Comparison · kompany
kompany alternative
kompany is the closest thing to a direct competitor in this category — and for most of what it does, it is bigger than us. Here is the honest split.
TL;DR
kompany — an Austrian company (360kompany AG, Vienna) that joined Moody's in March 2022 and still trades under its own name inside the Moody's KYC portfolio — is a real-time registry gateway. It retrieves company data and documents from the primary source at request time, described as a time-stamped "true copy", across 200+ jurisdictions.
Prometiam is registry data served from a normalised, daily-refreshed store, with published pricing and a 14-day free trial. If you need global reach or a court-usable document, kompany is the better tool and we are not a substitute. If you need European registry data you can query freely, at a price you can see, with corporate events and insolvency attached, we are the leaner fit.
Where kompany is genuinely ahead
- Reach. 200+ jurisdictions against our live registries. Not a close call, and no amount of framing changes it — if your counterparties are outside the EU and UK, we simply do not cover them.
- Audit-proof documents. Register extracts, annual accounts and articles of association retrieved as a time-stamped true copy, explicitly positioned for AMLD evidencing. We serve structured data, not documents that stand up in an audit file.
- Documents from non-digitised registries, plus translation across a large number of languages — a concierge capability a REST API over structured data does not attempt.
- UBO discovery. A dedicated, trademarked feature analysing indirect ownership, control and circular ownership patterns. Ours is UK PSC records and nothing else.
- An enterprise compliance suite. Case management, CRM/CLM connectors, perpetual KYC monitoring, and combinability with Moody's screening and investigation products. That is a different product category from a data API.
Where Prometiam is ahead
- You can see the price. kompany publishes none — every path is "request a demo". Ours is €9.99 / €29.99 / €99.99 / custom, and you can start without speaking to anyone.
- Corporate events and insolvency. We serve a normalised event timeline and corporate insolvency across sixteen markets. Neither appears anywhere in kompany's published product.
- Sanctions screening (beta) in the same API. kompany itself does not include it; screening comes from separate Moody's products. Ours is six sanctions lists plus 11 US export-control lists, in the same call.
- Query freely, not per applicant. Search, list, paginate and join across all live countries without an onboarding case to attach it to.
A note on their coverage figure
If you are comparing numbers, be careful which one you quote. kompany's own pages state three different company counts: 115 million in a page meta description, 328 million in the visible copy, and 348 million further down that same page. The 200+ jurisdictions figure, by contrast, is stated consistently everywhere.
We mention this not as a gotcha but because it is the sort of thing worth checking on any vendor — ours included. Our per-country counts come from a live /coverage endpoint you can call yourself rather than a number typed into a page.
Built for the API-native workflow
kompany is built around a case: an applicant, a document, an audit trail. If your workflow is a query instead — resolving a customer's identifier, or a few typed letters, into a company record for an onboarding form, an invoice or a CRM row — this is what that looks like on Prometiam:
- Every identifier, one parameter. NIF/CIF, SIREN or SIRET, the Companies House number, the CRO number, the KRS number, the organisasjonsnummer and each other registry's own number all go in the same parameter —
?country=picks the register, the parameter doesn't change. - Name search built for a form field.
?name=is a normalised, partial match — call it on every keystroke and wire it into a type-ahead field. - One schema, every registry. The same response shape for every
?country=value. - Auth and rate limits. A single bearer key (
Authorization: Bearer rk_live_...); limits scale 10 to 600 requests/minute by tier. - A typed client, if you want one. prometiam-risk-api on npm — TypeScript types, retries on 429/5xx, cursor pagination, typed errors. The same client for Python: prometiam-risk-api on PyPI.
- From an agent, not just a form. The MCP server (
prometiam-risk-mcpon npm) puts the same lookups in Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client. - Try an identifier before signing up. Free NIF, SIREN, Companies House number, KRS, CRO number and organisasjonsnummer lookup tools run the same call with a shared key.
At a glance
| Prometiam | kompany (Moody's) | |
|---|---|---|
| Jurisdictions | ES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO, FI, SE, BE, DK, HR, EE, SK, CH, LV, CY, RO, US, LT, CA, AU, JP, IL, SG, CO, TW, BR, CZ, DE, AR, UA, RS, EC, NL, CL, NL, MX — official registries | 200+ |
| Model | Daily-refreshed normalised store | Real-time retrieval from the primary source |
| Official documents | No | Yes — audit-proof, time-stamped true copies |
| UBO | UK PSC only | Dedicated UBO discovery across jurisdictions |
| Corporate events | Normalised timeline | Not in the published product |
| Insolvency | 16 markets | Not in the published product |
| Sanctions screening | Included (beta) | Separate Moody's products |
| Pricing | Public — 14-day trial, then €9.99 to €99.99, plus custom, monthly or annual | Not published (read 2026-09-27) |
| Getting started | Key at signup, nothing charged for 14 days, trial not ongoing | Request a demo |
Real-time retrieval versus a refreshed store
This is the architectural difference, and it is a genuine trade-off rather than a winner.
Retrieving at request time means the record is current to the second and can be evidenced as a true copy — decisive when you need to prove what the register said on a given date. The costs are that every call depends on the source registry being up, latency is bounded by the slowest register, and questions spanning many companies or a time range are impractical.
A daily-refreshed normalised store makes exactly those questions cheap — search across every company on a register, join across countries, replay an event history, sweep a portfolio nightly — at the cost of being up to a day behind, which is why we publish per-country freshness on /coverage.
Which to choose
Choose kompany if you need jurisdictions beyond the EU and UK, audit-proof documents for an evidence file, cross-border UBO discovery, or a full compliance suite with case management — especially as a regulated institution with a procurement process.
Choose Prometiam if your counterparties are on a European registry we cover, you want queryable data rather than per-applicant retrieval, you need corporate events and insolvency, and you want to evaluate on published pricing without a sales call.
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 kompany still a separate product?
Yes. It joined Moody's in March 2022 and still trades under its own name — Kompany KYC API and workspace — within the Moody's KYC portfolio. It is not the same product as Orbis, which is a separate Moody's offering.
What does kompany cost?
Not published (kompany.com, read 2026-09-27). Every route on their site is a demo request, so a like-for-like price comparison is not possible from public information. Prometiam's price list, by contrast, includes a 14-day free trial and annual billing at ten months' price for twelve.
Does kompany do sanctions screening?
Not as part of kompany itself — screening is delivered by separate Moody's products. Prometiam includes it (beta) in the same API.
Can Prometiam produce an audit-proof register extract?
No. We serve structured, daily-refreshed data over REST, not time-stamped true copies of official documents. If your file needs the document, kompany is the right tool.
Who has better UBO data?
kompany, clearly and across many jurisdictions. Ours is UK PSC and nothing more.