Middesk alternative: a publicly priced registry API for six European countries

TL;DR

Middesk verifies businesses against US Secretary of State filings across all 50 states, real-time IRS TIN/EIN matching, OFAC/PEP/adverse-media screening, liens, bankruptcies and litigation, in one order — and, since a product release Middesk dates 6 August 2026, against registries in Canada, Europe (its own examples: France, Germany and the UK) and APAC through the same integration, reachable through sales. Prometiam has no US registry at all. It covers Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway from the official registries, updated daily, with public pricing from a free tier of 1,000 calls a month.

Pick Middesk if

You are onboarding or underwriting US businesses and need Secretary of State registration, IRS TIN/EIN matching, liens, bankruptcies, litigation, OFAC/PEP/adverse-media screening and automated decisioning across all 50 states, with sales-led access now extending to Canada, Europe and APAC.

Pick Prometiam if

Your counterparties are in Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland or Norway, you want to see the price before you talk to anyone, and you need registry facts, officers, corporate events, monitoring (ES, IE, PL) and sanctions screening (beta) rather than a US-first product reaching outward.

Scope limits on the Prometiam side

No US company registry: the only US content on the API is corporate insolvency notices and the US lists inside export-control screening. Beneficial ownership is real only for the UK (PSC register); Ireland and Poland are company-level; Norway has no corporate-event stream; sanctions and PEP screening are beta.

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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

PrometiamMiddesk
CountriesES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO (official registries)US, all 50 states; Canada, Europe (its examples: FR, DE, GB) and APAC added August 2026, access via sales
DataRegistry facts, officers where published, UK PSC beneficial owners, corporate events (ES/FR/GB), insolvency, sanctionsSecretary of State registration, real-time IRS TIN/EIN match, owners/officers, OFAC/sanctions/PEP/adverse-media and license checks, liens, bankruptcies, litigation, NAICS/SIC classification, website signals
UpdatesDaily (ES, FR, IE, PL, NO); UK monthly bulk plus daily deltaNot stated; verification is ordered per business, with separate ongoing monitoring for watchlists, liens and bankruptcies
Entry price€0 for 1,000 calls/month, no cardNot published; demo request only
Paid plans€9.99 · €29.99 · €99.99 /month, cancel any timeNot published
ContractNone, cancel any timeNot stated on the public site; sales-led onboarding ("Get a demo"), sign-in is for existing customers
MonitoringPOST /monitor webhooks (ES, IE, PL)Yes — ongoing monitoring for watchlist hits, liens and bankruptcies
Sanctions screeningBeta; EU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI, French gels + US export-control listsYes — OFAC, sanctions, PEP and adverse media in the same order
Beneficial ownershipUK PSC only; officers/directors elsewhere, which is not beneficial ownershipClaimed for US entities ("beneficial owners identified"); not documented for the new international registrations
Data residencyEU (Frankfurt)Not stated on the pages read

Frequently asked questions

How much does Middesk cost?
It is not published. As read on 15 September 2026, middesk.com has no live pricing page — /pricing returns nothing — and the verification and homepage pages route to a demo request rather than a price list. Prometiam publishes every tier: Free at 1,000 calls a month, then Starter at €9.99, Professional at €29.99 and Scale at €99.99, plus a custom Enterprise tier.
Does Middesk cover Europe now?
Partly, and only recently. Middesk's own product-release notes, read on 15 September 2026, state that international verification went live on 6 August 2026: Middesk now verifies businesses across Canada, Europe, and APAC through the same Verify integration, naming France, Germany and the UK as examples. Access is arranged through an account manager or Middesk's sales team, and the documented response for an international registration covers name, status, entity type, file number, address, registration date and officers. It does not include the TIN match that is central to Middesk's US product, because that check is specific to the US Internal Revenue Service.
Does Prometiam cover the United States?
No company registry. Prometiam holds no Secretary of State data and no TIN match for any country. The only US content on the API is corporate insolvency notices, one of nine insolvency markets and corporate only, and the 11 US export-control lists inside sanctions screening: the BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, Unverified and MEU lists, ITAR-Debarred, ISN, OFAC SSI, CMIC, MBS, PLC and CAPTA.
Can I switch from Middesk to Prometiam?
Only for the European leg. Prometiam has nothing to offer for US counterparties: no Secretary of State data, no TIN match. For counterparties in Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland or Norway, sign up, get a key, and query /companies/search with the same name or registration number to compare the fields you use before cutting over. The two are not mutually exclusive: keep Middesk for US onboarding and add Prometiam for the European leg.
Does Prometiam identify beneficial owners like Middesk?
Only for the UK. Middesk's verification product states that it identifies beneficial owners and verifies officers for US businesses. Prometiam's beneficial-ownership data is real only for the UK PSC register, plus GLEIF Level-2 parents for entities that hold an LEI. Every other Prometiam registry — Spain, France, Ireland, Poland and Norway — returns officers or directors, which is not beneficial ownership.