Spade vs. Plaid

Spade helps the largest banks and fintechs in the US & Canada, including Citizens, PayPal, FIS, Sardine, and Mercury, win more of their customers' everyday spend, make smarter decisions on every transaction in real time, and turn the transaction data they own into new revenue and AI. With Spade, every transaction is matched against a verified database covering 99.9% of businesses in the U.S. and Canada: a lookup, not a guess. We append the real merchant, exact location, brand, category, and more in under 40ms at over 99% accuracy, across card, ACH, and transfers.

What is Plaid? Plaid is a global fintech infrastructure platform that enables businesses and consumers to securely connect to financial data and services. Through APIs that connect to more than 12,000 financial institutions across 20+ countries, Plaid operates the world’s largest open banking data network. By removing the complexity of direct bank integrations, Plaid enables developers, financial institutions, and enterprises to build secure, user-friendly, and conversion-optimized financial products.