An honest comparison for teams weighing Societe.com against Prometiam. Societe.com is the best-known French company-data site: around 12 million French companies from SIRENE, INPI and BODACC, refreshed daily, with directors, beneficial owners, filed financial accounts, insolvency proceedings and official documents such as a KBIS extract. For France alone it is deeper than we are.
Filed financial accounts (multi-year bilans with ratios), legally recognised official documents like the KBIS, and French beneficial-ownership detail including voting rights and control mechanisms. Prometiam has no financial statements for any country and no French UBO data — our beneficial ownership is UK PSC only. They also run a free public website that millions already use, so a one-off French lookup needs no integration.
Five more countries — Spain (BORME), the UK (Companies House with PSC), Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS) and Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene) — under one schema and one key. Sanctions and US export-control screening across 44,000+ active designations, which Societe.com does not offer. Corporate insolvency across nine markets rather than France alone. Public per-call pricing from €0 to €99.99.
Societe.com for French depth, accounts and documents. Prometiam for multi-country coverage and screening. Many teams should use both — France is deep on one side, Europe is wide on the other.
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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
| Prometiam | Societe.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | ES, FR, GB, IE, PL, NO | France only |
| French sources | BODACC | SIRENE, INPI, BODACC + private sources |
| Refresh | Daily | Daily |
| Financial accounts | No | Yes — multi-year bilans with ratios |
| Beneficial ownership | UK PSC only | French bénéficiaires effectifs, with voting rights |
| Official documents | No | Yes — KBIS, statuts |
| Sanctions screening | Included — 44K+ designations | Not offered |
| Insolvency | 9 markets | France (procédures collectives) |
| Free tier | 1,000 API calls/month | Free web account; 200 API credits to start |
| Published pricing | €0 / €9.99 / €29.99 / €99.99 | Subscriptions from €19.90 HT/mo; API credit packs from 99 EUR |