Comparison · SoloCheck

SoloCheck alternative: one API across every live registry, not a per-document Irish shop

SoloCheck sells Irish and UK company reports, director reports, CRO documents and credit reports one item at a time, with free brief searches and no subscription. Prometiam is a single API key across Ireland and every other registry it covers — but for Ireland it stops at company-level facts, with no documents, credit reports or director history yet.

SoloCheck figures read from solocheck.ie on 16 September 2026

TL;DR

SoloCheck is a pay-per-report shop for Irish and UK company data: free brief searches for every Irish company, then a fixed price per item — its pricing page and FAQ (read 16 September 2026) list Basic Company Report €3, Directors Report €4, any document filed in the CRO €6, a five-in-one Credit Report €9, Full UK Company Report €3, any UK document €8, Full UK Directors Report €8 — with no subscription and no set-up fee. Prometiam's Irish data, from the CRO, is company-level only: status, registered address, Eircode, NACE code, incorporation and dissolution dates, with no Irish officers, documents, judgments or credit reports. Prometiam's addition is breadth and an API: the same shape for every other registry the API covers under one key, published self-serve pricing and a 14-day free trial, webhook monitoring for Ireland, and sanctions screening in beta. For an Ireland-only document, judgment or credit-report need, SoloCheck is the right tool.

At a glance

SoloCheck column: solocheck.ie (homepage, /pricing.jsp, /FAQ.jsp, /monitorNewUser.jsp), read 16 September 2026. Prometiam column: /pricing.

Who should pick SoloCheck

• You need the scanned CRO document itself. SoloCheck sells "any document filed in the CRO" since 1998 — accounts, annual returns, changes of director or registered office — from €6 in PDF. Prometiam returns structured fields only and never the filed document, for any country.
• You need an Irish credit report or a director's judgment history. SoloCheck's €9 Credit Report is "5 Reports in 1": credit score, past bad-debt judgments, directors history, mortgages and charges, and company owners. Prometiam has no credit scores, credit reports or judgment records, for any country.
• You want a one-off check with no account setup or API key. SoloCheck's brief company reports are free, full reports are pay-per-item by card, and its FAQ states "no set-up fees, no upfront subscriptions and no annual fees".
• You want free email alerts on Irish filings, with no limit on how many companies you watch. SoloCheck's Company Alerts notify you by email the next time a watched company files a new CRO document, at no charge.

Who should pick Prometiam

• Your counterparties are not only in Ireland. The same key and response shape also cover every other registry the API covers, and pair Ireland with the UK under one British Isles KYB pattern, with UK officers and PSC beneficial ownership included.
• You build against a REST API, not a shopping basket. Every field comes back as JSON from one key, documented in the API docs — SoloCheck's own product pages list no API; a separate "API" brand under its sister service points to Vision-net.
• You want to read the price before you sign up: a free trial of 500 credits over 14 days, then fixed monthly prices — no per-report purchase and no account balance to top up.
• You want to watch a company by webhook for ongoing counterparty monitoring, with a signed alert your systems can act on, in Ireland, Spain and Poland, plus a strike-off warning signal on Irish and UK companies that have stopped filing — and screen names against sanctions and export-control lists in the same key (beta).

Scope limits, stated plainly

• Ireland is company-level only, from the CRO: status, registered address, Eircode, NACE code, incorporation and dissolution dates (background: What is the CRO?; the record and monitoring in practice: Ireland company data API guide). No Irish officers, beneficial ownership, judgments, credit reports or scanned filings.
• Corporate insolvency notices cover sixteen markets — France, Germany, the UK, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, the US, the Netherlands, Denmark, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Latvia and Estonia — corporate only. Ireland is not one of them.
• 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.
• Beneficial ownership is real only for the UK, from the PSC register. Every other registry, Ireland included, has no beneficial-ownership data.
• Norway has register-change events only, from 14 Oct 2026 (no gazette).

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 SoloCheck cost?
As published on solocheck.ie (pricing page and FAQ, read 16 September 2026): free brief reports and free searching on every Irish company, then per-report prices with no set-up fee, no subscription and no annual fee — Basic Company Report €3, Directors Report €4, any document filed in the CRO €6, a five-in-one Credit Report €9 (credit score, bad-debt judgments, directors history, mortgages and charges, and company owners), Irish Business Report €3; for the UK, Full UK Company Report €3, any UK document €8, Full UK Directors Report €8.

Does Prometiam sell the scanned CRO document, like SoloCheck?
No, for any country. Prometiam returns structured fields only and never the filed document itself. SoloCheck sells any document filed in the CRO since 1998, from €6, in PDF.

Does Prometiam offer Irish credit reports or judgment history, like SoloCheck?
No. Prometiam has no credit scores, credit reports or judgment records, for any country. SoloCheck's €9 Credit Report bundles a credit score, a bad-debt judgments report, a directors history report, a mortgages and charges report and a company owners report into one purchase.

Does SoloCheck have an API?
Not on its own product pages. SoloCheck is a per-report web shop; its footer lists a separate "API" brand pointing to api.vision-net.ie, part of its sister service Vision-net, which is a distinct product from SoloCheck's own reports. Prometiam is API-only: every field is returned as JSON from one key.

Can I use Prometiam for the UK and the other countries, and SoloCheck for Irish documents?
Yes — a common split. Prometiam's single key covers company data for every live country including UK officers and PSC beneficial ownership; SoloCheck stays the Irish-specific source for the scanned document, the credit report or the judgment search Prometiam does not carry.

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