Comparison · Informa D&B

Informa D&B alternative: the official registry record by API, not a ratings contract

Informa D&B sells credit ratings, financial statements and commercial reports on Spanish and Portuguese companies, with global reach through Dun & Bradstreet, on a quote-based contract. Prometiam is a REST API for official company registers with public prices and a 14-day free trial, and no ratings; financial statements cover GB, FR, DK, SE, NO and SEC filers in the United States, for Finland (digitally filed statements, about one filer in twenty) and, for listed companies only, ES, PL, HR and BE; other Spanish companies' accounts are sold per document and are not available.

eInforma (einforma.com) is the same group's self-serve, pay-per-report brand for one-off company lookups — see the eInforma alternative comparison for that. This page compares Prometiam with Informa D&B's enterprise ratings, compliance and API platform (informa.es).

Informa D&B figures read from informa.es on 15 September 2026

TL;DR

Informa D&B sells credit ratings, financial statements, payment-default registries and commercial reports on Spanish and Portuguese companies, with worldwide reach through Dun & Bradstreet's network of 650 million-plus companies across 220-plus markets, sold on a quote-based contract with no public prices. Prometiam is a REST API for official company registers across Europe, with corporate events, monitoring and sanctions screening (beta), with public prices and a 14-day free trial. Prometiam has no ratings or scores; financial statements for Spain cover listed companies only (other Spanish companies' accounts are sold per document); they are returned for GB, FR, DK, SE, NO and SEC filers in the United States, for Finland (digitally filed statements, about one filer in twenty) and, for listed companies only, ES, PL, HR and BE, from the Scale plan.

At a glance

Informa D&B column: informa.es (homepage, tarifas, riesgo-empresarial, finance-analytics, necesidades/api-integracion, esg-compliance-compras/compliance, quienes-somos/empresa), read 15 September 2026. Prometiam column: /pricing.

Who should pick Informa D&B

• You need a credit rating or score, or a full financial-statement analysis, on a Spanish or Portuguese company. Prometiam has neither.
• Your compliance file needs beneficial-ownership data (Titularidad Real) or shareholding links (Vinculaciones Empresariales) beyond a UK PSC lookup or an LEI's GLEIF Level-2 parent.
• Your portfolio reaches Portugal, or further afield than the live countries Prometiam serves, through Dun & Bradstreet's network.
• Procurement already expects a quoted contract and a DUNS number, and a platform price is not a blocker.

Who should pick Prometiam

• You want to start today: a 14-day free trial: 500 credits over 14 days, card required, nothing charged for 14 days, no contract, no quote.
• Your counterparties are in any country Prometiam covers and you want the registry record — not a rating or a report — in your own systems.
• You need to watch a portfolio programmatically: POST /monitor sends a signed webhook on a status change or a corporate event (every live country except France and Chile), instead of a platform alert configured by hand.
• You need Spain's concursal insolvency notices (GET /insolvency/search) or sanctions and export-control screening (beta) in the same call as the registry lookup.

Scope limits, stated plainly

• No credit scores or ratings. Financial statements: GB, FR, DK, SE, NO and SEC filers in the United States, for Finland (digitally filed statements, about one filer in twenty) and, for listed companies only, ES, PL, HR and BE, from the Scale plan; other Spanish companies' accounts are sold per document and not available.
• Beneficial ownership is the UK's PSC register only, plus GLEIF Level-2 parents for entities that hold an LEI; every other country returns officers or directors, not beneficial owners.
• Sanctions screening is beta; PEP screening is beta, Spain only, and carries no relatives or close associates.
• 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. 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).
• The AEAT large-debtor risk flag is Spain only and point-in-time: balances as at 31 December of the prior year.

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

Does Prometiam offer a credit score or rating like Informa D&B?
No. Prometiam returns registry facts — status, filings, officers, corporate events, sanctions matches — with a match_score that only measures name-match quality. It does not compute or publish a creditworthiness rating, a default probability, or a financial-statement analysis. Informa D&B's equivalent product is its Nota INFORMA score, attached to its company reports.

How much does Informa D&B cost?
Informa D&B does not publish prices. Its tariffs page (informa.es/tarifas, read 15 September 2026) states pricing is set per unit according to the contract type, and directs you to call 900 176 076 or request a sales visit; a PDF tariff sheet is available on request. Prometiam publishes its prices: free for 500 credits over 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99, plus Enterprise on request.

Does Prometiam cover Portugal like Informa D&B?
Only in part. Prometiam serves the Portuguese companies that hold an LEI (LEI-registered entities, not the commercial register: no ratings, balance sheets or DUNS numbers), and its live registries are Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Cyprus, Romania, Lithuania, Canada, Australia, Japan, Israel, Singapore, Colombia, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and the United States. Informa D&B lists Informa D&B Portugal among its directly held subsidiaries (informa.es/quienes-somos/empresa, read 15 September 2026) and reaches further through Dun & Bradstreet's network.

Can I switch from Informa D&B to Prometiam?
For registry lookups, officers, corporate events, Spain's concursal notices and sanctions screening (beta), yes — each Informa report maps to /companies/search plus /companies/{id}, and you can start on the 14-day free trial today. Keep Informa D&B for anything that needs a rating, a financial-statement analysis, DUNS-number continuity, or Portugal.

Does Prometiam do beneficial-ownership checks like Informa D&B's Titularidad Real?
Only partly. Prometiam returns the UK's PSC register as true beneficial ownership, plus GLEIF Level-2 parent and child relationships for companies that hold an LEI. For every other country, Prometiam returns officers and directors where the registry publishes them, not beneficial owners.

See other comparisons

eInforma · Iberinform · Axesor · Dun & Bradstreet · Bureau van Dijk · API BORME guide (Spanish) · All comparisons

Sign up