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Plaid API

Plaid API — free tier with API key

📈 FinanceHEALTHYchecked 3h ago
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Plaid API exposes a free-tier JSON API. Register for an API key if required; we verified a public or demo endpoint.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 97 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
174P50 · ms
842P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 71 ms, slowest 510 ms, most recent 85 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://status.plaid.com/api/v2/status.json

{
  "page": {
    "id": "01KJ72XDYEXAHDV9SPTMB7YS2Y",
    "name": "Plaid",
    "url": "https://status.plaid.com/",
    "updated_at": "2026-05-05T16:04:16Z"
  },
  "status": {
    "description": "All Systems Operational",
    "indicator": "none"
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://status.plaid.com/api/v2/status.json"
const res = await fetch("https://status.plaid.com/api/v2/status.json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://status.plaid.com/api/v2/status.json")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /api/v2/status.json174 mschecked 3h ago
GET/api/v2/status.jsonPROBED

Plaid API — free tier with API key

GET/health

Health check — confirms the service is up.

GET/ping

Lightweight ping endpoint.

GET/api

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/1

Api details by ID (example: 1).

GET/api?limit=10

Api — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Plaid API: common questions

Is Plaid API free to use?

Yes — Plaid API is a free finance API. Free tier: Free tier — API key required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Plaid API need an API key?

Yes — Plaid API needs a free API key, which you pass on each request. Rate limits: Unpublished.

Can I call Plaid API from the browser?

Yes — Plaid API returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Plaid API up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Plaid API is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 174 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.