Comparison · Vision-net

Vision-net alternative: a multi-country registry API with company-level Ireland coverage

Vision-net is Ireland's CRO-document and credit-report portal, with director searches, judgments and scanned filings priced per report. Prometiam adds the same registry shape for the UK and every other registry it covers under one key — but for Ireland it stops at company-level facts, with no officers, credit reports or judgments yet.

Vision-net figures read from vision-net.ie on 15 September 2026

TL;DR

Vision-net is Ireland's CRO-document and credit-report portal: company and director searches, scanned filed documents, judgments and credit reports, billed per report from an account you top up (its FAQ states €2.10 per company report, €2.10 per scanned document, opening balance from €250 plus VAT). 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, judgments, credit reports or scanned filings. Prometiam's addition is breadth and price transparency: the same shape for every other registry the API covers under one key, published prices and a 14-day free trial, webhook monitoring for Ireland, and sanctions screening in beta. For an Ireland-only, document-level need, Vision-net is the right tool.

At a glance

Vision-net column: vision-net.ie (homepage, FAQ, /register, /real-time, /Business-Barometer), read 15 September 2026; prices exclude VAT where Vision-net states so. Prometiam column: /pricing.

Who should pick Vision-net

• You need the scanned document itself. Vision-net sells access to "scanned documents filed by that company" for €2.10 each, on top of €2.10 for the company report. Prometiam returns structured fields only and never the filed document.
• You need an Irish credit report or a judgment search. Vision-net's Credit Reports and "Top Judgments On Companies" are core products; Prometiam has neither, for any country.
• You want the filing the day it lands. Vision-net markets CRO filing access "hours ahead" of bulk sources; Prometiam's Irish data refreshes daily.
• You track Irish insolvencies and liquidations. Vision-net's free Business Barometer email follows them weekly; Prometiam's insolvency index covers sixteen other markets and does not include Ireland.

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 want to read the price before you sign up: a free trial of 500 credits over 14 days, then fixed monthly prices — no account balance to top up and no quote to request.
• You want to watch a company by webhook, not read a weekly email. POST /monitor sends a signed alert on status changes and corporate events for ongoing counterparty monitoring in Ireland, Spain and Poland; the Ireland company data API guide shows how to watch an Irish company.
• You screen names against sanctions and export-control lists in the same API call (beta) — outside Vision-net's published product list.

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?). 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, Estonia and Singapore — 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 Vision-net cost?
As published on vision-net.ie (FAQ, read 15 September 2026): no setup cost, then €2.10 per company report and €2.10 per scanned document, debited from an account with an opening balance from €250 plus VAT (the minimum top-up is also €250 plus VAT). Vision-net's registration page also mentions company-wide annual usage plans; their price is on request.

Does Prometiam cover Irish directors or beneficial owners like Vision-net?
No. Prometiam's Irish data, from the CRO, is company-level: status, registered address, Eircode, NACE code, and incorporation and dissolution dates. Irish officers and beneficial ownership are not served. Vision-net's company and director searches, and its identity-verification product, cover ground Prometiam does not.

Does Prometiam sell judgments or credit reports for Ireland?
No, for any country. Prometiam has no judgments product and no credit reports. Vision-net publishes both, for Ireland and the UK.

Does Prometiam track Irish insolvencies like Vision-net's Business Barometer?
No. Prometiam's insolvency index covers sixteen markets — France, Germany, the UK, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, the US, the Netherlands, Denmark, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Latvia, Estonia and Singapore — corporate only, and Ireland is not one of them. Vision-net's free weekly Business Barometer email covers Irish insolvencies, liquidators and new business start-ups.

Can I use Prometiam for the UK and Vision-net for Ireland?
Yes — a common split. Prometiam's UK data includes PSC beneficial ownership and officers behind the same key used for every other registry; Vision-net stays the deeper Irish-specific source for documents, judgments and credit reports.

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