Proff alternative: a six-country registry API, not a Norwegian credit bureau

TL;DR

Proff and its Proff Forvalt product are Norway's company-information incumbents: financial statements, credit ratings, payment remarks, shareholder registers and roles, sold through Proff Pluss (NOK 99/month) or Forvalt subscriptions from NOK 12,490/year, plus three APIs (Premium, Credit, Compliance) sold on request. Prometiam serves Norwegian companies and officers from Brønnøysundregistrene's open data on the same key as Spain, France, the UK, Ireland and Poland, with public prices from a free tier — but no accounts, ratings or ownership for Norway.

Pick Proff if

You need Norwegian financial statements, a credit rating, payment remarks or a shareholder register, want a browsable site rather than only an API, or need Nordic reach into Sweden, Denmark and Finland through Forvalt's Premium API or Proff's sister sites.

Pick Prometiam if

Your counterparties span Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland or Norway and you want one response shape and one key, public prices you can read today, and Norwegian corporate insolvency notices cross-referenced to the company record.

Being honest about Norway

Brønnøysundregistrene publishes Enhetsregisteret as free open data with no registration. If Norway is the only market you need, querying Brreg directly costs nothing — Prometiam's value there is the shared response shape with five other countries, not exclusive access.

Scope limits on the Prometiam side

Norway has no corporate-event stream, no financial statements, no credit rating and no ownership data beyond GLEIF Level-2 relationships for LEI holders. Company monitoring covers Spain, Ireland and Poland only, not Norway. Sanctions screening is beta; 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

PrometiamProff / Proff Forvalt
CountriesES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO (official registries)Norway (proff.no); Sweden, Denmark, Finland via Forvalt's Premium API. proff.se redirects to allabolag.se — Sweden runs under the Allabolag brand, not Proff
DataRegistry facts, officers where published, corporate events (ES/FR/GB), corporate insolvency notices (nine markets), sanctions screening (beta)Accounts, credit rating, payment remarks, shareholder/ownership data, roles, court-case and rating-change monitoring, PEP/AML screening
UpdatesDaily for Norway (UK is monthly bulk plus daily delta)Described as continuously updated; no cadence published
Entry price€0 for 1,000 calls/month, no cardFree browsing on proff.no; Forvalt subscriptions from NOK 12,490/year excl. VAT (Forvalt Pluss); free trial offered on the APIs
Paid plans€9.99 · €29.99 · €99.99/month, cancel any timeProff Pluss NOK 99/month (consumer); Forvalt Pluss/Premium/XL NOK 12,490 · 14,990 · 24,990/year excl. VAT; APIs by quote
ContractNone — cancel any timeAnnual subscriptions; no monthly option published; APIs by quote
MonitoringPOST /monitor webhooks — Spain, Ireland, Poland only, not NorwayCompany and court-case monitoring bundled into subscriptions, Norway-focused
Sanctions screeningSame key, beta; PEP is beta and Spain onlyCompliance API — PEP/AML/sanctions across Nordic and global sources, sold on request
Beneficial ownershipUK PSC register only; GLEIF Level-2 parents for LEI holders; not available for NorwayShareholder data and beneficial owners, part of the Premium API
Data residencyEU (Frankfurt)Not published; Nordic operation, part of Enento Group per proff.dk

Frequently asked questions

How much does Proff cost?
As published on proff.no and forvalt.no on 15 September 2026: Proff Pluss (the consumer site) is NOK 99 a month or NOK 1,068 a year — ad-free browsing, company monitoring, estimated valuations and wider comparison. Proff Forvalt's subscriptions are NOK 12,490 (Forvalt Pluss), NOK 14,990 (Forvalt Premium, marked most popular) and NOK 24,990 (Forvalt XL) a year, excluding VAT, plus pay-per-use reports from NOK 49. Its three APIs (Premium, Credit, Compliance) have no published price: both API pages say to contact sales for a quote, with a free trial offered.
Does Proff have an API?
Yes. Proff Premium API, Credit API and Compliance API, documented at apidocs.proff.no and forvalt.no/ProffAPI, cover company data, credit ratings and PEP/sanctions screening for Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Getting a key means contacting sales; neither page publishes a per-call or monthly price.
Does Prometiam cover Norwegian accounts and credit ratings like Proff?
No. Prometiam serves Norwegian companies and officers from Brønnøysundregistrene. There are no financial statements, credit ratings, payment remarks or shareholder registers for Norway, and no corporate-event stream, because Norway publishes no gazette equivalent to Spain's BORME or France's BODACC. Ownership is limited to GLEIF Level-2 relationships for entities that hold an LEI.
Is Norwegian company data free without either vendor?
Yes. Brønnøysundregistrene publishes Enhetsregisteret as free open data with no registration required. If Norway is the only market you need, querying Brreg directly costs nothing. Prometiam's value for Norway is not exclusive access to that data — it is the same response shape, id format and endpoints as Spain, France, the UK, Ireland and Poland, plus Norwegian corporate insolvency notices and sanctions screening on the same key.
Can I switch from Proff to Prometiam?
For what overlaps — company name, organisation number, address, industry code and roles — yes, through GET /companies/search?country=NO. Prometiam has no equivalent to Proff's accounts, credit rating or ownership products, so keep Proff or Forvalt for those and use Prometiam for Spain, France, the UK, Ireland and Poland and the sanctions and insolvency endpoints.