What is the difference between Verifex and Prometiam?

Verifex is screening-first: sanctions, PEP, watchlist, and debarment screening with an audit-grade evidence trail, sourcing company data from the GLEIF LEI registry. Prometiam is registry-depth-first: it draws on official national registries (Spain BORME, France BODACC, UK Companies House, Norway Brønnøysundregistrene, plus Ireland and Poland at company level) with directors, UK PSC beneficial owners, and corporate-event timelines. Both screen sanctions; only Verifex offers PEP.

Does Prometiam offer PEP screening like Verifex?

Only in part. Prometiam offers PEP screening in beta for Spain only, derived from Wikidata occupation data, with no relatives or close associates — so it does not on its own satisfy a FATF PEP obligation. It has no adverse-media data. Verifex is genuinely stronger here. If full PEP screening is a hard requirement, Verifex or a dedicated PEP provider is the better fit.

How does pricing compare?

Both publish self-serve pricing. Verifex runs in USD from a free 50-screen plan to $49 (Starter), $99 (Growth), $249 (Pro). Prometiam runs in EUR: Free (1,000 calls/mo), Starter €9.99, Professional €29.99 with full sanctions, Scale €99.99. The right pick depends on whether you are paying primarily for screening (Verifex) or for registry data plus screening (Prometiam).

Can Prometiam replace Verifex for KYB onboarding?

For EU + UK counterparties where you need real registry verification plus sanctions screening, yes — /companies/search, /companies/{id}, and /sanctions/screen cover that leg. But Prometiam’s PEP screening is beta and Spain-only with no relatives or close associates, it has no adverse-media data, and it does not provide the decision-replay evidence workflow Verifex is built around. Many teams run both.

Is Prometiam GDPR-compliant?

Yes. Data is hosted in the EU (Frankfurt). Officer data is processed under GDPR Article 6(1)(c) (legal obligation of public registries) and Article 6(1)(f) (legitimate interest in fraud prevention).

Verifex Alternative

An honest comparison for teams weighing Verifex against Prometiam for KYB, company data, and sanctions screening. Verifex is a screening-first compliance API — the right choice if your priority is sanctions plus PEP screening with a defensible audit trail ("Evidence Capsule", decision replay, decision hashes), transparent per-screen pricing from $49/month, and continuous monitoring. Prometiam is a registry-depth API scoped to EU + UK with official national-registry data, public EUR pricing, and a free tier.

The core difference

Verifex sources its company/KYB records from the GLEIF LEI registry and screens them against sanctions, PEP, watchlist, and debarment lists — it explicitly does not pull from each country's official corporate registry. Prometiam draws on the official registries directly: Spain (BORME), France (BODACC), the UK (Companies House), and Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene / Enhetsregisteret), plus Ireland (CRO) and Poland (KRS) at company level. If you need real registry depth — directors, officers, UK PSC beneficial owners, corporate-event timelines — Prometiam is built for that. If you need full PEP screening beyond Spain, or audit-grade decision defensibility, Verifex is genuinely stronger.

What Prometiam covers

One schema over official registries for 6 countries, daily updates, corporate-event data, and sanctions plus US export-control screening across six sources (EU, UN, OFAC, UK OFSI, French gels, and the US Consolidated Screening List) covering 44,000-plus active entities. Also VIES VAT validation and GLEIF LEI lookup. Honest scope: PEP screening is beta and Spain-only (no relatives or close associates, so not sufficient on its own for FATF), and there is no adverse-media data — where Verifex leads.

Honest trade-offs

Prometiam: official EU + UK registry depth (6 countries), UK PSC beneficial owners, corporate-event timelines, public EUR pricing (€0 / €9.99 / €29.99 / custom), free tier, EU residency (Frankfurt). PEP screening beta, Spain only; no adverse-media.
Verifex: PEP screening, adverse-media / news screening, an audit "Evidence Capsule" with decision replay and hashes, continuous monitoring, per-screen USD pricing from $49/mo. Company data is GLEIF/LEI-based, not official national registries.

Beyond the registry record

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

Verifex vs Prometiam — at a glance

	Prometiam	Verifex
Primary focus	EU + UK registry data + sanctions	Sanctions + PEP screening assurance
Company data source	Official national registries (BORME, BODACC, Companies House, Brønnøysundregistrene, CRO, KRS)	GLEIF LEI registry
Directors / officers	Yes (ES, FR, GB)	Ownership/director context via GLEIF
Beneficial owners	UK PSC (7.56M, real)	UBO traversal via GLEIF + OFAC 50% rule
Corporate-event timelines	Yes (ES + FR; UK pending)	No
Sanctions screening	6 sources, 44,000+ entities (EU/UN/OFAC/OFSI/FR gels/US CSL)	OFAC / UN / UK / EU / BIS + debarment
PEP screening	No	Yes
Adverse-media / news	No	Yes (news screening)
Audit / decision replay	Basic response records	Evidence Capsule, decision hash, replay
Pricing	Public EUR — €0 / €9.99 / €29.99 / €99.99 / custom	Public USD — $0 / $49 / $99 / $249 / custom
Free tier	1,000 calls/month, no card	50 screens/month (OFAC + UN only)
EU data residency	Default (Frankfurt)	Not stated

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Verifex and Prometiam?: Verifex is screening-first: sanctions, PEP, watchlist, and debarment screening with an audit-grade evidence trail, sourcing company data from the GLEIF LEI registry. Prometiam is registry-depth-first: it draws on official national registries (Spain BORME, France BODACC, UK Companies House, Norway Brønnøysundregistrene, plus Ireland and Poland at company level) with directors, UK PSC beneficial owners, and corporate-event timelines. Both screen sanctions; only Verifex offers PEP.
Does Prometiam offer PEP screening like Verifex?: Only in part. Prometiam offers PEP screening in beta for Spain only, derived from Wikidata occupation data, with no relatives or close associates — so it does not on its own satisfy a FATF PEP obligation. It has no adverse-media data. Verifex is genuinely stronger here. If full PEP screening is a hard requirement, Verifex or a dedicated PEP provider is the better fit.
Does Verifex pull official company-registry data?: No. Verifex references the GLEIF LEI registry for company/KYB records and states it does not replace a full corporate registry filing. Prometiam draws on the official registries directly, so it returns registry-grade directors, officers, UK PSC beneficial owners, and corporate events that GLEIF/LEI data alone does not contain.
How does pricing compare?: Both publish self-serve pricing. Verifex runs in USD from a free 50-screen plan to $49 (Starter), $99 (Growth), $249 (Pro). Prometiam runs in EUR: Free (1,000 calls/mo), Starter €9.99, Professional €29.99 with full sanctions, Scale €99.99. The right pick depends on whether you are paying primarily for screening (Verifex) or for registry data plus screening (Prometiam).
Can Prometiam replace Verifex for KYB onboarding?: For EU + UK counterparties where you need real registry verification plus sanctions screening, yes — /companies/search, /companies/{id}, and /sanctions/screen cover that leg. But Prometiam’s PEP screening is beta and Spain-only with no relatives or close associates, it has no adverse-media data, and it does not provide the decision-replay evidence workflow Verifex is built around. Many teams run both.
Is Prometiam GDPR-compliant?: Yes. Data is hosted in the EU (Frankfurt). Officer data is processed under GDPR Article 6(1)(c) (legal obligation of public registries) and Article 6(1)(f) (legitimate interest in fraud prevention).