Connect effortlessly

Plaid lets you connect your financial accounts to your apps in seconds.

Share your data securely

When you want to share data from your financial accounts with an app, Plaid works to transfer your data securely.

You're in control

Plaid provides the tools to easily delete your data from our systems as well as connect, manage and disconnect your fintech apps.

How Plaid works

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Find and try a new financial app

Whether you’re building a budget or sending money to a friend, there are thousands of apps to choose from.

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Find and try a new financial app

Whether you’re building a budget or sending money to a friend, there are thousands of apps to choose from.

Banking
Wealth
Personal finances
Business finances
Payment
Lending
M1 Finance
Simple
Chime
Oportun
Oportun uses financial data to help you save a little bit every single day.
Pillar
Pillar uses account data to give you insights that may help you pay off your loans faster.
Venmo
Venmo uses your account information so you can set up a way to send and receive money.
Brigit
Wise
Betterment
Expensify
Qapital
MoneyLion
Albert
Drop
Rocket Money
Current
YNAB
Varo
SoFi
Earnin
Prosper
Acorns
WorldRemit
Ellevest
Cleo
M1 Finance
Simple
Chime
Expensify
SoFi
Oportun
Pillar
Venmo
Drop
Prosper
SoFi
Wise
Betterment
YNAB
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Understand how Plaid powers your apps

Plaid provides tools that enable you to share your financial data with apps that provide services to you.

Oportun
Oportun uses financial data to help you save a little bit every single day.
Pillar
Pillar uses account data to give you insights that may help you pay off your loans faster.
Venmo
Venmo uses your account information so you can set up a way to send and receive money.

The inclusion of certain applications on this page does not constitute or imply an endorsement of the application by Plaid.

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Connect your financial account using Plaid

When you choose to connect your financial accounts to an app using Plaid, you will be prompted to enter the username and password associated with those accounts. Plaid then links your accounts to the app you want to use so you can share your data.

How we handle data
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Plaid’s technology helps keep your data safe

To help keep your data safe, we don’t share the username and password for your financial institution with your apps. Once you give us permission to share your financial data, we securely transfer it from your financial institution to the app through our application programming interface (API).

Learn more about security

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) and Transport Layer Security (TLS)


Secure cloud infrastructure technologies


Security audits by researchers and financial institutions

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Continue building your financial life with apps powered by Plaid

Money is one of the biggest sources of stress in people’s lives. We want to make it easier for you to share your financial data with the apps you want to use. Whether you have an account at a national bank, a local bank, a credit union, an investment bank, or a digital bank, Plaid helps you get connected.

Why is Plaid involved?

Plaid can help you control access to your data

When you connect your financial accounts to apps with Plaid, you have control over who you’re sharing your data with. To disconnect your financial accounts from apps, or to delete your data from Plaid’s systems, visit Plaid Portal.

Plaid doesn’t charge you for our services

When you connect your financial accounts to an app like Venmo or Oportun, the app pays us a fee to enable that connection. We don’t charge you for connecting your accounts.