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Plaid

Developer Tools — A REST API for your bank [Tech]
Developer Toolssaasest. 2014
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 19, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+9.6
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
12
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 16 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+9.6). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 19, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 94% of 16 probesavg response 2616 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
plaid.com
edge
direct origin
server
AmazonS3
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Plaid's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 19, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 12 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Quaderno Connectfinancetag-overlap92%45.2+32.0— unverified
Unlock B2B SaaS Growth with Identity Managementsecuritytag-overlap85%49.80.0● live
EasyPostdev-toolssimilar83%48.00.0● live
Google Cloud Natural Language APIdev-toolssimilar77%40.00.0● live
Orysecuritytag-overlap77%22.80.0→ redirected
Google Pub Subdev-toolssimilar77%40.00.0● live
Cronofy APIdev-toolssimilar75%46.5+9.6● live
Twilio - Programmable Wirelesscommunicationtag-overlap75%40.00.0● live

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 alternatives2
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
2026-08-19 14:58Z200plaid.comAmazonS31917alive
2026-08-11 14:10Z200plaid.comAmazonS32267alive
2026-08-08 23:50Z200plaid.comAmazonS32617alive
2026-08-05 19:43Z200plaid.comAmazonS31786alive
2026-07-30 18:59Z200plaid.comAmazonS31587alive
2026-07-26 15:40Z200plaid.comAmazonS32195alive
2026-07-18 12:25Z200plaid.comAmazonS32310alive
2026-07-12 09:41Z10009timeout
2026-07-04 13:44Z200plaid.comAmazonS32990alive
2026-06-23 14:54Z200plaid.comAmazonS32509alive
2026-06-21 17:58Z200plaid.comAmazonS3533alive
2026-06-21 17:58Z200plaid.comAmazonS32076alive
2026-06-20 07:23Z200plaid.comAmazonS31946alive
2026-06-19 05:49Z200plaid.comAmazonS31882alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Plaid · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/plaid · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.