{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "salt-edge", "name": "Salt Edge Account Information", "vendor": "Salt Edge", "vendorUrl": "https://www.saltedge.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "banking-data", "summary": "Open banking aggregator for account data and payments across international banks.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salt-edge", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salt-edge.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salt-edge.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/salt-edge.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://www.saltedge.com/api/v6", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Every request carries App-id and Secret headers from the dashboard. Live applications must also sign requests, with an Expires-at header (UNIX time, at most an hour ahead) and a Signature header, the base64 SHA256 signature of `Expires-at|method|url|body` made with your private key. Test and Pending applications can skip signing. End users authorise through the Connect widget at a connect_url you create per customer.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No price list. The pricing page returns 404 and the product page points at the dashboard sign-up and a sales form (https://www.saltedge.com/products/account_information). A new dashboard application is in Test status and can only connect to Fake providers and bank sandboxes; moving to Live needs approval, after which rate limits for parallel connections are agreed with a project manager (https://docs.saltedge.com/v6/api_reference).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.saltedge.com/v6/", "capabilities": [ "bank.accounts", "bank.transactions", "bank.identity", "bank.payments", "bank.consent" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "uk", "eu", "closed-source", "enterprise", "webhooks" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 643, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 10, "reliability": 52, "schema": 52, "security": 46, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "5,000-plus banks in more than 50 countries, by Salt Edge's own count. Rate limit exceeded returns HTTP 406 RateLimitExceeded, not 429.", "bestFor": "Account data and payments in markets outside the UK, EEA and US.", "strengths": [ "5,000-plus banks in more than 50 countries, by Salt Edge's own count", "per_page up to 1,000, from_id cursors and filters on account, dates and pending", "Consent scopes and period_days, with PUT /consents/{id}/revoke to end one", "Fake providers for password, OAuth and SMS flows, plus your own CSV data", "Privacy policy names its processors and countries and keeps EU data in the EU" ], "weaknesses": [ "Rate limit exceeded returns HTTP 406 RateLimitExceeded, not 429", "No public pricing; parallel connection limits are negotiated", "No official SDKs, OpenAPI file, llms.txt or changelog", "No security.txt, security page, disclosure policy or certification found", "Status history readable only for the last fortnight; the JSON feed is blocked by robots.txt" ], "agentNotes": [ "Treat HTTP 406 with error_class RateLimitExceeded as a rate limit and back off; it isn't a content-negotiation error", "Start with fakebank_simple_xf in country XF; it needs no bank sandbox", "Sign requests from the start even in Test, so the move to Live doesn't change your client", "Follow next_page from the meta block rather than building from_id URLs yourself", "Revoke with PUT /api/v6/consents/{consent_id}/revoke when the user is done" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 10, "reliability": 52, "schema": 52, "security": 46, "transparency": 73 }, "provenanceScore": 74 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://www.saltedge.com/api/v6/countries -H \"App-id: $SALTEDGE_APP_ID\" -H \"Secret: $SALTEDGE_SECRET\" -H \"Accept: application/json\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/bank.accounts", "tool": "https://letme.dev/salt-edge" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Salt Edge Limited", "domain": "saltedge.com", "domainRegistered": "2013-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.saltedge.com/legal/terms_of_service", "privacy": "https://www.saltedge.com/legal/privacy_policy", "statusPage": "https://www.saltedgestatus.com/", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Salt Edge Limited, registered in England and Wales, company 11178811, FCA 822499, is a subsidiary of Salt Edge Inc., which the privacy policy places in Canada, with offices in Canada, the UK and Moldova.", "The privacy policy was last updated 14 September 2023.", "The domain's registration expires 2026-12-16 per Verisign's RDAP record in the 30 September check; rdap.org returned 403.", "www.saltedge.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 in the 30 September check, and www.saltedge.com/security returns 404.", "No changelog found; product news appears on blog.saltedge.com." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salt-edge.json", "live": { "slug": "salt-edge", "probe": { "target": "https://www.saltedge.com/api/v6", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:53:01.219275484Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 82, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 119, "p95ms24h": 201, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 1941, "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": 225, "ok": 225 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.saltedgestatus.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:51:01.976486684Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://saltedge.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:01.934789746Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "saltedge.com", "registered": "2013-12-16", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/saltedge.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:42.743352908Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.saltedge.com/legal/privacy_policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:08.989475763Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "98095fe138d1" }, { "url": "https://www.saltedge.com/legal/terms_of_service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:11.439358543Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d4d5435c5ee6" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:53:01.219275484Z" } }, "answer": "Tink scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Salt Edge Account Information's 46.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "tink", "name": "Tink", "vendor": "Tink AB (Visa)", "vendorUrl": "https://tink.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "banking-data", "summary": "Tink is a European open banking platform owned by Visa. Its REST API and hosted Tink Link flow read accounts, balances and transactions with the account holder's consent, and start bank payments.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tink", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tink.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tink.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tink.json", "repo": "https://github.com/tink-ab/tink-link-ios", "license": "Proprietary service under Tink's Master Service Agreement. The Tink Link SDKs for iOS and Android on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.tink.com", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 with a `client_id` and `client_secret` from the Tink Console, sent in the POST body to https://api.tink.com/api/v1/oauth/token. A client token lasts 30 minutes and carries only the scopes requested. Data calls need a user token, valid two hours, obtained through an authorisation grant for a Tink user or from the code Tink Link returns after bank consent. Mutual TLS is accepted as an alternative client authentication method. Console signup is self-serve for the sandbox. Live access is by sales contract, with customer due diligence when Tink's own licence is used.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. The pricing page lists Standard as Contact us and Enterprise as Custom pricing, and says listed prices apply only to existing customers (https://tink.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-08). The FAQ says there is no pay-per-use option and that a free Console account gives test data in a sandbox (https://tink.com/faq/). No card is mentioned for signup. Fees are set in an order form and billed monthly in arrears under the MSA.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the API reference introduction or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.tink.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.tink.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "bank.accounts", "bank.transactions", "bank.consent", "bank.payments", "bank.identity" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "oauth", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sandbox", "eu", "uk", "enterprise", "sales-led", "status-page", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 337, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 69, "payments": 10, "reliability": 62, "schema": 73, "security": 63, "transparency": 90 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth client credentials with per-endpoint scopes, token-paged data endpoints and a published MSA, DPA, SLA and sub-processor list. No price is public, live access needs a sales contract, and the API reference has no downloadable spec or published rate-limit numbers.", "bestFor": "A company with a contract that needs account, balance and transaction data or bank payments across European markets under Tink's own licences.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 client credentials with named scopes per endpoint, 30-minute client tokens and two-hour user tokens", "Master Service Agreement, DPA, four SLA documents and a sub-processor list with processing locations are public PDFs", "Data v2 list endpoints page with `pageSize` and `pageToken`, with date, account and status filters on transactions", "Changelog with 367 dated entries, three of them in the 90 days to 8 October 2026", "Free Console account with a Demo Bank covering test users in 18 countries" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public prices. The pricing page lists Standard as Contact us and Enterprise as Custom pricing, and the FAQ says there is no pay-per-use option", "The API reference is a JavaScript app with the Swagger definitions inside its bundle. No downloadable spec was found", "Rate limits are per app with no published numbers, and a 429 carries no documented Retry-After", "A critical incident on 16 July 2026 stopped authentication, consent, account data and payment flows in all European markets for 62 minutes", "security.txt has a Policy line pointing to Visa's disclosure page and no Contact or Expires field" ], "agentNotes": [ "Request a client token at https://api.tink.com/api/v1/oauth/token, create a user, request an authorisation grant for that user, then exchange the code for a user token.", "Renew tokens on a timer. Client tokens last 30 minutes and user tokens two hours, and the client credentials flow returns no refresh token.", "Send the account holder through Tink Link in a browser. Bank consent cannot be completed by API calls alone.", "Read transactions from /data/v2/transactions with `pageSize` up to 100 and follow `nextPageToken`.", "Send an Idempotency-Key header on consent and payment writes. Keys are kept for 24 hours." ], "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": 69, "payments": 10, "reliability": 62, "schema": 73, "security": 63, "transparency": 79 }, "provenanceScore": 100 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.tink.com/api/v1/oauth/token \\\n -d \"client_id=$TINK_CLIENT_ID\" \\\n -d \"client_secret=$TINK_CLIENT_SECRET\" \\\n -d \"grant_type=client_credentials\" \\\n -d \"scope=authorization:grant,user:create\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/bank.accounts", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tink" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tink AB", "domain": "tink.com", "domainRegistered": "1993-03-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://assets.ctfassets.net/c78bhj3obgck/4rs258WTPok62q9qrmFE1o/b68d1bcc13b5c118503ecffc8647a7d8/Tink_Master_Service_Agreement_2025-12-09.pdf", "privacy": "https://cdn.tink.se/legal/privacy-policy/en_UK/privacy-policy-en_UK-2601.pdf", "statusPage": "https://status.tink.com", "changelog": "https://docs.tink.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Master Service Agreement (version 2025-12-09) names Tink AB, corporate registration number 556898-2192, Regeringsgatan 38, 111 56 Stockholm, and is governed by Swedish law. The legal FAQ says all customer use is governed by it.", "The legal FAQ lists Tink AB as a payment institution under the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (SFSA ID 44059), Tink Germany GmbH under BaFin (10152149) and Tink Financial Services Limited under the UK FCA (FRN 988456). Tink is a Visa company.", "The privacy link is the Visa Open Banking Privacy Notice for End-Users, effective 8 January 2026, which covers the bank data read through the product. A separate General Privacy Notice (effective 8 April 2025) covers website visitors and business contacts, and customer data is governed by the DPA of 1 October 2025.", "tink.com/.well-known/security.txt has a Canonical line and a Policy line pointing to Visa's vulnerability disclosure page, with no Contact or Expires field, both of which RFC 9116 requires. It is recorded as valid because the file is served, as with other listings whose file lacks Expires.", "The API answers at api.tink.com and Tink Link at link.tink.com. Legal PDFs are served from assets.ctfassets.net and cdn.tink.se.", "The changelog at docs.tink.com/changelog renders in JavaScript. We read its entries from the content feed the page itself requests. Verisign RDAP gives the domain registration date and MarkMonitor as registrar." ], "score": 100 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tink.json", "live": { "slug": "tink", "probe": { "target": "https://api.tink.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:53:04.130514218Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 61, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 54, "p95ms24h": 116, "samples24h": 27, "samples30d": 27, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 27, "ok": 27 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.tink.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:51:05.556142173Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.tink.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:19:36.318263547Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://tink.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:25:14.991772397Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b875e338cc34" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:53:04.130514218Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Salt Edge", "b": "Tink AB (Visa)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://www.saltedge.com/api/v6", "b": "https://api.tink.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under Tink's Master Service Agreement. The Tink Link SDKs for iOS and Android on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-09-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2023-09-14", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2023-09-14", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Tink scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Salt Edge Account Information's 46.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Salt Edge Account Information or Tink?" }, { "answer": "Salt Edge Account Information needs an API key. Tink uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Salt Edge Account Information and Tink need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Salt Edge Account Information has a hosted endpoint at https://www.saltedge.com/api/v6 and Tink at https://api.tink.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Salt Edge Account Information and Tink without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Account data and payments in markets outside the UK, EEA and US.", "slug": "salt-edge", "watchFor": "Rate limit exceeded returns HTTP 406 RateLimitExceeded, not 429" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 62 against 52", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 52", "Agent ergonomics, 74 against 67", "Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 46", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 69 against 13", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 90 against 74" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A company with a contract that needs account, balance and transaction data or bank payments across European markets under Tink's own licences.", "slug": "tink", "watchFor": "No public prices. The pricing page lists Standard as Contact us and Enterprise as Custom pricing, and the FAQ says there is no pay-per-use option" } ], "job": { "capability": "bank.accounts", "name": "Bank accounts" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akoya-vs-salt-edge.json", "title": "Akoya vs Salt Edge Account Information", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akoya-vs-salt-edge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akoya-vs-tink.json", "title": "Akoya vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/akoya-vs-tink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/belvo-vs-salt-edge.json", "title": "Belvo vs Salt Edge Account Information", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/belvo-vs-salt-edge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/belvo-vs-tink.json", "title": "Belvo vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/belvo-vs-tink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/enable-banking-vs-salt-edge.json", "title": "Enable Banking vs Salt Edge Account Information", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/enable-banking-vs-salt-edge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/enable-banking-vs-tink.json", "title": "Enable Banking vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/enable-banking-vs-tink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flinks-vs-salt-edge.json", "title": "Flinks vs Salt Edge Account Information", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flinks-vs-salt-edge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flinks-vs-tink.json", "title": "Flinks vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/flinks-vs-tink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-salt-edge.json", "title": "GoCardless Bank Account Data vs Salt Edge Account Information", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-salt-edge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-tink.json", "title": "GoCardless Bank Account Data vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-tink" }, { "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-tink.json", "title": "MX Platform API vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mx-vs-tink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-vs-salt-edge.json", "title": "Plaid vs Salt Edge Account Information", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-vs-salt-edge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-vs-tink.json", "title": "Plaid vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-vs-tink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-teller.json", "title": "Salt Edge Account Information vs Teller", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-teller" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-truelayer.json", "title": "Salt Edge Account Information vs TrueLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-truelayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-yapily.json", "title": "Salt Edge Account Information vs Yapily", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-yapily" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/teller-vs-tink.json", "title": "Teller vs Tink", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/teller-vs-tink" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tink-vs-truelayer.json", "title": "Tink vs TrueLayer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tink-vs-truelayer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tink-vs-yapily.json", "title": "Tink vs Yapily", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tink-vs-yapily" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 10, "edge": "tink", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "salt-edge": 52, "tink": 62, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 21, "edge": "tink", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "salt-edge": 52, "tink": 73, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "tink", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "salt-edge": 67, "tink": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "tink", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "salt-edge": 46, "tink": 63, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "salt-edge": 10, "tink": 10, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 56, "edge": "tink", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "salt-edge": 13, "tink": 69, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "tink", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "salt-edge": 74, "tink": 90, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Tink scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Salt Edge Account Information's 46.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do bank accounts.", "verdicts": { "salt-edge": "5,000-plus banks in more than 50 countries, by Salt Edge's own count. Rate limit exceeded returns HTTP 406 RateLimitExceeded, not 429.", "tink": "OAuth client credentials with per-endpoint scopes, token-paged data endpoints and a published MSA, DPA, SLA and sub-processor list. No price is public, live access needs a sales contract, and the API reference has no downloadable spec or published rate-limit numbers." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-tink", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-tink.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-tink.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-tink.min.md" }, "markdown": "Tink scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Salt Edge Account Information's 46.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do bank accounts.\n\n- Salt Edge Account Information: grade D, 46.7/100, rank #643 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salt-edge.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/salt-edge.json\n- Tink: grade B, 62.5/100, rank #337 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tink.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tink.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Salt Edge Account Information (D)\n\nGood for: Account data and payments in markets outside the UK, EEA and US.\n\nWatch for: Rate limit exceeded returns HTTP 406 RateLimitExceeded, not 429\n\n### Tink (B)\n\nGood for: A company with a contract that needs account, balance and transaction data or bank payments across European markets under Tink's own licences.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 62 against 52\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 52\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 46\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 69 against 13\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 90 against 74\n\nWatch for: No public prices. The pricing page lists Standard as Contact us and Enterprise as Custom pricing, and the FAQ says there is no pay-per-use option\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Salt Edge Account Information | Tink | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 52 | 62 | Tink +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 73 | Tink +21 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 74 | Tink +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 63 | Tink +17 |\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) | 13 | 69 | Tink +56 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 90 | Tink +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **46.7 · D** | **62.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Salt Edge Account Information | Tink |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Salt Edge | Tink AB (Visa) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://www.saltedge.com/api/v6` | `https://api.tink.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Tink's Master Service Agreement. The Tink Link SDKs for iOS and Android on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2023-09-14 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-09-14 | |\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 | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Salt Edge Account Information.** 5,000-plus banks in more than 50 countries, by Salt Edge's own count. Rate limit exceeded returns HTTP 406 RateLimitExceeded, not 429.\n\n**Tink.** OAuth client credentials with per-endpoint scopes, token-paged data endpoints and a published MSA, DPA, SLA and sub-processor list. No price is public, live access needs a sales contract, and the API reference has no downloadable spec or published rate-limit numbers.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Salt Edge Account Information\n\n1. Treat HTTP 406 with error_class RateLimitExceeded as a rate limit and back off; it isn't a content-negotiation error\n2. Start with fakebank_simple_xf in country XF; it needs no bank sandbox\n3. Sign requests from the start even in Test, so the move to Live doesn't change your client\n4. Follow next_page from the meta block rather than building from_id URLs yourself\n5. Revoke with PUT /api/v6/consents/{consent_id}/revoke when the user is done\n\n### Tink\n\n1. Request a client token at https://api.tink.com/api/v1/oauth/token, create a user, request an authorisation grant for that user, then exchange the code for a user token.\n2. Renew tokens on a timer. Client tokens last 30 minutes and user tokens two hours, and the client credentials flow returns no refresh token.\n3. Send the account holder through Tink Link in a browser. Bank consent cannot be completed by API calls alone.\n4. Read transactions from /data/v2/transactions with `pageSize` up to 100 and follow `nextPageToken`.\n5. Send an Idempotency-Key header on consent and payment writes. Keys are kept for 24 hours.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Salt Edge Account Information or Tink?\n\nTink scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Salt Edge Account Information's 46.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Salt Edge Account Information and Tink need an API key?\n\nSalt Edge Account Information needs an API key. Tink uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Salt Edge Account Information and Tink without installing anything?\n\nYes. Salt Edge Account Information has a hosted endpoint at https://www.saltedge.com/api/v6 and Tink at https://api.tink.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-tink.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-tink.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"salt-edge\", \"b\": \"tink\"}`. 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