Comparison · North Data

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

North Data is broad and deep, sold on a yearly contract. Prometiam is official registry data behind one key, with public prices and a 14-day free trial. Which one fits depends on where your counterparties are.

North Data figures read from northdata.com on 11 September 2026

TL;DR

North Data covers 26 European countries, adds financial metrics, person networks, trademarks and, on its top package, shareholder data, and sells its Data API on packages from €500 a month with a 12-month minimum. Prometiam serves official company registries across Europe, refreshed daily or on weekdays, with 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 and US), 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) and sanctions screening (beta) on the same key, and prices you can read and start on today: free for 500 credits over 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99.

At a glance

North Data column: northdata.com/_data, read 11 September 2026, prices excluding VAT. Prometiam column: /pricing.

Who should pick North Data

• You need the full German commercial register, Austria or any of its other 20 countries. Prometiam serves German companies that hold an LEI only and does not serve those other registries.
• You need financial metrics, shareholder structures or cross-border person networks. Those are North Data's strengths and outside Prometiam's scope.
• Your procurement expects a yearly contract and a package price, and the per-request model above 5,000 a month fits your volume.

Who should pick Prometiam

• Your counterparties are on a European registry Prometiam covers and you want the registry record, not a report.
• You want to start today: a key in a minute, 500 free credits over 14 days, card required, nothing charged for 14 days, no contract, and the same response shape in all live countries.
• You need to watch a portfolio: POST /monitor sends a signed webhook when a company's status changes or a corporate event is published (every live country except France and Chile).
• You screen names against sanctions and US export-control lists in the same integration (beta).

Scope limits, stated plainly

• Ireland, Poland, 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 is beta and Spain only. Financial statements for GB, FR, DK, SE, NO and SEC filers in the United States, for Finland (digitally filed statements, about one filer in twenty) and, for listed companies only, ES, PL, HR and BE (Scale plan and above); no shareholder registers.

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 North Data cost?
As at 5 Nov 2026, excluding VAT: Premium Basic EUR 49 a month or EUR 490 a year, Plus EUR 1,250, Pro EUR 2,250 and Max EUR 3,950 a year; the Data API from EUR 500 a month (M) to EUR 1,500 (XXL) on a 12-month minimum. Prometiam: Starter EUR 9.99 a month with a 14-day trial, Professional EUR 29.99, Scale EUR 99.99, Enterprise custom.

Does North Data have an API, and how is it priced?
Yes, a Data API and a Widget API in tiers M, L, XL and XXL (Widget API M to XL), EUR 500 to EUR 1,500 a month, each with 5,000 requests a month included and a per-request fee above that (EUR 0.10, 0.07 or 0.05 by band). Prometiam prices by credits per successful call inside a plan.

Is there a free option?
North Data lists no free plan (read 5 Nov 2026); journalists can request a free Investigative Account. Prometiam has no free plan either; 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 Germany?
Only LEI-registered entities (from GLEIF), not the Handelsregister. German corporate insolvency notices are in the insolvency index, and the full Handelsregister publishes no bulk export.

Can I try Prometiam without talking to anyone?
Yes. Sign up, copy the key, make the first call. The documentation lists every endpoint.

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