Head to head · Bank accounts · October 2026 research run

Belvo vs Yapily

Belvo scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Yapily's 57.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Yapily leads on schema & documentation, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do bank accounts.

Which one, for what

Belvo B

Good for Lenders and fintechs that need consented bank data in Brazil, employment or tax records in Mexico, or Pix and direct debit collection, and can sign a contract.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 84 against 55
  • Security & auth, 57 against 37
  • Payments & pricing, 20 against 10

Watch for

Production keys follow a sales meeting, a certification call with a Belvo engineer and a paid plan from 1,000 USD a month

Yapily C

Good for UK and EEA data and payments from one API, for builders who want docs an agent can read in one fetch.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 88 against 80
  • Maintenance & community, 67 against 30
  • Transparency & trust, 71 against 64

Watch for

No public pricing; live access starts with a sales form

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBelvoYapilyEdge
Reliability16%208455Belvo +29
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28088Yapily +8
Agent ergonomics13%16.28077Belvo +3
Security & auth14%17.55737Belvo +20
Payments & pricing10%12.52010Belvo +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83067Yapily +37
Transparency & trust7%8.86471Yapily +7
Negative events≤1500
Total63.5 · B57.6 · C

Facts side by side

FactBelvoYapily
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorBelvoYapily
Hosted endpointhttps://api.belvo.comhttps://api.yapily.com
TransportsHTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Belvo's General Conditions of Service Usage. The belvo npm package (0.28.0) is MITMIT (SDKs)
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-08-102025-06-30
Terms last updated2025-01-102022-12-05
Privacy policy last updated2021-02-22no date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity1.1k npm/wk, 240 PyPI/wk14 stars, 50 npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone2.5/5 (2)

Verdicts

Belvo

Belvo publishes a 146-operation OpenAPI file, an llms.txt with a Markdown twin of each docs page, and list endpoints with field selection and pages of up to 1,000. Production access needs a sales meeting, a certification call and a paid plan from 1,000 USD a month, and no changelog or maintained SDK was found.

Yapily

llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a no-auth docs MCP server and an OpenAPI file. No public pricing; live access starts with a sales form.

Before you call either

Belvo

  1. Send HTTP Basic with secretId as username and secretPassword as password to https://sandbox.belvo.com, and switch to https://api.belvo.com only with production keys
  2. Create links through the Hosted Widget with a token from POST /api/token/, which expires after 10 minutes
  3. Read stored data with GET list calls. Each POST retrieval in Brazil counts against monthly Open Finance limits, such as 8 a month per CPF for owners and accounts
  4. Retry 50x responses up to five times from a 3 second base with a factor of two, and don't retry 40x apart from too_many_sessions
  5. Send Belvo-Idempotency-Key with a UUID when creating a payment intent, and X-Belvo-Request-Mode: async on link deletion to avoid the limit of 5 deletions a minute

Yapily

  1. Read llms-full.txt once and cache it; it's the whole documentation in one fetch
  2. Add the Modelo sandbox in the Console before your first account-auth-request, or institutions comes back empty
  3. Treat a 403 on a data call as a revoked or expired consent and send the user back through authorisation
  4. Check the error source field first; USER and INSTITUTION failures won't clear on retry
  5. In the UK, call extend-consent with lastConfirmedAt before the reconfirmBy date, or the consent lapses at 90 days

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Belvo or Yapily?

Belvo scores 63.5 (B) on agent readiness against Yapily's 57.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Yapily leads on schema & documentation, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

Do Belvo and Yapily need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Belvo and Yapily without installing anything?

Yes. Belvo has a hosted endpoint at https://api.belvo.com and Yapily at https://api.yapily.com.

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