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Paystack

Finance — Payment stack for Nigeria's merchants [API, Analytics, Internet of Things]
FinancePartly defensible · data moat (moderate)saasYCest. 2016
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 2/4
16.0
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
36
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
9
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
36 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 3% of 36 probesavg response 324 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
paystack.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
#56,210
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Paystack's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 16.0 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 9 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Stripefinancecurated41.6-3.0● live
RazorPayfinancesimilar82%40.0+7.2● live
Google Payment APIfinancesimilar82%40.00.0● live
Razorpay Routefinancesimilar82%40.00.0● live
Recurring Payments by Razorpayfinancesimilar82%40.00.0● live
Coinpaymentsfinancesimilar82%15.1-32.0— unverified
Trustlyfinancesimilar80%47.7+9.6● live
Splash Paymentsfinancesimilar80%8.00.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives1
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:14Z403paystack.comcloudflare509cf_block
2026-08-26 09:44Z403paystack.comcloudflare524cf_block
2026-08-19 14:05Z403paystack.comcloudflare752cf_block
2026-08-11 00:39Z403paystack.comcloudflare139cf_block
2026-08-08 06:33Z403paystack.comcloudflare149cf_block
2026-08-05 18:52Z403paystack.comcloudflare1048cf_block
2026-07-30 18:07Z403paystack.comcloudflare699cf_block
2026-07-23 09:28Z403paystack.comcloudflare62cf_block
2026-07-22 09:32Z403paystack.comcloudflare35cf_block
2026-07-21 09:33Z403paystack.comcloudflare113cf_block
2026-07-20 10:00Z403paystack.comcloudflare166cf_block
2026-07-19 09:12Z403paystack.comcloudflare116cf_block
2026-07-18 08:52Z403paystack.comcloudflare29cf_block
2026-07-17 09:14Z403paystack.comcloudflare200cf_block
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Paystack · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/paystack · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.