Financial-data API for connecting bank accounts to payment, lending, and personal-finance apps.
Found via: Product Hunt 34 · Hacker News 5 · PeerPush 1 · StackScope Discovery (Indie) 10 · StackScope Wider Web 5
Plaid has been detected on 40 launches we've crawled, with 11 of those in July 2026 (0.1% of the month's launches so far). The 7-day rolling share is 0.1%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection: HeyDividend, 2 days ago.
It's most commonly paired with HSTS, Google Search Console, and Tailwind CSS. By product type, the launches using it are most often Finance (81%), AI (5%), and Productivity (5%). By domain ending, launches using it are 1.7 times as likely as the average launch to live on a .com domain. The 40 scored launches using Plaid average a StackScope score of 8.7 out of 10, against 6.3 across all launches we score.
What kind of products ship with Plaid
37 launches
Countries that use Plaid
Estimated origin for 12 of 40 launches
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United States 83.33%
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Switzerland 8.33%
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Netherlands 8.33%
Share of new launches using Plaid
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average.
Payments leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
|
4.94% | 60.85% |
| #2 | – |
|
0.90% | 11.05% |
| #3 | – |
|
0.86% | 10.58% |
| #4 | – |
|
0.55% | 6.72% |
| #5 | – |
|
0.49% | 6.01% |
| … | ||||
| #11 | ▼4 |
|
0.06% | 0.78% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Payments tool.Among June launches it ranked #15 in Payments, down from #11 in May. All 155 in Payments →
Highest-scoring launches using Plaid
The top launches by StackScope score among the 40 we've detected using Plaid.
Most recent of 40 launches using Plaid
HeyDividend
Finance
Formation Money
Trump Accounts
Finance
Kucoin pay × WeDeen Pay
Crypto
LastShelf
Tenantry
Finance
BudgetBug
Finance
Pip
Finance
Sylph
Pyne
Finance
Meridian Terminal
Keystead
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