | POST /monitor webhooks (ES, IE, PL), HMAC-signed | Continuous monitoring add-on: new listings, ownership changes, PEP appointments |
| Sanctions screening | Same key, beta — EU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI, FR + US export-control | OFAC, EU, UN, UK OFSI + national programs; PEP tiers include relatives/close associates |
| Beneficial ownership | UK PSC register only; GLEIF Level-2 for LEI holders | Ownership chains and UBO discovery across the corporate tree, from registry filings |
| Data residency | EU (Frankfurt) | Not stated on the pages read |