What is Plaid?
Plaid provides a set of APIs (Auth, Transactions, Identity, Balance, Payment Initiation and others) that let fintech and consumer applications connect to end users' bank accounts, using a hosted 'Link' flow to handle bank authentication. It is widely used by apps such as budgeting tools, lenders and payment products that need bank-linking without integrating with thousands of banks individually.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, documentation, pricing.
Key capabilities
- Link: a hosted bank-authentication flow embedded in the client app.
- Data products: transactions, balances, identity and income verification.
- Payments: account-to-account payment initiation in supported regions.
Open banking connectivity, financial data aggregation, identity verification, and payment initiation.
Plaid fits fintech and consumer applications that need to verify accounts, pull transaction data or initiate payments from a user's bank without building and maintaining direct bank integrations themselves.
Plaid's coverage and available data products vary by country and bank, so integrators should confirm bank and feature coverage for their specific target market before committing to it as the sole connectivity layer.
Technical details
- Access
- See vendor
- Source model
- Other license
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- Pricing model
- Paid
- API
- Available
- Website
- plaid.com ↗
Official resources
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