Comparison · Middesk

Middesk alternative: a publicly priced registry API for European countries

Middesk verifies businesses against US Secretary of State filings and IRS records, and — as of August 2026 — against registries in Canada, Europe and APAC through the same integration. Prometiam is the equivalent record for the European registries it covers, with published prices and a 14-day free trial.

Middesk figures read from middesk.com and docs.middesk.com on 15 September 2026

TL;DR

Middesk verifies US businesses: 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 August 2026 — international registration lookups for Canada, Europe and APAC through sales. Prometiam serves official company registries across Europe, refreshed daily or on weekdays, and in the United States only the New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, the District of Columbia, Texas and Oregon registers plus SEC filers and LEI holders from other states (weekly; no TIN match, no 50-state Secretary of State coverage) and the Massachusetts public-record extract of the Corporations Division (refreshed only when the Division supplies a newer one), with public pricing and a 14-day free trial.

At a glance

Middesk column: middesk.com (homepage, /solutions/verification) and docs.middesk.com, read 15 September 2026; /pricing returns no page. Prometiam column: /pricing.

Who should pick Middesk

• You're onboarding or underwriting US businesses and want Secretary of State filings and real-time IRS TIN/EIN matching across all 50 states in one order.
• You want liens, bankruptcies, litigation and OFAC, sanctions, PEP, adverse-media and license checks alongside the entity record, plus NAICS/SIC industry classification and website signals, instead of pulling those from separate vendors.
• You want automated decisioning: configurable review tasks, rulesets for automated approval, and Middesk Agents for CIP, CDD and EDD investigation, tested against an "enhanced sandbox" with configurable verification outcomes.
• Your onboarding reaches outside the US too: Middesk added Canada, Europe (its own examples: France, Germany and the UK) and APAC registration lookups through the same Verify integration in August 2026, reachable through an account manager or Middesk sales.

Who should pick Prometiam

• Your counterparties are on a European registry Prometiam covers and you want the registry record itself, from a product built around those registries rather than extended outward from a US-first one.
• You want to see the price before you talk to anyone: a free trial key for 500 credits over 14 days, card required, nothing charged for 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 or €99.99 a month with no contract. Middesk's pricing, and the pricing for its new international coverage, are not published.
• You need officers, corporate events (ES, FR, GB, plus register-change events for IE, PL and NO (from 14 Oct 2026), and FI, SE, BE, HR, DK, EE, SK, CH, LV, CY, RO, LT, CA, AU, JP, IL, SG, CO, TW, BR, CZ, DE, AR, UA, RS, EC, NL and US) and monitoring (ES, GB, IE, PL, NO, FI, SE, BE, HR, DK, EE, SK, CH, LV, CY, RO, US, LT, CA, AU, JP, IL, SG, CO, TW, BR, CZ, DE, AR, UA, RS, EC, NL) alongside the entity record, plus UK PSC beneficial ownership, behind one key and one response shape.
• You screen names against EU, UN, OFAC, UK and French sanctions lists plus the full US export-control list set in the same call (beta).

This is the shape most fintech and payment-provider platforms need once they onboard counterparties in Europe alongside the US — see how the endpoints fit a KYB onboarding flow.

Scope limits, stated plainly

• US coverage is partial: the New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, the District of Columbia, Texas, Oregon and Massachusetts registers plus SEC filers and LEI holders from other states (weekly, Massachusetts only when the Division supplies a newer extract, no officers, no TIN match), not Secretary of State data for all 50 states. Corporate insolvency notices (one of sixteen insolvency markets, corporate only) are not linked to the company records; the 11 US export-control lists sit inside sanctions screening.
• Beneficial ownership is real only for the UK (PSC register); GLEIF Level-2 gives parents only for entities that hold an LEI. Every other Prometiam registry returns officers or directors at most, not beneficial ownership.
• Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Cyprus, Romania, Croatia, 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).
• Insolvency notices are corporate only, across sixteen markets (FR, DE, GB, AT, CH, NO, FI, US, NL, DK, HR, SE, ES, LV, EE, SG).
• Sanctions screening is beta. PEP screening is beta, Spain only, and carries no relatives or close associates.
• Company monitoring (POST /monitor) covers every live country except France and Chile.

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 Middesk cost?
As at 5 Nov 2026 Middesk publishes no prices: there is no pricing page and the home page offers a demo request. 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 Middesk have an API, and how is it priced?
Yes. Middesk documents its API at docs.middesk.com. As at 5 Nov 2026 no per-verification price is published; it is agreed after a demo. Prometiam is a REST API with credits per successful call inside a published plan.

Is there a free option?
Middesk does not mention a free trial on the home page read on 5 Nov 2026. 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 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?
Partly, and not nationwide. Prometiam serves company records from the New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, the District of Columbia, Texas, Oregon and Massachusetts registers plus SEC filers and LEI holders from other states, one record per state registration, updated weekly (New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Oregon publish active entities only; Massachusetts: refreshed, with its change events, only when the Division supplies a newer extract), with no officers, with register-change events (dated by the weekly read) and monitoring, no VAT number and no TIN match. It does not hold Secretary of State data for the other states. Corporate insolvency notices (one of sixteen insolvency markets, corporate only) are not linked to those records, 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. For US counterparties Prometiam covers only the New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, the District of Columbia, Texas, Oregon and Massachusetts registers plus SEC filers and LEI holders from other states, with no TIN match and no other Secretary of State data. For counterparties on a European registry Prometiam covers, 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 returns officers or directors at most, which is not beneficial ownership.

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