Comparison · Sumsub

Sumsub alternative

These are only partly comparable, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. Sumsub is a full identity and AML platform; Prometiam is a company-registry data API.

The honest framing

Sumsub sells a verification decision about a specific applicant. You create an applicant, submit it, and get back a pass or fail with risk flags — across identity documents, biometric liveness, business verification, AML screening and transaction monitoring. It is a compliance platform with an operational workflow around it.

Prometiam sells queryable access to registry data. You search companies by name or identifier, fetch officers and appointment history, page through corporate events, screen a name against sanctions lists (beta), and pull insolvency notices. There is no applicant, no workflow, no decision — just the data, which you use however you like.

The overlap is narrow: both can answer "does this business exist and who controls it". Everything else is a different job.

The structural difference that matters most

Reading Sumsub's own developer documentation, business verification is delivered as an applicant-centric workflow: create an applicant for the company, then request a check. There is no documented standalone company-lookup endpoint and no bulk registry search — you cannot freely query the underlying corporate data by name, identifier or jurisdiction the way you would a data API.

That is not a flaw; it is a different product shape, and it suits onboarding well. But it means Sumsub cannot answer questions like "which of my 4,000 counterparties changed director this month" or "list every company incorporated in Madrid last week", because those are not verification decisions about an applicant.

Where Sumsub is genuinely stronger

Substantially stronger, and in areas Prometiam does not enter at all:

• Individual identity verification — document checks, biometric liveness, deepfake detection, NFC. Prometiam has no consumer-identity capability whatsoever.
• AML screening breadth — tens of thousands of sources across 240+ countries and territories, including OFAC, UN, HMT, EU and DFAT lists, plus PEP databases and adverse media. Our screening is six sanctions lists plus 11 US export-control lists (beta); theirs is a far larger surface, and it includes the PEP and adverse-media coverage we do not sell.
• Transaction monitoring and Travel Rule, including on-chain risk through crypto-analytics integrations. Entirely outside our scope.
• Global registry reach — tiered corporate-registry coverage spanning the UK and Ireland, most of Europe and North America, and much of Latin America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. We cover a focused set of countries.
• Manual document review — human analysts reviewing corporate documents from many jurisdictions, which is the fallback precisely where no machine-readable registry exists.
• Case management and workflow — configurable verification levels, rule engine, reviewer queues. We are an API; there is no console for your compliance team.

Where Prometiam is stronger

• Queryable data, not decisions. Search, list, paginate, join. Build your own logic on top instead of consuming a pass/fail.
• Corporate-event history. A normalised timeline of appointments, capital changes, mergers and dissolutions — not just current state.
• Published pricing for the thing you want. Sumsub publishes per-verification prices for its identity tiers, but business verification sits in the custom Enterprise tier, so KYB pricing is not public. Ours is: €9.99 / €29.99 / €99.99.
• Depth in each registry — officers with appointment history, UK PSC beneficial owners, and corporate insolvency across sixteen markets.
• No applicant model. You do not have to be onboarding someone to look them up, which matters for credit, prospecting and portfolio monitoring.

At a glance

Pricing, precisely

Sumsub publishes per-verification pricing for its identity tiers, with monthly minimums, and bills only for successful verifications. Business verification, however, is listed under the custom Enterprise tier, so there is no public per-KYB-check price to compare against. We are not going to estimate one from the identity numbers, because that would be guessing.

Prometiam's pricing is public in full: a 14-day trial at 500 credits (card required), then Starter €9.99 at 1,000 credits, Professional €29.99 at 10,000 with sanctions screening (beta) included, Scale €99.99 at 50,000, and custom Enterprise. Failed requests are not billed.

Which to choose

Choose Sumsub if you are onboarding customers and need identity verification, a full AML stack with PEP and adverse media, transaction monitoring, or a compliance console your team works in. If you must verify individuals, we are not a substitute at any price.

Choose Prometiam if you need the registry data itself — search, officers, ownership, events, insolvency — from the European registries Prometiam covers, where each one provides it, at a price you can see, with no applicant model in the way.

Use both if you run regulated onboarding in Europe: Sumsub for identity and the AML workflow, Prometiam for deep, queryable registry data and event monitoring on the same counterparties afterwards.

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

Is Prometiam a replacement for Sumsub?
No, and we would not claim so. Sumsub does identity verification, PEP and adverse-media screening, transaction monitoring and case management. We do none of those.

Can I query companies freely with Sumsub's KYB?
Not according to their documentation. Business verification runs through an applicant you create and then submit for checking; there is no documented bulk company search or company-by-identifier data endpoint.

What does Sumsub's KYB cost?
Not published. Their per-verification prices cover the identity tiers; business verification sits in the custom Enterprise tier.

Does Prometiam do PEP screening?
Only as a beta, and only for Spain, with no relatives or close associates. For real PEP coverage Sumsub is far stronger.

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