Comparison · Verifex

Verifex Alternative

An honest comparison for teams weighing Verifex against Prometiam for KYB, multi-country company data, and sanctions screening. Two different centers of gravity — screening assurance vs registry depth.

TL;DR

Verifex is a screening-first API — strong if your priority is sanctions and PEP screening with an audit-grade evidence trail (decision replay, decision hashes, "Evidence Capsule"), continuous monitoring, and per-screen USD pricing. Its company/KYB records come from the GLEIF LEI registry, not each country's official corporate registry. If you need real multi-country registry depth across all live countries — official directors and officers, UK PSC beneficial owners, corporate-event timelines — plus sanctions and US export-control screening (beta) in the same REST API, Prometiam is built for that, with public EUR pricing and a 14-day free trial. The honest split: Verifex leads on PEP and audit defensibility; Prometiam leads on registry data.

Where each one is genuinely stronger

This is not a page that pretends one tool wins everything. They optimize for different jobs.

Verifex is stronger when:

• You need full PEP screening including relatives and close associates, or coverage beyond Spain — Prometiam’s PEP data is beta and Spain-only.
• You need adverse-media / news screening alongside sanctions.
• Your compliance team needs to test, replay, explain, and defend each screening decision with a reproducible evidence record and decision hash.
• You want screening-only pricing measured per screen, and don't need underlying registry data.

Prometiam is stronger when:

• You need official national-registry data — Spain (BORME), France (BODACC), UK (Companies House), Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene), plus Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS), Finland (PRH/YTJ), Sweden (Bolagsverket), Belgium (KBO/BCE), Denmark (CVR), Estonia (e-Business Register), Slovakia (RPO), Switzerland (Zefix), Latvia (Register of Enterprises), Cyprus (DRCOR), Romania (ONRC), Croatia (Sudski registar) and the United States at company level.
• You need directors, officers, and UK PSC beneficial owners that GLEIF/LEI data alone does not contain.
• You need corporate-event timelines (ES, FR and GB, plus register-change events for IE, PL and NO (from 14 Oct 2026), and FI, SE, BE, HR, DK, EE, SK, CH, LV, CY, RO, LT, CA, AU, JP, IL, SG, CO, TW, BR, CZ and US), insolvency signals, and director-network analysis.
• You want registry verification and sanctions in one call, with a 14-day free trial and public EUR pricing.

Prometiam in one paragraph

Prometiam is a REST API that unifies official multi-country company-registry data — Spain (BORME), France (BODACC), and the United Kingdom (Companies House, including PSC beneficial owners) — under one schema, with daily updates (every working day for Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Latvia, Lithuania, Canada, Japan, Israel, Taiwan, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands; weekly for Sweden, Australia, Ukraine and the United States; monthly for Cyprus, Romania, Singapore, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Serbia, Ecuador and Chile), sanctions and US export-control screening (beta) across seven sources (EU, UN, OFAC, UK, Australia (DFAT), French gels, and the US Consolidated Screening List / BIS Entity List), corporate-event monitoring, VIES VAT validation, and GLEIF LEI lookup, plus Norway (Brønnøysundregistrene) with companies and directors, and Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS), Finland (PRH/YTJ), Sweden (Bolagsverket), Belgium (KBO/BCE), Denmark (CVR), Estonia (e-Business Register), Slovakia (RPO), Switzerland (Zefix), Latvia (Register of Enterprises), Cyprus (DRCOR), Romania (ONRC), Croatia (Sudski registar) and the United States at company level. Pricing is public from €9.99/month, 14-day free trial available, card required, nothing charged for 14 days. EU data residency in Frankfurt by default. PEP screening is included in beta for Spain only (no relatives or close associates); adverse-media data is not included.

Verifex vs Prometiam — at a glance

Company data: GLEIF/LEI vs official registries

The most important distinction is the data source. Verifex builds its KYB records on the GLEIF LEI registry and is explicit that it "does not replace a full corporate registry filing." GLEIF is excellent for a stable global identifier and high-level ownership context, but it only covers entities that have obtained an LEI — a fraction of all companies — and it does not carry the full detail of a national registry.

Prometiam draws on the official registries directly: BORME (Spain), BODACC (France), Companies House (UK), and Brønnøysundregistrene (Norway), with Ireland (CRO), Poland (KRS), Finland (PRH/YTJ), Sweden (Bolagsverket), Belgium (KBO/BCE), Denmark (CVR), Estonia (e-Business Register), Slovakia (RPO), Switzerland (Zefix), Latvia (Register of Enterprises), Cyprus (DRCOR), Romania (ONRC), Croatia (Sudski registar) and the United States at company level. That means registry-grade company records, directors and officers (ES/FR/GB/NO/PL), real UK PSC beneficial owners, and corporate-event history — data that GLEIF/LEI alone cannot provide. If your KYB requires the actual registry footprint of an EU or UK counterparty, this is the difference that matters.

Sanctions screening

Both products screen sanctions, and both publish match confidence. Prometiam screens seven sources (in beta) — EU consolidated, UN, OFAC, UK, Australia (DFAT), French gels, and the US Consolidated Screening List (including the BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, and ITAR) — with trigram fuzzy matching, confidence scores, daily refresh, and watchlist webhooks (from Starter). Full screening is included on the Professional tier (€29.99/mo) and above.

Verifex screens OFAC, UN, UK, EU, and BIS plus debarment sources, and adds full PEP coverage and news screening beyond Prometiam’s beta, Spain-only PEP set. Its differentiator is the assurance layer around each result — the recorded, replayable, hash-addressable decision. If your regulator or auditor wants to see exactly what was screened and why, that workflow is a real advantage.

Pricing

Both publish self-serve pricing, which is refreshing on both sides. They are quoted in different currencies and priced against different units — Verifex per screen, Prometiam per API call across registry and screening endpoints — so compare against your actual workload rather than headline numbers.

Verifex (USD, per public pricing): Free ($0, 50 screens/mo, OFAC + UN only), Growth ($99, 10,000 screens), Pro ($249, 50,000 screens), Starter ($49, 2,500 screens), Enterprise (custom).

Prometiam (EUR):

• Starter trial — 14 days, 500 credits, card required, nothing charged for 14 days.
• Starter — €9.99/mo, 1,000 credits/month.
• Professional — €29.99/mo, 10,000 credits/month, full sanctions screening (beta) included.
• Scale — €99.99/mo, 50,000 credits/month.
• Enterprise — custom, for high-volume or custom SLA needs.

If you are paying primarily to screen names and need PEP, Verifex's per-screen model is a clean fit. If you are paying to pull registry data on multi-country companies and screen sanctions in the same integration, Prometiam covers more of the job per euro.

API and integration

Both are API-first and developer-friendly. Verifex exposes a single screening POST with SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go, and Rust, structured evidence-backed JSON, and a no-code dashboard. Prometiam is one bearer token, one base URL, structured JSON, cursor pagination, and predictable rate limits per tier — curl works in under 60 seconds after signup, and you can run requests directly from /risk-api/docs.

The integration shape differs because the jobs differ: Verifex returns a screening decision; Prometiam returns registry records, events, and screening across several endpoints (/companies/search, /companies/{id}, /company-events/timeline, /sanctions/screen, /vat, /lei).

Who should choose Verifex

Pick Verifex if:

• You need PEP screening and/or adverse-media / news screening in the same tool
• Auditability is the priority — you need to replay, explain, and defend each screening decision with a recorded evidence trail and decision hash
• Your company-data needs are satisfied by GLEIF/LEI and high-level ownership context
• You want continuous monitoring and per-screen pricing measured against screening volume
• Your scope is global screening rather than deep multi-country registry data

Who should choose Prometiam

Pick Prometiam if:

• You need official multi-country registry data — directors, officers, UK PSC beneficial owners, corporate events — not just an LEI record
• Your counterparties sit on a European registry Prometiam covers
• You want registry verification and sanctions / US export-control screening behind one API
• Predictable, public EUR pricing from €9.99/month and a 14-day free trial match how you budget
• You're a fintech, lender, factoring company, supplier-onboarding platform, or compliance-tech vendor where registry depth and integration speed both matter — and you can source PEP separately if you need it

Using them together

These tools are complementary more than competitive. A common pattern: use Prometiam to verify the multi-country company against its official registry and pull directors, PSC beneficial owners, and corporate events, then run the resolved names through Verifex for PEP and audit-grade sanctions screening. You get registry depth from one and PEP + decision defensibility from the other. If you'd rather consolidate to one vendor, choose based on whether registry data or PEP/audit is the harder requirement for your use case.

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

What is the difference between Verifex and Prometiam?
Verifex is screening-first (sanctions + PEP + audit evidence) with company data from GLEIF/LEI. Prometiam is registry-depth-first, drawing on official national registries with directors, UK PSC beneficial owners, and corporate events. Both screen sanctions; only Verifex offers PEP.

Does Prometiam offer PEP screening like Verifex?
Only in part. Prometiam’s PEP screening is beta and 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.

Does Verifex pull official company-registry data?
No. Verifex references the GLEIF LEI registry and states it does not replace a full corporate registry filing. Prometiam draws on the official registries directly.

How does pricing compare?
Both publish self-serve pricing. Verifex runs in USD ($0 / $49 / $99 / $249 / custom, per screen). Prometiam runs in EUR (€9.99 / €29.99 / €99.99 / custom, per API call across registry and screening endpoints).

Can Prometiam replace Verifex for KYB onboarding?
For multi-country registry verification plus sanctions, yes. But Prometiam's PEP screening is beta and Spain-only, it has no adverse-media, and it does not provide Verifex's decision-replay evidence workflow. 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) and 6(1)(f).

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