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Kyckr Alternative

A transparent-pricing, multi-country alternative to Kyckr for company data, KYB, and beneficial-ownership verification. 14-day free trial, no annual contract, sanctions included.

TL;DR

Kyckr is a global business-register gateway — strong if you need live official filings and beneficial-owner documents pulled directly from 300+ registries across 100+ countries. If your scope is the 36 countries Prometiam covers and you want a REST API with public pricing, daily-fresh normalized data, and sanctions plus US export-control screening (beta, 7 sources) already included, Prometiam is faster to integrate and far more predictable to budget. 14-day free trial, card required, nothing charged for 14 days, no per-document surprises.

Why teams look for a Kyckr alternative

1. Pricing isn't published. Kyckr bills per API call — and per live document retrieval — but the rate card is quote-based, so total cost is hard to model before you commit.
2. Cost scales with document pulls. On-demand retrieval of official filings is powerful, but every document has a marginal cost; high-volume screening gets expensive quickly.
3. Sales-led onboarding. Kyckr targets Tier 1 banks and enterprise AML platforms; the buying motion is account-managed, not self-serve.
4. Scope mismatch. If you only need EU and UK, you're paying for 100+-country registry connectivity you don't use.

Prometiam in one paragraph

Prometiam is a REST API that unifies official multi-country company-registry data — Spain (BORME), France (BODACC), and the United Kingdom (Companies House, including PSC beneficial owners) — under one schema, with daily updates (every working day for Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, Japan, Israel, Taiwan, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands; weekly for Sweden, Australia, Ukraine and the United States; monthly for Cyprus, Romania, Singapore, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Serbia, Ecuador and Chile), sanctions and US export-control screening (beta; EU + UN + OFAC + UK + Australia (DFAT) + FR gels, plus the US Consolidated Screening List), and corporate-event monitoring, plus Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene) with companies and directors, and Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS), Finland (PRH/YTJ), Sweden (Bolagsverket), Belgium (KBO/BCE), Croatia (Sudski registar), Denmark (CVR), Estonia (e-Business Register), Slovakia (RPO), Switzerland (Zefix), Latvia (Register of Enterprises), Cyprus (DRCOR) and Romania (ONRC), plus the United States, Argentina, Ukraine, Serbia, Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, the Netherlands and the other live registers, at company level. Pricing is public from €9.99/month, 14-day free trial available, card required, nothing charged for 14 days. EU data residency in Frankfurt by default.

Kyckr vs Prometiam — at a glance

Pricing

Kyckr uses usage-based billing — you pay per API call, and live document retrieval is charged per document. There's no minimum usage requirement, which is friendly for low volume, but the rate card isn't public, so modeling a monthly bill before you sign means a sales conversation. For high-throughput screening, the per-document component is the line item to watch.

Prometiam publishes its pricing:

• Starter trial — 14 days, 500 credits, card required, nothing charged for 14 days.
• Starter — €9.99/mo, 60 rpm and 1,000 credits/month.
• Professional — €29.99/mo, 120 rpm and 10,000 credits/month, full sanctions screening included.
• Enterprise — custom, for high-volume or custom SLA needs.

For most KYB and counterparty-monitoring use cases that fit the multi-country scope, Professional covers the workload at €359.88/year at a fixed, predictable price. If you need live official documents or registry coverage outside the countries Prometiam covers, that math changes; Kyckr is the right tool.

Coverage and data model

This is the core difference. Kyckr connects live to 300+ official registries across 100+ countries and retrieves data and stamped documents on demand, straight from the authoritative source — 200M companies, no pre-aggregation. That breadth is its edge. Prometiam covers every live country, updated daily (every working day for Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, Japan, Israel, Taiwan, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands; weekly for Sweden, Australia, Ukraine and the United States; monthly for Cyprus, Romania, Singapore, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Serbia, Ecuador and Chile) from official registries and gazettes — Spain, France and the UK with directors and corporate events, Norway and Poland with companies and directors (Polish natural persons are masked by the register itself), Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Cyprus, Romania, Lithuania, Canada, Australia, Japan, Israel, Singapore, Colombia, Taiwan, Germany, Ukraine, Serbia, Ecuador, Chile, the Netherlands, Brazil and the United States at company level — and normalizes everything to a single schema, so you query structured JSON without touching source documents. Corporate insolvency reaches more markets (DE, AT, CH, US, NL).

If your portfolio sits inside the registries Prometiam covers today and you want structured data rather than official documents, Prometiam is the flatter, cheaper integration. If you need authoritative filings or coverage outside that footprint, Kyckr wins.

Beneficial ownership (UBO)

Honesty first: UBO is where Kyckr is genuinely stronger. Kyckr's Ownership Discovery traces beneficial owners across borders using official shareholder data from many jurisdictions. Prometiam has real beneficial-owner data only for the UK — PSC (Persons with Significant Control) records from Companies House. For every other country there is no UBO layer. We won't pretend otherwise.

So: for UK PSC verification, Prometiam is complete and cheap. For cross-border UBO — especially outside the countries Prometiam covers — Kyckr is the right tool, and many teams pair Prometiam for multi-country registry + sanctions with a specialist UBO source for the rest.

API and integration

Both are API-first. Prometiam is built for self-serve: one bearer token, one base URL, structured JSON, cursor pagination, predictable rate limits per tier. curl works in 60 seconds after signup; no sales call required. Open /risk-api/docs and run requests directly from the page.

Kyckr's RESTful API returns normalized JSON and is pre-integrated with major platforms (LexisNexis, S&P Global, Alloy and others), but access is account-managed and onboarding is enterprise-shaped. If you want to be live today without procurement, Prometiam is the shorter path.

Sanctions screening

Sanctions and US export-control screening (beta; EU consolidated + UN + OFAC + UK + Australia (DFAT) + FR gels, plus the US Consolidated Screening List) is a core endpoint on Prometiam's Professional tier (€29.99/mo). Trigram fuzzy match across all seven sources in a single call. All seven sources are live with daily refresh, scored fuzzy matching, and watchlist monitoring.

Kyckr's focus is registry data and UBO, not sanctions screening — it typically sits alongside a dedicated screening vendor in the AML stack. If your use case is "verify multi-country counterparty + screen sanctions in one API call", Prometiam is the simpler shape.

Who should choose Kyckr

Pick Kyckr if:

• You need company data or documents from registries outside the countries Prometiam covers — Asia, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East
• Your workflow requires live, stamped official filing documents from the source registry (for audit or legal defensibility)
• You need cross-border UBO discovery in countries beyond the UK
• You're a Tier 1 bank or enterprise AML platform comfortable with account-managed onboarding
• Low, spiky volume where pay-per-call with no minimum beats a monthly subscription

Who should choose Prometiam

Pick Prometiam if:

• Your scope is the 36 countries Prometiam covers and you don't need 100+-country registry connectivity today
• You want to integrate via REST in <60 seconds, with no procurement cycle
• Predictable, public pricing from €9.99/month matches how you budget — no per-document surprises
• Sanctions screening, corporate-event monitoring, UK PSC ownership, and registry data should all live behind one API
• You're a fintech, lender, factoring company, supplier-onboarding platform, or compliance-tech vendor where developer experience and integration speed matter as much as global breadth

Migrating from Kyckr

1. Sign up free at prometiam.com/signup — nothing charged for 14 days. You'll get an rk_live_* key in your inbox.
2. Map endpoints. Kyckr's company-register calls map to /companies/search and /companies/{id}. Director and officer data lives in the same endpoint; UK beneficial owners surface as PSC records; corporate events in /company-events/timeline and /company-events/search.
3. Scope the split. Keep Kyckr for any registry or UBO leg outside the countries Prometiam covers, or where you need the stamped source document. Move the multi-country registry + sanctions leg to Prometiam.
4. Run a parallel test — pick 100 representative multi-country counterparties, query both APIs, diff the fields you actually use. Most teams find Prometiam returns the same registry signal with a flatter response shape and no per-document charge.
5. Confirm sanctions parity — call /sanctions/screen?name=…&threshold=80 for the same set; verify match counts.
6. Switch over the multi-country leg when you're comfortable. There's no migration fee on Prometiam's side.

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

What does Kyckr cost?
As at 5 Nov 2026 kyckr.com publishes no prices; its home page says "Pay per call. No usage minimums." and the rate is agreed per customer. Prometiam publishes its plans: Starter EUR 9.99 a month with a 14-day trial, Professional EUR 29.99, Scale EUR 99.99, Enterprise custom.

Does Kyckr have an API, and how is it priced?
Yes. Kyckr offers a RESTful API returning normalised JSON, plus a web portal. As at 5 Nov 2026 no per-call price is published. Prometiam is a REST API too, with credits per successful call (1 for a company search or record) inside the plan.

Is there a free option?
Kyckr does not mention a free trial on the home page read on 5 Nov 2026 (it offers a demo). Prometiam has no free plan; its 14-day Starter trial needs a card and charges nothing during it, and the docs demo key is open to try.

Does Prometiam cover the same countries as Kyckr?
No. Prometiam covers Spain, France, the United Kingdom and Norway today, plus Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS), Finland (Kaupparekisteri), 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), plus the United States, Argentina, Ukraine, Serbia, Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, the Netherlands and the other live registers, at company level. Kyckr connects to 300+ registries across 100+ countries. If your scope is global, Kyckr is the right tool.

Does Prometiam do UBO like Kyckr?
Only for the UK — PSC beneficial owners from Companies House. For every other country there is no beneficial-owner data. For cross-border UBO, Kyckr is stronger.

Does Prometiam retrieve official registry documents?
No. Prometiam serves normalized, daily-refreshed structured data via REST, not on-demand stamped official documents. If you need the source document, Kyckr fits better.

Can Prometiam replace Kyckr for KYB onboarding?
For multi-country counterparties, yes. /companies/search + /sanctions/screen + UK PSC covers the registry-verification, sanctions-screen, and UK-ownership legs of KYB.

Is Prometiam GDPR-compliant?
Yes. Data is hosted in the EU (Frankfurt). Officer data is processed under GDPR Article 6(1)(c) and 6(1)(f).

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