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 nine markets including Germany, public pricing (€0 / €9.99 / €29.99 / €99.99 / custom), EU residency.
Many teams should run both, not choose.

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

OpenRegister vs Prometiam — at a glance

	Prometiam	OpenRegister
Registry coverage	ES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO — no Germany	Germany only — 4M+ companies, all 16 states
Sources	BORME, BODACC, Companies House, CRO, KRS, Brønnøysundregistrene	Handelsregister, Bundesanzeiger, Transparenzregister
Sanctions screening	Included — 5 sanctions + 11 US export-control lists, 44K+ active	Not in the published product
UBO / beneficial owners	UK PSC only	Statutory Transparenzregister extracts (DE)
Financial statements	No	Yes — Bundesanzeiger, updated daily
Official documents	No — structured data only	Yes — extracts, shareholder lists, articles of association
Corporate insolvency	9 markets: FR, FI, DE, GB, AT, NO, CH, US, NL	Germany, with full proceeding lifecycle
Pricing	Public — €0 / €9.99 / €29.99 / €99.99 / custom, per call	Public — credit-based, €0.01/credit overage
Free tier	1,000 calls/month, no credit card	500 credits/month, no credit card
MCP server	Yes — `prometiam-risk-mcp`, 28 tools	Yes — hosted + npm package

Frequently asked questions

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.