An honest comparison for teams weighing Sumsub against Prometiam. These are only partly comparable. Sumsub sells a verification decision about a specific applicant — identity documents, biometric liveness, business verification, AML screening and transaction monitoring, wrapped in a compliance workflow. Prometiam sells queryable access to European company-registry data: search, officers, appointment history, corporate events, insolvency and sanctions screening.
Sumsub business verification runs through an applicant you create and then submit for checking. There is no documented standalone company-lookup endpoint and no bulk registry search, so you cannot freely query the underlying corporate data by name, identifier or jurisdiction. That suits onboarding well, but it cannot answer portfolio questions such as which counterparties changed director this month.
Individual identity verification with liveness and deepfake detection, which Prometiam does not do at all. AML screening across tens of thousands of sources in 240+ countries including PEP and adverse media. Transaction monitoring and Travel Rule. Far broader global registry reach. Human review of corporate documents where no machine-readable registry exists. Case management and workflow tooling.
Queryable data rather than pass/fail decisions. Corporate-event history as a normalised timeline. Published pricing for KYB — Sumsub places business verification in its custom Enterprise tier, so no public per-check price exists. Depth across six registries with officers, UK PSC ownership and insolvency in nine markets.
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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 | Sumsub | |
|---|---|---|
| Product shape | Queryable registry-data API | Applicant verification platform |
| Bulk company search | Yes | Not documented |
| Identity verification | No | Yes — documents, liveness, NFC |
| Registry coverage | 6 countries, in depth | Tiered, spanning many regions |
| Sanctions | 5 lists + 11 export-control, 44K+ active | Far broader, incl. PEP and adverse media |
| PEP / adverse media | PEP beta, Spain only; no adverse media | Yes, both |
| Corporate-event history | Yes | Not as a data product |
| Transaction monitoring | No | Yes |
| KYB pricing | Public — €0 to €99.99/mo | Not published (Enterprise tier) |
| Free tier | 1,000 calls/month, 14-day trial | Trial — 14 days or 50 checks |