{ "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": 901, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 15, "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": "2026-10-10T02:54:56.530745899Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 79, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.96, "p50ms24h": 75, "p95ms24h": 165, "samples24h": 249, "samples30d": 2264, "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": 268, "ok": 267 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 30, "ok": 30 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.gocardless-status.com", "indicator": "minor", "summary": "Partial System Degradation", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:50:21.654271088Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "nordigen-node", "version": "1.4.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:55:14.990075479Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "nordigen", "version": "1.4.2", "released": "2025-04-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:55:15.924335951Z" } ], "githubStars": 88, "npmWeekly": 19312, "pypiWeekly": 4627, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://gocardless.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:25.634771606Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.gocardless.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:02.453175319Z" }, "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": "2026-10-09T18:39:55.331842921Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:55.331842921Z", "fingerprint": "7e12ed32178f" }, { "url": "https://gocardless.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:57.474102549Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3971f898cf20" }, { "url": "https://gocardless.com/legal/merchants/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:39:53.243711802Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2114da0a1a71" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:54:56.530745899Z" } }, "answer": "Powens and GoCardless Bank Account Data score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 42.6 (E) and 41.7 (E). GoCardless Bank Account Data leads on reliability and schema \u0026 documentation.", "b": { "slug": "powens", "name": "Powens", "vendor": "Powens SAS", "vendorUrl": "https://www.powens.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "banking-data", "summary": "Powens is a French open banking platform, formerly Budget Insight. Its REST API and hosted Webview read bank accounts, balances and transactions with the account holder's consent, verify account ownership and start bank payments in Europe.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/powens", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/powens.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/powens.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/powens.json", "repo": "https://github.com/powenscompany/powens-connect-ios", "license": "Proprietary service under Powens' General Terms and Conditions of Sale. The Powens Connect iOS SDK on GitHub is LGPL-3.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A client ID and client secret from the console, sent in the body of `POST /auth/init`, return a permanent user token that is sent as `authorization: Bearer`. A permanent token has no expiry and is revoked with `DELETE /auth/token` or `POST /auth/renew` with `revoke_previous`. The Webview takes a temporary code from `GET /auth/token/code`, valid 30 minutes or once. Payments use 30-minute service tokens with `payments:*` scopes. Listing users and changing configuration need separate tokens from the console settings. Console signup is self-serve for a sandbox domain. Live access is by purchase order.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. The site has no pricing page, and product pages lead to a meeting request (https://www.powens.com/products/transactions/, checked 2026-10-09). The conditions of sale set fees in a purchase order by volume of users, invoiced in advance with a monthly invoice for excess users, and revise prices each year by the SYNTEC index. A free console account gives a sandbox domain with a test connector. No card is mentioned for signup.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the API reference pages read or the site (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.powens.com/documentation", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.powens.com/api-reference/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "bank.accounts", "bank.transactions", "bank.consent", "bank.identity", "bank.payments" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sandbox", "eu", "enterprise", "sales-led", "closed-source" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42.6, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 892, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 10, "reliability": 27, "schema": 48, "security": 60, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Powens documents a REST API with Markdown docs, cursor pagination, date filters and a hard-delete call for connections, under a French payment institution licence. No OpenAPI file, public price, status page, idempotency key or server SDK was found, and live access needs a signed purchase order.", "bestFor": "A European product, strongest in France, that needs account and transaction data plus wealth, loan and document data under Powens' own licence.", "strengths": [ "Both docs spaces publish llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page, and robots.txt states `ai-input=yes`", "Transactions take `limit` up to 1,000, opaque cursor links, `min_date`, `max_date`, `last_update` and value filters", "`DELETE /users/{userId}/connections/{connectionId}` is documented as a permanent erasure of the connection and all its data", "Payment service tokens last 30 minutes and carry scopes such as `payments:read-only`, `payments:validate` and `payments:cancel`", "Powens SAS is a payment institution registered with the ACPR under CIB 16948, and its terms name hosting sub-processors in France" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found. The reference is hand-written tables", "No public prices. Fees are set per volume of users in a signed purchase order", "No status page is linked from the site or docs read, and no uptime SLA appears in the conditions of sale", "No idempotency key or documented 429 handling was found, and production rate limits are not published", "The only SDK found is an iOS package at 1.0.0-beta, last changed on 1 October 2024" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the owner for the domain name, client ID and client secret from the console. Every call goes to `https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0`", "Send `limit` on every transactions list. It is required, at most 1,000, and the next page comes from `_links.next.href` used as given", "Enable an account with `POST` and `{\"disabled\": false}` only after the account holder consents. Accounts arrive disabled with no transactions", "Store the permanent user token as a secret. It does not expire, and the default webhook sends it in the `Authorization` header", "Stay under 30 calls a minute in the sandbox and use webhooks in place of polling, as the fair usage policy asks" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 10, "reliability": 27, "schema": 48, "security": 60, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 61 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0/connectors/" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/bank.accounts", "tool": "https://letme.dev/powens" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Powens SAS", "domain": "powens.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-03-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.powens.com/sas-conditions-sale/", "privacy": "https://www.powens.com/sas-privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://budget-insight.notion.site/Changelog-public-edc79d1d9e0a4608928df68fafa811bb", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The legal notice names Powens, a simplified joint-stock company with share capital of 44,037.90 euros, 84 rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris, Paris trade register number 749 867 206, registered with the ACPR as a payment institution under CIB 16948.", "The terms link is the General Terms and Conditions of Sale, which apply to services Powens performs for clients under a purchase order and are governed by French law. The page carries no version or date. A separate Terms and Conditions of Use page binds the account holders who use the Webview.", "The privacy link is the Powens SAS privacy policy, which covers the website, console accounts and financial data, and lists processors with a column for transfers outside the EU. The page carries no date. A group privacy policy and one for the Spanish regulated entity are separate pages.", "The API answers at https://{domain}.biapi.pro, a second domain registered on 5 February 2014, and the Webview at webview.powens.com. The docs still link console.budget-insight.com and docs.budget-insight.com in places.", "www.powens.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No vulnerability disclosure policy or bug bounty was found on the pages read.", "No status page is linked from the home page, the product pages or the docs read. status.powens.com was a guess and could not be reached from our network, so its existence is unchecked.", "The changelog is a Notion page linked from the docs home. It is drawn by script and was not read. Verisign RDAP gives the powens.com registration date and OVH as registrar.", "Powens acquired the Spanish electronic money institution Unnax in 2024, and Unnax took the Powens brand in 2026 per powens.com/unnax-is-powens." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/powens.json", "live": { "slug": "powens", "probe": { "target": "https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:55:06.654991411Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "invalid character \"{\" in host name", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 115, "samples30d": 115, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 30, "ok": 0 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-09T15:43:17.921158871Z", "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "note": "invalid character \"{\" in host name" } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "powenscompany/powens-connect-ios", "version": "1.0.0-beta", "released": "2024-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:14:20.632650104Z" } ], "githubStars": 1, "pages": [ { "url": "https://budget-insight.notion.site/Changelog-public-edc79d1d9e0a4608928df68fafa811bb", "kind": "changelog", "status": 404, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:33:19.38191606Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "url": "https://www.powens.com/sas-privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:14.750162665Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4bbb4f60d121" }, { "url": "https://www.powens.com/sas-conditions-sale/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:53:12.685497091Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7ce097c66886" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:55:06.654991411Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "GoCardless", "b": "Powens SAS", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2", "b": "https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT (client libraries, unmaintained)", "b": "Proprietary service under Powens' General Terms and Conditions of Sale. The Powens Connect iOS SDK on GitHub is LGPL-3.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2025-04-07", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "88 stars, 29k npm/wk, 4.3k PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Powens and GoCardless Bank Account Data score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 42.6 (E) and 41.7 (E). GoCardless Bank Account Data leads on reliability and schema \u0026 documentation.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, GoCardless Bank Account Data or Powens?" }, { "answer": "GoCardless Bank Account Data needs an API key. Powens takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do GoCardless Bank Account Data and Powens need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. GoCardless Bank Account Data has a hosted endpoint at https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2 and Powens at https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0.", "question": "Can an agent call GoCardless Bank Account Data and Powens without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 44 against 27", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 54 against 48" ], "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": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 50", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 33 against 3", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 52" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A European product, strongest in France, that needs account and transaction data plus wealth, loan and document data under Powens' own licence.", "slug": "powens", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found. 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GoCardless Bank Account Data leads on reliability and schema \u0026 documentation. Both do bank account data.", "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.", "powens": "Powens documents a REST API with Markdown docs, cursor pagination, date filters and a hard-delete call for connections, under a French payment institution licence. 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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- Powens: grade E, 42.6/100, rank #892 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/powens.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/powens.json\n- Best open banking and bank data APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/banking-data/index.md\n- All 105 bank data comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/banking-data/index.md\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\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 44 against 27\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 54 against 48\n\nWatch for: No public price and no confirmed free plan\n\n### Powens (E)\n\nGood for: A European product, strongest in France, that needs account and transaction data plus wealth, loan and document data under Powens' own licence.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 50\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 33 against 3\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 52\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found. The reference is hand-written tables\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GoCardless Bank Account Data | Powens | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 44 | 27 | GoCardless Bank Account Data +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 48 | GoCardless Bank Account Data +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 57 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 60 | Powens +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 10 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 3 | 33 | Powens +30 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 63 | Powens +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **41.7 · E** | **42.6 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | GoCardless Bank Account Data | Powens |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | GoCardless | Powens SAS |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2` | `https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (client libraries, unmaintained) | Proprietary service under Powens' General Terms and Conditions of Sale. The Powens Connect iOS SDK on GitHub is LGPL-3.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2025-04-07 | none |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 88 stars, 29k npm/wk, 4.3k PyPI/wk | none |\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**Powens.** Powens documents a REST API with Markdown docs, cursor pagination, date filters and a hard-delete call for connections, under a French payment institution licence. No OpenAPI file, public price, status page, idempotency key or server SDK was found, and live access needs a signed purchase order.\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### Powens\n\n1. Ask the owner for the domain name, client ID and client secret from the console. Every call goes to `https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0`\n2. Send `limit` on every transactions list. It is required, at most 1,000, and the next page comes from `_links.next.href` used as given\n3. Enable an account with `POST` and `{\"disabled\": false}` only after the account holder consents. Accounts arrive disabled with no transactions\n4. Store the permanent user token as a secret. It does not expire, and the default webhook sends it in the `Authorization` header\n5. Stay under 30 calls a minute in the sandbox and use webhooks in place of polling, as the fair usage policy asks\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, GoCardless Bank Account Data or Powens?\n\nPowens and GoCardless Bank Account Data score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 42.6 (E) and 41.7 (E). GoCardless Bank Account Data leads on reliability and schema \u0026 documentation.\n\n### Do GoCardless Bank Account Data and Powens need an API key?\n\nGoCardless Bank Account Data needs an API key. Powens takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call GoCardless Bank Account Data and Powens without installing anything?\n\nYes. GoCardless Bank Account Data has a hosted endpoint at https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2 and Powens at https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-powens.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-powens.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gocardless-bank-account-data\", \"b\": \"powens\"}`. 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