# Everee vs Finch

> Finch scores 71.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Everee's 55.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do payroll employees. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Finch scores 71.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Everee's 55.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do payroll employees.

- Everee: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #519 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/everee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/everee.json
- Finch: grade BB, 71.6/100, rank #104 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/finch.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/finch.json

## Which one, for what

### Everee (C)

Good for: A staffing, delivery or vertical software platform, or a single employer, that pushes hours and flat payments for W-2 and 1099 workers and lets admins approve in Everee's portal.

Watch for: No preview or approval endpoint was found. Payments are approved by a payroll admin in the Everee portal, or automatically if Everee sets that up.

### Finch (BB)

Good for: An application that needs to read employees, pay runs and pay statements from whatever payroll or HR system an employer already uses, or to write benefit deductions back.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 67
- Agent ergonomics, 71 against 56
- Security & auth, 66 against 43
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 84 against 46
- Transparency & trust, 74 against 56

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: Finch cannot create, preview or approve a payroll. Writes are limited to deductions and contributions, on Pro and Premier plans


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Everee | Finch | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 87 | 84 | Everee +3 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 87 | Finch +20 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 71 | Finch +15 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 66 | Finch +23 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 30 | Finch +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 84 | Finch +38 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 74 | Finch +18 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **71.6 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Everee | Finch |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Everee, Inc. | Profound Platform Inc. (dba Finch) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.everee.com` | `https://api.tryfinch.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Everee's Terms and Conditions and Payroll & Payment Service Terms. No open-source client or SDK was found | Proprietary service under Finch's Master Service Agreement. The SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 2 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-18 | 2026-08-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-01-03 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 16k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk |

## Verdicts

**Everee.** Everee's API tokens are created in the admin portal of each company instance, and payments wait for a payroll admin's approval unless auto-approval is arranged. The API has no preview or approval endpoint, no single OpenAPI file, no SDK and no changelog, and a company instance starts with a sales call.

**Finch.** Graded on the REST API. An employer grants each connection named product permissions, and limits, error codes and a 99.9 per cent uptime SLA are published. Finch reads payroll and writes deductions but cannot run a payroll. Access tokens never expire, no idempotency keys were found, and writes and most providers need a sales-led plan.

## Before you call either

### Everee

1. Send two headers on every call, `authorization: basic <token>` and `x-everee-tenant-id`. Base64-encode a token that starts with `sk_` first.
2. Derive each payable's `externalId` from stable data, never a timestamp or UUID, so a retried create is rejected instead of paying twice.
3. For contractors, call POST `/integration/v1/payables/payment-request` after all payable items are sent and before admins approve. Without it contractors aren't paid.
4. Send hourly wages through the Timesheets API, not Payables, and assign `workLocationId` so tax is worked out for the right jurisdiction.
5. Don't expect the API to move money alone. Tell the user a payroll admin must approve in the portal unless auto-approval is enabled, and read Everee's terms on automated access first.

### Finch

1. Send `Finch-API-Version: 2020-09-17` and `Authorization: Bearer <access_token>` on every request. A request without the version header fails with 400
2. Call GET /introspect first to see the connection's products, status and whether it is automated or assisted before choosing endpoints
3. Treat a 202 response as data not ready, not as data. Retry with backoff, and expect up to 14 days for an assisted connection's first sync
4. Stay under 20 requests a minute on organisation endpoints and 12 on pay endpoints across all tokens. Batch IDs, and on 429 wait 60 seconds
5. After a deduction write, poll the job by `job_id` until it completes before enrolling individuals. Enrolment overwrites an existing enrolment
6. Start the MCP server with `--code-allow-http-gets` or a token without the benefits product when only reads are intended

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Everee or Finch?

Finch scores 71.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Everee's 55.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Do Everee and Finch need an API key?

Everee needs an API key. Finch uses an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Everee and Finch without installing anything?

Yes. Everee has a hosted endpoint at https://api.everee.com and Finch at https://api.tryfinch.com.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/everee-vs-finch.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/everee-vs-finch.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "everee", "b": "finch"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare everee finch`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/everee.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/finch.json

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