Head to head · Bank accounts · October 2026 research run

MX Platform API vs Yodlee Core API

MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Yodlee Core API's 41.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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 15
  • Schema & documentation, 85 against 71
  • Agent ergonomics, 74 against 58
  • Security & auth, 60 against 49
  • Maintenance & community, 71 against 33
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 53

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

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

Yodlee Core API E

Good for A bank, wealth firm or fintech with a Yodlee contract that needs wide account coverage, including investment holdings, loans and insurance, in the US, UK, Australia and India.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No public price, service agreement or developer terms. The terms address named in the Swagger file returns 404

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runMX Platform APIYodlee Core APIEdge
Reliability16%206315MX Platform API +48
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28571MX Platform API +14
Agent ergonomics13%16.27458MX Platform API +16
Security & auth14%17.56049MX Platform API +11
Payments & pricing10%12.51515even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87133MX Platform API +38
Transparency & trust7%8.86353MX Platform API +10
Negative events≤1500
Total62.5 · B41.9 · E

Facts side by side

FactMX Platform APIYodlee Core API
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorMX Technologies, Inc.Yodlee, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.mx.comno (local only)
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI files on GitHub are MITProprietary service. The Swagger file on GitHub is MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-09-292026-07-31
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularity9 stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk17 stars

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.

Yodlee Core API

A public Swagger 2.0 file covers 98 operations with per-operation error codes, and tokens last 30 minutes and are bound to one end user. No price, service terms, status page, rate limit or SLA is published, there is no official server SDK, and the sandbox is limited to five preconfigured users with sample data.

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

Yodlee Core API

  1. Get a token with POST /auth/token, sending Api-Version: 1.1 and the end user's loginName as headers and clientId and secret in a form body. Reuse it for up to 30 minutes
  2. Use the admin loginName only for administrative calls such as webhook subscriptions. A token made with a user's loginName reads only that user's data
  3. In the sandbox, pick one of the five preconfigured users. Registering new users is not supported there
  4. Page GET /transactions with skip and top (1 to 500). Without dates it returns the last 30 days, and at most two years with fromDate and toDate
  5. A person must link accounts in FastLink 4 first. Then read GET /providerAccounts for link status before GET /accounts
  6. Subscribe to DATA_UPDATES or REFRESH webhooks, or poll GET /dataExtracts/events in windows of at most 60 minutes, and do not poll accounts in a loop

Questions

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

MX Platform API scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Yodlee Core API's 41.9 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Do MX Platform API and Yodlee Core API need an API key?

MX Platform API needs an API key. Yodlee Core API uses an OAuth sign-in.

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

MX Platform API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.mx.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Yodlee Core API.

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