# PocketGuard vs YNAB (slim)

> YNAB scores 65.1 (B) to PocketGuard's 14.6 (F) for budgets. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-ynab.md (~1,950 tokens) · this version ~630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-ynab.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-ynab
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-14

YNAB scores 65.1 (B) on agent readiness against PocketGuard's 14.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do budgets.

- PocketGuard: F 14.6, rank #1053 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pocketguard.min.md
- YNAB: B 65.1, rank #351 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ynab.min.md
- PocketGuard, good for People who want a budget built from linked accounts.
- YNAB, good for An agent helping one person with their own YNAB plan, reading spending and editing categories, transactions and targets. Ahead on Reliability, 82 against 15; Schema & documentation, 77 against 0; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 0; Security & auth, 51 against 0; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Maintenance & community, 62 against 56; Transparency & trust, 75 against 48. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | PocketGuard | YNAB |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 15 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 0 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 0 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 0 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 62 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 48 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | PocketGuard | YNAB |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | PocketGuard, Inc. | YNAB |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.ynab.com/v1` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Licence | Closed service under the PocketGuard Terms of Use (PocketGuard, Inc.). | Proprietary service; SDKs Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-11-26 | 2026-04-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-05-12 | 2026-04-09 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 240 stars, 9.6k npm/wk, 2.3k PyPI/wk |