North Data alternative: a self-serve registry API for six European countries

TL;DR

North Data is a broad European company-intelligence platform: 26 countries, officers and person networks, financial metrics, trademarks, ownership on the top package, with a Data API sold on a 12-month contract from €500 a month (5,000 requests included; a start-up package at €500 for 1,000 requests). Prometiam is narrower and cheaper to start: the official registries of Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway behind one key and one response shape, updated daily, with published prices from a free tier of 1,000 calls a month and no contract.

Pick North Data if

You need Germany, Austria, Switzerland or the rest of its 26 countries, financial metrics, shareholder data or person networks across borders, and a yearly contract is not a problem.

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 registry facts, corporate events, monitoring (ES, IE, PL) and sanctions screening (beta) rather than financial statements.

Scope limits on the Prometiam side

Ireland and Poland are company-level (no officers yet); Norway has no corporate-event stream; insolvency notices are corporate only across nine markets with Spain served by its own concursal index; PEP screening is beta and Spain 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

PrometiamNorth Data
CountriesES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO (official registries)26, including DE, AT, CH and the Nordics
DataRegistry facts, officers where published, corporate events, insolvency, sanctionsBase data, history, insolvencies, M&A, persons, financial metrics, trademarks, patents, ownership by package
UpdatesDailyNot stated on the API page
Entry price€0 for 1,000 calls/month, no card€500/month, 12-month contract (5,000 requests); start-up €500 for 1,000
Paid plans€9.99 · €29.99 · €99.99 /month, cancel any time€500 · €750 · €1,000 · €1,500 /month + per-request fees above 5,000
MonitoringPOST /monitor with webhooks (ES, IE, PL)Platform feature; API packages sold by data depth
Sanctions screeningSame key, betaNot part of the Data API listing
Data residencyEU (Frankfurt)German company

Frequently asked questions

How much does the North Data API cost?
As published on northdata.com on 11 September 2026: monthly packages of €500 (company base), €750 (plus persons), €1,000 (plus deep data) and €1,500 (plus ownership and flags), each including 5,000 requests a month, with a 12-month minimum contract and per-request fees above the allowance. A start-up package is €500 a month for 1,000 requests. Prices exclude VAT.
Does Prometiam cover Germany like North Data?
No. Prometiam serves the official registries of Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway. German corporate insolvency notices are included in the insolvency index, but there is no German company registry on the API. North Data covers Germany and 25 other countries.
Which is cheaper to start?
Prometiam: a free tier of 1,000 calls a month with no card, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99 a month with no contract. North Data starts at €500 a month on a 12-month contract.