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

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 six official company registers — Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway — with corporate events, monitoring and sanctions screening, priced from a free tier. Prometiam has no ratings, scores or financial statements.

Pick Informa D&B if

You need a credit rating or score, a financial-statement analysis, payment-default history, a DUNS number, Portugal, or beneficial-ownership data beyond the UK, and a quote-based contract is not a blocker.

Pick Prometiam if

Your counterparties are in Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland or Norway, you want to start without a sales call or a contract, and you need the registry record, corporate events, monitoring (ES, IE, PL) and sanctions screening (beta) rather than a rating or a report.

Scope limits on the Prometiam side

No credit scores, ratings or financial statements anywhere. Beneficial ownership is the UK's PSC register only, plus GLEIF Level-2 parents for LEI holders; every other country returns officers, not beneficial owners. Sanctions screening is beta; PEP screening is beta and Spain only. Insolvency notices are corporate only across nine markets, with Spain served separately on GET /search. Monitoring covers Spain, Ireland and Poland only.

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Beyond the registry record

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

At a glance

PrometiamInforma D&B
CountriesES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO (official registries)Spain and Portugal directly; 650M+ companies across 220+ markets via Dun & Bradstreet
DataRegistry facts, officers where published, corporate events, Spain's concursal notices, AEAT large-debtor flag (Spain, point-in-time), sanctions matchesCredit rating (Nota INFORMA), financial statements, payment-default registries (RAI, ASNEF, ICIRED, RIJ), director and shareholding links, commercial reports
UpdatesDailyNot published per product; the group states 375M+ data points updated daily worldwide
Entry price€0 for 1,000 calls/month, no cardNot published — unit-priced, rate set by contract type
Paid plans€9.99 · €29.99 · €99.99/month, cancel any time; Enterprise customNot published — quote-based; PDF tariff sheet on request
ContractNone — monthly, cancel any timeRequired — sign-up is consultant-led
MonitoringPOST /monitor with webhooks (ES, IE, PL)Alert-based monitoring inside D&B Finance Analytics (quote-based)
Sanctions screeningGET /sanctions/screen, same key, betaD&B Risk Analytics Compliance Intelligence — sanctions-list verification (quote-based)
Beneficial ownershipUK PSC register only; GLEIF Level-2 parents for LEI holdersTitularidad Real (UBO) and Vinculaciones Empresariales (shareholding links), Spain
Data residencyEU (Frankfurt)Not published on the pages read; Spanish company, part of Cesce

Frequently asked questions

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 1,000 calls a month, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99, plus Enterprise on request.
Does Prometiam cover Portugal like Informa D&B?
No. Prometiam's live registries are Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway. 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, yes — each Informa report maps to /companies/search plus /companies/{id}, and you can start on the free tier 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 Spain, France, Ireland, Poland and Norway, Prometiam returns officers and directors, not beneficial owners.