Comparison · Infogreffe

Infogreffe alternative: registry facts as an API, not the official documents

Infogreffe is the official portal of France's commercial-court registries — the source for the extrait Kbis, statuts and comptes annuels. Prometiam is a developer API for the underlying company facts, as JSON, across all live countries, and issues no documents at all.

Infogreffe figures read from infogreffe.fr and opendata.datainfogreffe.fr on 15 September 2026

TL;DR

Infogreffe is the official source for French commercial-registry documents — the extrait Kbis, statuts, comptes annuels and procedures collectives — each carrying legal value that no JSON response can replace. Prometiam does not issue documents of any kind, for France or anywhere else. It is a REST API for the underlying registry facts: company identity, status, officers, corporate events and French insolvency notices, in the same response shape across every country the API covers, with published prices and a 14-day free trial.

At a glance

Prometiam column: /pricing and the API spec, checked 15 September 2026. Infogreffe column: infogreffe.fr/tarifs (regulated tariff updated 1 March 2026, prices incl. VAT), infogreffe.fr and the opendata.datainfogreffe.fr catalogue, read 15 September 2026; the commercial API and data offer shows no price on the pages read.

Who should pick Infogreffe

• You need the extrait Kbis itself, or another document with legal value such as statuts. A JSON record from any API, Prometiam included, is not a substitute for the document a bank, court or notary asks for.
• You need a French company's filed annual accounts. Those are deposited at the greffe, and Infogreffe is the direct route to them; Prometiam returns structured financial statements for France from the Scale plan, not the filed document, except for companies that declare their accounts confidential (about 45% of French filers).
• You need a procedure collective filing exactly as the commercial court published it, with the standing of a court-registry record, rather than a normalised event notice.
• Your need is France-only and occasional — a single document purchase, not an ongoing integration.
• You need the beneficial-owner information, the état d'endettement or a NOTA-PME or AFDCC report on a French company, or a watch on its registry filings for a few euros per item.

Who should pick Prometiam

• You need company facts as JSON, for France and for other countries, in the same response shape — every country the API covers on one key. The France company data API guide shows what a French record returns.
• You are building software, not requesting a document: sign up, get a key, and call the API from a 14-day free trial — no per-document purchase, no procurement step.
• You want French insolvency notices alongside sanctions and export-control screening (beta) and portfolio monitoring for every live country except France and Chile, in the same integration.
• You track corporate events — incorporations, dissolutions, capital changes, mergers — across several countries and want one schema rather than one format per registry.

Scope limits, stated plainly

• Prometiam does not deliver the Kbis, statuts, certified accounts or any other document — for France or any country. Everything below is structured data only.
• 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. French officer and appointment records are not beneficial ownership.
• 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.

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

Can Prometiam issue a Kbis extract?
No. Prometiam returns structured registry data over an API, never a document with legal value. For the extrait Kbis, statuts or comptes annuels, use Infogreffe directly.

How much does Infogreffe cost?
Per document, at the regulated tariff of 1 March 2026 (prices incl. VAT): an extrait Kbis costs €3.06 delivered electronically (€2.44 at the greffe, €4.00 by post), a copy of the statutes or a full copy of the annual accounts €9.08, the judicial-status check €4.30, and an annual Infogreffe subscription €102 with monthly consumption billed on top. Its API and data offer shows no price on the pages read on 15 September 2026. Prometiam publishes its prices: free for 500 credits over 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99 a month.

Does Prometiam cover French insolvency notices?
Yes, at GET /insolvency/search?country=FR and as event_type=insolvency at GET /company-events/search?country=FR — corporate only. Corporate insolvency notices also cover DE, GB, AT, CH, NO, FI, US, NL, DK, HR and SE.

Can I use Infogreffe and Prometiam together?
That is what most France-heavy teams end up doing: Prometiam for the API-first work — daily lookups, monitoring, sanctions screening (beta) — and Infogreffe for the moment an actual document is required.

Does Infogreffe have a developer API?
Infogreffe publishes eight open datasets under the Licence Ouverte on opendata.datainfogreffe.fr — registration, deregistration and insolvency-judgment statistics, legal forms, the list of greffes — and advertises a commercial data platform for professionals; its price is not shown on the pages read on 15 September 2026.

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