{ "data": { "a": { "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": 430, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "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": "2026-10-10T02:07:17.256544401Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 659, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 689, "p95ms24h": 832, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 322, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 50, "ok": 50 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.mx.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:06:09.091810414Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "mxenabled/openapi", "version": "v0.10.1", "released": "2022-04-20", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:07:46.094946185Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@mxenabled/web-widget-sdk", "version": "0.0.15", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:07:44.939068815Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "mx-platform-node", "version": "2.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:07:42.930671094Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mx-platform-python", "version": "1.12.0", "released": "2026-01-29", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:07:44.753238958Z" } ], "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": 1927, "pypiWeekly": 1691, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://mx.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-12-31T23:59:59z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:55.073074845Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.mx.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:26.81445457Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.mx.com/resources/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:37:49.640879153Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "552e34df7b27" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:17.256544401Z" } }, "answer": "MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Powens's 42.6 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "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": "2026-10-10T02:07:21.120408298Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "invalid character \"{\" in host name", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 107, "samples30d": 107, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "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": "2026-10-10T02:07:21.120408298Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MX Technologies, Inc.", "b": "Powens SAS", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.mx.com", "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": "Proprietary service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI files on GitHub are MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under Powens' General Terms and Conditions of Sale. 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Powens takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do MX Platform API and Powens need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. MX Platform API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mx.com and Powens at https://{domain}.biapi.pro/2.0.", "question": "Can an agent call MX Platform API and Powens without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 63 against 27", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 48", "Agent ergonomics, 74 against 57", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 15 against 10", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 33" ], "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" }, { "aheadOn": null, "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. The reference is hand-written tables" } ], "job": { "capability": "bank.accounts", "name": "Bank account data" }, "others": [ { "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/akoya-vs-powens.json", "title": "Akoya vs Powens", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akoya-vs-powens" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basiq-vs-mx.json", "title": "Basiq vs MX Platform API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basiq-vs-mx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basiq-vs-powens.json", "title": "Basiq vs Powens", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basiq-vs-powens" }, { "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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"GoCardless Bank Account Data vs MX Platform API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-mx" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-powens.json", "title": "GoCardless Bank Account Data vs Powens", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-powens" }, { "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 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"key": "reliability", "mx": 63, "name": "Reliability", "powens": 27, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 37, "edge": "mx", "key": "schema", "mx": 85, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "powens": 48, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "mx", "key": "ergonomics", "mx": 74, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "powens": 57, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "security", "mx": 60, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "powens": 60, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "mx", "key": "payments", "mx": 15, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "powens": 10, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 38, "edge": "mx", "key": "maintenance", "mx": 71, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "powens": 33, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "transparency", "mx": 63, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "powens": 63, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Powens's 42.6 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do bank account data.", "verdicts": { "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.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-powens", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-powens.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-powens.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-powens.min.md" }, "markdown": "MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Powens's 42.6 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do bank account data.\n\n- MX Platform API: grade B, 62.5/100, rank #430 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mx.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mx.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### 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 27\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 48\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 57\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 15 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 71 against 33\n\nWatch for: No public price, SLA or client agreement. Production keys are requested from MX in the Client Dashboard\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\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 | MX Platform API | Powens | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 27 | MX Platform API +36 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 48 | MX Platform API +37 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 57 | MX Platform API +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 10 | 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) | 71 | 33 | MX Platform API +38 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 63 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.5 · B** | **42.6 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | MX Platform API | Powens |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | MX Technologies, Inc. | Powens SAS |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.mx.com` | `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 | Proprietary service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI files on GitHub are MIT | 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 | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | none |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 9 stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\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**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### 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### 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, MX Platform API or Powens?\n\nMX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Powens's 42.6 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do MX Platform API and Powens need an API key?\n\nMX Platform API needs an API key. Powens takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call MX Platform API and Powens without installing anything?\n\nYes. MX Platform API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mx.com 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/mx-vs-powens.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-powens.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"mx\", \"b\": \"powens\"}`. 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