{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "gocardless-bank-account-data", "name": "GoCardless Bank Account Data", "vendor": "GoCardless", "vendorUrl": "https://gocardless.com/bank-account-data/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "banking-data", "summary": "The former Nordigen account information API, now sold by GoCardless.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gocardless-bank-account-data", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gocardless-bank-account-data.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gocardless-bank-account-data.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gocardless-bank-account-data.json", "repo": "https://github.com/nordigen/nordigen-python", "license": "MIT (client libraries, unmaintained)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "nordigen-node" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "nordigen" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "POST /api/v2/token/new/ with a secret_id and secret_key from the Bank Account Data portal returns a JWT pair, an access token good for 24 hours and a refresh token for 30 days. Send the access token as a Bearer header. End users authorise at their bank through a requisition link; there's no OAuth on the developer side.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No price list on gocardless.com. The pricing page covers Direct Debit only, and the Bank Account Data pages link to a contact form and the general GoCardless sign-up (https://gocardless.com/pricing/). The quickstart sends new users to a sandbox account at https://manage-sandbox.gocardless.com/sign-up, and the overview says new accounts start as non-verified, with verification on a paid plan (https://docs.gocardless.com/docs/bank-account-data). A Bank Account Data Service Terms PDF dated January 2026 is linked from the merchant terms (https://gocardless.com/legal/merchants/). The Nordigen-era free plan isn't mentioned anywhere on the current site.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 88, "npmWeekly": 28608, "pypiWeekly": 4262, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.gocardless.com/docs/bank-account-data", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.gocardless.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "bank.accounts", "bank.transactions", "bank.consent" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "eu", "uk", "closed-source", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2025-04-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 41.7, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 682, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 3, "payments": 10, "reliability": 44, "schema": 54, "security": 50, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "UK plus every PSD2 country, up to 24 months of history, one API shape for all of them. No public price and no confirmed free plan.", "bestFor": "Read-only account and transaction data across the UK and the EEA, for builders who don't need payments and can accept a contract.", "strengths": [ "UK plus every PSD2 country, up to 24 months of history, one API shape for all of them", "Rate limit headers on every response, per client and per account, with reset times", "Read-only by design, with access_scope and history limits per end user agreement", "Free sandbox bank SANDBOXFINANCE_SFIN0000", "Error codes listed by HTTP status with a summary and detail body" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price and no confirmed free plan", "Official SDKs unmaintained since April 2025, and no changelog", "No public OpenAPI file for this API; the portal's Swagger UI blocks crawlers", "The GoCardless status page has no Bank Account Data component and no incidents for it since February 2025", "Product service terms PDF returned 404 and no subprocessor list was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Cache the access token for its 24 hours and use /api/v2/token/refresh/ rather than minting a new pair each run", "Create the end user agreement before the requisition when you need other than 90 days of history or access", "Read the per-account rate limit headers; on 429 wait for the account reset time, since some banks allow 4 calls a day", "Poll /api/v2/accounts/{id}/ until status is READY before asking for transactions", "Call the REST endpoints directly; the Nordigen SDKs still install but get no fixes" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 41.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 3, "payments": 10, "reliability": 44, "schema": 54, "security": 50, "transparency": 30 }, "provenanceScore": 74 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2/token/new/ -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"secret_id\":\"'\"$GOCARDLESS_BAD_SECRET_ID\"'\",\"secret_key\":\"'\"$GOCARDLESS_BAD_SECRET_KEY\"'\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/bank.accounts", "tool": "https://letme.dev/gocardless-bank-account-data" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "GoCardless Ltd", "domain": "gocardless.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-04-14", "domainNote": "gocardless.com was registered in 1999, before the company was founded, so the domain was bought later.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://gocardless.com/legal/merchants/", "privacy": "https://gocardless.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://www.gocardless-status.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "GoCardless Ltd, company 07495895, Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7EN, FCA registration 597190. The client library licences name SIA Nordigen Solutions (Riga), the company GoCardless bought in 2022.", "The Bank Account Data Service Terms are a PDF on a Contentful CDN linked from the merchant terms; it returned 404 when we fetched it on 2026-09-30.", "gocardless.com/.well-known/security.txt returns a contact (vuln-disc@gocardless.com) and a policy link but no Expires field, and our fetch saw it rendered as HTML.", "bankaccountdata.gocardless.com disallows crawlers in robots.txt, so the portal, its sign-up page and its Swagger UI couldn't be checked.", "rdap.org returned 403; the registration date is from Verisign's RDAP server." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gocardless-bank-account-data.json", "live": { "slug": "gocardless-bank-account-data", "probe": { "target": "https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:22.92161584Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 80, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 99.63, "uptime30d": 99.95, "p50ms24h": 78, "p95ms24h": 128, "samples24h": 270, "samples30d": 1962, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 246, "ok": 245 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.gocardless-status.com", "indicator": "minor", "summary": "Partial System Degradation", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:57:57.019158864Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "nordigen-node", "version": "1.4.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:13:25.110152296Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "nordigen", "version": "1.4.2", "released": "2025-04-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:13:29.22263156Z" } ], "githubStars": 88, "npmWeekly": 28236, "pypiWeekly": 5119, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://gocardless.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:36.518290063Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.gocardless.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:27.603811885Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "gocardless.com", "registered": "1999-04-14", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/gocardless.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:59.501357749Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://gocardless.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:42.785501701Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:42.785501701Z", "fingerprint": "1ed3c384fd22" }, { "url": "https://gocardless.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:44.935927715Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3971f898cf20" }, { "url": "https://gocardless.com/legal/merchants/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:40.685218109Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2114da0a1a71" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:57:57.019158864Z" } }, "answer": "MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against GoCardless Bank Account Data's 41.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "mx", "name": "MX Platform API", "vendor": "MX Technologies, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.mx.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "banking-data", "summary": "MX Technologies' Platform API connects US and Canadian bank accounts for account aggregation, balance checks, account and owner verification and up to 24 months of categorised transactions, through REST endpoints or the embedded Connect Widget.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mx", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mx.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mx.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mx.json", "repo": "https://github.com/mxenabled/openapi", "license": "Proprietary service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI files on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.mx.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "mx-platform-node" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mx-platform-python" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mxenabled/web-widget-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve for development, MX approval for production. Every request sends Basic auth of `client_id:api_key` from the Client Dashboard, plus `Accept-Version`. Development and production keys are separate, and a rotated key stays valid for 30 days. All calling IP addresses must be allowlisted in the dashboard, and MX reviews addresses outside the US. Mutual TLS is optional. Four processor endpoints take a Bearer token exchanged from an authorisation code. OAuth institutions appear only after MX registers the client with them.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public price. www.mx.com/pricing/ returns 404 and the product pages ask for a demo. Developer API keys are free and reach the integration environment (`https://int-api.mx.com`) with up to 100 users and a subset of institutions, so an agent's owner can test without a contract. Production keys are requested from MX in the Client Dashboard (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI file or mx.com (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 2631, "pypiWeekly": 1997, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.mx.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.mx.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.mx.com/openapi/platform-api/v20260929.yaml", "capabilities": [ "bank.accounts", "bank.transactions", "bank.identity", "bank.consent" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "python", "ruby", "java", "csharp", "webhooks", "sales-led", "enterprise", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 336, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 15, "reliability": 63, "schema": 85, "security": 60, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Three public OpenAPI files, llms.txt, Markdown docs and a written version policy with 18 months of support and `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers. No price, client agreement or SLA is published, production keys need MX's approval, every calling IP address must be allowlisted, and the status page records three platform-wide error incidents since 10 July 2026.", "bestFor": "A US or Canadian bank, credit union or fintech with a signed MX contract that wants aggregation, verification and categorised transactions plus embeddable finance widgets.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI files for all three Platform API versions, an llms.txt index and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "Each version is supported for at least 18 months, then deprecated for 12, and deprecated endpoints send `Deprecation`, `Sunset` and `Link` headers", "Rate limits are published per method, 2,000 GET and 750 POST requests a second in production", "Free developer keys reach the integration environment with up to 100 users and the `mxbank` test institution", "API keys rotate with a 30-day overlap, every calling IP must be allowlisted, and mutual TLS and JWE-encrypted responses are available" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price, SLA or client agreement. Production keys are requested from MX in the Client Dashboard", "Three platform-wide incidents of elevated errors since 10 July 2026 (42, 89 and 37 minutes), marked critical or major", "One `client_id` and `api_key` pair reaches every endpoint, with no scopes and no read-only key", "No SDK targets v20260929. The newest SDK releases date from January and February 2026 and cover v20250224 and v20111101", "A 429 carries no `Retry-After`, and the API has no idempotency key", "The privacy statement excludes data MX processes for clients, and no DPA or sub-processor list is public" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Accept: application/json`, `Accept-Version: v20260929` and Basic auth of `client_id:api_key` on every call. A missing version returns 406", "Ask the owner to allowlist the calling machine's static IP in the Client Dashboard first. Other addresses get 403, and some failed authentication returns 404", "Test against `https://int-api.mx.com` with institution `mxbank`, username `mxuser` and any password. It has no aggregation throttle", "Set your own `id` when creating users and members. A repeat returns 409, which makes a retried create safe", "Expect 202 without an error when a standard aggregation is throttled (three hours by default). Balance checks stop at 5 per member every 2 hours with 429", "Pass `includes[]=merchant` or `includes[]=category` as an array on transaction lists. A comma-separated string returns 400" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 71, "payments": 15, "reliability": 63, "schema": 85, "security": 60, "transparency": 46 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install mx-platform-node@^3", "http": "curl -X GET 'https://int-api.mx.com/users' \\\n -H 'Accept: application/json' \\\n -H 'Accept-Version: v20260929' \\\n -H 'Authorization: Basic BASE_64_ENCODING_OF{client_id:api_key}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/bank.accounts", "tool": "https://letme.dev/mx" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "MX Technologies, Inc.", "domain": "mx.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-04-28", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "https://status.mx.com", "changelog": "https://docs.mx.com/resources/changelog/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The privacy statement and the terms name MX Technologies, Inc., 3401 North Thanksgiving Way, Suite 500, Lehi, Utah 84043.", "`terms` is left out. The only terms on mx.com are an end-user and website Terms of Use dated 15 January 2020 (https://www.mx.com/terms/). No client or developer agreement for the Platform API is published.", "`privacy` is left out. The privacy statement at https://www.mx.com/privacy/ (30 September 2025) says it does not apply to personal data MX processes as a processor on behalf of its clients, which is the data the API handles.", "The API answers at api.mx.com and int-api.mx.com.", "security.txt at https://www.mx.com/.well-known/security.txt is PGP-signed, gives vulns@mx.com and expires 2030-12-31. Its Policy link redirects to the trust page.", "Verisign's RDAP server gives a registration date of 1994-04-28 and GoDaddy.com, LLC as registrar." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mx.json", "live": { "slug": "mx", "probe": { "target": "https://api.mx.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:28.165493878Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 679, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 722, "p95ms24h": 827, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.mx.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:58:02.46179353Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:58:02.46179353Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "GoCardless", "b": "MX Technologies, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2", "b": "https://api.mx.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT (client libraries, unmaintained)", "b": "Proprietary service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI files on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2025-04-07", "b": "2026-09-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "88 stars, 29k npm/wk, 4.3k PyPI/wk", "b": "9 stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against GoCardless Bank Account Data's 41.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, GoCardless Bank Account Data or MX Platform API?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do GoCardless Bank Account Data and MX Platform API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. GoCardless Bank Account Data has a hosted endpoint at https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2 and MX Platform API at https://api.mx.com.", "question": "Can an agent call GoCardless Bank Account Data and MX Platform API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Read-only account and transaction data across the UK and the EEA, for builders who don't need payments and can accept a contract.", "slug": "gocardless-bank-account-data", "watchFor": "No public price and no confirmed free plan" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 63 against 44", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 54", "Agent ergonomics, 74 against 57", "Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 50", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 15 against 10", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 3", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 52" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A US or Canadian bank, credit union or fintech with a signed MX contract that wants aggregation, verification and categorised transactions plus embeddable finance widgets.", "slug": "mx", "watchFor": "No public price, SLA or client agreement. Production keys are requested from MX in the Client Dashboard" } ], "job": { "capability": "bank.accounts", "name": "Bank accounts" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akoya-vs-gocardless-bank-account-data.json", "title": "Akoya vs GoCardless Bank Account Data", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akoya-vs-gocardless-bank-account-data" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akoya-vs-mx.json", "title": "Akoya vs MX Platform API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akoya-vs-mx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/belvo-vs-gocardless-bank-account-data.json", "title": "Belvo vs GoCardless Bank Account Data", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/belvo-vs-gocardless-bank-account-data" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/belvo-vs-mx.json", "title": "Belvo vs MX Platform API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/belvo-vs-mx" }, { "json": 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"url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-plaid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-salt-edge.json", "title": "GoCardless Bank Account Data vs Salt Edge Account Information", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-salt-edge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-teller.json", "title": "GoCardless Bank Account Data vs Teller", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-teller" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-tink.json", "title": "GoCardless Bank Account Data vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-tink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-truelayer.json", "title": "GoCardless Bank Account Data vs TrueLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-truelayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-yapily.json", "title": "GoCardless Bank Account Data vs Yapily", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-yapily" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-plaid.json", "title": "MX Platform API vs Plaid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-plaid" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-salt-edge.json", "title": "MX Platform API vs Salt Edge Account Information", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-salt-edge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-teller.json", "title": "MX Platform API vs Teller", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-teller" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-tink.json", "title": "MX Platform API vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-tink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-truelayer.json", "title": "MX Platform API vs TrueLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-truelayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-yapily.json", "title": "MX Platform API vs Yapily", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-yapily" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 19, "edge": "mx", "gocardless-bank-account-data": 44, "key": "reliability", "mx": 63, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 31, "edge": "mx", "gocardless-bank-account-data": 54, "key": "schema", "mx": 85, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "mx", "gocardless-bank-account-data": 57, "key": "ergonomics", "mx": 74, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "mx", "gocardless-bank-account-data": 50, "key": "security", 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Both do bank accounts.", "verdicts": { "gocardless-bank-account-data": "UK plus every PSD2 country, up to 24 months of history, one API shape for all of them. No public price and no confirmed free plan.", "mx": "Three public OpenAPI files, llms.txt, Markdown docs and a written version policy with 18 months of support and `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers. No price, client agreement or SLA is published, production keys need MX's approval, every calling IP address must be allowlisted, and the status page records three platform-wide error incidents since 10 July 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-mx", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-mx.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-mx.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-mx.min.md" }, "markdown": "MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against GoCardless Bank Account Data's 41.7 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do bank accounts.\n\n- GoCardless Bank Account Data: grade E, 41.7/100, rank #682 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gocardless-bank-account-data.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gocardless-bank-account-data.json\n- MX Platform API: grade B, 62.5/100, rank #336 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mx.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mx.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### GoCardless Bank Account Data (E)\n\nGood for: Read-only account and transaction data across the UK and the EEA, for builders who don't need payments and can accept a contract.\n\nWatch for: No public price and no confirmed free plan\n\n### MX Platform API (B)\n\nGood for: A US or Canadian bank, credit union or fintech with a signed MX contract that wants aggregation, verification and categorised transactions plus embeddable finance widgets.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 63 against 44\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 57\n- Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 50\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 15 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 3\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 52\n\nWatch for: No public price, SLA or client agreement. Production keys are requested from MX in the Client Dashboard\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GoCardless Bank Account Data | MX Platform API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 44 | 63 | MX Platform API +19 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 85 | MX Platform API +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 74 | MX Platform API +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 60 | MX Platform API +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 15 | MX Platform API +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 71 | MX Platform API +68 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 63 | MX Platform API +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **41.7 · E** | **62.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | GoCardless Bank Account Data | MX Platform API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | GoCardless | MX Technologies, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2` | `https://api.mx.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (client libraries, unmaintained) | Proprietary service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI files on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2025-04-07 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | |\n| Popularity | 88 stars, 29k npm/wk, 4.3k PyPI/wk | 9 stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**GoCardless Bank Account Data.** UK plus every PSD2 country, up to 24 months of history, one API shape for all of them. No public price and no confirmed free plan.\n\n**MX Platform API.** Three public OpenAPI files, llms.txt, Markdown docs and a written version policy with 18 months of support and `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers. No price, client agreement or SLA is published, production keys need MX's approval, every calling IP address must be allowlisted, and the status page records three platform-wide error incidents since 10 July 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### GoCardless Bank Account Data\n\n1. Cache the access token for its 24 hours and use /api/v2/token/refresh/ rather than minting a new pair each run\n2. Create the end user agreement before the requisition when you need other than 90 days of history or access\n3. Read the per-account rate limit headers; on 429 wait for the account reset time, since some banks allow 4 calls a day\n4. Poll /api/v2/accounts/{id}/ until status is READY before asking for transactions\n5. Call the REST endpoints directly; the Nordigen SDKs still install but get no fixes\n\n### MX Platform API\n\n1. Send `Accept: application/json`, `Accept-Version: v20260929` and Basic auth of `client_id:api_key` on every call. A missing version returns 406\n2. Ask the owner to allowlist the calling machine's static IP in the Client Dashboard first. Other addresses get 403, and some failed authentication returns 404\n3. Test against `https://int-api.mx.com` with institution `mxbank`, username `mxuser` and any password. It has no aggregation throttle\n4. Set your own `id` when creating users and members. A repeat returns 409, which makes a retried create safe\n5. Expect 202 without an error when a standard aggregation is throttled (three hours by default). Balance checks stop at 5 per member every 2 hours with 429\n6. Pass `includes[]=merchant` or `includes[]=category` as an array on transaction lists. A comma-separated string returns 400\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, GoCardless Bank Account Data or MX Platform API?\n\nMX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against GoCardless Bank Account Data's 41.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do GoCardless Bank Account Data and MX Platform API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call GoCardless Bank Account Data and MX Platform API without installing anything?\n\nYes. GoCardless Bank Account Data has a hosted endpoint at https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2 and MX Platform API at https://api.mx.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-mx.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-mx.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gocardless-bank-account-data\", \"b\": \"mx\"}`. 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