What data does the Prometiam company data API cover?

Company data across six countries: Spain from the official BORME registry (3.8M+ entities), France from BODACC (12.4M+ entities), the UK from Companies House (7.6M+ entities including 12M+ Persons with Significant Control), Ireland from the CRO (817K+ companies, company-level), Poland from the KRS (732K+ companies, company-level), and Norway from Enhetsregisteret at Brønnøysundregistrene (1.17M+ companies, with officers and directors), plus insolvency notices, sanctions and US export-control screening, and corporate event timelines. Data updates daily from primary sources.

Is the API GDPR-compliant and hosted in the EU?

Yes. All data is hosted in AWS eu-central-1 (Frankfurt, Germany). No data leaves the EU. The platform is GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001 aligned, and operates under EU data residency rules.

How is Prometiam different from Pappers, Societe.com, or Creditsafe?

Prometiam is API-first, EU + UK-native, and transparent: pricing is public (Free, €9.99, €29.99, €99.99, Enterprise), and data covers Spain (BORME), France (BODACC), the UK (Companies House), Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS), and Norway (Enhetsregisteret) under one unified schema and a single API key. No per-user seat fees, no 'contact sales' for a quote.

What API endpoints are available?

GET /companies/search, /companies/{id}, /people/{id}, /notices/{id}, /company-events/search, /company-events/timeline, /search (insolvency), /records/{id}, /sanctions/screen, /coverage, and /account. Full docs at https://www.prometiam.com/risk-api/docs

How do I get an API key?

Sign up at https://www.prometiam.com/signup to receive an rk_live_ key. The Free plan includes 1,000 calls/month with no credit card required.

How much does the Prometiam Risk API cost?

Pricing is public and self-serve: Free (1,000 calls/month, no credit card), Starter (€9.99/month, 10,000 calls), Professional (€29.99/month, 100,000 calls with full sanctions screening), Scale (€99.99/month, 1,000,000 calls), and Enterprise (custom). All six countries are included in every tier at no upcharge.

What sanctions lists are screened?

Six sources in one trigram-fuzzy call with confidence scoring: EU consolidated, UN, US OFAC SDN, UK OFSI, the French Registre des gels, and the US Consolidated Screening List (export-control lists including the BIS Entity List and Denied Persons). Refreshed daily, with optional watchlist webhooks on the Professional tier and above.

Does Prometiam cover Germany like OpenRegister?

No. Prometiam holds no German commercial register. OpenRegister covers 4M+ German companies from the Handelsregister, Bundesanzeiger and Transparenzregister. If you need German registry data, officers, financial statements or UBO, OpenRegister is the right tool and Prometiam is not a substitute. The one German dataset Prometiam does serve is corporate insolvency notices from the official Insolvenzbekanntmachungen.

Which countries does Prometiam cover?

Six live registries: Spain (BORME), France (BODACC), the United Kingdom (Companies House, including PSC beneficial owners), Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene), and Ireland (CRO) and Poland (KRS) at company level. Corporate insolvency reaches further — France, Germany, the UK, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Finland and the US.

Does OpenRegister do sanctions screening?

Not as part of its published product — no sanctions endpoint appears in its documentation or pricing. Prometiam includes sanctions and US export-control screening: five sanctions lists (EU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI, French gels) plus 11 US export-control lists, 44,000+ active designations, refreshed daily.

Does Prometiam offer UBO like OpenRegister?

Only for the UK, via Companies House PSC records. OpenRegister brokers statutory Transparenzregister extracts for Germany, which is real regulated beneficial-ownership data — though access to live Transparenzregister data still requires your own account verified for legitimate interest under the German Money Laundering Act. For Spain, France, Ireland, Poland and Norway, Prometiam has no beneficial-owner data.

Can I use both OpenRegister and Prometiam?

Yes, and for many European KYB workflows that is the sensible answer. The two have almost no country overlap: OpenRegister for Germany, Prometiam for Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway plus cross-border sanctions screening and insolvency. Both publish pricing and both offer a free tier, so you can test the split before committing.

Does Prometiam retrieve official registry documents?

No. Prometiam serves normalized, daily-refreshed structured data via REST. OpenRegister lets you order official German documents through the API — register extracts, shareholder lists and articles of association as PDF or JSON. If your workflow needs the source document, that is a real OpenRegister advantage.

OpenRegister Alternative

An honest comparison for teams weighing OpenRegister (openregister.de) against Prometiam. These two products barely overlap. OpenRegister is a Germany-only company-data API built on the Handelsregister, Bundesanzeiger and Transparenzregister — 4M+ German companies, statutory UBO extracts, structured financial statements, and on-demand official documents. Prometiam is a six-country EU + UK registry API covering Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway — and no German commercial register at all. If you need Germany, OpenRegister is the right tool and Prometiam is not a substitute.

Where the overlap actually is

Two places. First, corporate insolvency: Prometiam serves German corporate insolvency notices from the official Insolvenzbekanntmachungen (78,000+ servable corporate notices as at 28 July 2026, current to the previous day) even though it holds no German registry. Second, sanctions screening, which Prometiam includes and which is not part of OpenRegister's published product.

What Prometiam covers

One schema over official registries — Spain (BORME), France (BODACC), the UK (Companies House, including PSC beneficial owners), Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene), plus Ireland (CRO) and Poland (KRS) at company level. Daily updates, corporate-event data, and sanctions plus US export-control screening across five sanctions lists (EU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI, French gels) and 11 US export-control lists — 44,000+ active designations, refreshed daily. No German registry. PEP screening is beta and Spain-only. UBO is real only for the UK (PSC).

Honest trade-offs

OpenRegister: Germany, which Prometiam simply does not have. Statutory Transparenzregister UBO extracts, Bundesanzeiger financial statements, and on-demand official documents (register extracts, shareholder lists, articles of association). Published self-serve pricing with a free tier.
Prometiam: six countries in one schema, sanctions and export-control screening included, cross-border corporate insolvency across eight markets including Germany, public pricing (€0 / €9.99 / €29.99 / €99.99 / custom), EU residency.
Many teams should run both, not choose.