Is Prometiam better than Pappers for French companies?

Not categorically. Pappers has deeper French-justice and INPI data and is a stronger FR-only product. Prometiam is better when scope crosses borders or when sanctions screening alongside registry data is needed.

Does Prometiam cover BODACC?

Yes — BODACC data is updated daily and surfaced under /companies/search?country=FR and /company-events/search?country=FR.

Can I replace Pappers and a sanctions vendor with just Prometiam?

For most KYB and counterparty-monitoring use cases, yes. Professional (€29.99/mo) includes sanctions and US export-control screening (EU + UN + OFAC + UK OFSI + FR gels, plus the US Consolidated Screening List). If the French use case requires Pappers Justice, keep Pappers for that piece.

How does Prometiam France coverage compare to Pappers International for Spain or UK?

Prometiam is built on the official registers: BORME (Spain) and Companies House (UK), not via partner data. For multi-country use cases, that means more consistent depth and freshness than going through a vendor international add-on.

Both vendors have free tiers — which is more useful?

Pappers free tier focuses on web search; Prometiam free tier is a 14-day trial (1,000 calls/month, no card) with the same response shape as paid tiers, not an ongoing plan. For developer evaluation it is closer to "production with low volume" than a web-search-only free tier.

Pappers Alternative

An honest comparison of Prometiam and Pappers for French and cross-border company data. Pappers is the strongest modern product for France-only work — clean UX, transparent pricing, deep BODACC + INSEE + INPI coverage, plus Pappers Justice for litigation data. If your scope is exclusively French, this page recommends staying with Pappers. Prometiam is the better fit when scope crosses borders or when sanctions screening belongs in the same API.

Why teams look for a Pappers alternative

You need more than France — Pappers International is partial EU and charged separately.
You need sanctions screening alongside registry data, which Pappers does not bundle.
API pricing climbs at high volume.

Prometiam coverage

One REST API covers Spain (BORME), France (BODACC + INSEE), the UK (Companies House), and Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene, companies and directors) daily, plus Ireland (CRO) and Poland (KRS) at company level only — no directors or UBO for those two. The same response shape applies across ?country=ES|FR|GB|IE|PL|NO. Sanctions and US export-control screening spans 6 sources (EU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI, French gels, and the US Consolidated Screening List / BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, ITAR) — 44,000+ active entities. PEP screening is beta and Spain-only (no relatives or close associates); no adverse-media and no natural-person identity verification.

Where Pappers stays better

French judicial-procedure tracking (Pappers Justice), deep INPI trademark data, and French-vendor UX. Prometiam does not replicate these.

Pricing

Public tiers, monthly or annual (ten months' price for twelve): free — 14-day trial, 1,000 calls/month, no card, subscribing keeps the same key working — then €9.99, €29.99 (sanctions included), €99.99 and Custom. Professional can replace Pappers plus a separate sanctions vendor for most KYB use cases.

Built for the API-native workflow

The developer choosing between these APIs is usually building a company lookup: resolving a NIF, a SIREN, a company number or a few typed letters into a name, legal form, status and address for an onboarding form, an invoice or a CRM. Every registry's identifier is one parameter — SIREN/SIRET (France), NIF/CIF (Spain), company number (UK), CRO number (Ireland), KRS number (Poland), organisasjonsnummer (Norway) — and ?name= is a normalised partial match a type-ahead field can call on every keystroke, across the same schema for all six countries. Auth is one bearer key; rate limits scale 10 to 600 requests/minute by tier. A TypeScript SDK (prometiam-risk-api on npm) and an MCP server (prometiam-risk-mcp, also at /mcp) are both published. Free SIREN, NIF, Companies House number, KRS, CRO number and organisasjonsnummer lookup tools run the same call without a key.

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 — contract awards from Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland and Norway by supplier, buyer, identifier, 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

Pappers vs Prometiam — at a glance

	Prometiam	Pappers
France coverage	BODACC + INSEE, daily	BODACC + INSEE + INPI, daily — broader French depth
Spain coverage	BORME official-source, daily	Limited (via Pappers International)
UK coverage	Companies House, daily	Limited (via Pappers International)
Ireland coverage	CRO, company-level	Limited (via Pappers International)
Poland coverage	KRS, company-level	Limited (via Pappers International)
Pricing	Public — €0 / €9.99 / €29.99 / Custom, per API call	Public — credit-based ("jetons"), consumed per lookup
Free tier	14-day trial — 1,000 API calls/month, no card	Yes — free web search; API needs credits
Sanctions screening	Included on Professional (beta)	Yes — sanctions and PEP screening
Director-network graph	Yes (built-in)	Yes (Pappers POI)
Justice / litigation data	Not in scope	Yes — Pappers Justice is a strength in FR

Frequently asked questions

Is Prometiam better than Pappers for French companies?: Not categorically. Pappers has deeper French-justice and INPI data and is a stronger FR-only product. Prometiam is better when scope crosses borders or when sanctions screening alongside registry data is needed.
Does Prometiam cover BODACC?: Yes — BODACC data is updated daily and surfaced under /companies/search?country=FR and /company-events/search?country=FR.
Can I replace Pappers and a sanctions vendor with just Prometiam?: For most KYB and counterparty-monitoring use cases, yes. Professional (€29.99/mo) includes sanctions and US export-control screening (EU + UN + OFAC + UK OFSI + FR gels, plus the US Consolidated Screening List). If the French use case requires Pappers Justice, keep Pappers for that piece.
How does Prometiam France coverage compare to Pappers International for Spain or UK?: Prometiam is built on the official registers: BORME (Spain) and Companies House (UK), not via partner data. For multi-country use cases, that means more consistent depth and freshness than going through a vendor international add-on.
Both vendors have free tiers — which is more useful?: Pappers free tier focuses on web search; Prometiam free tier is a 14-day trial (1,000 calls/month, no card) with the same response shape as paid tiers, not an ongoing plan. For developer evaluation it is closer to "production with low volume" than a web-search-only free tier.