Head to head · Bank accounts · October 2026 research run

MX Platform API vs Yapily

MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Yapily's 57.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Yapily leads on transparency & trust. Both do bank accounts.

Which one, for what

MX Platform API B

Good 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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 63 against 55
  • Security & auth, 60 against 37
  • Payments & pricing, 15 against 10

Watch for

No public price, SLA or client agreement. Production keys are requested from MX in the Client Dashboard

Yapily C

Good for UK and EEA data and payments from one API, for builders who want docs an agent can read in one fetch.

Ahead on

  • Transparency & trust, 71 against 63

Watch for

No public pricing; live access starts with a sales form

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runMX Platform APIYapilyEdge
Reliability16%206355MX Platform API +8
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28588Yapily +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.27477Yapily +3
Security & auth14%17.56037MX Platform API +23
Payments & pricing10%12.51510MX Platform API +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87167MX Platform API +4
Transparency & trust7%8.86371Yapily +8
Negative events≤1500
Total62.5 · B57.6 · C

Facts side by side

FactMX Platform APIYapily
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorMX Technologies, Inc.Yapily
Hosted endpointhttps://api.mx.comhttps://api.yapily.com
TransportsHTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI files on GitHub are MITMIT (SDKs)
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-09-292025-06-30
Terms last updatedno document linked2022-12-05
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno date given
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity9 stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk14 stars, 50 npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone2.5/5 (2)

Verdicts

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.

Yapily

llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a no-auth docs MCP server and an OpenAPI file. No public pricing; live access starts with a sales form.

Before you call either

MX Platform API

  1. Send Accept: application/json, Accept-Version: v20260929 and Basic auth of client_id:api_key on every call. A missing version returns 406
  2. 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
  3. Test against https://int-api.mx.com with institution mxbank, username mxuser and any password. It has no aggregation throttle
  4. Set your own id when creating users and members. A repeat returns 409, which makes a retried create safe
  5. 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
  6. Pass includes[]=merchant or includes[]=category as an array on transaction lists. A comma-separated string returns 400

Yapily

  1. Read llms-full.txt once and cache it; it's the whole documentation in one fetch
  2. Add the Modelo sandbox in the Console before your first account-auth-request, or institutions comes back empty
  3. Treat a 403 on a data call as a revoked or expired consent and send the user back through authorisation
  4. Check the error source field first; USER and INSTITUTION failures won't clear on retry
  5. In the UK, call extend-consent with lastConfirmedAt before the reconfirmBy date, or the consent lapses at 90 days

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, MX Platform API or Yapily?

MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Yapily's 57.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Yapily leads on transparency & trust.

Do MX Platform API and Yapily need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call MX Platform API and Yapily without installing anything?

Yes. MX Platform API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mx.com and Yapily at https://api.yapily.com.

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