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PayRun.io vs Plaid

Both stand on payroll apis. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Choose Plaid if your app or service needs financial account connections, financial data, or bank payment processing across its listed products. Look elsewhere if you require guaranteed access to every financial institution, since Plaid does not connect them all and may remove an institution when its data is no longer reliably accessible.

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The facts

	PayRun.io	Plaid
Free plan	Yes	A free trial
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Not published	Android, API, iPhone, Web
Lowest paid plan	Not published	Free or on request
Plans published	None	4
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	payrun.io	plaid.com
On payroll apis	#7 of 32	#3 of 32

PayRun.io: what it does well

Plaid: what it does well

Connects with more than 12,000 financial institutions
Transactions offers up to 24 months of categorized data
Supports ACH, RTP, and FedNow bank payments
Official API libraries cover five languages
Plaid Portal lets users manage connections and permissions

What to know first

There is no general free plan
Pricing is on request
Plaid does not connect every financial institution
Access may end when an institution's data is no longer reliable

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