Comparison · Purehelp

Purehelp alternative: a multi-country company data API, not a Norwegian sales and credit tool

Purehelp is a Norwegian company-search site built for sales prospecting and credit checks: role search, Creditsafe credit reports, daily-updated contact lists, monitoring and valuation estimates, sold through a free tier and two annual subscriptions. Prometiam's Norway coverage is companies and officers from Bronnoysundregistrene under the same key as other countries — a developer API, not a sales tool.

Purehelp figures read from purehelp.no on 16 September 2026

TL;DR

Purehelp sells Norwegian board and role search, Creditsafe credit reports, sales-prospecting lists, monitoring alarms, valuation estimates and lien (Pant) analysis, through a free Standard tier and PRO / PRO+ subscriptions at NOK 6,900 and NOK 10,900 a year, plus a bulk data feed sold by contact only. Prometiam serves Norwegian companies and officers from Bronnoysundregistrene on the same key as every other registry the API covers, with public prices and a 14-day free trial — but no accounts, credit reports, prospecting lists or monitoring for Norway.

What Bronnoysundregistrene already gives you for free

Bronnoysundregistrene publishes Enhetsregisteret as free open data with no registration (see our guide to Bronnoysundregistrene, also in Norwegian). If Norway is the only market you need, querying Brreg directly costs nothing. The Norway company data API guide shows what an organisasjonsnummer lookup returns, and the free organisasjonsnummer search (in Norwegian) runs the same call. What Purehelp charges for — PRO's list tool, PRO+'s monitoring alarms, Creditsafe credit reports, valuation estimates — is work done on top of that open data, not access to the data itself. Prometiam's own value for Norway on its own is similarly small; the reason to use it is the same response shape, id format (Norway's own organisation number) and endpoint set as every other registry the API covers, plus Norwegian corporate insolvency notices and sanctions screening on the same key.

At a glance

Purehelp column: purehelp.no, purehelp.no/pro, purehelp.no/page/products/salgsverktoy, purehelp.no/page/products/kredittrating and purehelp.no/page/campaigns/api-datakontroll, read 16 September 2026, prices excluding VAT where stated. Prometiam column: /pricing and /risk-api/docs.

Who should pick Purehelp

• You want a browsable Norwegian company-search site with role and credit-report lookups, not only an API: purehelp.no covers firma-, person- and produktsøk directly on the site.
• You need Norwegian credit reports pulled against a company profile: Purehelp's credit report, delivered under a partnership with Creditsafe Norge AS, is invoiced per report after use, with package pricing available on request for larger volumes.
• You run sales prospecting: PRO's list tool draws unlimited email, address and phone lists by industry, area, revenue, growth and employee count, updated daily, and reaches Swedish companies as well as Norwegian ones.
• You need company monitoring, valuation estimates, lien (Pant) analysis or 15-year board and leadership history in one place — PRO+ bundles all four at NOK 10,900 a year.

Who should pick Prometiam

• Your counterparties span several European registries, and you want one response shape and one key rather than a Norway-focused sales tool plus separate products for the rest of Europe.
• You want prices you can read today: a free trial of 500 credits over 14 days with a card required and nothing charged for 14 days, then €9.99, €29.99 and €99.99 a month, cancel any time — no annual subscription and no per-report invoice.
• You want Norwegian corporate insolvency notices linked to the company record: Norway is one of only three insolvency markets — with France and the UK — where GET /insolvency/search cross-references a company registry, out of sixteen markets covered (corporate only). See customer insolvency monitoring.
• You screen names against sanctions lists in the same integration as company data, even though it is beta and PEP screening is Spain only for now.

Scope limits, stated plainly

• Norway has register-change events only, from 14 Oct 2026 (no gazette equivalent to BORME or BODACC), no credit reports, no prospecting lists and no ownership data beyond GLEIF Level-2 relationships for entities that hold an LEI.
• Company monitoring (POST /monitor) covers every live country except France and Chile.
• Sanctions screening is beta; PEP screening is beta and Spain only, with no relatives or close associates.
• 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.
• Insolvency notices are corporate only, across sixteen markets (FR, DE, GB, AT, CH, NO, FI, US, NL, DK, HR, SE, ES, LV, EE, SG).
• Beneficial ownership is the UK PSC register only; every other registry, Norway included, returns officers and directors, which is not beneficial ownership.

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

How much does Purehelp cost?
As published on purehelp.no on 16 September 2026: the Standard tier is free (0 kr/year) and covers registering board experience, pulling credit reports and managing a company profile through MinSide. PRO is NOK 6,900 a year (one licence included) and adds prospecting lists, accounting and competitor analysis, and company and role search. PRO+ is NOK 10,900 a year (one licence included) and adds monitoring alarms, valuation estimates, lien (Pant) analysis and management CV search. Credit reports are invoiced per report after use, delivered under a partnership with Creditsafe Norge AS; bulk pricing for a larger number of reports is available on request through a contact form.

Does Purehelp have an API?
Purehelp advertises a bulk data feed called API-Datakontroll for updating a customer's own registries, described on purehelp.no as drawing on more than 20 years of Norwegian business history with a change archive and risk-classified fields, downloadable daily. The page carries no endpoint documentation, authentication details or published price: it is a contact form that leads to a sales conversation, not a self-serve API.

Does Prometiam cover Norwegian credit reports and prospecting lists like Purehelp?
No. Prometiam serves Norwegian companies and officers from Bronnoysundregistrene. There are no credit reports, credit ratings, prospecting lists, valuation estimates or lien (Pant) analysis for Norway, and register-change events only (from 14 Oct 2026), 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. Bronnoysundregistrene 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 every other registry the API covers, plus Norwegian corporate insolvency notices and sanctions screening on the same key.

Can I switch from Purehelp 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 Purehelp's credit reports, prospecting lists, monitoring alarms, valuation estimates or lien analysis, so keep Purehelp for those and use Prometiam for its other registries and the sanctions (beta) and insolvency endpoints.

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