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Aeropay vs. Astra
Payments

Pay by bank, guaranteed

See why businesses choose Aeropay for a guaranteed pay by bank checkout, not just a routing layer.

100% guaranteed ACH deposits
Branded pay by bank checkout
Aerosync, our multi-source aggregator
Payments

Aeropay vs. Astra

See why businesses choose Aeropay for a guaranteed pay by bank checkout, not just a routing layer.

Aeropay
North America's pay by bank network
Astra
Routing API for cards and instant rails
Guaranteed ACH
Guaranteed

100% guaranteed ACH deposits

Client-owned

Return risk on client in some setups

Consumer checkout
Built in

Branded pay by bank checkout

Not offered

Infrastructure API, no PBB checkout

Bank linking
In house

Aerosync, our multi-source aggregator

Third party

Common linking flow runs on Plaid

Recovery
Built in

Predictive, in-house recapture

Reserve-based

Negative balances pulled from reserve

Product focus
Pay by Bank

Bank-first pay-ins and payouts

Card-heavy

Many core flows are push/pull to card

Pricing
Predictable

Transparent, all-in pricing

Cost-plus

Usage-based; rates not public

Why choose Aeropay

Why businesses choose Aeropay

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Astra
Astra

Astra is money-movement infrastructure: an API that routes across ACH, RTP, FedNow, Visa Direct and Mastercard Move. Many of its core use cases are card-based, and it doesn't offer a reusable consumer pay by bank checkout. Bank linking commonly runs through Plaid, no payment guarantee is publicly confirmed, and in some configurations Astra's documentation places sufficient-funds and ACH-return responsibility on the client, recovered from a reserve account.

Aeropay

Aeropay is the checkout and the guarantee. Consumers link through Aerosync, our own multi-source aggregator, and Guard's real-time AI risk scoring supports a 90% approval rate with 100% guaranteed ACH deposits. Instead of funding a reserve against returns, merchants rely on predictive in-house recapture. Payouts run on the same platform, so the account a customer deposits from is the one they get paid back to.

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