Comparison · HitHorizons

HitHorizons Alternative

Broad monthly-refreshed firmographics across Europe, or official-registry depth refreshed daily with officers, events, insolvency and sanctions built in. An honest comparison.

TL;DR

HitHorizons is a breadth product: its published API reference documents 48 European countries with firmographics — company name, address, national and VAT identifiers, industry codes, sales figures, employee counts — plus sector benchmarking and DUNS cross-reference. If you need a single API that reaches DACH, the Baltics, the Balkans and offshore jurisdictions, that breadth is real and Prometiam does not match it.

Prometiam is a depth product. A focused set of countries, drawn directly from official registries and gazettes, refreshed daily, with officers and appointment history, normalized corporate events, corporate insolvency across sixteen markets, and sanctions plus US export-control screening as first-class endpoints — none of which appear in the HitHorizons API reference. Public pricing, 14-day free trial, instant key, no sales call.

Why teams look for a HitHorizons alternative

1. Pricing isn't published. The API documentation names Starter, Grow and Pro tiers and lists their usage caps, but states no price for any of them. Modelling a bill means a sales conversation.
2. You can't self-serve a key. Their getting-started documentation directs you to contact the team to obtain a subscription key — including for the free trial, which is capped at 300 requests/day and time-limited. There is no instant signup.
3. Monthly refresh. HitHorizons states it updates its database monthly. For firmographic segmentation that's fine. For counterparty risk — where a director change, a filing, or an insolvency petition matters this week — a month is a long time.
4. Aggregated provenance. They describe sourcing from various commercial providers rather than naming upstream registries, so a record can't be traced back to the official filing that produced it.
5. No officers, ownership, events or screening in the API. Those are the fields most KYB and credit workflows actually turn on, and they aren't in the documented endpoint set.

Prometiam in one paragraph

Prometiam is a REST API that unifies official company-registry data across Europe under one schema. Officers are served for Spain (BORME), France (BODACC), the United Kingdom (Companies House, including PSC beneficial owners) and Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene); Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS), Finland (PRH/YTJ), Sweden (Bolagsverket), Croatia (Sudski registar), Belgium (KBO/BCE), Denmark (CVR), Estonia (e-Business Register), Slovakia (RPO), Switzerland (Zefix), Latvia (Register of Enterprises), Cyprus (DRCOR) and Romania (ONRC) and the United States are company records only. Daily updates, normalized corporate events, cross-border corporate insolvency, and sanctions (beta) plus US export-control screening — six sanctions lists (EU, UN, OFAC, UK, Australia (DFAT), French gels) and 11 US export-control lists, refreshed daily. Pricing is public from €9.99/month with a 14-day free trial and card required, nothing charged for 14 days. EU data residency in Frankfurt.

HitHorizons vs Prometiam — at a glance

Pricing

HitHorizons does not publish subscription pricing. Their API documentation defines three tiers — Starter, Grow, Pro — and differentiates them by feature access and usage caps (VAT validation at 50 / 200 / 1,000 per day; Contact Finder at 0 / 500 / 1,000 per month; the Screener and bulk export restricted to Grow and Pro), but no tier carries a price. Their third-party credit reports are concretely priced per document, in the €10–€37 range depending on product and provider, because those are pass-through purchases from Coface, Kyckr and Propartner.

Prometiam publishes everything:

• Starter trial — 14 days, 500 credits, card required, nothing charged for 14 days.
• Starter — €9.99/mo, 1,000 credits/month.
• Professional — €29.99/mo, 10,000 credits/month, full sanctions screening included.
• Scale — €99.99/mo, 50,000 credits/month.
• Enterprise — custom, for higher volume or custom SLA.

We can't tell you which is cheaper, because one side of that comparison isn't public. What we can tell you is that you can find out our number in ten seconds, and start calling the API in about a minute.

Provenance and freshness — the real difference

This is the distinction that matters most, and it's easy to miss when two APIs both return a company object with a name and an address.

HitHorizons aggregates. It states that it sources from various commercial data providers and refreshes monthly, with manual checks for discrepancies. That's a legitimate model, and it's how you get 48 countries in one schema — no one draws on 48 national registries directly. The cost is provenance: a record can't be traced to the specific official filing behind it, and it can be up to a month behind.

Prometiam draws on primary sources. Each country comes from its own official register (BORME in Spain, BODACC in France, Companies House in the UK, and the national register everywhere else), updated daily or every working day, and where the register publishes events the gazette notice or filing behind each one is kept and linkable. That's why a focused set of countries rather than forty-eight: this approach doesn't scale by buying a feed, it scales one official registry at a time.

Choose accordingly. Segmenting a European market? Monthly firmographics across 48 countries is the better shape. Deciding whether to extend credit, onboard a counterparty, or file a suspicious-activity report? You want the registry, today, with the source attached.

What HitHorizons has that Prometiam doesn't

Being straight about this, because it's the part most comparison pages skip:

• Geographic breadth. 48 countries versus a focused set of registries. Not close.
• Revenue and employee figures on the company record, with sector benchmarking — medians, averages, deciles and histograms by country and industry. Prometiam has no equivalent: we return financial statements only as filed (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), Scale plan and above), never estimated financials.
• DUNS cross-reference on every record — valuable if your systems are already standardised on Dun & Bradstreet identifiers.
• Contact Finder, a live web lookup for a company's contact page returned inline in the API response.
• One-stop credit-report ordering from Coface, Kyckr and Propartner without separately contracting each bureau.

If those are the capabilities driving your decision, HitHorizons is the better fit and you should use it.

Who should choose Prometiam

Pick Prometiam if:

• Your counterparties concentrate in the countries Prometiam covers
• You need officers, appointment history or beneficial ownership as queryable data, not as a paid PDF
• You need corporate events and insolvency signals — the things that change a credit decision
• You need sanctions (beta) and export-control screening in the same API
• Daily freshness and traceable provenance matter for your audit trail
• You want to evaluate without a sales call, on published pricing, starting free

Evaluating the two

1. Sign up free at prometiam.com/signup — nothing charged for 14 days, instant rk_live_* key.
2. Pick 100 real counterparties from your book that sit in the countries Prometiam covers.
3. Compare the fields you actually use. Query /companies/search and /companies/{id} and check whether officers, events and status changes are present and current.
4. Test freshness directly. Take a company that changed directors or entered insolvency in the last few weeks and see which source reflects it.
5. Screen the same names via /sanctions/screen?name=…&threshold=80 — a capability with no counterpart in the HitHorizons API reference.
6. Split by geography if you need both. Nothing stops you using HitHorizons for the countries Prometiam doesn't cover.

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

Is Prometiam cheaper than HitHorizons?
Unknown, because HitHorizons doesn't publish pricing. Prometiam's is public: €9.99 / €29.99 / €99.99 / custom.

Does Prometiam cover as many countries?
No — a focused set of registries versus the 48 countries in their API reference. For breadth, HitHorizons wins.

Does HitHorizons provide directors or beneficial owners?
Not as API fields. Director names appear inside paid per-company reports from third-party bureaus. Prometiam serves officers and appointment history natively, plus UK PSC ownership.

Does HitHorizons do sanctions screening?
No sanctions endpoint appears in its published API reference. Prometiam includes screening (beta) across six sanctions lists and 11 US export-control lists, refreshed daily.

How fresh is each?
Prometiam refreshes daily from official registries. HitHorizons states monthly updates from commercial providers.

Is Prometiam GDPR-compliant?
Yes. Data is hosted in the EU (Frankfurt). Officer data is processed under GDPR Article 6(1)(c) (legal obligation of public registries) and Article 6(1)(f) (legitimate interest in fraud prevention).

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