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
| Category | Weight this run | Belvo | Yapily | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 84 | 55 | Belvo +29 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 80 | 88 | Yapily +8 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 80 | 77 | Belvo +3 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 57 | 37 | Belvo +20 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 20 | 10 | Belvo +10 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 30 | 67 | Yapily +37 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 64 | 71 | Yapily +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 63.5 · B | 57.6 · C |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Belvo | Yapily |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Belvo | Yapily |
| Hosted endpoint | https://api.belvo.com | https://api.yapily.com |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Belvo's General Conditions of Service Usage. The belvo npm package (0.28.0) is MIT | MIT (SDKs) |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-08-10 | 2025-06-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-01-10 | 2022-12-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-02-22 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.1k npm/wk, 240 PyPI/wk | 14 stars, 50 npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (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
- Send HTTP Basic with
secretIdas username andsecretPasswordas password to https://sandbox.belvo.com, and switch to https://api.belvo.com only with production keys - Create links through the Hosted Widget with a token from POST /api/token/, which expires after 10 minutes
- 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
- 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 - Send
Belvo-Idempotency-Keywith a UUID when creating a payment intent, andX-Belvo-Request-Mode: asyncon link deletion to avoid the limit of 5 deletions a minute
Yapily
- Read llms-full.txt once and cache it; it's the whole documentation in one fetch
- Add the Modelo sandbox in the Console before your first account-auth-request, or institutions comes back empty
- Treat a 403 on a data call as a revoked or expired consent and send the user back through authorisation
- Check the error source field first; USER and INSTITUTION failures won't clear on retry
- 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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