{ "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": 46.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 393, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 10, "reliability": 52, "schema": 52, "security": 46, "transparency": 77 }, "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.", "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": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 10, "reliability": 52, "schema": 52, "security": 46, "transparency": 73 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "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; 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Data API v3 takes a client_credentials token with scope `data` from https://auth.truelayer.com/connect/token (auth.truelayer-sandbox.com in sandbox); the end user then authorises on a TrueLayer-hosted page. Data API v1 uses the authorisation code flow with refresh tokens. Payments API v3 also needs every request signed with an EC secp521r1 private key (Tl-Signature header) whose public half is uploaded to the Console.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No price list on the site (truelayer.com/pricing returns 404, checked 2026-09-30) and none in the docs or llms.txt (https://docs.truelayer.com/llms.txt). Sign-up in the Console is self-serve and the sandbox is free (https://docs.truelayer.com/docs/quickstart-make-a-payment). Live data and payments are priced by contract.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 23, "npmWeekly": 16811, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.truelayer.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.truelayer.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.truelayer.com/openapi/", "capabilities": [ "bank.accounts", "bank.transactions", "bank.identity", "bank.payments", "bank.consent" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "llms-txt", "openapi", "oauth", "webhooks", "uk", "eu", "enterprise", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-06-25", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 217, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 10, "reliability": 71, "schema": 89, "security": 66, "transparency": 66 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "FCA and Central Bank of Ireland authorised, holding the AISP and PISP licences itself. No public pricing anywhere on the site or in the docs.", "strengths": [ "FCA and Central Bank of Ireland authorised, holding the AISP and PISP licences itself", "Data API errors list 23 codes, each marked retryable or not", "Markdown twin of every docs page, llms.txt with about 280 entries and per-API OpenAPI files", "OAuth client credentials scoped to data or payments, with signed payment requests", "Status page with 25 incidents since 3 July 2026, all minor or no impact and none on the Data API" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public pricing anywhere on the site or in the docs", "Data API v3 is UK only; Europe runs on Data API v1 with a different flow", "security.txt expired on 6 May 2026 and hadn't been renewed by 1 October", "No changelog entry since 23 April 2026 and no SDK release since 25 June 2026", "TrueLayer's own rate limits aren't published, only the banks' 4-a-day cap" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use auth.truelayer-sandbox.com and api.truelayer-sandbox.com with a separate sandbox client; live credentials don't work there", "Send the user's IP when they're present, or a bank allows 4 calls a day per account", "Check the retry column of the Data API error table before retrying; codes marked No need the user or a config fix", "Set data_access_type to one_time for a single read and skip the 90-day reauthorisation", "Append .md to any docs URL to get the page as Markdown" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 38, "payments": 10, "reliability": 71, "schema": 89, "security": 66, "transparency": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://auth.truelayer-sandbox.com/connect/token \\\n -d \"grant_type=client_credentials\u0026client_id=$TRUELAYER_CLIENT_ID\u0026client_secret=$TRUELAYER_CLIENT_SECRET\u0026scope=data\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/bank.accounts", "tool": "https://letme.dev/truelayer" }, "area": "domain-data", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "TrueLayer Limited", "domain": "truelayer.com", "domainRegistered": "2013-04-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://truelayer.com/legal/enduser_tos/", "privacy": "https://truelayer.com/legal/enduser_tos/#consumer-privacy-notice", "statusPage": "https://status.truelayer.com", "changelog": "https://docs.truelayer.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "TrueLayer Limited, company 10278251, FCA reference 901096, 40 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1PX. TrueLayer (Ireland) Limited, company 671615, Central Bank of Ireland C433487, covers the EEA.", "The public legal page carries end-user terms updated 12 May 2026; the developer contract is agreed in the Console and isn't published.", "security.txt expired 2026-05-06 and was still expired on 2026-10-01; it points to a disclosure programme and a bug bounty on Intigriti.", "The docs changelog is monthly, newest entry 23 April 2026.", "rdap.org returned 403; the registration date is from Verisign's RDAP server." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/truelayer.json", "live": { "slug": "truelayer", "probe": { "target": "https://api.truelayer.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:48:17.329222107Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 40, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 36, "p95ms24h": 112, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 898, "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": 270, "ok": 270 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.truelayer.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:30.311623883Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "TrueLayer/truelayer-signing", "version": "java-v0.3.0", "released": "2026-06-25", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:42:18.908461182Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "truelayer-signing", "version": "0.2.3", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:42:18.118012996Z" } ], "githubStars": 24, "npmWeekly": 13082, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://truelayer.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "expired", "expires": "2026-05-06T22:59:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:47.212328885Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.truelayer.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:18.56065131Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "truelayer.com", "registered": "2013-04-24", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/truelayer.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:41.916298803Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.truelayer.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:44:09.902710707Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:44:09.902710707Z", "fingerprint": "93f31b6cb9db" }, { "url": "https://truelayer.com/legal/enduser_tos/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:31.488091298Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "29790d7333ca" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:30.311623883Z" } }, "summary": "TrueLayer has a score of 62.4 (B) against Salt Edge Account Information's 46.9 (D). Both do bank accounts. The largest gap is schema \u0026 documentation, 37 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-truelayer", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-truelayer.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-truelayer.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-truelayer.min.md" }, "markdown": "TrueLayer has a score of 62.4 (B) against Salt Edge Account Information's 46.9 (D). Both do bank accounts. The largest gap is schema \u0026 documentation, 37 points.\n\n- Salt Edge Account Information: grade D, 46.9/100, rank #393 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salt-edge.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/salt-edge.json\n- TrueLayer: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #217 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/truelayer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/truelayer.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Salt Edge Account Information for transparency \u0026 trust (+11).\n\nPick TrueLayer for reliability (+19), schema \u0026 documentation (+37), agent ergonomics (+6), security \u0026 auth (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+25).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Salt Edge Account Information | TrueLayer | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 52 | 71 | TrueLayer +19 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 89 | TrueLayer +37 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 73 | TrueLayer +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 46 | 66 | TrueLayer +20 |\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 | 38 | TrueLayer +25 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 66 | Salt Edge Account Information +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **46.9 · D** | **62.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Salt Edge Account Information | TrueLayer |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Salt Edge | TrueLayer |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://www.saltedge.com/api/v6` | `https://api.truelayer.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 or MIT (signing libraries) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | none | 2026-06-25 |\n| Popularity | none | 23 stars, 17k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\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**TrueLayer.** FCA and Central Bank of Ireland authorised, holding the AISP and PISP licences itself. No public pricing anywhere on the site or in the docs.\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### TrueLayer\n\n1. Use auth.truelayer-sandbox.com and api.truelayer-sandbox.com with a separate sandbox client; live credentials don't work there\n2. Send the user's IP when they're present, or a bank allows 4 calls a day per account\n3. Check the retry column of the Data API error table before retrying; codes marked No need the user or a config fix\n4. Set data_access_type to one_time for a single read and skip the 90-day reauthorisation\n5. Append .md to any docs URL to get the page as Markdown\n\n## Other comparisons with Salt Edge Account Information or TrueLayer\n\n- [Enable Banking vs Salt Edge Account Information](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/enable-banking-vs-salt-edge.md)\n- [Enable Banking vs TrueLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/enable-banking-vs-truelayer.md)\n- [GoCardless Bank Account Data vs Salt Edge Account Information](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-salt-edge.md)\n- [GoCardless Bank Account Data vs TrueLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gocardless-bank-account-data-vs-truelayer.md)\n- [Plaid vs Salt Edge Account Information](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-vs-salt-edge.md)\n- [Plaid vs TrueLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plaid-vs-truelayer.md)\n- [Salt Edge Account Information vs Teller](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-teller.md)\n- [Salt Edge Account Information vs Yapily](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/salt-edge-vs-yapily.md)\n- [Teller vs TrueLayer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/teller-vs-truelayer.md)\n- [TrueLayer vs Yapily](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/truelayer-vs-yapily.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-04", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Salt Edge Account Information vs TrueLayer", "url": "" } ], "description": "TrueLayer has a score of 62.4 (B) against Salt Edge Account Information's 46.9 (D). 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